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In the fifth and final episode of our odyssey, we reveal the new, modern, hi-tech Xinjiang. Preserving and promoting ethnic languages, modernizing agriculture from above using drones, monitoring the melting of glaciers and protecting priceless cultural relics – these are just a few of breakthroughs being enabled thanks to digitalization.
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00:01I'm going to open the top.
00:06That's like a science fiction film.
00:09We're going to take these stones and turn them into pigments
00:12the same way it's been done 1,500 years ago.
00:19There's a crew over there.
00:21I think they're taking samples from the ice directly inside the glacier.
00:25I'm hiking up Tianxian Mountain to visit the Tianxian Glaciological Station.
00:30Nature has shaped Xinjiang's present and will influence its future.
00:35Here, technology allows the past to move into the digital age.
00:42It seems like an uncontrollable beast.
00:46As the capital of Xinjiang, Urumqi has always been very important on the Chinese cultural map.
00:53It is like a crucial.
00:56You know, amazing things can come out of that.
00:58That could inspire other young people to come here.
01:02This place seems to have a lot of opportunities to offer.
01:06Xinjiang is like an earthen pot where materials are put in and then heated up
01:11and see what humans are capable of.
01:17That's too complicated, guys. I just want to see the stars.
01:20The frontier of China, the heart of Eurasia.
01:25As the capital of Xinjiang, Urumqi has always been very important on the Chinese cultural map.
01:43Historically, it's always been a place where many ethnicities coexist.
01:47It's still reflected today, especially in the youth.
01:52I can see a lot of young people wearing unique fashion styles of skateboarding and street dancing.
01:59The youth culture here is especially exuberant.
02:01I'm here to meet a local rising photographer, Ma Hailuan.
02:05Her works capture very well the essence of the youth culture here in Urumqi.
02:09All right, it's huge!
02:10All right, it's huge!
02:14Every time I'm going back to Urumqi, this is the first stop I go.
02:15I just want to find some inspiration in terms of color and patterns.
02:19This is actually a Xinjiang cupboard.
02:21The red and blue is really Xinjiang.
02:23And it's also Paris.
02:25That's the colors of the city.
02:26That's true.
02:27My name is Nico de Rouge, I'm French.
02:28I specialize in repertage and documentary photography, which takes me around the world.
02:44This one.
02:45This is red.
02:46Yeah, this is red, but it's a little bit dark overall.
02:50I don't want too many blocks.
02:51I want something more bright.
02:52Okay, bright red.
02:53I learned he invited me to buy a carpet for the background of her shooting.
02:58She wanted to take this teacher of the local culture and make people feel at home.
03:04Okay.
03:07It's beautiful, isn't it?
03:08It's beautiful.
03:09Very red.
03:10Yeah, the color of Xinjiang.
03:11Yeah.
03:12Yeah.
03:13Okay.
03:14Yeah.
03:15Crazy.
03:16Crazy.
03:17Crazy.
03:18I'm here at Xinjiang University in Rumqi to meet Professor Worshaw, who's the first Uyghur member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and he's also a pioneer in information technology.
03:24He's allowed Uyghur language to move into the digital age.
03:41Hello.
03:42How are you?
03:43Where are you from?
03:44Where are you from?
03:45I'm from America.
03:46My name is Neil Schmidt.
03:47I'm an American and a historian of China.
03:50wurden from you from abroad.
03:53My name is Neil Schmidt.
03:54I'm an American historian of China.
03:57From quería speaking, people who were used means.
04:00Where are you from Banggood?
04:02Hangover.
04:03You're fromgression US.
04:04There are many regions of the LinkedIn community종 industry and DFID within the community that is bicolor to limit to 35 Earth.
04:14There's no также a druggedoj colletting nation, the same to scientists.
04:16There's no funeral.
04:17That's right.
04:18That's very right.
04:19Oh, it's scary.
04:34How much cargo of pesticide it can carry?
04:39Wow, it's huge.
04:40It looks like a helicopter.
04:42I am now in Aksu, further west to Wurumuchi.
04:45It is well-known for its big-scale agriculture, regarded as the rice basket of Xinjiang.
04:53I wasn't expecting to see they've been using new technologies in agriculture, like the drones.
05:04UFO.
05:06Yes.
05:07I'm Hasna. I come from Morocco, from Casablanca.
05:11I came here to China to be working in architecture.
05:15It's in a way, according to our rules, to be able to do it, so it can be done.
05:21Wu Shao-Tin is the founder of one of these promising companies selling agricultural drones.
05:26So this is your exhibition, right?
05:36So this is your exhibition, right?
05:52Yeah.
05:53Oracleian project?
05:54Yeah.
05:55It's actually also the photo taking place is also here.
05:58Also here?
05:59Yes.
06:00So all the shoots?
06:01Yes.
06:02Hai Lun, there's a show that's up at the moment.
06:04Which takes her experience for eight years studying in Brooklyn to her hometown of Ulu Muqi.
06:10I want to do Ulu Muqi this project is because of Ulu Muqi and Ulu Muqi.
06:15It's a kind of neighborhood.
06:17It's a result of a combination of the cultural culture.
06:21This is what we're creating a combination of Korean language, English, English, and other languages.
06:29Professor Wu Shor is most famous for his input technology.
06:33It can be used in a variety of languages across Eurasia.
06:38I love this girl because she still keeps the unibrow.
06:45That's one traditional Wegu beauty thing.
06:49You can experience all kinds of cultures.
06:51To experience all kinds of cultures, I think that's really good to feel like it is in real.
06:55Wegu from Ulu to Ulu,
06:58Hebrew and English from Ulu to Ulu.
07:02This system should be the same.
07:04This is one of our processes in the system that we created in the system.
07:08The Uyghur script is so complex, Professor Wu Shou had to develop a quite sophisticated input system to deal with all those variables, and he's committed 40 years of his life to.
07:28It's okay, it's perfect. It's perfect, okay.
07:33And the carpet looks amazing.
07:35I'm going to fly the drone. I can't believe they're letting me do this. I hope I don't kill anyone. Let's say I break it. How much do I have to pay back?
07:52I don't have to pay. There's a insurance.
07:54Okay, then let's go.
07:55It's very good. Keep it up.
07:58Don't laugh. Keep it up.
08:01I like the setup they have, though. It's very creative.
08:04I never flew a drone before.
08:09Ah, let's go in.
08:11慢慢,慢慢, slowly.
08:14It's like a game controller, actually. It's easier than I thought.
08:35It's like a game controller, actually. It's easier than I thought.
08:39It's like a game controller.
08:40In terms of the ask for theik수, I just often don't like it.
08:43That's in the morning.
08:44It's so much fun.
08:44That's like the top of my mind.
08:46It's kind of funny.
08:47I love it.
08:48I like it.
08:48This input system may sound esoteric and not well recognized, but it allows the culture
09:17to move along with technology into the digital age.
09:24You think I have potential in driving drums? That's so fun!
09:35Is that it? Wu has gone to meet a client, Mr. Li, and he suggested me to come with him there and witness the cell situation.
09:44It's very simple, I don't have a problem.
09:49It's a big deal.
09:51I'm from Guangdong, I'm from the island.
09:54It's quite a bit of a lot.
09:56If you want to do this, it's easy to do it.
09:59Yes, it's a day, it's a day.
10:01I've gone to a lot of places, but I can't find a location.
10:04I decided to go to New Zealand.
10:07I've gone to one.
10:10I can't hide a thing going on.
10:11I'm Yep, Mr. Li, Mr. Li, and heМing.
10:14I'm a Ushan Ushan, I'm a Ushan Ushan.
10:17I carryjam the world to the world.
10:19I was very difficult for them.
10:20And, in fact, even though I feel like a Ushan Ushan is a child,
10:22I had a journey that I grew upfish.
10:24I've been able to spend a few months with money.
10:27I feel like I'm not going to stay.
10:29But we've been in the same way that the Ninh Yung has a huge growth.
10:33I've been looking for the nature of the Ninh Yung.
10:37When I went to the Ninh Yung, I found that the nature of the Ninh Yung is a very good land.
10:44The Ninh Yung is a very good land.
10:47In China, the world's largest land.
10:50We can use more new technology.
10:53The technology is born out of necessity in certain ways.
11:16It's touched millions of people's lives.
11:19And it doesn't surprise me in some ways that this happened in Xinjiang.
11:22Because Xinjiang has always been a crucial, you know, amazing things can come out of that
11:26as we've seen.
11:35You can see the glacier all the way from the streets of downtown Urumqi, the capital of
11:40the region.
11:42Glaciology has tied Xinjiang to the world through research about geography and climate change.
11:49I'm hiking up Tianxin Mountain to visit the Tianxin Glaciological Station.
11:55When glaciers melt, they provide fresh water to all the surrounding areas.
11:59Where there is water, there is life.
12:01And you can certainly feel that when you walk on the Tianxin Mountain.
12:05This is the south area of Urumqi River.
12:07We're going to visit the biggest one, the Urumqi Glacier No. 1.
12:12I'm here to meet Dr. Li Zhongxin, the head of the station.
12:17Glaciers are a main indicator about climate change.
12:21That's why so many scientists are devoted to studying for the future of humanity.
12:26This is a statue of Kumarajiva, a very, very famous local monk, and I'm here in Chota,
12:33and I'm here in Chota.
12:35This is a statue of Kumarajiva, a very, very famous local monk, and I'm here in Chota.
12:41This is a statue of Kumarajiva, a very, very famous local monk, and I'm here in Chota,
12:56the earliest Buddhist cave site in China, and it really represents the Buddhist culture
13:00that flourished here in Kucha from about the 3rd or 4th century all the way to the 9th century.
13:06But these caves are fragmented in a lot of ways.
13:09There are many people who are living in the world.
13:11There are many people who are living abroad.
13:12There are no real resources.
13:13But with the same material material we have, and the other people who are living abroad,
13:17we can be living abroad.
13:21Dr. Mia who is in charge of the digitization project here.
13:24And that's been ongoing for 10 years.
13:27Now, we've collected about 23 different sources of data.
13:30We use the high- expanding image that are used to be a high-xiped image,
13:34and also a special-case-case-case-case-case-case-case-case-case-case-case-case-case-case-case.
13:37The final point is to put this picture into the three spaces.
13:46Can we still see the stars or the eclipse with this?
13:49What do we do if we can't see it?
14:00I am in Nanshan Xinjiang Station astronomical observatory.
14:04It's like a land coming from the future
14:06with a lot of telescopes everywhere.
14:15Mr. Gaoxin is a physics teacher
14:17in Wunomuchi number one high school.
14:19Also one of the most famous Chinese amateur astronomers.
14:23Also the founder of the first private astronomical observatory in China.
14:33It looks like a mushroom.
14:34Here for your head.
14:35Okay.
14:36This is the biggest wall.
14:39Open the door.
14:41Can we open?
14:42Open the door.
14:43Oh my god!
14:44That's awesome.
14:47That's awesome.
14:50Is this water coming from the glacier?
14:53Yeah.
14:54So the people drinking the water is from here in Wunomuchi.
14:57The water coming from here in Wunomuchi.
14:58The water coming from here is the sea.
14:59The sea has been called the sea.
15:00The sea has been called the sea.
15:01The sea has about 1,000,000 miles.
15:03The sea has about 9,000 miles.
15:05The sea is also very important.
15:06The sea is also very important.
15:07The sea is also very important.
15:08I'll bring you to another secret place.
15:11This is my second view.
15:13Wow.
15:14That's awesome.
15:15Why is this glacier number one special to study?
15:22This glacier represents China.
15:23This area, Central Asia.
15:24Yeah.
15:25Ulumuchi glacier number one is one of the 40 reference glaciers around the world.
15:34All of these reference glaciers are studied with the same methods and the same units so that they can all communicate and have a global understanding of the evolution of the climate all around the world.
15:45Can people from the outside, maybe other researchers, come here and take advantage of your telescopes and use them?
15:52Yes, can.
15:53Yes, can.
15:54Yes, can.
15:55Yes, can.
15:56Yes, can.
15:57The sun is open.
15:58Yeah.
15:59If you can go to the internet, everyone can use this telescope.
16:00I have a project called the Compact天文.
16:01Because if we are doing the science, we know that our strength is very small.
16:05So you need to gather your information.
16:07Yes.
16:08Yes.
16:09So this is the glacier, right?
16:12That's right.
16:13So this is the glacier, right?
16:14That's right.
16:15It's safer.
16:17It's safer...
16:19This is the glacier of the Earth, right?
16:20So this is the glacier.
16:21It's the glacier, right?
16:22Oh.
16:23That's right.
16:24Right.
16:25The glacier.
16:26It is in the 50th century.
16:27Professor Zhao Li, who's an expert both on this site and on Buddhist art.
16:32Professor Zhao's project is really to reunite materials that were taken away from this site and blend them back into the site in terms of digitization.
16:43It's hard to research.
16:45There are a lot of holes in the wall.
16:47There are about 500 holes in the wall.
16:51There are a lot of holes in the 8 countries.
16:53There are a lot of holes in the wall.
16:55There are a lot of holes in the wall.
16:57Now, the data shows show that
16:59we're going to fall 6 to 8 meters.
17:01At this speed,
17:03until 2050,
17:05we're going to fall down.
17:07We've been able to take a look.
17:09By reducing,
17:11through the Paris Agreement,
17:13to ensure the temperature in the last two degrees,
17:17the water will fall down in the 1990s.
17:21This is now for 40 years.
17:23We've been doing this for 20 years.
17:25I've been doing this for 90% of our students.
17:29We have to be familiar with every area.
17:31We have to be familiar with every area.
17:33We have to be familiar with every area.
17:35We have to be familiar with every area.
17:37We have to be familiar with this.
17:39This is our control room.
17:41Nice to meet you too.
17:43Then I met with the scientists
17:45inside the Nanshan Astronomical Observatory
17:47and I had the chance to talk to a bunch of scientists.
17:51The science projects and research
17:53that we can do with the telescope are many.
17:55Like this case,
17:57astral chemistry,
17:59engineering,
18:01pulsars,
18:03star formations for example,
18:05galaxies and cosmologies.
18:07The research you can make,
18:09everything is endless.
18:11That's what research is about.
18:13So we keep searching.
18:15They're coming here to a remote place,
18:17far from their hometowns,
18:19and all that for the sake of science.
18:21When I first came here,
18:23people would be curious about,
18:25hey, you're from Australia.
18:27Why you come all the way to Urmuchi?
18:29One of the main reasons,
18:31there's a telescope of our own.
18:33Whoa! That's beautiful.
18:35That's like a science fiction film.
18:39Let's say Sydney,
18:41if you want to do observations
18:43using any kind of telescope,
18:45you have to compete.
18:47PR is relatively easy.
18:49The moment that the idea comes out
18:52and you turn it into a realistic project,
18:55that process is immediate.
18:5920 years of research.
19:01Very important.
19:02Yes.
19:0320 years of research.
19:05We have created 44 buildings.
19:0738 buildings.
19:10Ah, sure.
19:11In 2002,
19:12I went to Berlin
19:13to participate in a university study.
19:15After I came back,
19:16I decided to learn German.
19:17There are a lot of people in Germany.
19:19In this process,
19:20we have a chance
19:21to go to the museum of the museum
19:23and to the museum.
19:24I'm really impressed
19:25by Professor Zhao's commitment.
19:27So it's taken her decades
19:29to not only collect the material,
19:31but then try to reinsert it
19:33into the right locations.
19:35I was able to be able to
19:37make people a lot of decisions.
19:38I mean,
19:39that is a good job of women.
19:40We are doing all of this work today.
19:41Yeah, yeah.
19:42Actually,
19:43the best part of our research
19:44is that we are all about
19:44bringing in to all kinds of information.
19:46To participate in the information,
19:47the history of information,
19:48is a way of keeping in the education.
19:50They have to balance their comfort.
19:52They should use them on top gear.
19:53They want to create the water
19:55in the ocean for the future.
19:56To do it in a little bit.
19:57Hold it.
19:58So they let the water escape.
20:00Right?
20:01On the one hand, we have digital copies.
20:17On the other hand, we have an artist at work
20:19that adds a little bit more life than a digital image.
20:23We started with the grinding of the pigments.
20:26People here who do this in this same tradition
20:29that goes back to the 5th century.
20:31To do this process is closely allied to the past.
20:35I'm struggling to feel if it's stopped by ice,
20:38if I should move up a little bit to let the water flow,
20:42or if I'm hitting rocks.
20:44Still ice.
20:45You've become an expert.
20:57Okay, just fine.
20:59So how deep?
21:02Whoa!
21:04What?
21:05Is that the heat?
21:07Yeah, no, it's the water.
21:09You reach here.
21:10Yeah, then the 2 meters, 8 centimeters.
21:152 meters and 80 centimeters thick in this place.
21:19Each year, there are information preserved in the ice.
21:22So then you can reconstruct this temperature wreck
21:27for 1,000 years.
21:29Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
21:30Yeah.
21:30This is the effect of doing it.
21:31This is the effect of doing it.
21:34The wall on the wall has also a dark dark dark dark.
21:38The viewers look at it a bit more light.
21:41Sometimes, if not even what you can achieve,
21:44but the realization of your dream,
21:47you've got to keep that fire going inside you.
21:52You will not stop. You will produce result.
21:57In the future, this book should become the case of the study of Kezar's research.
22:01It's terrible.
22:03Your work is really good.
22:05People are making pretty profound sacrifices out of a love for culture and heritage,
22:10out of a love for scholarship, and really commit their lives to this site.
22:14Through my 20 years of work, I found that this beach is very well-known.
22:19It's connected to the global atmosphere.
22:22Through this beach, it has a lot of influence on the climate change.
22:27It's very important to me.
22:31Look at me.
22:32Only when you actually are on the frontier,
22:36can you understand its different aspects and all its complexity?
22:41One of the things coming to Xinjiang that's been fascinating
22:44is seeing art in a variety of spaces.
22:47These artifacts have been passed down over thousands of years
22:51and continue to give me insight into the lives of the past.
22:58As an entrepreneur, I have been even more inspired.
23:01People here have a special talent,
23:04making use of the locally available resources,
23:07generating unlimited possibilities.
23:11Xinjiang is huge, accounting for one-sixth of the total area of China.
23:19The types of experiences that you can have,
23:22ranging all the way from the north, with snow and mountains,
23:26to the tune and sound of the desert.
23:29Xinjiang shows the interaction of cultures that are Eurasian
23:33or worldwide in many ways.
23:36It's impossible to describe Xinjiang in a single sentence.
23:39You really have to go see for yourself.
23:42We'll see you for yourself.
23:45You
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