China and Africa cooperate on anti-desertification program

CAS Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography which has long-standing experience in desertification control and ecological restoration signed a memorandum with the the Panafrican Agency of the Great Green Wall (PAGGW) to support the African Great Green Wall...

Chinese-German group develop conducting basalt fiber

A research group led by Prof. MA Pengcheng at CAS Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry and Prof. Edith Mäder in the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden in Germany utilized BF as a substrate to deposit/grow various carbon-based nanoparticles...

China plans to build a rare diseases registration system by 2020

As to ZHANG Shuyang, vice president of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, by 2020 China will have included 59 types of orphan diseases into its registration system. At present, there are about 7,000 rare diseases recognized internationally, accounting for about...