China’s Sunway TaihuLight is named world’s fastest supercomputer

The fully China-built supercomputer is twice as fast as Tianhe-2 with a peak performance of 125 Petaflops per second, regular performance of 93 PFlops per second, and an energy efficiency rate of 6.05 GFlops per Watt. Three Sunway-TaihuLight applications — earth...

China plans development of space robots

As announced by the China National Space Administration, the robot family will include Mars rovers, asteroid explorers, robotic arms and service robots that can help maintain and repair an in-orbit space station, space laboratories and satellites. China plans to send...

China puts advanced marine science ship in service

The Xiang Yang Hong 01, a 100 m 5000 BRT ship has a range of 15.000 nautical miles and remote sensing to explore depths up to 10.000 m. It is based in Qingdao. CAS news release, June 20, 2016