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China’s Aerospace Information Research Institute reports 100 PB of Earth observation data
According to the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), rhe collected data resources have been used for both free and commercial usage to serve more than 300,000 users. Over the past decades, China has launched more than 60 Earth observation satellites...
Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) publishs 3-years action plan (2021 – 2023)
The key tasks include building regional innovation hub cities, helping innovation hub cities to cultivate driving industries, serving SMEs to improve their innovation capacity, and launching a series of technology service and trading activities As...
China presents driving platform of 620 km/h MAGLEV train
At an opening ceremony at the State Key Laboratory of Traction Power at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdo, it was disclosed that the high-temperature superconducting magnetic levitation technology has self-suspension, self-guidance and self-stability...
During “145”, Shanghai will create about 6700 ha of farms for unmanned intelligent food production
According to ZHANG Guokun, director of Shanghai’s Municipal Agriculture and Rural Committee, an “action plan” during the next five-years planning period “145” will implement five major actions: green production rate will rise to 60%, and green agricultural...
Shanxi Province Covid test base achieves a maximum of 300,000 tests per day
According to LIANG Hongping, Director of Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital in Taiyuan where the test base is located, the capacity for sample inactivation, nucleic acid extraction and sequencing has been stepped up to a maximum daily capacity of 300,000 samples....
Researchers at Qingdao Agricultural University achieve somatic cloning of forest cat
The team around ZHAO Minghui had isolated and cultured fibroblasts from the cat's skin tissue, and used a Chinese field cat egg as the nuclear receptor, creating multiple somatic cell cloned embryos through nuclear replacement and artificial activation. After...
Beijing subway explores smart disinfection robot
Beijing subway BJMTR Co presently explores a robot. which disinfects in the closed interior by spraying hydrogen peroxide. This procedure is claimed to disinfect even small gaps that are out of reach of humans. It can remove viruses and bacteria more effectively than...
Hanvon Technology offers face authentication for people wearing face masks
The companies AI-based face recognition device uses a newly developed double visible light 3D three-dimensional face recognition technology. Its speed and accuracy of authentication is claimed to exceed that of conventional methods such as monocular and infrared or...
Team in Yunnan discovers C-30 limonoid with promising activity against Alzheimer’s Disease
The groups of YAO Yong-Gan, DI Ying-Tong and HAO Xiao-Jiang in Kunming, Yunnan Province, after isolating harpertrioate A, a C-30 limonoid, from branches of Harrisonia perforate in Hainan, have found in experiments with U251-APP cell cultures that this...
5G driverless tractor made in Luoyang
The 5G driverless tractor Dongfanghong 东方红（”The East is red”） was constructed in Luoyang in 2020. Its innovation include self-driving, 5G technology, and lithium batteries. Another innovation is its in-wheel motor technology, which allows each wheel to independently...
Sichuan patient receives first artificial heart “made-in-China”
The 42 old patient was in the end stage of dilated cardiomyopathy, and surgery was done at the Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital. The artificial heart has two parts: a 420 gram artificial blood vessel and blood pump placed in the chest, and a 3 kg external...
China pioneers quantum communication network over 4,600 km
Led by PAN Jianwei from the CAS University of Science and Technology, an integrated quantum network was set up that combines 700 fiber and two ground-to-satellite links and realized quantum key distribution (QKD) between more than 150 users over a combined distance of...
1450 km UH-voltage DC transmission Yunnan-Guangdong starts operation
A key West-East DC transmission line constructed by Southern Electric Power Co. was started at the end of December. The line serves as the main transmission "artery" for the Wudongde hydropower plant, the world's seventh-largest hydropower plant. It starts in Yunnan...
CRISPR-based genome screening reveals new drivers of senescence in mice and men
ZHANG Weiqi and colleagues at CAS Beijing Institute of Genomics have carried out a genome-wide CRISPR-based screening for genes involved in senescence. Their results suggest that KAT7 (a histone acetyltransferase) plays a role in the aging of human mesenchymal...
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