The group of HANG Tao and QIAO Botao from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) synthesized a ZnO nanowire supporting a Rh single-atom catalyst. The Rh1/ZnOnw single-atom catalyst was used for hydroformylation of olefins with remarkable activity under mild reaction conditions.

CAS news release, December 29, 2016

The Wuhan Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics has completed a project to provide equipment for soil remediation technology targeted at typical industrial pollution sites. Three kinds of phosphate-based heavy metal contaminated soils were studied. An electrodynamic chemical remediation technology and a volatile organic matter-directed hot-steam technology were optimized.

China Bio news release, December 28, 2016

The tree shrew, a small mammal that looks like a squirrel, shares a higher degree of similarities with humans than rats do. The group around Ping ZHENG has developed methods to introduce cell surface markers into spermatogonial stem cells of this animal and will continue by knock-out experiments using this methodology.

CAS news release, December 28, 2016

The BeiDou network consisting of 35 satellites for global navigation will be complete by 2020 and start services. Basic services to countries along the Silk Road economic belt and 21st-century maritime Silk Road will start in 2018, and be continuously enhanced as a BeiDou-2 system in the next five years.

CAS news release, December 27, 2016

The China Remote Sensing Satellite North Pole Ground Station began trial operations in Kiruna in Sweden, The station is China’s first ground satellite receiving station overseas.

CAS news release, December 19, 2016

According to BBC research, the global gene sequencing market grew from US $ 8 million in 2007 to approximately US $ 4.5 billion in 2013 and will reach approximately US $ 11.7 billion by 2018. At present, Illumina holds over 70 % of the market share.

China Bio news release, December 26, 2016

A demonstration project of 200,000-kilowatt HTGR nuclear power station was started construction in Rongcheng, Shangdong Province, in 2012 and will start work by the end of 2017. The 600,000-kilowatt HTGR nuclear power station is designed to adopt six reactor modules which connect a single steam turbine, with the generating efficiency reaching 43.7%. China has signed cooperation memorandums on HTGR with Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

CAS news release, December 23, 2016

The construction of China’s first domestic-built polar research vessel and icebreaker in Shanghai is expected to give a boost to the nation’s polar expedition efforts.
The vessel is scheduled to be completed in 2019, when it is expected to team-up with research vessel and icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon). The vessel will be 122.5 meters long and 22.3 meters wide, with a displacement of 13,990 tonnes and a navigation capability of 20,000 nautical miles. It will be able to break through ice 1.5 meters thick at a maximum speed of 3 knots, according to the institute, which said the vessel can accommodate up to 90 people. According to the Polar Research Institute of China, it will be able to open ice on both its bow and stern, and is capable of sailing unrestricted in global navigating waters.

CAS news release, December 21, 2016

Using a combination of remote sensing, 3D scanning technology and virtual reality procedures, China explores many sites along the silk road such as the ancient city of Milan (Xinjiang), the silk road network oft he Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-25 A.D.) which extended to Uzbekistan or Tonguz-bash, a military stronghold from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.).

CAS news release, December 20, 2016

The holiday will be dedicated to China’s reportedly 81 million S&T workers in their mission to build China into a world-leading S&T power

CAS news release, December 15, 2016

The 14-channel satellite is the first successor of the present FY-2 series, with much improved temporal (15 min) and spacial resolution (500 m). By multispectral, high-precision and quantitative observation data, the satellite will investigate details inside typhoons, rainstorms, floods, forest fires, sand storms and space weather. In addition, it can capture 500 lightning pictures per second

CAS news release, December 12, 2016

By 2020, 160 bio-gas and recycling agriculture demonstration sites should have an annual output of 80 billion cubic meters biogas. As to bio-liquid fuels, consumption of heavy metal polluted corn and rice grains, cassava as raw materials, and the use of wasteland, saline sorghum and other energy crops will be supported. As of 2020, biomass energy is expected in 2020 to replace 58 million tons of fossil energy-carriers, reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 150 million tons, dust emissions by about 52 million tons, sulfur dioxide emissions by about 1.4 million tons, and NOX emissions by about 440,000 tons. According to plan, by 2020 the annual sales from biomass energy will be about RMB 120 billion, providing 4 million jobs and increasing farmers’ incomes by RMB 20 billion.

China Bio news release, Decembeer 9, 2016

The plan focuses on 10 priority sectors, including advanced rail, aviation and aerospace, agricultural machinery and technology, and new generation information technology. It encourages domestic manufacturers to make technological breakthroughs in the emerging industries to shift towards more value-added production. The plan is part of the Made-in-China 2025″ program.”

CAS news release, December 7, 2016

The group of Deming ZHOU modified the premature termination codon (PTC) in the genome of influenza A virus and found that the modified virus could no longer replicate in regular cells. Antibody response was comparable to an existing live-virus vaccine, and a second dose further increased the amounts of antibodies by a factor of six to eight. The vaccine elicited all aspects of immune responses including humoral, mucosal and T cell-mediated immunity against hyper-variable and even antigenically distinct influenza virus strains, providing a potential therapeutic tool. The viral vaccine was successfully tested via the intranasal route against several different strains of influenza in guinea pigs and ferrets.

CAS news release, December 7, 2016

The method is based on single-shot ptychography encoding (SPE) that uses multiple partially-overlapping beams of light to generate a diffraction pattern from a complex object. SPE can encode the optical watermark in a single exposure with no mechanical scanning, is less prone to error than other methods and uses a simpler optical setup.

CAS news release, December 7, 2016

The components and access data for the center have been published in Nucleic Acid Research and are an important milestone to integrate China’s life and health data collections into the global genome data sharing network.

CAS news release, December 5, 2016

Partners are Zhongke Biological, a member of the Fujian San’an Group, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences They will jointly invest 7 billion yuan in 4 years to build a plant plant research institute, a plant factory and warehouse, and a marketing and distribution system. The plant factory will produce high added value vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs. Based on LED spectral and automation equipment for temperature, humidity, wavelength of light, carbon dioxide concentration and nutrient solution, lettuce has taken from sowing to harvest only 20 days. Annual sales value is expected at 8 billion yuan.

China Bio news release, December 1, 2016

Scientists at the CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information have designed a beam splitter which allowed to generate a two-photon Qbit hyper-entangled state with high fidelity. The experimental results show that single-particle contextuality and two-party nonlocality can coexist, essential for device-independent secure communication and for fault-tolerant universal quantum computation.

CAS news release, November 30, 2016

According to Juncai MA, Drector of the Center for Microbial Resources at CAS Institute of Microbiology, counts nearly 64,000 Chinese publications (2001-2015) related to microbiology. His group is constructing the „World Microbial Data Center“, to which presently 710 microbial resource centers in 72 countries have adhered.

China Bio news release, November 30, 2016

The focus is on general lighting conditions of three crops (cucumber, bamboo leaf, lettuce), and the main plant physiological parameters observed are soluble protein and sugar content, and root active absorption area. The results show that the use of filter film from March to May is beneficial to crop growth and can help to increase crop yield and improve crop quality. The multi-layer interference filter used does not only select red and blue light, but also also allows passage of the full spectrum diffuse sunlight (about 15% of the unfiltered light).

China Bio news release, November 18, 2016