Worker helps turbine industry gather steam

One afternoon last month, Wu Guolin put on his blue safety helmet and walked into the factory workshop at Hangzhou Steam Turbine, where he and three other technicians oversaw the assembly line - part of a daily routine he has been doing for 40 years.

Born in 1959, the plain-looking, thickset 58-year-old is a man of few words, but he is a master fitter for China's top steam turbine manufacturer in Hangzhou, capital of the eastern province of Zhejiang.

A steam turbine is a main driving engine, which transfers thermal and cold energy into kinetic energy, for refined oil plants, thermal power plants and garbage-powered stations, among others.