Visit of a PV panel factory in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China

Journey of the day

After a classy breakfast at the 5 stars hotel, with delicious banana cakes, we first headed to the headquarters of the company at about 8:30 am to have a presentation of its activity in the PV sector. CDs and leaflets were given to every students. Jerome and I had some presentation of the personel working there: lots of girls, about 20, and 5 guys. We also could leave our biggest pieces of luggage there.

Then we took a bus to visit the factories of the PV panels. To arrive to Wuyi, the journey lasted 2 hours , during which the driver gave us the chance to see the worst asian film ever (story about one cop and one mafia guys, who used to be best friends when they were little, but separated, so they didn't recognise each other, so they were like "ennemis jurés" when getting older, and so on...too much "ralentis", the haircuts were like in mangas but without style...).

Hopefully we could see beautiful green landscapes. I'm happy to forecast the green visits/hiking to do during our week-ends of the internship. Also, the weather in this region seems clear and sunny.

We arrived at about 12h30 at the factories. After visiting the new one under construction, we bounded for the old existing one. They had some messages to welcome us ! So cute !
Of course, the company offered us the lunch, but it had to be quick, because we had to leave at 3 pm to catch a train for Shanghai in Jinhua, a town nearby. That is why we just had "fan he" 饭盒 (rice in box).But it was still good !

Visit: so this is how you assemble cells to make a PV panel: 1. choose the cells by colors, test the cells by flashing them, put the string to connect the cells electrically speaking, then put some tedlar, eva etc. and "superglue" them together with a heating machine...

Quick quick ! Thank you CP solar for this very interesting visit ! I personnally learned a lot, and think I will learn a lot during the internship too.

Too bad, the driver missed the right exit on the highway, so we missed the train for 20 minutes late ! That is why the people look hopeless in the picture (upper right corner).
Hopefully it was possible to exchange the tickets for the next train, at 17h44...which would take 5 hours to arrive to Shanghai, instead of 3 hours with the previous one. That is life...

People spent their time in the train mainly by playing cards ! Even the supervisor played with us !
Arrived in Shanghai : it is raining. Hopefully again a bus is here to take us to the Magnolia Hotel.

To be continued (http://nathyo-cn.blogspot.com).