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The system is based on Micius, the world’s first quantum communication satellite, which was launched by China in 2016. In the near future, the backbone of this system will connect Beijing, Shanghai, Jinan (Shandong province) and Hefei (Anhui province). Mr BAI Chunli, president of CAS, on Sept. 29 made also the world’s first intercontinental quantum video call to Anton Zellinger, president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

CAS news release, Sept. 30, 2017

The company http://www.nuwacell.com was founded in January 2016 in Hefei, Anhui Province, and chairman of the board is Dr. Yu Junying. As a graduate of Peking University, she got her Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a post-doc with James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin, where she did pioneering work on embryonic stem cells and iPS technology. From 2009 to 2015, she worked for Cellular Dynamics International, now a subsidiary of Fujifilm. In 2016, she returned to China and founded Nuwacell.

CAS news release, September 29, 2017

The State Council has ordered all its provinces and regions to establish an ecological “red line” that will declare designated regions under mandatory and rigorous protection. The 10 pilot programs include Sanjiangyuan (the source of China’s three major rivers), giant panda habitats and the Great Wall. The country’s national parks will follow the principle of “ecological protection first”, and will be authorized by the central government and implemented by government-led management.”

CAS news release, September 27, 2017

The center offers competencies and services for bioprocess development, e. g., for the development of cell lines, and upstream and downstream processes. Target customers are SMEs in the Asia-Pacific region which work on clinical studies in an early phase.

China Bio news release, September 27, 2017

The State Council will establish, by 2020, a national technology transfer system with the objective to support China’s efforts to become a leading power in science and technology. Key feature is a more unified and open technology market and exchange network on the national level. For instance, sci-tech achievements from military departments shall be accessible to civilian departments, and vice versa, and cross-regional transfer should be encouraged.

CAS news release, September 27, 2017

China implemented a child immunization program in 1978 which is steadily expanding. In early 2017, there were 43 approved vaccine companies, accounting for 40% of the global vaccine production enterprises. About 300 companies are involved in vaccine R&D, including research on DNA and cancer vaccines. Vaccine enterprises are mainly concentrated in Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong and Sichuan. A detailed analysis is available in Chinese.

China Bio news release, September 25, 2017

The icebreaker returned home through the Bering Strait from a 83-day rim expedition on the Arctic. At around the same time as the expedition, five Chinese cargo ships also sailed through the newly-discovered sail route near the North Pole. The Tianjian”, one of these ships, meanwhile arrived in Greenland and is en route to St. Petersburg. China is interested to open an arctic road to Europe which would be about 40 percent shorter than the one through the Suez Canal, and has pleaded to Russia for joint efforts to co-develop this new Northern passageway. China is just constructing a second icebreaker, Xuelong 2, which will be capable of breaking through a 20-meter-deep pressure ridge, and which will carry an Italian-made helicopter, the Leonardo AW169.”

CAS news release, September 25, 2017

The plant, jointly invested by Qingdao Huatong Group and Qingdao Energy Group, is located in Qingdao Pingdu South Village and fed with corn stalks and vegetable residues as raw materials. It will produce 6,6 million m3 of biogas and 24,000 tons of organic fertilizer. The technology comes from CAS QIBEBT in Qingdao. The gas will be distributed to households by the gas pipelines of the Qingdao Energy Group.

China Bio news release, September 25, 2017

According to 135″, China will be able to produce a significant part of its fuel ethanol from biomass. Simultaneously, the production of fuel ethanol from coal has made significant process. The preferred route uses syngas which carbonylates dimethylester over a zeolite catalyst, providing methyl acetate, and simultaneously hydrogenates methyl acetate to ethanol over a Cu/ZnO catalyst. By 2018, Shaanxi Yanchang Group will have completed production facilities of 300.000 t following this route. Orient Securities analysts believe that biomass ethanol costs will be between 4700-5600 yuan/ton, whereas the cost of coal ethanol will be lower between 4000-4200 yuan/ton. China by the end of 2016 had proven coal reserves of 1.6 trillion tons.”

China Bio news release, September 22, 2017

Using a magnetic Zr-CMC-SO3H@3Fe-C400 catalyst, the group of FANG Zhen has prepared biodiesel via esterification or transesterification from high AV oils such as Jatropha oil in yields of 95 – 97 % when the reaction was done in several cycles over the solid catalyst followed by its magnetic separation and regeneration.

CAS news release, September 22, 2017

The observatory will be equipped with a 12 m telescope and equipment for the recording of cosmic rays beyond 50 TeV. For the latter part, the University of Tokyo has offered co-funding. Another topic will be the search for primary gravitational waves from the early beginnings of the cosmos after big bang”. All features are contained in the present “135” plan and scheduled to align the Ngari observatory with the other two leading observatories in the world, the Mauna Kea observatory in Hawaii and the Paranal observatory in Chile”

CAS news release, September 22, 2017

According to the survey, 228 out of China’s present 1096 companies related to molecular diagnostics are located in Beijing. Among the leading companies are 1) Capital Bio, with approved products in in the field of genetic and infectious diseases, 2) Berry Genomics, with its Onconi tumor molecular diagnostic products based on high throughput sequencing, 3) Novogene Co., with a complete molecular pathology platform for tumor testing, 4) Lepu Gene Technology, with as a core platform on molecular diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases and high-throughput gene sequencing for personalized medicine, e. g., on CYP variations, 5) Annoroad Genomics, with a focus on reproductive health tests, 6) GeneCast Co., a company featuring genetic analysis of tumor markers, 7) SinoMDGene, with 23 CFDA-registered products covering tumor markers, drug-related personalized medicine and the detection of microbial pathogens, 8) iGene Tech Co., with independent target gene capture technology for tumor diagnosis etc., and 9) San Valley Co., with diagnostic products on the detection of solid tumors, blood cancer, genetic diseases, and prenatal diagnosis.

China Bio news release, September 21, 2017

The toothpaste was developed at Fudan University, and Fe in its name relates to Fudan enzyme”. It was tested since 2004 in various demonstration projects and finally approved in 2016. “Fe biological toothpaste” should not be rinsed with water for 2-3 minutes, in order to give full play to the antimicrobial function of lysozyme. YHD is a Chinese subsidiary of US WalMart.”

China Bio news release, September 20, 2017

According to the 135 biomass energy development plan” released by the National Energy Board in December 2016, the installed capacity of China’s biomass power generation industry reached 15.33 million kwh in 2017. The average annual growth rate of the next five years (2017-2021) is planned for about 9.2%, thus in 2021, China’s biomass power installed capacity will reach 21.8 million kwh. Resources will be agricultural and forestry biomass, urban solid waste, biogas, bio-natural gas and bio-liquid fuel.”

China Bio news release, September 15, 2017