Over 600,000 Turkish health workers have received first vaccination using Sinovac’s vaccine
As of January 14, 2021, Turkey had reported over 2.5 million positive cases and a death toll of over 23,000. The country started mass vaccination for COVID-19 on Jan. 14 after the authorities approved the emergency use of the Chinese vaccine. Xinhua...
China attempts to turn 6.6 million ha of saline-alkali land into rice paddies
The team of YUAN Longpin, dubbed “China’s father of hybrid rice”, has announced plans to plant a saline-alkali tolerant rice which they developed on 6.6 million ha over the next 8 – 10 years. Last year, the team planted already 6,667 hectares of this variety in...
China’s Aerospace Information Research Institute reports 100 PB of Earth observation data
According to the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), rhe collected data resources have been used for both free and commercial usage to serve more than 300,000 users. Over the past decades, China has launched more than 60 Earth observation satellites...
Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) publishs 3-years action plan (2021 – 2023)
The key tasks include building regional innovation hub cities, helping innovation hub cities to cultivate driving industries, serving SMEs to improve their innovation capacity, and launching a series of technology service and trading activities As...
China establishs Deep Sea Sci-Tech Laboratory in Wuxi
The lab named "Taihu" has been built by the China Ship Scientific Research Center, affiliated to the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). The research center aims to build the deep sea sci-tech lab into an advanced laboratory with global influence. By 2025,...
CAS team uses Raman spectroscopy to elucidate drug functions on tumor cells at cellular level
The team around XU Jian at the Single Cell Research Center of CAS Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Environmental Technology (QIBEBT) has combining tumor cell Raman group collection and multivariate curve resolution-alternating least square analysis algorithms to...
CAS Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry develops cyanide-free clean gold extraction technology
The team of JIANG Bao uses a process based on extraction by strong air oxidation at the micro-interface, using micro-nano bubbles to release active oxygen when they burst. Using this procedure, the gold in minerals is rapidly oxidized to water-soluble gold ions, and...
Team at China Pharmaceutical University improve T-cell therapy by lipid membrane modulation: animal experiments
A team around ZHANG Yan has developed a cell surface immobilization technology to enhance the therapeutic effect of adopted immune T cells on real tumors. They have discovered that avasimib raises cholesterol levels in cell membranes and promotes speedy aggregation of...
China’s Three Gorges Power Plant generated 111.8 billion kWh in 2020, replacing 34 million t of standard coal
During the 2020 flood season, five major floods occurred in the Yangtze River basin, with a maximum flood peak of 75,000 cubic meters per second. Flood prevention is another top priority of the Three Gorges Project. Xinhua News Agency, January 5, 2021 © Photo: Xiang...
China’s COVID-19 vaccine production might reach over 2 billion doses in 2021
According to Beijing's disease prevention and management authorities, the current annual production capacity for a vaccine based in inactivated virus has already reached 1 billion doses. Currently, 18 companies are constructing additional production capacity for the...
During the “145” period, China will build a model fast neutron breeding reactor
China's nuclear power development has adopted a "three-step" strategy of thermal neutron reactors, fast neutron breeder reactors, and fusion reactors. China has already formed a well-organized nuclear fuel cycle system. Pressurized water reactors and fast reactors are...
Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences reports success on genome-edited sheep with increased muscle mass
China's mutton consumption in 2019 was 5.27 million t, while mutton production was only 4.88 million t. Jiangsu’s “lake sheep” 湖羊 are a local breed registered in the national livestock and poultry breed protection list. They show high fertility, resistance to high...
China presents driving platform of 620 km/h MAGLEV train
At an opening ceremony at the State Key Laboratory of Traction Power at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdo, it was disclosed that the high-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation technology has self-suspension, self-guidance and self-stability...
During “145”, Shanghai will create about 6700 ha of farms for unmanned intelligent food production
According to ZHANG Guokun, director of Shanghai’s Municipal Agriculture and Rural Committee, an “action plan” during the next five-years planning period “145” will implement five major actions: green production rate will rise to 60%, and green agricultural...
Shanxi Province Covid test base achieves a maximum of 300,000 tests per day
According to LIANG Hongping, Director of Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital in Taiyuan where the test base is located, the capacity for sample inactivation, nucleic acid extraction and sequencing has been stepped up to a maximum daily capacity of 300,000 samples....
Researchers at Qingdao Agricultural University achieve somatic cloning of forest cat
The team around ZHAO Minghui had isolated and cultured fibroblasts from the cat's skin tissue, and used a Chinese field cat egg as the nuclear receptor, creating multiple somatic cell cloned embryos through nuclear replacement and artificial activation. After...
Beijing subway explores smart disinfection robot
Beijing subway BJMTR Co presently explores a robot. which disinfects in the closed interior by spraying hydrogen peroxide. This procedure is claimed to disinfect even small gaps that are out of reach of humans. It can remove viruses and bacteria more effectively than...
Hanvon Technology offers face authentication for people wearing face masks
The companies AI-based face recognition device uses a newly developed double visible light 3D three-dimensional face recognition technology. Its speed and accuracy of authentication is claimed to exceed that of conventional methods such as monocular and infrared or...
Team in Yunnan discovers C-30 limonoid with promising activity against Alzheimer’s Disease
The groups of YAO Yong-Gan, DI Ying-Tong and HAO Xiao-Jiang in Kunming, Yunnan Province, after isolating harpertrioate A, a C-30 limonoid, from branches of Harrisonia perforate in Hainan, have found in experiments with U251-APP cell cultures that this...
5G driverless tractor made in Luoyang
The 5G driverless tractor Dongfanghong 东方红(”The East is red”) was constructed in Luoyang in 2020. Its innovation include self-driving, 5G technology, and lithium batteries. Another innovation is its in-wheel motor technology, which allows each wheel to independently...
Sichuan patient receives first artificial heart “made-in-China”
The 42 old patient was in the end stage of dilated cardiomyopathy, and surgery was done at the Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital. The artificial heart has two parts: a 420 gram artificial blood vessel and blood pump placed in the chest, and a 3 kg external...
China pioneers quantum communication network over 4,600 km
Led by PAN Jianwei from the CAS University of Science and Technology, an integrated quantum network was set up that combines 700 fiber and two ground-to-satellite links and realized quantum key distribution (QKD) between more than 150 users over a combined distance of...
1450 km UH-voltage DC transmission Yunnan-Guangdong starts operation
A key West-East DC transmission line constructed by Southern Electric Power Co. was started at the end of December. The line serves as the main transmission "artery" for the Wudongde hydropower plant, the world's seventh-largest hydropower plant. It starts in Yunnan...
CRISPR-based genome screening reveals new drivers of senescence in mice and men
ZHANG Weiqi and colleagues at CAS Beijing Institute of Genomics have carried out a genome-wide CRISPR-based screening for genes involved in senescence. Their results suggest that KAT7 (a histone acetyltransferase) plays a role in the aging of human mesenchymal...
China has bred new varieties of major crops during “135”
According to the WAN Jianmin, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences CAAS and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, China has made several breakthroughs during the “135” period in breeding new crop varieties of staple crops that...
Team at China University of Science develops isotropic biomimetic wood (“RGI-wood”) without using adhesives or formaldehyde
The team of YU Shuhong, Academician of the CAS, has utilized natural cellulose nanofibers from wood chips and other biomass to construct a high-performance artificial wood with an isotropic flexural strength of up to 170 MPa and a bending modulus of about 10 GPa, far...
By the end of 2020, China’s 5G stations exceed 700,000
According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology MIIT, by the end of 2020 China had installed more than 718,000 5G base stations and 330,000 more under construction. Within the 512 projects of "5G + Industrial Internet", there are presently over 1,100...
China Oil discoves large gas field in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang
According to China Oil Xinjiang Oil Field Co., the "Hutui 1 well" located in the Hutubi River prefecture, southern edge of the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, holds proved reserves of natural gas of more than 100 billion m3. Japan JST China news, December 21,...
China Southwest Oil reports > 30 billion m3 of gas production in Sichuan in 2020
China Oil Southwest Oil and Gas Field Co. since 1958 has developed 114 gas fields with more than 2,300 gas wells in the Sichuan Basin. Cumulative natural gas production was over 500 billion cubic meters. As a leading developer of natural gas in the Sichuan Basin, the...
92.5% of China’s primary and middle schools have multimedia classrooms
The network connection of primary and secondary schools nationwide rose to 99.7% from 69.3% in 2015. All schools even in the 52 poorest counties have now been networked, and 99.7% of schools have reached 100Mbs communication speed. Multimedia classrooms have been...
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