Interview: China leads global desertification fight with science-policy interface, says UNEP Earth champion
RIYADH, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — The interface between science and policy has supported China in leading global desertification control efforts in the decades-long battle, a Chinese forestry scientist told Xinhua…
Chinese scientists extract cancer-fighting nuclides from rare earth minerals
CHANGSHA, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Chinese researchers have successfully extracted high-purity lead-212 and bismuth-212 nuclides from rare earth minerals, the press center of the University of South China said Wednesday.…
China’s 41st Antarctic Expedition team carries out unloading operations surrounding Zhongshan Station
Members of China’s 41st Antarctic expedition team unload supplies in Antarctica, Dec. 3, 2024. Currently on China’s 41st Antarctic expedition, research icebreakers Xuelong and Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon and…
World’s 1st stand-alone LEAF passes expert panel acceptance inspection in China
This stitched photo taken on Dec. 10, 2024 shows part of the low-energy high-intensity heavy-ion accelerator facility (LEAF). (Xinhua/Jin Liwang) The world’s first stand-alone low-energy high-intensity heavy-ion accelerator facility (LEAF),…
China’s BeiDou navigation system: unique path of independent innovation
A couple of months ago, China launched two new satellites for the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan province. The two…
China conducts successful static firing test of XZY-1 verification rocket
HAIYANG, Shandong, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — China’s XZY-1 verification rocket has conducted a successful static firing test at the Haiyang Oriental Aerospace Port in east China’s Shandong Province. The XZY-1…
Chinese researchers design solution for stable communication on ultra-high-speed trains
A bullet train pulls into Yiwu Railway Station of the Hangzhou-Wenzhou high-speed railway in Yiwu, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 6, 2024. (Photo by Lyu Bin/Xinhua) NANJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua)…
Chinese scientist among 2024 UNEP’s Champions of the Earth Award winners
Lu Qi poses for a photo at an experimental center in Dengkou County of Bayannur, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Oct. 13, 2024. (Photo by Justin Jin/UNEP/Handout via…
China’s modified AG50 light-sport aircraft makes maiden flight
A modified AG50 conducts the maiden flight at an airport in Jingmen, central China’s Hubei Province, Dec. 9, 2024. (AVIC/Handout via Xinhua) BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — A modified AG50,…
China’s modern crop germplasm resources bank becomes operational, meeting 50-year strategic preservation demand: ministry
Photo taken on October 20, 2021, shows the vitro storage room at the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Kunming, Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. (Photo/Xinhua) China’s new national crop germplasm…