29-12 China’s new energy power generation in 2021 exceeded 1 trillion kWh
China's new energy power generation from January through November 2021 reached 1,355.7 billion kWh, an increase of 33% from the same period of the previous year and surpassing 1 trillion kWh annually for the first time. 587 Billion kWh came from wind power was, 300...
29-12 ALIBABA’s vision on 2022 Top Technology Trends
On December 29, Alibaba’s research institute DAMO published its vision on the top ten technology trends for 2022: 1: AI for Science AI will become a new production tool for scientists and create a new paradigm for scientific research. 2: Large and small model...
28-12 CAS Institute of Microbiology designs simplified enzymatic pathway for CO2 fixation
Yin Li and his team at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a simple synthetic pathway for enzymatic carbon fixation based on thermodynamic and kinetic calculations. The POAP cycle relies on only four enzymes involved, pyruvate...
23-12 Researchers at CAS Institute of Oceanology find light-independent pathway for astaxanthin accumulation in Haemtococcus
A research team led by LIU Jianguo from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that light-independent metabolic pathways, in addition to light-dependent metabolic pathways, can also regulate...
22-12 A methanogenic archaebacterium can form methane from long-chain alkanes and thus facilitate exploitation of depleted oil fields
Methane is usually produced from petroleum by consortia of petrolem-degrading bacteria and methanobacteria. A team from Shenzhen University, the Chengdu Biogas Institute and the Max-Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology in Bremen has now isolated an archaebacterium...
24-12 China to boost sci-tech innovation targeting carbon neutrality and foster female scientists
According to a revised Law on Progress of Science and Technology, China will strongly support the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions and achieving carbon neutrality. It also demands establishing and improving a sound laboratory system led by national...
16-12 China will push battery recycling of new-energy electric vehicles (NEV)
According to the Ministry of Industry and information Technology MIIT, new regulations will encourage the recycling of batteries through cooperation of NEV and battery manufacturers, echelon utilisation enterprises and scrap automobile recycling companies. Data from...
6-12 Uranium extraction from seawater using bionic graded porous membrane
WEN Liping and colleagues at the CAS Institute of Physical and Chemical Technology have developed a bionic graded porous adsorbent membrane based on an intrinsic microporous polymer. The decreasing pore size structure allows uranyl ions to diffuse rapidly in the...
26-11 China promotes public science education
According to an evaluation of the Ministry of Science and Technology MOST, the number of science and technology museums and science and technology museums nationwide increased to 1525 in 2020. Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, however, the number of...
USTC develops bio inspired polyimide-mica nanocomposite film with high resistance to low earth orbit environments
Composite polyimide materials protect exterior surfaces of spacecraft in low Earth orbits from oxygen radicals, UV and high temperatures. Shuhong Yu's team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) took inspiration from the brick mortar...
23-11 China and Pakistan open first „belt and road“ hydropower plant, 720 MW
Under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Energy Cooperation, the plant was built by China’s Three Gorges Group, together with schools, hospitals, roads and other public welfare projects for the local communities. It provides some 4,500 jobs for the local community...
22-11 A novel type of assay for .alpha.-glucosidase or inhibitors of this enzyme
Yan-Ping Shi, Jun-Li Yang and colleagues at the Lanzhou Institute for Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a sensitive detection for α-glucosidase activity in natural product extracts or blood serum. They used...
17-11 China’s 5G network to cover most villages by 2025
According to a development plan on digital infrastructure by the MIIT, China's 5G network will cover all cities and towns, as well as most villages by 2025, with 26 5G base stations per 10000 people. Gigabit optical fiber network will cover most urban and rural areas,...
16-11 China completes desert-railway loop line
The 825 km line surrounds the Taklimakan Desert, China's largest desert, in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Linking the city of Hotan with Ruoqiang county in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, it will play a vital role in enhancing...
15-11 Better and more graphene heat conducting films
According to an article in China Science News, China’s sales of cell phones using graphene thermal conductive film such as Huawei Mate 20X were close to 29 million, and the cumulative amount of graphene film were about 1.3 million square meters in the past 12 months....
13-11 China will cover major cities with IoT by the end of 2023
According to the Institute of Industrial Internet and Internet of Things under the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), by 2023 major cities across the country will have been basically covered by the IoT modernizing social governance,...
3-11 Scientists from China, Russia, Japan and Korea establish „Research Center for Northeast Asia biodiversity conservation“
It has six research teams consisting of experts from various organizations such as the Chinese Academy of Forestry, Seoul National University and the University of Tokyo. They will carry out research on plants, animals, microorganisms and ecosystem diversity. The...
12-11 China promotes ultra-low energy consumption buildings („Passivhaus“)
According to Xinhua, the total floor area of China's green buildings has exceeded 6.6 billion square meters amid the country's efforts to promote high-quality development in urban and rural areas. Following a 2017 guideline proposing demonstration projects of...
12-11 A bioinspired conductive carbon material can be folded over 1 million times
A team around Guangtao ZAN from Tongji University, Inspired by the silkworm cocooning processes, has designed a super-foldable conductive carbon material with layered nanofiber network structures.The material can bear one million folds without structural damage and...
10-11 Haiyang city will receive „zero-carbon heating“ by Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant
Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 in Shandong Province is said to become the world's largest combined heat and power system. It is expected to replace 12 coal-fired boilers at the site and reduce coking coal consumption in each heating season by about 100,000 tons,...
2-11 Asteroid named after Chinese biochemist who made major contribution to insulin chemical synthesis
In a ceremony at Beijing’s CAS Institute of Biophysics, asteroid 325812 was named Asteroid Zouchenglu, as approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2020 Asteroid 325812 was discovered in 2008 by astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory in east...
5-11 China launches „Earth satellite“ to support sustainable development of developing countries
The SDGSAT-1 satellite is equipped with three payloads: . a thermal infrared imager, . a micro-optical imager, and . a multispectral imager They are designed to achieve a fine picture of human activity traces around the clock, and will provide data support for...
4-11 Team at CAS TIB introduces proline-induced loop engineering as superior method for enzyme design
The group of SUN Zoutong at the CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology has introduced a Proline Induced Loop Engineering Test (PiLoT) that helps to discover additional hotspots beyond the conventional ones around the active site. Mutagenesis at these...
2-11 Chinese team produces Clostridium single-cell protein from CO at 10,000 t scale
In a cooperation of the CAS Feed Research Institute and Beijing Shougang Longze New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., a gas fermentation for the production of protein from CO was developed using Clostridium ethanolicum. The anaerobic microorganism is usually studied for...
1-11 China claims lead in quantum computation
According to Chinese media, a quantum processor named named "Zuchongzhi 2.1" and a quantum computer prototype named "Jiuzhang 2.0 put China in the lead of these technologies. The "Jiuzhang 2.0" can produce up to 113 photon detection events out of a 144-mode photonic...
1-11 China’s number of charging poles for electric cars has grown 60% in one year
According to the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance, the total number of charging infrastructure across China has reached 2,223,000, up 56.8% year-on-year. China has now established one of the world's largest networks of charging...
1-11 Team at CAS DICP achieves 100% CO oxidation at room temperature using Pt nanoparticles on graphene
The team of DENG Dehui at CAS Dalian has loaded platinum nanoparticles onto an graphene-encapsulated cobalt-nickelide armor („armor catalyst“ (Pt|CoNi). By this design, CoNi alloy is protected by an ultrathin graphene shell from oxidation and therefore modulates the...
26-10 China claims major advances in „green buildings“, publishes 15 years guideline
According to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development, the total floor area of China’s „green buildings“ now exceeds 6.6 billion m2. The proportion of green buildings will be further increased, building energy efficiency standards raised and buildings with...
22-10 China establishes Graphene Materials Industry Metrology Center
China has established a National Institute of Metrology for Materials Industry at two metrology institutes in Shenzhen and Beijing, at the China Metrology Research Institute in Shenzhen, and the Beijing Measure Detection Science Academy. They will focus on...
19-10 China: 450 million 5G users, over 1.1 million 5G stations
According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, gigabyte optical networks now cover over 200 million households. By 2023, over 560 million or 40 % of all mobile phone users are expected to use 5G networks. According to the Industrial Internet...
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