China held 16 million patents in 2018

According to an interview with the Director General of the National Intellectual Property Office SIPA, the number of invention patents owned by Mainland China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) at the end of 2018 increased by 18.1% to 16.2 million. The number of...

China and Russia will explore how to drill for water on the moon

According to Vladimir Khmelyov of the Altai State Technical University, an ultrasonic drilling project has won financing from Russia’s Fundamental Research Fund and China’s National Natural Science Fund. In this project, it will be explored how to use...

China starts monitoring Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region for CO2 emission

Due to massive emissions of pollutants from factories and vehicles, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region tops the world in carbon emissions intensity, and studies of carbon dioxide and other pollutants in the air could better help China tackle smog. As described by...