https://www.huawei.com/uk/huaweitech/publication/202301/5-5g-core-network-connectivity-service-enablement Huawei lays out five major characteristics of the 5.5G era — 10 Gbps experiences, full-scenario interconnection, integrated sensing and communication, autonomous networks and green information and communications technology.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add8105 https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202303/19/WS6416a55da31057c47ebb5467.html Researchers led by YAN Xuehai from the CAS Institute of Process Engineering have fabricated a family of eco-friendly glasses of biological origin, using biologically-derived amino acids or peptides through heating-quenching, a classic industrial procedure. They chemically modified amino acids and peptides at their ends so they form a super-cooled liquid before decomposition. The glasses exhibited good […]

http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2023-03/21/content_85181903.htm https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade0997 A team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University has created a calcium carbonate coating using electrostatic interactions that mimic the mineral formation of biological tissues. The ultra-resistant coating which disappears during gastrointestinal passage was shown to protect the probiotics organism Bacteroides fragilis during production from oxygen, UV and ethanol, and during GI passage from […]

https://www.cas.cn/cm/202303/t20230317_4880372.shtml https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969723014419 Shi Yusheng’s research team of the CAS Aerospace Information Innovation Institute has quantified the impact of global fire carbon emissions on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. The research results show that the annual average impact of global fire carbon emissions on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration can reach 2.4 ppm, indicating that fire is one […]

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220816120 https://www.cas.cn/syky/202303/t20230316_4880333.shtml Zhou Yongjin and team at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have coupled methanol utilization with fatty alcohol biosynthesis through metabolic pathway compartmentalization in methanolic yeast. Normally, the yield of fatty alcohols synthesized by modified Hansenula polymorpha using methanol as raw material is very low due to the toxicity of methanol and […]

http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0314/c95952-10221971.html According to Song Kailiang, Chairman of the China Energy Construction group, China’s total installed capacity of renewable energy generation in 2022 exceeded that of coal power generation, accounting for 47.3% of the total, and the full-year generation volume exceeded 2.7 trillion kWh, which is equivalent to the annual power consumption of 27 European Union […]

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0313/c90000-10221547.html China’s deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe (Striver) returned to Sanya city, south China’s Hainan Province, on March 11, with fruitful results, according to the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Fendouzhe completed 63 dives during its voyage aboard the country’s scientific research ship Tansuo-1 in the ship’s first international […]

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0314/c90000-10222094.html (Xinhua) 13:32, March 14, 2023 BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) — Chinese researchers have discovered that frequent engagement in social activities is strongly associated with prolonged overall lifespan in older people. The issue of population aging poses a growing concern around the world. It is estimated that China will become a deeply aging society in 2027 […]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00616-6 Researchers from Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine have devised a graphene-based intelligent, wearable artificial throat (AT), sensitive to human speech and vocalization-related motions. The AT’s perception of the mixed modalities of acoustic signals and mechanical motions enables it to acquire signals with a low fundamental frequency while remaining noise resistant. It can […]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202213173 https://www.cas.cn/syky/202303/t20230314_4880040.shtml Two teams from CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and the University of Queensland, Australia, have made progress on artificial photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) by simulating the stomatal structure of plant leaves , resulting in a solar-to-chemical (SCC) conversion rate of 1.23%. The collaborative team grew two-dimensional mesoporous resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) resin on […]

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0315/c90000-10222431.html Chinese high-speed trains currently have a top operating speed of 350 km/h, while the cruising velocity of commercial aircraft is about 900 km/h. 600 km/h maglev trains could bridge the speed gap between aviation and high-speed railways. The world’s first commercial maglev line, capable of speeds reaching 430 km/h, was launched in Shanghai in […]

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0221/c90000-10210644.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00694-0 Chinese, United States and Germa scientists have proposed an agricultural carbon reduction solution that could help China achieve carbon neutrality in its food production. According to the research model evaluation, the total carbon emissions from the production of China’s staple crops, including rice, wheat and corn, could have neared 670 teragrams of CO2-equivalent […]

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-02-26/China-develops-three-photon-microscope-capturing-deep-brain-images-1hJt6EHMn60/index.html BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — A research team at Peking University has made a new breakthrough in multiphoton microscopy by developing a miniature three-photon microscope that has successfully captured deep-brain images of freely moving mice. The microscope, weighing only 2.17 grams, achieved stable imaging of the brain cortex and hippocampal neurons of freely moving […]

The National Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Satellite Applications, Institute of Space and Space Information Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in the research of remote sensing inversion estimation of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants. CO2 is mainly generated from fossil fuel combustion, and CO2 emissions from coal-fired power […]

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0305/c90000-10216858.html https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/ A joint study conducted by 89 Chinese and overseas scientists has shown that domestication of different wild grape ecotypes occurred concurrently about 11,000 years ago in Western Asia and the Caucasus, which yielded table and wine grapevines. The findings were published by the journal Science on Friday and chosen as the cover story. Western […]

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202303/06/WS64055c69a31057c47ebb2805.html China boosts ancient book preservation with modern technology (Xinhua) 13:06, March 05, 2023 LANZHOU, March 4 (Xinhua) — A literature exhibition on the great Chinese ancient encyclopedia “Yongle Dadian” officially opened at the Lanzhou Museum in northwest China’s Gansu Province on Tuesday, with some 70 pieces of material related to Lanzhou City in the classic […]

https://english.news.cn/20230306/78553432b958464299bad04a2c338099/c.html Made-in-China new energy buses race towards overseas markets Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-03-06 17:04:00 XIAMEN, March 6 (Xinhua) — In the workshop of Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus Co., Ltd., a leading bus maker in China, workers have been busy at the final assembly line, installing windshields and debugging the systems on new energy buses. […]

http://edu.people.com.cn/BIG5/n1/2023/0307/c1006-32638357.html The laboratory is located at Zhongnan University with a donation of $5.81 million in funds from Vale.  Vale is a global mining giant with the world’s largest reserves of high-grade iron ore products and a unique advantage in supporting the low-carbon development of the steel industry. Zhongnan University has a long history in mining engineering […]

http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0302/c95952-10215141.html A battery hybrid car ferry with a capacity for 1,500 passengers was built by Guangzhou Shipbuilding International for P&O Ferries of the UK, was launched on February 28, 2023. The vessel will operate in the English Channel between the ports of Dover, England and Calais, France. The vessel contains a total of 1,160 large-capacity […]

http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0217/c95952-10209313.html https://36kr.jp/200103/ 　Shanxi Province completed the construction of its first batch of 15 virtual power plants (VPPs), which were applied for by the first nine power sellers. The total aggregated capacity is 1,847,400 kW and the adjustable capacity is 392,000 kW, Science and Technology Daily reported. The virtual power plant is a power coordination and […]

http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0216/c94476-10208681.html Sinopec is China’s leading petrochemical corporation and operates petrol stations country-wide. At one of its gas stations in Dalian, Liaoning Province, it has now integrated a methanol-based hydrogen production system which provides up to 1000 kg per day of hydrogen gas with a purity of 99.999% . The “five-in-one” filling station offers gasoline, natural […]

http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0130/c95952-10200908.html According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII) the number of mobile Internet of Things (IoT) users in China is growing rapidly, with a net increase of 447 million to 1.845 billion IoT connections at the end of 2022, accounting for 70% of the global total.

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0130/c90000-10200813.html By Han Xin (People’s Daily) 10:19, January 30, 2023 A manufacturing base of Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., known as Baosteel, in Shanghai, upgrades its industrial water utilization system to lower water consumption, July 14, 2021. (People’s Daily Online/Zhang Yong) How much water is used for industrial purposes in China, the world’s largest industrial […]

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0131/c90000-10201525.html (People’s Daily Online) 14:50, January 31, 2023 Restorer Tian Tingting demonstrates the process of the restoration of an ancient book during an activity held by the National Library of China in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 11, 2019. (Xinhua/Yin Gang) Recently, 6,786 volumes of digitized ancient Chinese books were launched online by the National Center […]

http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/0121/c90000-10199047.html China spent a record 3.09 trillion yuan ($443 billion) on research and development in 2022, a 10.4 percent year-on-year increase that came from the nation’s accelerated efforts to enhance its innovation capability for more breakthroughs. According to the National Bureau of Statistics China’s R&D expenditures accounted for 2.55 percent of the GDP last year, which […]

https://www.cas.cn/syky/202301/t20230119_4872848.shtml The iron and steel industry emits a large amount of carbon dioxide/carbon monoxide mixed waste gas. By applying carbon dioxide/carbon monoxide electrocatalytic reduction in an alkaline membrane electrolyzer with a copper oxide cathode, different products could be prepared. With the increase of carbon monoxide pressure in the feed gas, the main product of electrolysis gradually changed […]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-022-00716-4 Scientists from Fudan University found in rodent experiments that after caloric restriction, Bacterium bifidum is enriched. Then the tumor growth is significantly inhibited. The administration of these bacteria is sufficient to achieve antitumor effects in microbiota-depleted mice. The study shows that B. bifidum mediates caloric restriction-induced antitumor effect through acetate production and also depends on the […]

http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/2023-01/18/content_5737692.htm The State Council issued a circular requesting departments concerned and regional authorities to further support foreign investors in setting up research and development (R&D) centers in China. The circular said scientific and technological innovations call for improved services, and basic research should be encouraged. Foreign-funded R&D centers will gain support in establishing open innovation […]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095927323000221 Researchers at the CAS Institute of Industrial Biotechnology have developed a highly efficient biosynthesis of artificial starch and microbial proteins from available and abundant agricultural residues. A one-pot biotransformation using an in vitro coenzyme-free synthetic enzymatic pathway and baker’s yeast can simultaneously convert dilute sulfuric acid-pretreated corn stover to artificial starch and microbial protein […]

https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202208648 https://new.qq.com/rain/a/20221227A00N0P00 (includes video) A team led by Professor Gu Sheng of Zhejiang University’s School of Pharmacy and Jinhua Research Institute has developed an unmanned, direction-specific medication first-aid system. The first-aid system consists of an unmanned aircraft, a drug throwing device, and a micro-needle patch containing an emergency medication. When the drone arrives at the patient’s […]