Uganda’s Karuma hydropower plant nearing completion

Karuma Hydro Power Plant is an Uganda flagship project financed by the Export Import Bank (EXIM) of China. The EXIM bank is financing 85 percent of the project while the rest in funded by the Ugandan government. The cost of the project is about 1.7 billion U.S....

History of China’s deep sea submersible

Over the past 30 years, China has explored further into the deep sea. Here is a brief overview of the country’s submersible family. 7103 LIFEBOAT In 1986, China’s first manned submersible, the “7103 Lifeboat,” was successfully developed....

China develops exoskeletons to support tasks in high-altitude regions

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) has delivered agile, non-powered exoskeletons to a client who plans to use them for tasks in high-altitude regions, including patrol, transportation of goods and logistics support. The carbon-fiber exoskeleton weighs...

China sets limits to collection of personal bio-data

As bioinformation technology has become widespread in China, many residential communities have installed intelligent facial recognition systems at entrances. On Oct. 1, China released a new version of the national standards on personal information protection,...

Shipwreck from WWI detected in Qingdao’s Jiaozhou Bay

A shipwreck from the naval battle between Japan and Germany in 1914 has been detected by marine archeologists in Jiaozhou Bay near Qingdao. Salvage might become difficult but over 100 pieces of weapons, ammunition etc. have been recovered.  CAS news release,...

Thai-Chinese high-speed railway contracted in Bangkok

The 253 km rail route from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima, the gateway to the northeast of Thailand. The contract involves the State Railway of Thailand, China Railway International Co and China Railway Design Corporation. Xinhua news release, October 29,...

China to put a focus on chip self-reliance

According to the White Paper on Talents in China’s Integrated Circuit Industry (2018-2019), there will be a shortfall of 261,000 experts in China’s IC industry by 2021. The lack of chip experts is taken as the key bottleneck restricting the development of...