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People’s Daily announces China’s top 10 S&T achievements in 2018
According to a rating by People’s Daily, an official newspaper of China’s communist party, the following 10 achievements were most noteworthy:
- Discovery of the first millisecond pulsar by China’s spherical radio telescope FAST
- Successful launch of the environmental monitoring satellite 高5号 (High No. Five)
- Cultivating and harvesting rice in a tropical area of Dubai by CAS experts
- Successful test of the automatic pump dredger “Tianjin”
- Installation of Tianhe No 3, a class E supercomputer
- A nation-wide National Science Promotion Day successfully held on Sept. 15
- The 1st World Public Science Quality Promotion Conference held on Sept. 17, with the “Beijing declaration” on mutual understanding, sharing and promotion of S&T
- The opening of the 55 km long Hong Kong · Zhuhai · Macao bridge
- The 3d Future Science Grand Prizes awarded to 7 Chinese scientists (1 mill. $ each in life sciences, material science, mathematics and computer science), and
- Chang’e-4 lunar landing vehicle’s successful launch towards the back-side of the moon (meanwhile successfully landed there)
People’s Net, January 17, 2019
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Team at Sun Yat-sen University develops AI-based model to screen children on congenital eye cataracts
Congenital cataracts is a disease of the eye most present after birth or during childhood. It causes blindness and visual impairment. The incidence in China is 0.05 %. LIN Hau-Tien at Sun Yat-sen University’s Eye Center and colleagues have used an AI-based system named “CC-Cruiser” to identify this disease in children, and validated it in two hospitals with a success rate of over 98 %.
China Bio news release, January 12, 2018
Major grain producers form “National Straw Industry Alliance”
In 2017, the members of this alliance conducted more than 100 large-scale exhibitions, forums and technical seminars focused on industry difficulties and hot issues, and launched a series of environmental and social issues such as straw harvesting, storage and transportation, comprehensive management of livestock manure and labor employment. They brought together more than 200 kinds of straw products produced by hundreds of enterprises to create a green environmental protection experience store, and established the country’s first straw industrial e-commerce platform.
China Bio news release, January 12, 2018
Chinese and French universities form AI alliance
Eight education institutions, including Tsinghua, Zhejiang and Sorbonne University, established a „France-China AI Consortium“.
CAS news release, January 11, 2018
China and France establish Sino-French Fusion Energy Center
The center will have 4 members: ITER China, Institute of Plasma Physics at Hefei Institute of Physical Science, Southwestern Institute of Physics (all CAS) and France’s CEA. The center will conduct research on fusion science and experimental physics, safety standards and technical standards for fusion energy and next generation of fusion research devices.
A tungsten divertor for tungsten environment in a steady-state Tokamak reacto, as a first joint research project, is already under development.
CAS news release, January 11, 2018
China will use biomass for both heat and power generation
According to a series of official documents, a future of clean heating” will be supported by the use of biomass. By 2020, the installed capacity of biomass electricity generation will exceed 12 million kilowatts, the annual utilization of biomass molding fuels will be about 30 million tons, the annual utilization of biomass gas will be about 10 billion cubic meters, and the biomass heating area will be about 1 billion m2, the direct replacement of about 30 million tons of coal. By 2035, the installed capacity of biomass electricity generation will exceed 25 million kilowatts, the annual utilization of biomass briquette will be about 50 million tons, the annual utilization of biomass gas will be about 25 billion cubic meters, and the biomass heating area will be about 2 billion Square meters, the direct replacement of about 60 million tons of coal.”
China Bio news release, January 5, 2018
In 2017, China had 153 pharmaceutical companies listed on stock markets
As of December 31, 2017, 40 pharmaceutical companies were listed on the A-share market, 6 were from the US on the Hong Kong stock market, and 107 were new.
Geographically, 29 of these companies were listed in Guangdong, 17 in Jiangsu, 12 in Zhejiang and 10 in Hubei.
China Bio news release, January 5, 2018
The top 10″ among the Chinese Life Science Parks in 2017″
According to a vote by WeChat, the winners were
1. Chengdu Tianfu International Bio-City
2. Beijing Yizhuang Bio-Medicine Park
3. Jiangsu Wuxi (Huishan) Life Science and Technology Industrial Park
4. Shandong International Biotechnology Park
5. Suzhou BioBay
6. Nanjing Biomedicine Valley
7. Guangzhou International Bio Island
8. Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park
9. Beijing Zhongguancun Life Science Park, and
10. Wuhan Optics Valley Biological City
In the article, many details are given about each of these parks and why they are so popular.
China Bio January 3, 2018
China’s Top Ten most influental life scientists in 2017
According to a rating on Biology Discovery Journal and WeChat in which 10.000ds of scientists participated, the selection was for
1. HE Lin, Shanghai Jiaotong University Bio-X Research Institute
2. SHI Yigong, Tsinghua University, founder of Zhejiang West Lake Institute of higher learning
3. QIAO Jie, Peking University Third Hospital, elected member of Chinese Academy of Engineering
4. WANG Jian, CEO of BGI, promoted the listing of A shares of Huada Gene
5. ZHANG Feng, Broad Institute, MIT, key breakthroughs on CRISPR
6. LU Yuming, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, development of liquid biopsy used in nasopharyngeal carcinoma detection
7. YU Dechao, Cinda Biologics Co., key person in China’s most productive drug company 2017
8. YANG Lulu, eGenesis Co., solved the problems of organ xenografting
9. CHEN Zijiang, Shandong University, new methods of blocking genetic mitochondrial diseases
10. GU Zhen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University
development of smart patch technology for diabetes, cancer, obesity and other fields
China Bio news release, January 3, 2017
Government sees straw gasification as main energy source of rural life in 2020
According to a guidance report issued by the NDRC and other institutions, by 2020, gasified straw will be the main energy resource for rural life and will be supplied to households, township schools, hospitals, nursing homes, etc. for heating. The comprehensive utilization of straw in the region will reach 85%, an effective alternative to rural use of scattered coal. The NDRC and other departments will promote the construction of standardized storage facilities for straw and special equipment for straw storage and transportation, in addition to incentive measures.
China Bio news release, January 3, 2018
China’s 10 most innovative life science companies in 2017
Biology Discovery Publisher, a lead journal in the field, made the following rating based on a survey among readers, and has very specific arguments laid out in the article:
传奇生物. Nr. 1 Legend Biotech (affiliation of Genescript Biotech Co. Ltd (HK01548)), Nanjing.
亚盛医药 Nr. 2 Ascentage Pharma http://en.ascentagepharma.com/about.html, Suzhou
信达生物 Nr. 3 Innovent Biologics http://www.innoventbio.com/en/, Suzhou
百济神州 Nr. 4 BeiGene http://www.beigene.com/company/about-us/, Headquarter Beijing
世和基因 Nr. 5 Genesen https://www.geneseeq.com, Nanjing
丽珠医药 Nr. 6 LivZon Pharma Group http://www.livzon.com.cn/English/, Zhuhai
华大基因 Nr. 7 BGI https://www.bgi.com, Shenzhen
康宁杰瑞 Nr. 8 Alphamab Co. Ltd. http://www.alphamab.com/en/index.html., Suzhou
基石药业 Nr. 9 Stone pharmaceuticals, Shanghai
誉衡药业 Nr. 10 Gloria Pharmaceuticals http://www.gloria.cc, Harbin
*English names of companies: Dr Xin XIONG’s translation is gratefully acknowledged
China Bio news release, January 3, 2018
Barcoded paper-based chips can be mass-produced and used for real-time testing
ZHANG Wei and YANG Mingzhu at the CAS National Center for Nanoscience in Beijing have developed a large-scale manufacturing method of barcoded paper chips and a barcode reader that can be used for bar-coding by means of paper stacking and cutting technology. The paper-based chips can be used for multiplexed analysis in nucleic acid testing, drug screening and cell behavior research.
CAS news release, January 2, 2018
China launches „100,000 Genomes Project“
The project will cover major areas of China, focussing on the dominant Han ethnic group but also including nine ethnic minorities with a population of 5 million or more. A major goal is to study transformation from health to disease, environmental impacts, and the interactions between environmental factors and genes, and its influence on people’s health. The study is aimed to provide references for medical research or clinical diagnosis and treatment of diseases in China. The entire process of sequencing and analysis of the project is scheduled to be completed within four years. Chief Scientist is WANG Yadong, Harbin Institute of Technology.
China Bio news release, December 29, 2017
China’s blood product market size is about 24 billion Yuan, HSA dominates but factor VIII was 6.3 %
The Chinese blood market, with liberalized price control, grew by 16.7 % from 2015 to 2016. It is served by 28 companies which operate about 200 collection stations. There are 11 types of blood products of which human serum albumin is 54 %, human immunoglobulins 24 %. Factor VIII accounted for 6.3 % of blood products in 2016. Many more details are provided in the article.
China Bio news release, December 28, 2017
National GenBank opens affiliation at Suzhou BioBAY
The National GenBank with headquarters in Shenzhen will eventually integrate other regional centers already established in China. Suzhou Biological Sample Bank (National Bank of Suzhou Library), formerly known as Suzhou City Serum (Gene) Library, was a project of Suzhou Municipal Government started in 2010; its design stems from a 2004 China-Britain chronic disease prospective study. As of November 30, 2017, a total of 145,742 samples were stored in the library, including 2005 whole-blood samples of severe pneumonia.
China Bio news release, December 26, 2017
Chinese researchers believe self-developed CAR-T therapy to be approved within 3 years at a prize within 100,000 Yuan
According to QIAN Qijun, director of the Shanghai Cell Therapy Engineering Research Center, China will have at least a 20 companies or institutions to start CAR-T clinical trials soon, as many funds have been or are being flooded into the field of cellular immunotherapy. According to Founder Securities, at present there are more than 20 domestic enterprises and hospitals which participate in R&D of CAR-T cell therapy, and the number of CAR-T cell therapy clinical trials registered by domestic R & D units has reached over 100.
China Bio news release, December 22, 2017