Beidou Satellite System a priority for China’s Silk Road initiative

According to a white paper released by the State Council, the Beidou Satellite system will rely on 18 more satellites by 2018 and a total of 35 satellites by 2020, serving the land and maritime Silk Roads. The sytem will have short-message communication service useful...

10 Top Chinese robot manufacturers form alliance

The alliance, led by Siasun Robot & Automation Co, the country’s largest robot maker by market value, plans to triple its annual output of industrial robots to 100,000 in five years. The International Federation of Robotics estimates that as rising labor...

China plans to build Exascale Supercomputer by 2020

As announced by the National University of Defense Technology, the computer named Tianhe-3 and capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second will be developed during the present 5-years plan by Tianjin Binhai New Area and the National Supercomputing...