Window to China
Started in 2016, the Technical and Professional Agricultural High School in Yabassi offers a modern technical infrastructure which helps to train young Camerooneans in basic technologies even before they enter a university. The high school with an enrolment of 200 students is a gift from China worth 7.5 billion FCFA (or ~11 million €), with one […]
ZTE and MTN Uganda have carried out a 5G technology trial in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, on January 17, in the presence of Uganda’s Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda. According to Uganda government sources, the country might become the first in East Africa to have a standalone 5G technology and the third in Africa after South Africa and Nigeria. […]
Through the public website http://ydyl.cma.gov.cn/ , 137 cities and regions along the belt and road can be accessed for a five-day weather forecast. Temperature, wind direction, wind speed, precipitation, etc. are updated every 12 hours. The information is based on photos of the Fengyun series of meteorological satellites and other climate-related materials for each city and region. […]
Acording to a talk at Beijing Cyber Security Conference, around 48.5 percent of China’s government agencies and 56.3 percent centrally-administered state-owned enterprises have deployed security operation centers, and the response time to security events has been reduced to less than one hour from about three days in 2016. In the first half of 2019, more […]
After a visit of China’s Prime Minister LI Keqiang to Japan, the development of hydrogen-based fuel cell cars in China gains momentum. The official development plan now provides for 50,000 vehicles by 2025, and car manufacturers such as BAIC, SAIC, Great Wall Motors and Dongfeng are now involved in the development of hydrogen-powered passenger cars, […]
The name of the new member of the news team is XIN Xiaomeng. She was created by Xinhua News Agency and the search engine Sogou and will make her debut during two sessions of the Chinese legislature meeting in March. She will be accompanied by a male AI trained in English or Chinese. Both presenters […]
According to a rating by People’s Daily, an official newspaper of China’s communist party, the following 10 achievements were most noteworthy: Discovery of the first millisecond pulsar by China’s spherical radio telescope FAST Successful launch of the environmental monitoring satellite 高5号 (High No. Five) Cultivating and harvesting rice in a tropical area of Dubai by CAS experts […]
The image was sent back via the relay satellite Queqiao, which was operating around the second Lagrangian point of the earth-moon system, about 455,000 km from the earth, where it can see both the earth and the moon’s far side. CAS news release, January 11, 2019 According to WU Yanhua, deputy director of the China National […]
Under the MOU, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Kenya and the Chinese Academy of Sciences will support a variety of science, technology, innovation and higher education cooperative activities between China and Africa in the areas of ecosystem and environment protection, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, agriculture, health, the development and demonstration of […]
The database, jointly developed with CAS Kunming Institute of Zoology, hosts 127 resequenced dog genomes and a canine gene database. It is the first integrated resource dedicated to domestic dogs and wild canids, providing a variety of data services and online analysis tools to dog researchers around the world. http://bigd.big.ac.cn/idog/ CAS news release, November 27, 2018