China in Africa

The focus is on in-depth study of skin and oral microorganisms, leading to skin and oral care products and the promotion of human micro-ecological health concepts, including nursing care.

CAS news release, June 23, 2016

The fully China-built supercomputer is twice as fast as Tianhe-2 with a peak performance of 125 Petaflops per second, regular performance of 93 PFlops per second, and an energy efficiency rate of 6.05 GFlops per Watt. Three Sunway-TaihuLight applications — earth system modeling, ocean surface wave modeling and the microstructure of titanium alloy modeling — have been included on the shortlist for the German Innovation Award (Gottfried Wagener Prize) which acknowledges the world’s top supercomputing applications. Operator of the Sunway TaihuLight system is the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi

CAS news release June 22, 2016

The initiative, called Inno Pioneer, was launched in mid-June and aims to attract students and other young professionals from overseas universities and research organizations to start businesses, work for startups or take training at the park.

CAS news release, June 21, 2016

As announced by the China National Space Administration, the robot family will include Mars rovers, asteroid explorers, robotic arms and service robots that can help maintain and repair an in-orbit space station, space laboratories and satellites. China plans to send an unmanned probe to orbit and land on Mars around 2020. Since the 1960s, more than 40 probes have journeyed to Mars, but only 19 have accomplished their missions.

CAS news release, June 21, 2016

In the process, low hydrocarbons generated in the oil refinery are subjected to cross alkane metathesis catalysis with high density polyethylene (HDPE), low density polyethylene (LDPE), linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) including plastic bottles, waste plastic film and plastic bags etc., at 150 – 200 °C, selectivity can be directed towards diesel C9-C22 alkanes or narrow molecular weight distribution polyethylene wax.

CAS news release, June 20, 2016

The Xiang Yang Hong 01, a 100 m 5000 BRT ship has a range of 15.000 nautical miles and remote sensing to explore depths up to 10.000 m. It is based in Qingdao.

CAS news release, June 20, 2016

According to a white paper released by the State Council, the Beidou Satellite system will rely on 18 more satellites by 2018 and a total of 35 satellites by 2020, serving the land and maritime Silk Roads. The sytem will have short-message communication service useful in places with insufficient ground and mobile communication capabilities, such as deserts, seas and disaster areas where communication facilities have been destroyed. More than 40,000 fishing vessels along China’s coastline have been equipped with the BDS application terminals. China is developing chips, modules and other basic products based on the the Beidou system fostering an independent industrial chain. It is expected that by the end of this year, up to 50 million mobile phones will have been installed with domestic chips that will be compatible with three satellite navigation systems, namely Beidou, GPS and Russia’s GLONASS

CAS news release, June 18, 2016

The alliance, led by Siasun Robot & Automation Co, the country’s largest robot maker by market value, plans to triple its annual output of industrial robots to 100,000 in five years. The International Federation of Robotics estimates that as rising labor costs push more enterprises to embrace automation, China will account for more than one-third of the industrial robots installed worldwide in 2018.

CAS news release, June 17, 2016

According to a white paper issued by the State Council, the satellite system will be a key component of proprietary chips, modules, antennae and other basic products. The focus is to enhance the capacity of engineering experiment platforms and support relevant enterprises. The country promotes integrated development of satellite navigation and emerging industries such as the Internet of Things, geographic information, satellite remote sensing and communication, and mobile Internet, and encourages people to start their own businesses and make innovations, so as to vigorously upgrade the innovation capability of the industry.

CAS news release, June 16, 2016

The park will focus on the construction of corporate headquarters, a German biotechnology transfer center, Sino-German joint innovation centers and incubators. It will also introduce German quality industrial and innovative projects. Thyssen-Krupp, Metro and some other 20 German enterprises are already active in Zhongshan, and STADA is negotiating to set up its China sales center there. Germany has already established in Shenyang a high-end equipment manufacturing industrial park, and in Taicang a park of German enterprises, known as the village of German companies” in Taicang. “

China Bio news release, June 16, 2016

As announced by the National University of Defense Technology, the computer named Tianhe-3 and capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second will be developed during the present 5-years plan by Tianjin Binhai New Area and the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin.

CAS news release, June 16, 2016

The center has developed different designs such as a universal-type plant factory, plant factory-type buildings, reefs plant factory, smart family carbon plant, and other products. At present, about 100 plant factories have been built by the group. From an economic point of view, compared to the open field, greenhouse plant factories due to the high initial construction costs, greater energy demand and other reasons, lead on the whole to higher unit production cost and still need efforts to further reduce costs.

China Bio news release, June 15, 2016

The probe will be in relay with a satellite in halo orbit of the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point L2 launched half a year in advance. Unlike Chang’e-3, the probe will be equipped a low-frequency radio spectrometer. Since the far side of the moon is shielded from electromagnetic interference from the Earth, it’s an ideal place to research the space environment and solar bursts, and the probe can ‘listen’ to the deeper reaches of the cosmos.

CAS news release, June 15, 2016

Taipei-based TaiGen Biotech has won approval from the China FDA to sell its new antibiotic, Taigexyn (nemonoxacin), that successfully cleared a Phase III trial late last year in Taiwan and mainland China to treat pneumonia.

Pharma Asia June 15, 2016

Main reasons are rural depopulation, land abandonment, infrastructure expropriation, urbanization, abandoned water conservancy facilities. Waste emissions, improper use of agricultural pesticides and fertilizers cause soil pollution and soil fertility decline. Grain seed business is foreign-controlled. Agricultural production is increasingly reduced to chemical agriculture. From 2000 to 2008, the total amount of fertilizer used increased by 35%. China is the world’s top pesticide consuming country, with 2,5 to 5-fold higher unit area consumption than the world average. Annually 500,000 tons of plastic sheets remains in the soil, the residual film rate of 40%. There is a great disparity among the provinces on mechanization, with an increase of rental harvesters team” considered not a healthy way of agricultural mechanization, since the machine rests in the hands of a few with bargaining power. The article cites no solutions to these problems.”

China Bio news release, June 14, 2016