Window to China
The release of IKMobile100 is through the Beijing Branch of Hong Pa Technology Co., Ltd. Effective identification distance is 20-30cm, recognition speed is 1s. The company plans for markets in financial payment, access control, social security and medical care. CAS news release, March 30, 2016
At China’s Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held on March 24 in Beijing, it was suggested to build science museums, recruit scientists for science education, e. g., for teenagers and rural residents, and use information technology to reach this aim. CAS news release, March 28, 2016
Compared with conventional LIBs, AGDIB shows an obvious advantage in production cost (~ 50% lower), specific density (~1.3-2.0 times), and energy density (~1.6-2.8 times). It delivers a specific energy density of ~222 Wh kg−1 at a power density of 132 W kg−1, and ~150 Wh kg−1 at 1200 W kg−1, as compared to commercial LIB […]
According to a White Paper on China Industrial Biotechnology 2014″ published by the Tianjin Academy of Sciences, China is now the world’s 3d largest producer of fuel bio-ethanol after the USA and Brazil. Pilot studies on the use of non-food crops are underway. China’s biodiesel capacity is estimated at about 3 – 3.5 million tons, […]
In its report on global IP applications in 2015, WIPO sees USA still in lead but observes a shift towards Japan, South Korea and China. International patent applications filed under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) were up by 1.7 percent to 218,000 in 2015, the slowest growth in five years, with the United States extending […]
Sun Yat-sen University, initiator of the program called Tianqin”, held a foundation stone laying ceremony for a 30,000-square-meter research building, a 10,000-square-meter ultra-quiet cave laboratory and a 5,000-square-meter obseravation sation on its Zhuhai campus. With an estimated cost of 15 billion yuan (2.3 billion U.S. dollars), Tianqin is scheduled to be carried out in four […]
Using CRISPR/Talen technology, homozygous cell lines for pigs producing human insulin (alanine 30 in insulin B chain exchanged for threonine) and used these cells for the generation of pigs producing human insulin only, as confirmed by HPLC and tandem mass spectroscopy. CAS news release, March 18, 2016
The cooperation will strongly build on the competences of NextCODE Health, a spin-out of deCODE which was acquired 2015 by WuXi PharmaTech and owns an important global database on human genomics. China Bio news release, March 17, 2016
As mentioned by a rocket designer who is also a national legislator, the China Sanjiang Space Group (CSSG) plans to launch a Kuaizhou-11, the company’s latest carrier rocket, in a commercial launch in 2017. CAS news release, March 16, 2016
The Zhuzhou Institute of China Railway Rolling Stock Co. (CRRC) has developed a control system with expanded bandwidth and microsecond speed which perform 60 times faster as compared to present systems. CRRC expects that the new system could help the firm to compete with foreign rivals in the international market. CAS news release, March 16, […]