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Suzhou village lit by sunshine

By Yin Ping | China Daily | Updated: 2007-04-19 07:02

SHANGHAI: Shushan Village in the Suzhou Hi-tech Park in East China's Jiangsu Province is doing its bit for energy conservation by installing solar-powered street lamps.

About 50 of the strange-looking lights, which feature an upward facing "wing" that captures sunlight and turns it into energy, appeared on the village's roads recently. They each use a 65-watt energy-saving tube.

Cui Rongqiang, a solar energy expert from Shanghai Jiaotong University, told China Daily: "There are two main reasons for using the solar lamps: One is that solar energy is clean; the other is that in the long run, solar lamps cost less and save more energy than ordinary lamps."

Suzhou village lit by sunshine

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