https://j.people.com.cn/n3/2026/0127/c95952-20419222.html

The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering have jointly selected the “Top 10 Science and Technology Development News in China for 2025” through votes from academicians of both institutions.

China

• China’s “artificial sun” EAST achieves world record of “100 million degrees, 1,000 seconds”
• DeepSeek blazes a trail and releases China’s AI
• Completion of thorium molten salt reactor: China’s nuclear technology achieves new breakthrough
• China’s liver cancer prediction system makes a global contribution, appearing on the cover of Nature
• High-performance invasive brain-machine interface (BMI) system “North Brain-1” completes first wireless full human implant
• Skills from “0 to 1” A unique new target and candidate drug for Parkinson’s disease discovered in TEP
• The superconducting quantum computer prototype “Zuchongzhi-3” is unveiled
• Chinese scientists successfully develop a new hydrogen production technology
• The “Black Earth Granary” science and technology project achieves a major breakthrough in black earth protection technology
• Chinese scientists achieve a new breakthrough in 6G wireless communications

Top 10 global science and technology news

• BMI technology enables patients to speak and sing with emotion for the first time, converting thoughts into language in real time.
• An integrated “electron, photon, and quantum” chip system is born.
• The largest-ever black hole merger event is observed, challenging models of black hole formation.
• Scientists discover the most energetic neutrino ever observed (20 times more powerful than ever before).
• The first “time crystal” visible to the naked eye is unveiled.
• Genetically modified pigs break organ transplant survival records.
• Ground-based telescope detects 13-billion-year-old cosmic signals for the first time.
• The largest-ever map of the universe is completed.
• The largest-ever brain “map” details millions of neurons and their activity.
• DeepMind announces that AI test scores have won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad. J

According to Jiang Ming, member of the CPPCC and director of the CAS Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, the selected news on China’s science and technology advancements has three major characteristics.

• First, it focuses on the cutting edge of global science and technology, such as EAST’s world record for the ‘artificial sun’ and China’s AI by DeepSeek.
• Second, it addresses important national needs, such as the breakthrough in ‘black soil breadbasket’ technology and the construction of 6G wireless communications.
• Third, it focuses on people’s lives and health, such as the development of a new drug candidate for Parkinson’s disease and the research and development of a liver cancer prediction system.