China’s 40th Antarctic Scientific Expedition Sets Sail 

Southward-pointing Cart Mechanics

The southward-pointing cart was a historic mechanical device, which was invented and used earlier than the compass. More than five thousand years ago, ancient Chinese had utilized it to indicate direction.

China's Manned Spacecraft Blazes Innovations in Space Exploration

World's Largest Synthesis Radiotelescope Advancing Solar Research

The telescope array is a milestone in the country's space environment ground-based comprehensive monitoring network (phase-2 Meridian Project) and will provide high-quality observation data for solar physics and space weather research in China.

BRI Projects Commit to Environment Protection

For the past decade since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was proposed, China has been working closely with partner countries to actively promote green and low carbon transformation of the energy sector. In particular, the cooperation in renewable energy has made massive achievements. Some examples of these can be found in South Africa, Cambodia and Argentina.

Growing Together With BRI

The Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held in Beijing on October 17 and 18. In a recent program filmed by Science and Technology Daily, themed Youth on Tech, four distinguished young experts shared their BRI experiences and insights with audiences.

Baodun Culture Fills Gap in History

The Baodun Culture is a late Neolithic culture that developed in the Chengdu Plain in southwestern China and its adjacent region from 2500-1700 B.C.

Jakarta-Bandung HSR: Chinese Tech Travels Overseas

As the first High-speed Railway (HSR) in Indonesia, the Jakarta-Bandung HSR officially went into operation on October 2, cutting the 142.3 km trip between the two cities from three hours to a blistering 40 minutes.

SKA Milestone Displays China's Scientific Dedication

The first mid-frequency dish antenna designed for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope began assembly in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei province, on September 20.This is also the first of the 64 mid-frequency dish antennas China will contribute to the SKA, based on an agreement reached in December 2022 between the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO).

Green and Hi-Tech Asian Games: A Platform for Unity

On September 23, the day of Autumn Equinox, one of the traditional Chinese solar terms, the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province, offered the spectators?from the world?a Chinese-style romance integrating the ancient civilization and hi-tech elements.??

Tech-driven Hangzhou Asian Games Coming

The Hangzhou Asian Games, set to open on September 23, will showcase layers of advanced technologies, similar to China's previous sporting spectacles of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu.

Scientific Management Guarding Yangtze River

The Yangtze River is regarded as China's mother river, and much effort has been made in the past to protect its ecology, with a particular focus on its water quality. That effort has led to good results.

Louche: Ancestor of the Modern Seed Drill

The louche, also known as a drill sowing vehicle, was a mobile animal-powered agricultural sowing machine invented by Zhao Guo, a Chinese agronomist and official in charge of agricultural production during the Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AC).

Precipitation Measuring Radar Operational in Space

Plowing a Place in History

Chinese people have long known how to use oxen and horses to pull carts, with cattle being the main draft animal. However, it was after Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC-476 BC), that animal husbandry was rapidly popularized throughout the country, and the frame structure of the plow was basically established in the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220) and continuously improved with the needs of production.

Humanoid Robotics Development Enters Fast Lane

A robotic show that mimics the thousand-hand Bodhisattva catched eyes in the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference which closed on August 8. The humanoid robots's ability to move arms as smoothly as the performance requires arises from a series of smart flexible joints, which distinguish the machines from traditional industrial robot arms.

Complementary Clean Energy Development Becomes Reality

Energy security and safety has a bearing on the national economy and people's livelihood, and is always a vital necessity that no country neglects. To stay ahead of the curve, China is accelerating scientific planning and construction of a new energy system that aims to promote the complementary development of water, wind, hydrogen, natural gas as well as other forms of clean energy.

World's First Double-Stage Ship Lock

In Dream Pool Essays, Shen Kuo(1031-1095) documented the construction of the double-stage ship lock in Zhenzhou (now Yizheng city, Jiangsu province) during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). This confirms that the Zhenzhou Double-stage Ship Lock is the earliest of its kind in the world, predating European counterparts by approximately 400 years.

Makeover of Bohai Coast from Barren Land to Farmland

In 2013, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Ministry of Science and Technology launched a demonstration project in collaboration with the local governments of Hebei, Shandong, Liaoning and Tianjin to improve the capacity of the low-yield fields.

Innovative Tech Builds New Harbor in Stormy Water

Ashdod, a vital port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea in southern Israel, has seen a monumental upgrade of its infrastructure, with the construction of the epic Ashdod New Port project. Initiated in September 2014, and built by Pan Mediterranean Engineering Company (PMEC), a subsidiary company of China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC), the port was delivered to the Israeli government ahead of schedule in May 2021.