Residents living in danger-prone areas in Shanghai and neighboring Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province in east China were evacuated in emergency Thursday, before Typhoon Pulasan made a second landfall in the region.
The typhoon, which reached a maximum wind force of 23 meters per second near its center, hit Fengxian District of Shanghai at about 21:45 after its first landfall earlier the same day in neighboring Zhejiang Province, according to the municipal meteorological observatory of Shanghai.
Pulasan moved further to Jiangyin City in Jiangsu at 05:00 on Friday, with its intensity setting to gradually weaken, said the Zhejiang meteorological observatory.
Across Jiangyin City, personnel living or working in danger-prone regions like construction sites, dilapidated houses, and underground spaces had all been evacuated on Thursday night.
The city's water conservancy department had also been strengthening disaster prevention work, tracking closely the movement of Pulasan and monitoring its impacts.
"We would lower the rivers' water levels beforehand, controlling them to about three meters deep. We patrol the levees once every six hours as the level-III emergency response plan requires so, in order to ensure the levees' safety," said Zhang Yaolong, deputy director of Dingbo Water Conservancy Center in Jiangyin.
Starting from Thursday afternoon, Shanghai's Lingang Special Area evacuated a total of 60,000 personnel living in seven danger-prone areas including the make-shift buildings in the construction sites and the dilapidated houses on farmland.
The evauees were transported to safe shelters including five within the Lingang Special Area.
Pulasan has weakened from tropical storm to tropical depression at 08:00 Friday as it made way through Jiangyin, said China's National Meteorological Center (NMC).
The typhoon will move northward at a speed of 5 to 10 kilometers per hour before it turns northeastward, according to an NMC forecast.
East China's Shanghai, Jiangsu evacuate residents from vulnerable areas amid typhoon
An European media industry leader highlighted the transformative influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on the industry, stressing the importance of exchange and cooperation among global media outlets.
The 12th Global Video Media Forum (VMF) opened in Quanzhou City on Tuesday. The two-day event has brought together around 200 representatives from mainstream media and international organizations across more than 60 countries and regions to the historic coastal city under the theme "Intelligence Without Frontiers, Vision Beyond The Horizon - Media's Role in Communication and Cultural Exchange."
In a sidelines interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN), Adrian Wells, Managing Director of the European News Exchange, a global news provider, shared his insights on how embracing AI and fostering media cooperation can further improve the industry.
"In the professional broadcast and digital industry, we have enough intelligence to know that we have to embrace this technology. We have to take the best parts of it. We have to integrate it with what we already have, our experience, our professionalism, admission for our consumers. Actually, media is in a very challenging environment now. We do have a lot of threats to our traditional ways of going about things. We have to use these new technologies like AI in order to transform ourselves. And we really have to be at the forefront of embracing it, not resisting it," Wells said.
Wells also suggested that media organizations can improve by learning from their counterparts, adapting successful strategies, and incorporating solutions from different environments to enhance their own operations.
"How do we really go about finding those right choices? It's by looking at what everyone else is doing, taking the best of how different organizations are using new technologies, adapting their business models, trying to reach consumers in a different way. And really cherry-picking the best examples, the best use cases across the industry to try and reimagine what we're doing in our own environments, whether it's in China, in the United Kingdom, in the United States or in any European country. Look across the industry who is doing what, how are they solving some of these problems and use that as a kind of nice salad mixture to try and find the solutions in your own newsroom organization," he said.
In addition, Wells highlighted the forum's positive role in promoting global media exchange and collaboration.
"I think that if you ask anyone about cooperation and collaboration, everyone's for it, right? It's a no-brainer. Of course, we want to collaborate. We want to cooperate. But actually, when you come to collaborating and cooperating, it's actually a bit of a pain as well, because you got to devote time for reaching out, to be aware of what other industries are doing, what your colleagues are doing across the industry," Wells said.
So, I think the good thing about this forum is that we're in an environment now where we can mix, you've got a lot of different people from news organizations, from different parts of the world that have got different ideas. And I think we all learn a lot from hearing about different experiences across the world, and really trying to sort of create some of these ties. Otherwise, if we don't make that effort, they just won't be there," said the industry insider.
European media professional highlights AI power, global exchange in industry
