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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...