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| The agricultural sector is a drag on the development of China's modernization, with its technological level by the end of 2008 more than a century behind that of the United States, according to a report released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Sunday. According to the report, China's current agricultural production rate was around one percent of that in the US, Japan and France.
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| Australia's inaugural Lachlan Macquarie Medal has been awarded to Professor Hong De Yuan from China in recognition of his outstanding achievement in helping protect plant biodiversity. The Medal is a newly created prestigious award for individuals who have demonstrated excellence, recognized internationally, in any aspect of modern botany.
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| Wulagasaurus displays typical features of hadrosaurine dinosaurs, such as a hatchet-shaped sternal with a distal handle-like process that is longer than the proximal plate, a long and caudoventrally tapering ventral process of the coracoid, a prominent deltoid ridge on the scapula, a moderately craniolaterally expanded deltopectoral crest on the humerus, and a slightly elevated pubic peduncle o... |
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| Zhang Jie, a Chinese physicist, has been selected to be a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), according to a Wednesday announcement from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Zhang, president of Shanghai Communications University and a CAS academic, has made important contributions to research concerning high-energy physics, laser fusion and X-ray laser technology.
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| A few pieces of "lacquerware of unknown names" unearthed 35 years ago from a tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Fuyang City, Anhui Province, are found to be a gnomon with template and an equatorial device for the positional measurement of celestial bodies. They are among the oldest instruments for astronomical measurement that can still be seen in the world. |
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| The number of glacial lakes in the Himalayas has reduced in recent years, but their total area has increased, according to research revealed on Tuesday. Wang Xin heads a 30-year study on the subject organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hunan University of Science and Technology.
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