Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has released 15 new job titles, which relate to future developments in artificial intelligence, big data and other technical advances. Examples are: Engineer for artificial intelligence Engineer for Internet of Things Engineer for big data Engineer for cloud computing Engineer for building information modelling E-sports operator […]
China plans for stratospheric photovoltaic power plants
Researchers from Chongqing University, the China Academy of Space Technology’s Xi’an Branch, and Xidian University also in Xi’an have started construction of the first space base for an experimental solar power station in Chongqing. They plan to launch four to six tethered balloons, connect them with each other to set up a network at an altitude […]
Xinhua News Agency to launch first artificial intelligence news anchorwoman in March
The name of the new member of the news team is XIN Xiaomeng. She was created by Xinhua News Agency and the search engine Sogou and will make her debut during two sessions of the Chinese legislature meeting in March. She will be accompanied by a male AI trained in English or Chinese. Both presenters […]
Putian builds “wind power island”
The city located in Fujian Province near the Taiwan strait has built 138 wind power generaters on islands sourrounding the city. Electricity generated enters the Putian power grid. Japan JST China news, February 26, 2019
Deep space exploration: China studies solar sails made from graphene
According to CHEN Yonghsheng of Nankai University, graphene can be driven by light sources such as sunlight, and the thrust generated in vacuum conditions is 1,000 times higher than that of polyimide film, studied by Western researchers for “solar sails”. Graphene is among the strongest and thinnest known materials, and can withstand temperatures over 800 degrees […]
Bronchioalveolar stem cells (BASCs) assist in lung repair and regeneration: CAS Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
In cooperation with CAS Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, the group of JI Hongbin found by fate-mapping and clonbal analysis of BASCs that this cell type can become become activated by different lung injuries, and can differentiate into multiple cell lineages including club cells, ciliated cells, and alveolar type 1 and type 2 cells for lung […]
Metabolic engineering of Myceliophtora thermophila provides high titers of fumaric acid
A group around Shuying GU and Jingen LI at CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology has engineered Myceliophthora thermophila using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. They introduced fumarase of Candidakrusei fumarase into M. thermophila and disrupted the intracellular fumarate digestion pathway by deletion of the two fumarate reductase and the mitochondrial fumarase genes of M. thermophila. Increasing the pool size of malate, the precursor of […]
Chongqing Oilfield provides China with 121 million m3 of gas per day
China’s largest oil field supplies gas to over 40 Chinese cities including Xi’an and Beijing by a total of 5600 km of pipelines. In 2018, production reached over 38 billion m3, accounting for a quarter of China’s overall production. Japan JST China news, February 22, 2019
Beijing leads China in AI-related industry
According to a “White paper on the development of AI Industry in Beijing”, there were over 4000 AI-related companies in China by mid-2018, 1070 of which were located in Beijing. In automatic driving, 35 vehicles made by 8 companies did cover already over 63,000 km road tests. Japan JST China news, February 20, 2019
China emphasizes clean coal thermal power supply systems
According to a report by the China’s National Energy Board, by October 2018 ultra-low emission coal-fired power generation equipment in China reached over 700 million kW. Due to ultra-low emissions and energy savings, annual emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and flue dust in China’s coal-fired power generation industry has drastically decreased since 2014, and […]