China defines “Chinese Blue Sky Index”

China is often troubled by haze pollution from accelerating industrialization, in Beijing also from desert dust. As a result, air pollution control has become an important issue, as symbolized by the keyword “Beijing blue” for blue skys in Beijing. ...

TU Youyou will direct artemisinin research center in Beijing

The construction of a 1600 m2 Artemisinin research centre was started in Beijing’s Daxin Science Park and is scheduled to go into operation in 2021. It is headed by Professor Youyou TU, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of the...

China’s NFSC funds 41,752 science projects with >21 bln Yuan

The Natural National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China’s most important funding agency for academic research, received about 240,000 applications in the last fiscal year, of which nearly 42,000 (about 17%) were funded with a volume of 21 billion ¥ (~2.7...