China emphasizes clean coal thermal power supply systems

According to a report by the China’s National Energy Board, by October 2018 ultra-low emission coal-fired power generation equipment in China reached over 700 million kW. Due to ultra-low emissions and energy savings, annual emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide...

Xiamen University team develops humanized mouse model for hepatitis B

Previous studies had shown that mesenchymal stem cells from human bone marrow have the potential to differentiate into hepatocyte-like cells in vitro and continue to maintain essential hepatocyte functions after being transplanted into host mouse livers. After HBV...

China attempts to green the Kubuqi desert in Inner Mongolia

Over the past 30 years, planting shrubs and trees led to greening of over 6000 square kilometers of this desert. Carbon sequestration is now 15.4 million tons, water source recharge is 24,376 million cubic meters, and oxygen release about 18.3 million tons. The region...

Metal-free photocatalyst destroys E. coli in water in 30 minutes

A team from Yangzhou University, CAS Institute of Process Engineering and the University of Technology in Sydney has developed a mthod which killed model Escherichia coli under visible-light irradiation within 30 min, by using an edge-functionalized graphitic carbon...

Jinan announces Quantum Information Science Center

Jinan, capital of Shandong province, has already built one of the  largest and most functional commercial quantum communication networks, named “Jinan Quantum Communication Test Network”. The city now pushes for a National Institute of Quantum...