February, 2020 - window-to-china.de

China’s Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) develops forecast model for desert locust migration

By rscPosted on 27. February 2020Posted in News

Based on the Digital Earth Science Platform of AIR, teams around HUANG Wenjiang and DONG Yingying have used multi-source earth observation data, meteorological data, field data, and self-developed models and algorithms to analyze putative paths of desert locust which presently plague East Africa and Southwest Asia. developed by AIR. They conclude that if the locusts in Pakistan and India cannot […]

Huawei plans ICT training for talented Egyptian students

By rscPosted on 27. February 2020Posted in International/BRI

Huawei Egypt’s CEO SUN Luocheng and Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education, Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, have signed an MOU aiming to establish a long-term partnership to develop university infrastructure and train young ICT talents. There exists already an agreement to establish the Huawei ICT Academy in Egypt at Ain Shams University in Cairo. The ICT training program will […]

Huawei increases ICT capacity building in Ethiopia

By rscPosted on 24. February 2020Posted in International/BRI

According the the CEO of Huawei Ethiopia, ZHOU Tianbing, Huawei has launched three major initiatives: (1) “Seeds for the Future”, (2) an ICT competition, and (3) an ICT Talent Ecosystem, at the levels of elementary, secondary and higher education. The “Seeds for Future” project started in 2016, whereby 10 most talented students are sent to China […]

African Union (AU) prepares for two cross-border high-speed train projects

By rscPosted on 24. February 2020Posted in International/BRI

According to AU’s Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, AMANI Abou-Zedi, high-speed trains connecting African capitals are flagship projects of the “Agenda 2063”. The Bujumbura (Burundi) -Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) line is one of the two train projects. Xinhua news release, February 2, 2020

CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics develops Pd composite membrane for ammonia to hydrogen fuel cells

By rscPosted on 24. February 2020Posted in Newsticker

Researchers at the CAS DICP have developed a stainless steel reactor with a palladium composite membrane which allowed ammonia decomposition to hydrogen under long-term stable operation for 2000 h. Combination with an ammonia decomposing Ru/MgO catalyst in a membrane reactor reduced the temperature for complete ammonia decomposition from above 748 K to 673 K at […]

142 Seawater desalination projects in China completed by the end of 2018

By rscPosted on 24. February 2020Posted in Newsticker

According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, by the end of 2018 142 seawater desalination projects were completed, with a scale of 1,121,700 tons per day. The largest single unit of the seawater desalination project is 200,000 tons per day. Technology mainly adopts reverse osmosis and multi-stage flash seawater desalination. In the Northern Ocean Economic […]

Chinese-French oceanographic CFOSat satellite put into service

By rscPosted on 24. February 2020Posted in Newsticker

After 8 month in-orbit-testing, the oceanography satellite co-developed by China and France and launched in October 2018 was now put into service. The satellite acquires high-accuracy remote sensing data with its scatterometer and wave spectrometer, and can conduct high-resolution observations of ocean surface wind fields, which have been applied in monitoring typhoons, hurricanes, and the […]

CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics converts biomass fatty acids to long-chain alanes under mild conditions

By rscPosted on 24. February 2020Posted in Newsticker

Researchers around WANG Feng from the Bioenergy Chemicals Research Group have developed a photocatalytic decarboxylation procedure to convert long-chain fatty acids to alkanes under mild conditions. They used low-value long-chain fatty acids from a bio-oil refining process and paper industry production. Through catalytic deoxygenation, long-chain alkanes where obtained, which were used to produce diesel and […]

CAS QIBEBT develops perovskite oxide-based porous membrane for solar-driven evaporation and regeneration

By rscPosted on 24. February 2020Posted in Newsticker

Biological pollutants such as algae, or organic pollutants cause pollution of photothermal films in solar-driven water evaporation. They can be removed by high-temperature degradation, resulting in considerable energy consumption. The group around JIANG Heqing at CAS Qingdao Institute of Bio-Energy and Environmental Biotechnology (QIBEBT) has used the catalytic and photothermal properties of cobalt-based perovskite for […]

Chinese specialists explore potential of TCM drugs in treatment of Coronavirus infections

By rscPosted on 24. February 2020Posted in Newsticker

According to a press conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, China’s think-tank, on February 18, in-vitro experiments with 54 TCM pharmaceuticals and related drugs at a Guangzhou Hospital have shown that 5 among these drugs suppressed Coronavirus infections and had anti-inflammatory effects. They are hoped to complement treatment by Western medicine, at least for […]

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