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20-7 600 kmh MAGLEV nears production in Qingdao, Shandong Province
Launched in October 2016, the high-speed maglev train has a designed top speed of 600 km per hour and conducted a successful test run in June 2020. According to the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), a train with five carriages has been running well on a...
15-7 China’s 5G networks will help to upgrade its industry
According to Shang Hui, president of the China Internet Society, the number of 5G base stations built so far is 916,000, accounting for 70% of the world's total, and the number of terminals connected to 5G networks is 365 million, accounting for 80% of the world's...
20-7 600 kmh MAGLEV nears production in Qingdao, Shandong Province
Launched in October 2016, the high-speed maglev train has a designed top speed of 600 km per hour and conducted a successful test run in June 2020. According to the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), a train with five carriages has been running well on a...
15-7 China’s 5G networks will help to upgrade its industry
According to Shang Hui, president of the China Internet Society, the number of 5G base stations built so far is 916,000, accounting for 70% of the world's total, and the number of terminals connected to 5G networks is 365 million, accounting for 80% of the world's...
13-7 Inner Mongolia will build solar power plant in sunken coal mine
The project is located in the coal mining area of Bazutao, Ulan Mulun Town, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The site covers an area of about 2,800 ha, and total investment for a 500,000 kW solar power plant is 2.14 billion yuan (about 280 million €). In addition to...
18-6 Carbon prizing will accelerate China’s energy transition away from coal
A systematic evaluation of the national carbon pricing effect on phasing out China's operating coal plants has been conducted by a collaborative research team from the Institutes of Science and Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASISD),...
12-7 Six hydroelectric power stations along the Yangtze river now in full operation
The 6 stations are the Three Gorges Power Station, Gezhouba Power Station, Qiluohu Power Station, Xiangjingfang Power Station, Wugui Power Station and Baihetantan Power Station. They are operated by the Three Gorges Group. They comprise 96 generators, and the overall...
9-7 CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics establishes metabolic engineering platform of Pichia pastoris
ZHOU Yongjin and colleagues developed novel genetic tools for precise genome editing in Pichia pastoris by enhancing homologous recombination (HR) rates and engineering the multiple intrusion-induced rearrangement (MIR) processes. The key gene RAD52, which played...
8-7 China’s „2020 National Renewable Energy Power Report“ claims 15.9% non-fossil energy and 56.8% coal for primary energy consumption
According to the "2020 National Renewable Energy Power Development Monitoring Evaluation Report" released by the National Energy Bureau (Energy Bureau), the actual consumption of renewable energy power nationwide in 2020 was 2,161.3 billion kWh. The share of...
8-7 Chinese and Japanese scientists discuss conservation of the marine environment
The workshop organised by MOST and JST and attended by 30 scientists in Qingdao, Shandong Province, and over 10000 participants online, included a keynote report and a roundtable forum on themes such as marine environment and climate change, marine fishery biological...
5-7 China becomes world’s largest country for water irrigation on 37.8 million ha
According to the Rural Hydropower Bureau of the Ministry of Water Resources, the area of water-saving irrigation in China as of the end of 2020 was 37.8 million ha. Of these, high-efficiency water-saving irrigation areas such as sprinkler irrigation, drip...
5-7 CAS Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences develops nano-scale borate bioactive glass, applications in wound healing
The group of WANG Junfeng and colleagues have used a special mobile phase to pre-treat micron-sized borate bioglass by a melting method in vitro. They obtained nano-scale (~50nm) borate bioglass (Nano-HCA@BG), which was covered with an amorphous hydroxyapatite (HCA)...
30-6 World’s Largest Wind Turbine installed in Hebei Province
At a test site in Zhangbei County, Hebei Province, a wind turbine with a generator of 175 m diameter was installed. Compared to the predecessor with 160 m diameter, annual power generation is to increase by 40% and cost per kWh by over 10%. Japan JST China news, June...
27-6 CAAS Agricultural Genomics Institute breeds diploid hybrid potatoes
The team around HUANG Sangwen in Shenzhen used genome design to develop an inbred line of diploid potatoes, propagated by seeds. This might substitute the clonal propagated tetraploid crop. The estimated tuber yield of these F1 hybrids in the first plot trial is 40...
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