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23-2 CNOOC discovers 100 million ton oil and gas field in the Bohai Sea
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on February 22 that it has discovered another large oil and gas discovery in its Bohai oil field, about 140 km from Tianjin. The average water depth is about 23.2 meters. In the Bozhong 13-2-2 well, an oil...
22-2 Shanxi Province and Huawei establish “smart mining innovation lab”
Shanxi Province is a major region for China’s coal mining. Shanxi Province, Huawei Technology and other partners have now jointly established a "Smart Mine Innovation Laboratory" which uses information technology such as industrial wireless control networks and cloud...
23-2 CNOOC discovers 100 million ton oil and gas field in the Bohai Sea
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on February 22 that it has discovered another large oil and gas discovery in its Bohai oil field, about 140 km from Tianjin. The average water depth is about 23.2 meters. In the Bozhong 13-2-2 well, an oil...
22-2 Shanxi Province and Huawei establish “smart mining innovation lab”
Shanxi Province is a major region for China’s coal mining. Shanxi Province, Huawei Technology and other partners have now jointly established a "Smart Mine Innovation Laboratory" which uses information technology such as industrial wireless control networks and cloud...
26-2 CAS Kunming Institute of Botany develops rapid detection method for poisonous mushrooms
While the toxic mechanisms of poisonous mushrooms vary, mushrooms containing cyclic peptide toxin dominate. They are encoded by the “MSDIN” gene family and ribosomally biosynthesized. A typical example are the cyclic peptide toxins...
23-3 CAS, Yanshan Petrochemical and Sinopec Engineering & Construction establish joint R&D Center for Carbon Neutral Green Technology
The joint R&D center for carbon neutral and green technologies, located at the CAS Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), aims to integrate industry, academia and research, and make due contributions to accelerate the development of carbon peak, carbon-neutral...
19-2 Wuhan Institute opens nelumbo genome database for Lotus plants
Researchers around YANG Xingyu and colleagues from the Wuhan Institute of Landscape Architecture and the CAS Wuhan Botanical Garden have established a nelumbo genome database http://nelumbo.biocloud.net which is is a collection of the most updated lotus...
19-2 China’s ZTE opens 4G telecom services to six major Ethiopian cities
Under a contract with Ethiopia’s telecom monopoly, Ethio-Telecom, ZTE has completed a contract to expand 4G services to six Ethiopian cities, Adama, Bishoftu, Mojo, Dukem, Gelan and Awash-Melkasa, where high mobile data traffic has been observed. In the next three...
22-2 Chinese authorities strengthen regulations on medical research
An updated code, jointly revised by the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, stipulates that the whole process of medical studies, covering everything from the project...
13-2 China integrates into global drought monitoring from space
China's meteorological satellite Fengyun-3D has global observation capability and good application prospects in global drought monitoring. Through cooperating with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and its members, the project will focus on establishing a global...
22-2 CAS Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation releases global remote sensing “water color index” of lakes and reservoirs
The group around ZHANG Bing has obtained breakthroughs in remote sensing of water quality parameters of lakes and reservoirs. Based on earlier data and remote sensing monitoring, long-term changes in the transparency of large lakes and reservoirs across the country...
4-2 China narrows gap to US in computing power
The 2020 Global Computing Power Index Assessment Report released by Wave Information and international agency IDC in Beijing on Feb. 4 shows that the United States ranks first in the country's computing power index with 75 points, sitting on the world's largest number...
4-2 China explores straw net machine for desert control
According to the Desert Control Research Institute of Gansu Province, which developed the machine, the machine places checkerboard-type large straw nets on the surface of the desert to reduce the wind speed and fix moving sand dunes. The efficiency of the paving...
“Lihu” (Archipelago) launched, prototype of a hydrogen motor yacht
The yacht was built by Dalian Maritime University and adopts a 70 kW hydrogen fuel cell reactor developed by the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. Recently, this institute has put emphasis on the application of hydrogen fuel cell technology and developed a new...
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