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25-9 China issues long-term guideline on IP
China’s State Council and the CPC recently issued a guideline on building up its intellectual property (IP) strength between 2021 and 2035. By 2035, China’s overall IP competitiveness will be at the forefront of the world as a world-class IP powerhouse with Chinese...
28-9 China’s R&D spending and patenting on new heights
According to a White Paper released by the State Council, China's R&D spending was about 370.97 billion U.S. dollars, ranking the world's second, and the ratio of R&D to GDP reached 2.4 percent. Nearly 1.35 million utility patent applications were filed and...
25-9 China issues long-term guideline on IP
China’s State Council and the CPC recently issued a guideline on building up its intellectual property (IP) strength between 2021 and 2035. By 2035, China’s overall IP competitiveness will be at the forefront of the world as a world-class IP powerhouse with Chinese...
28-9 China’s R&D spending and patenting on new heights
According to a White Paper released by the State Council, China's R&D spending was about 370.97 billion U.S. dollars, ranking the world's second, and the ratio of R&D to GDP reached 2.4 percent. Nearly 1.35 million utility patent applications were filed and...
27-9 CAS Shanghai converts syngas aerosols to medium- and long-chain chemicals using Clostridium ljungdahlii
A group around Weihong JIANG at CAS Institute of Plant Sciences in Shanghai metabolically engineered autotrophic Clostridium ljungdahlii to efficiently co-produce three important bulk chemicals, isopropanol, 3-hydroxybutyrate (3-HB), and ethanol (together, IHE), using...
24-9 Team at CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology synthesises starch from CO2 in a cell-free system
The group used computational design to draft an artificial anabolic pathway from CO2 to starch. First, CO2 is reduced to methanol by an inorganic catalyst. Next, in a cell free system with spatial and temporal segregation, methanol is covered to starch through...
24-9 China accounts for 40% of the world’s 6G patent applications
Within 2 years, China has built the world's largest 5G network. As of August 2021, there were 1.037 million 5G base stations, more than 70% of the world's total; the number of 5G terminal users has surpassed 400 million, the largest user base in the world; more than...
20-9 Chinese university establishes IT-controlled „future orchard“ in Beijing
The „Future Orchard" was founded on 4 ha land by China Agricultural University and other enterprises in Pinggu, a 400,000 people township of Beijing with a population density of 438 inhabitants per km square. The peach and kiwi tree orchard has a lab for intelligent...
13-9 China launches Gofen 5-02 satellite for hyper spectral observation of air pollution
The satellite developed by the CAS Hefei Institute of Material Science is equipped with a total of 7 remote sensing instruments, including a main greenhouse gas monitor (GMI), an atmospheric trace gas differential absorption spectrometer (EMI), a multi-angle...
13-9 Hydrogen from decoupled water electrolysis may regulate electricity peak loads
DENG Denghui's group at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences wants to use hydrogen as a green energy carrier to balance peaks and troughs in power consumption. To this end, they use polysulfides as a mediator in a galvanostat,...
12-9 China attempts to build nation-wide carbon market
China attempts to build a nationwide carbon market, providing an impetus to phase out coal power and achieve carbon neutral targets early. At present, China’s 4540 operating coal plants generate over 1,000 GW, about half of global coal power capacity, and generate 62%...
6-9 China on top in green power generation
According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China leads in hydroelectric, wind and solar power generation, and capacity of nuclear power plants under construction. As of the end of July 2021, the installed capacity of non-fossil energy power generation...
3-9 China’s human resources in S&T increase
According to the "China Science and Technology Human Resources Development Report (2020)“ published on August 27, China's R & D population surged during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), with an average annual growth rate of more than 7%. It has increased...
31-8 CAS South China Institute of Oceanography and Sri Lanka Luhana University share in „One Belt, One Road“ joint laboratory
The project will focus on core scientific and technological problems of the Indian Ocean tropical environment variability in the "Belt and Road", enhance the capability of China's marine meteorological observation and prediction, and provide a scientific decision...
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