China Railway Corp opens 174 km high-speed railway line for 2022 winter Olympics
The railway line links Beijing to Zhangjiakou in Hebei province, co-host city for the 2022 winter games. With a maximum design speed of 350 km/h, the travel time between Beijing and Zhangjiakou will be shortened from more than 3 hours to 47 minutes. There will be 10 stations, and some stations will have facial recognition devices that allow passengers to enter the gates with their personal IDs. The intelligent high-speed trains are upgrades of the Fuxing bullet train, able to achieve autonomous and intelligent driving covered by the Beidou satellite system. The trains have functions tailored for the 2022 Olympics, such as media cars that will livestream sports events, and racks for skis.
Global Times news release, December 30, 2019
CAS Dalian DICP develops catalyst for highly selective hydrogenation of CO2
The group of LI Can has found that a bimetallic solid oxide catalyst ZnO-ZrO2 provides a dual active center reaction site composed of Zn and Zr, in which H2 and CO2 are activated at the Zn sites and show synergistic effects in the CO2 hydrogenation process, so that...
Qingdao’s CAS Institute of Oceanography solves genome sequence of sea cucumber
The group of YANG Hongsheng and colleagues have established a genome map of Apostichopus japonicas which reveal the genetic and molecular basis for the evolution and future breeding of this industrially important marine organism. CAS news release, October 16, 2016
Bayer China and Alibaba Health announce strategic cooperation on self-care medication
According to the agreement, Bayer will utilize the big data provided by the Alibaba platform to follow health trends among Chinese people and better satisfy their self-care demands. The government's 'Healthy China 2030' plan aims to provide equal access to health...
China in 2016 spent 2.1 % of its GDP on R&D
According tot he Ministry of Science and Technology, the spending reached 1.54 trillion yuan (233 billion USD) last year, with over 78 % coming from enterprises. S&T-related contributions contributed 56 % to China’s economic growth in 2016. CAS news release, October...
China’s markets go IT and becomes global
In stark contrast to the previous generation of Chinese companies that focused on domestic growth until the market became saturated, emerging startups are better at coming up with their own ideas and better aware of the opportunities abroad. By the end of last year,...
XI Xinping emphasises healthy China” goals at 19th National Congress of CPC”
Among 12 healthcare-related features, key issues were to stimulate entrepreneurial spirit and innovation, fully implement a national insurance program, adhere to both Western and Chinese medicine, cope by the ageing of the population through a fertility policy,...
Healthy ageing may be related to composition of gut microbiome
A Canadian-Chinese study on the intestional microbiome of over very healthy 1000 Chinese people, aged from 3 to 100 years, found that a healthy older person is more likely to have a young" intestinal tract microbiome composition. Gut microbe composition of an...
BGI study reveals microbial flora in female reproductive system
The research group of JIA Huijue at Shenzhen’s BGI found that special microbiota exist in the reproductive system of healthy females which may be used as biomarkers for certain diseases. They analyzed the microorganisms in six regions of 110 healthy women of...
Alibaba Venture invests 290 million ¥ in genetic testing startup Prenetics
Prenetics https://prenetics.com/en/ is among the top genetic testing companies in Asia, with focus on pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics, inherited cancer screening and family planning. Headquarter is in Hong Kong, and services are provided in Singapore, Malaysia and...
China waits for regulations on several transgenic food products
Examples are a transgenic Yellow River carp, developed by ZHU Zuoyan’s group at the CAS Institute of Hydrobiology. Engineered for a triploid expression of the fish’s growth hormone, it grows 50 – 100 % faster. Taste and ecological behavior are considered equivalent to...
Tsinghua University among the partipants in the Zuckerberg Foundation’s “Human cell atlas” plan
The “Human Cell Atlas” project established by the Facebook-supported Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will invest 3 billion USD over the next decade on basic research towards a human cell atlas https://www.humancellatlas.org. Among the 38 funded projects is a study on...
Plant factories may have big future in China
According to LI Shaohua, a specialist in this field at CAS Institute of Botany, the first 10.000 m2 Chinese plant was installed in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, as late as June 2016. He sees a great perspective for this technology in China, because a) due to...