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...

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...

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,...

China attempts to build a nationwide carbon market, providing an impetus to phase out coal power and achieve carbon neutral targets early. At present, China’s 4540 operating coal plants generate over 1,000 GW, about half of global coal power capacity, and generate 62%...

According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China leads in hydroelectric, wind and solar power generation, and capacity of nuclear power plants under construction. As of the end of July 2021, the installed capacity of non-fossil energy power generation...

According  to the "China Science and Technology Human Resources Development Report (2020)“ published on August 27, China's R & D population surged during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), with an average annual growth rate of more than 7%. It has increased...

The project will focus on core scientific and technological problems of the Indian Ocean tropical environment variability in the "Belt and Road", enhance the capability of China's marine meteorological observation and prediction, and provide a scientific decision...

Carbon emissions in Anhui’s industrial sector account for about 70% of the total. As green and low carbon development of the industry is considered he most important point to achieve the goals of peaking out CO2 emissions and carbon neutrality, the province launched a...

According to the China Internet Information Center (CNNC), about 35% of all 38,000 patent applications related to 6G mobile communication come from China. Japan JST China news, August 30, 2021

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, C22:6) is widely applied in pharmaceutical and food industries, and the algae Aurantiochytrium has become a representative strains for DHA production due to its high biomass and lipid content. Researchers from the CAS Qingdao...

WANG Liangbao and colleagues at the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were able to use surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of ethanol extracts to determine poisons in an oily matrix with high sensitivity. Using a portable...

A research team at CAS Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically analyzed the photosynthetic efficiency, nutrient uptake, inter-root carbon secretion and inter-root bacterial community of a  3-year-old Mongolian oak and its...

The group of DENG Denghui proposes a technology to balance peaks of electricity use during daytime and valleys during night time using hydrogen as a green energy carrier. To this end, they have decoupled the electrolysis of water via a Nafion membrane into an O2...

The team of ZHANG Xueli has applied metabolic engineering to introduce the rose essential oil pathway into bakers’ yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To this end, they integrated the geraniol-rose alcohol synthesis module and nerol synthesis module into the same chassis...

China Petrochemical Corporation (China Petrochemical Corporation) has newly confirmed natural gas reserves of 34,029 million cubic meters in the Sichuan gas field areas under its umbrella, and the cumulative reserves add now up to 106.1 billion cubic meters. Japan JST...

As the third nation after the USA and Japan, China is now monitoring global carbon dioxide emissions with the TanSat satellite. A high-resolution grating spectrometer measures CO2 and O2 absorption at three wavelengths in reflected sunlight. A large-field spectrometer...

Parkinson’s disease (PD), with a prevalence of 2%–3% in people >65 years old, is the second-most common neurodegenerative disorder worldwide [1]. It is typically characterized by a cluster of specific motor symptoms, including bradykinesia, rigidity, postural...

WANG Feng and colleagues at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have developed a new method of carrier oxygen defect-mediated direct methanation of biomass, which achieves highly selective conversion (82 - 99%) of biomass resources, including lignocellulose,...

According to Wang Zhigang, director of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China’s original innovation capacity in science and technology has improved significantly. Basic research expenditures have increased rapidly, with an average annual growth rate of 16.9%,...

The brain of higher primates comprises nearly 1014 nerve cells with delicate and complex connections among them. To fully understand how the brain functions, it is essential to have a high-resolution map showing how the nerve cells are organized and connected...

Following the recent confirmation of a domestic case of the COVID19 in the city, a laboratory is being built at Nanjing International Expo Center. It covers an area of ​​8,000 square meters and is equipped with 12 hard-type and 15 soft-type balloon units, with a fully...

Launched in October 2016, the high-speed maglev train has a designed top speed of 600 km per hour and conducted a successful test run in June 2020. According to the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), a train with five carriages has been running well on a...

According to Shang Hui, president of the China Internet Society, the number of 5G base stations built so far is 916,000, accounting for 70% of the world's total, and the number of terminals connected to 5G networks is 365 million, accounting for 80% of the world's...

The project is located in the coal mining area of Bazutao, Ulan Mulun Town, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The site covers an area of about 2,800 ha, and total investment for a 500,000 kW solar power plant is 2.14 billion yuan (about 280 million €). In addition to...

A systematic evaluation of the national carbon pricing effect on phasing out China's operating coal plants has been conducted by a collaborative research team from the Institutes of Science and Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASISD),...

The 6 stations are the Three Gorges Power Station, Gezhouba Power Station, Qiluohu Power Station, Xiangjingfang Power Station, Wugui Power Station and Baihetantan Power Station. They are operated by the Three Gorges Group. They comprise 96 generators, and the overall...

ZHOU Yongjin and colleagues developed novel genetic tools for precise genome editing in Pichia pastoris by enhancing homologous recombination (HR) rates and engineering the multiple intrusion-induced rearrangement (MIR) processes. The key gene RAD52, which played...

According to the "2020 National Renewable Energy Power Development Monitoring Evaluation Report" released by the National Energy Bureau (Energy Bureau), the actual consumption of renewable energy power nationwide in 2020 was 2,161.3 billion kWh. The share of...

The workshop organised by MOST and JST and attended by 30 scientists in Qingdao, Shandong Province, and over 10000 participants online, included a keynote report and a roundtable forum on themes such as marine environment and climate change, marine fishery biological...

According to the Rural Hydropower Bureau of the Ministry of Water Resources, the area of ​​water-saving irrigation in China as of the end of 2020 was 37.8 million ha. Of these, high-efficiency water-saving irrigation areas such as sprinkler irrigation, drip...