2019年CRI Harald Buchmann from Switzerland on 70th anniversary of the PRC

 

Harald Buchmann is from Switzerland who’s been living in Beijing for six years now.

He is a senior research fellow at Intellisia, a truck lover, and an emerging social media influencer on Douyin, a popular Chinese video app, better known as Tik Tok in the English world.

Buchmann has about 25-thousand followers¹ on the app. Most of his short videos are about truck drivers and their lives in China.

He said these drivers are traveling across the nation, and through talking to them, he learned how many highways in China had been constructed, how the transport system had been upgraded, and how people’s livelihood² had been improved.

Through social media, Buchmann hopes to bring a real China to his people, in particular, the profound changes of the country over the past 7 decades since the founding of the Republic.

For more on this, CRI's reporter Xu Yawen earlier had a talk with Buchmann. Check out the following audio clip for the full interview.

1 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

2 livelihood   

n.生计，谋生之道

参考例句：

• Appropriate arrangements will be made for their work and livelihood.他们的工作和生活会得到妥善安排。
• My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands.父亲靠自己的双手勉强维持家计。