Chinese team tests super-MAGLEV train model

A prototpye of a super-maglev train that might reach 1,000 kilometers an hour has been developed by Deng Zigang and his team from the applied superconductivity laboratory at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu. The train incorporates two technologies: maglev...

Germany and China review 40 years of cooperation in S&T

During a meeting of China’s Minister of S&T, WAN Gang, and the German Secretary of State at BMBF, Georg SCHÜTTE, accomplishments of cooperation during the past 40 years were reviewed, and 11 new joint innovation platforms were decided. There are now more than 300...

AI system spots Chinese netizens with suicidal thoughts

The CAS Institute of Psychology has developed an AI system which can scan and analyze users’ posts and comments on social network platforms such as Weibo. Once a potentially suicidal user is found, the system will use its Weibo Account to send them a message,...

Giant panda: a vegetarian with a digestive tract of a carnivore

A new study by ZHANG Wenping, a Panda specialist at Sichuan University in Chengdu, has shown, by metagenome sequencing of the Panda’s gut microbiota, that it is not the Panda microbiota which would make a major contribution to his nutrition by degrading of cellulose...

Giant panda’s digestive tract is rich in amylases and hemicellulases

A new study by ZHANG Wenping, a Panda specialist at Sichuan University in Chengdu, has shown by metagenome sequencing of the Panda’s gut that it is not the Panda microbiota which would make a major contribution to his nutrition by degrading of cellulose or lignin...

Online market for drugs in China reaches 75 billion Yuan

According to a survey of China International Ecommerce Publisher, the pharmaceutical market of China exceeded 2 trillion Yuan in 2017, of which the retail drug market reached 367.9 billion yuan, an increase of 9.5% over 2016. As of the end of November 2016, there were...