Recently, some 50 journalists from 17 foreign news agencies in China from 10 countries, including the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, Kyodo News, CNN, NHK, Newsweek, visited Qinshan nuclear power plant.

The International Press Center China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized the visit. It was the first time for them to arrange such a visit and also the first time for Qinshan nuclear power plant to receive such a big delegation of foreign journalists.

Qinshan nuclear power plant is located by the Hangzhou Bay. The first-phase project was built in mid-1980s' and began to generate power at the beginning of the 1990s. A historic breakthrough of China's nuclear power, it is the first nuclear power plant independently designed, constructed and operated by China.

The second-phase project has been built on the basis of the first. International advanced nuclear power technologies are used for the third phase.

The central control chamber is the most important sector of the plant and rarely open to the public, let alone foreign media. But foreign journalists were allowed to make interviews and take photos in the central control for the second and third-phase projects during the visit.

They also had a look at the gas turbine generators, some extension projects, and took pictures of staffs entering the plant to work.

By People's Daily Online