China’s natural gas production increased to 173.3 billion cubic meters in 2019
Newly confirmed oil reserves increased by 25% to 1.2 billion tons, and natural gas increased by 68% to 1.4 trillion cubic meters. Crude oil production amounted to 191 million tons, breaking away from the continuous decline since 2016. Production of shale gas, coal seam gas, and coal gas increased overall.
Japan JST China news, December 18, 2019
CAS team develop graphene-based flexible lightweight energy storage system
WU Zhongshuai, BAO Xinhe and others from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) and REN Wencai and CHENG Huiming from CAS Institute of Metal Research have developed a flexible micro-supercapacitor for energy storage. They stacked phosphorene nanosheets and...
CAS Shenyang Institute of Automation and China Medical University will build medical robot R&D center
The center will be built in Liaoning's medical industry clinical demonstration base and focus on medical robot R&D including clinical applications. China Bio news release, July 18, 2017
China allows import of 11 kinds of genetically modified corn for feed processing
After public concerns on the import of 61,000 t of genetically modified corn by COFCO, the government has clarified that currently 11 kinds of genetically modified corn are allowed for import. A Development and Reform Commission official said that the import of...
NFDA: China has become the world’s second largest market for pharmaceuticals and is the largest exporter of bulk drugs
According to an NFDA official, China produces nearly 5,000 drug raw materials (APIs) providing an annual income of over 2.5 trillion yuan. Cose to 50 pharmaceutical companies are certified by European and American agencies and export APIs for over 13.5 billion US$....
China depends on import of genetically modified soybean meal for feed
The world's total soybean production is 338.8 million tons, of which non-genetically modified soybean is 54 million tons (15%). 25% of the world's non-GM soybeans are produced in China. China's demand is 86 million tons of soybean imports. So the import of genetically...
CAS University of Science and Technology improves electrocatalytic hydrogen production
The group of Qianwang CHEN has developed Ruthenium-cobalt nanoalloys encapsulated in nitrogen-doped graphene as an improved catalyst to produce hydrogen production from alkaline water. The catalysts displays remarkable performance with low overpotentials of only 28 mV...
Xiangxue Pharmaceutical builds 3 billion precision medicine consortium
The Guangzhou-based consortium will include KingMed Diagnostics, Daan Gene and others in a South China Precision Medical and Translational Medicine Center" which includes gene sequencing,in vitro diagnostics, molecular imaging, cancer treatment, a maternity hospital...
CAS Institute of Microbiology and Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) establish genome-wide metabolic network of Corynebacterium glutamicum
The group around TAN Tianwei of BUCT has described the metabolic network of Corynebacterium glutamicum in a network model which contains 773 genes, 950 metabolites and 1207 biochemical reactions and can accurately predict the specific growth rate of Corynebacterium...
Beijing’s Sinogene achieves somatic breeding of first knock-out dog, an atheriosclerosis model
Somatic cloning of dogs is considered difficult due to problems in estrus identification, complex oocyte maturation and poor quality of dog oocytes. Sinogene Co. has achieved success to overcome all three problems in Beagles and has established embryo transfer...
CAS Institute of Process Engineering develops direct methanol fuel cell operating at high methanol concentrations
YANG Jun and colleagues have developed a methanol fuel cell based on selective electrocatalysis using core-shell-shell Au@Ag2S@Pt nanocomposites at the anode and core-shell Au@Pd nanoparticles at the cathode. This trick prevented undesired crossover of methanol from...
Government publishes “Chinese Medicine Law”
The law is expected to start a new era for TCM. Key issues are standardization, GMP issues for manufacturing and strict legal supervision, which is expected to greatly reduce the number of TCM manufacturers and lead to larger industrial clusters with higher standards....
Group at CAS QIBEBT prepares biohybrid packaging material with shape retention from cross-linked cellulose
The groups of JIANG Yijun and WU Pingwei have crosslinked paper and regenerated cellulose to a composite (RCP) which showed unexpected mechanical strength at dry (tensile strength: 76 MPa, toughness at break: 7 MJ/m-1) and wet conditions (tensile strength: 13 MPa,...