China is planning to shoot its first space station “Tiangong I”, or Heavenly Palace I, in 2010, according to Ouyang Ziyuan, China’s chief lunar-exploration scientist.
China will launch a French-made communications satellite for the Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holding Limited in the first half of 2012.
China's polluted lakes will never be clean unless efforts are made to eradicate land and water pollution together, a leading Chinese water resources expert said Tuesday.
Robot makers around the world can show their creations and compete in the first International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games next June in China's northeastern city of Harbin.
China is threatened by more than 400 invasive alien species, which has caused billions of yuan of economic losses, an agricultural official said Monday. "We have discovered more than 400 harmful species alien to the country so far," said Wan Fanghao, vice director with the Research Center for Invasive Alien Species Prevention and Control of China's Ministry of Agriculture. "More than 100 of them are widely spread in the country and have caused great losses."
China unveiled its fastest supercomputer yesterday, which at its peak speed can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop.
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