Feature: Chinese-built wind power project empowers locals, improves lives in South Africa

by Xinhua writer Wang Lei CAPE TOWN, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- On a breezy afternoon across the arid plains of South Africa's Northern Cape Province, 31-year-old Xolani Taute stood beneath a towering white wind turbine, its blades slicing through the blue sky above the small town of De Aar. Once an unemployed electrician with little prospect of further study or steady work, he is now a trainee wind turbine technician -- a testament to how renewable energy is transforming local lives. "Longyuan has chan