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China National Bureau of Statistics: China spent 869 billion RMB (~ 100 billion €) on S&T in 2011

Oct 26, 2012

This was an increase of 23 % as compared to 2010. Public spending was 490 billion RMB or about 56 %. Science Daily, Oct. 26, 2012

China’s State Council Information Office publishes “White Paper on Energy Policy”

Oct 25, 2012

In 2011, China’s primary energy production amounted to 3.18 billion tons of standard coal, ranked first in the world. The paper provides the following figures: by 2015, China’s non fossil energy will reach 11.4% of primary energy consumption, and the ratio...

Jiangsu establishes Institute of Marine Biological Industry in Dafeng

Oct 25, 2012

The province aims at establishing a coastal blue economic growth pole” at this center” China Industrial Biotechnology Network, Oct. 25, 2012

CAS National Center for Gene Research, Shanghai, construct map of rice genome variation and origin of cultivated rice

Oct 24, 2012

A team around Prof. Bin HAN investigated 446 geographically diverse variations of Oryzae rufipogon, a wild rice form, and 1.083 varieties of O. indica and japonica, to construct a comprehensive map of rice genome variation. Domestication-associated traits were...

Group at CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics develops nanometer-cage metal complex catalyst for 98 % ethylene-oxide to glycol conversion at 40 °C

Oct 24, 2012

Catalyst is [CoIII(salen)] encapsulated in silica-based nanoreactors Bo LI et al., Angew. Chem. 2012, DOI: 10.1002 / anie. 201203774)