China’s State Council and the CPC recently issued a guideline on building up its intellectual property (IP) strength between 2021 and 2035. By 2035, China’s overall IP competitiveness will be at the forefront of the world as a world-class IP powerhouse with Chinese characteristics on six aspects: China will build a comprehensive, well-structured, IP legal […]
28-9 China’s R&D spending and patenting on new heights
According to a White Paper released by the State Council, China’s R&D spending was about 370.97 billion U.S. dollars, ranking the world’s second, and the ratio of R&D to GDP reached 2.4 percent. Nearly 1.35 million utility patent applications were filed and 441,000 were granted, and 69,000 international PCT patent applications were submitted. By the […]
27-9 CAS Shanghai converts syngas aerosols to medium- and long-chain chemicals using Clostridium ljungdahlii
A group around Weihong JIANG at CAS Institute of Plant Sciences in Shanghai metabolically engineered autotrophic Clostridium ljungdahlii to efficiently co-produce three important bulk chemicals, isopropanol, 3-hydroxybutyrate (3-HB), and ethanol (together, IHE), using syngas (CO2/CO). The engineered strain was further optimized to reassimilate acetic acid and synthesize 3-HB by introducing heterologous functional genes. Finally, the […]
28-9 China National Space Agency establishes Gravitational Wave Research Center
The center is located at Zhongshan University Zhuhai Campus, and its director is Lu Shun, president of Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University. The establishment of the center will build a world-leading field for gravitational wave exploration and research. Japan JST China news, September 28, 2021
24-9 Team at CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology synthesises starch from CO2 in a cell-free system
The group used computational design to draft an artificial anabolic pathway from CO2 to starch. First, CO2 is reduced to methanol by an inorganic catalyst. Next, in a cell free system with spatial and temporal segregation, methanol is covered to starch through 11 core reactions driven by hydrogen and including engineered enzymes. Reaction rates in […]
24-9 China accounts for 40% of the world’s 6G patent applications
Within 2 years, China has built the world’s largest 5G network. As of August 2021, there were 1.037 million 5G base stations, more than 70% of the world’s total; the number of 5G terminal users has surpassed 400 million, the largest user base in the world; more than 10,000 5G application innovations have been built […]
20-9 Chinese university establishes IT-controlled „future orchard“ in Beijing
The „Future Orchard” was founded on 4 ha land by China Agricultural University and other enterprises in Pinggu, a 400,000 people township of Beijing with a population density of 438 inhabitants per km square. The peach and kiwi tree orchard has a lab for intelligent monitoring and visual diagnosis on the the fruit trees and […]
Gesundheitsmarkt China – Arzneimittel und medizinische Biotechnologie (22 pages, in German)
https://www.exportinitiative-gesundheitswirtschaft.de/EIG/Redaktion/DE/Publikationen/PDF/gesundheitsmarkt-china.html
13-9 China launches Gaofen 5-02 satellite for hyper spectral observation of air pollution
The satellite developed by the CAS Hefei Institute of Material Science is equipped with a total of 7 remote sensing instruments, including a main greenhouse gas monitor (GMI), an atmospheric trace gas differential absorption spectrometer (EMI), a multi-angle polarization detector (DPC) and a high-precision polarization scanner (POSP). The four payloads operate synchronously for a dynamic […]
13-9 Hydrogen from decoupled water electrolysis may regulate electricity peak loads
DENG Denghui’s group at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences wants to use hydrogen as a green energy carrier to balance peaks and troughs in power consumption. To this end, they use polysulfides as a mediator in a galvanostat, lowering the reduction potential for the formation of hydrogen to […]