China’s Chang’e-5 moon mission has returned safely to terra firma with the planet’s first lunar sample in more than four decades. China has said it would share its findings with the global scientific community. The 23-day mission was a success after the Chang’e-5’s return capsule landed in the freezing deserts of Inner Mongolia on 17…
Chinese scientists have developed a jet engine capable of reaching Mach-16. An aircraft powered by such a powerful thrust could fly from Beijing to London in just two hours. Named the ‘sodramjet’, the prototype testing took place at a wind tunnel in Beijing. The engine displayed excellent fuel efficiency, thrust and operational stability, according to…
Self-driving 5G KFC ‘chicken trucks’ have been spotted in Shanghai, causing a stir on social media. In late November, Twitter users started noticing KFC trucks driving around the Shanghai city centre. The driverless, 5G-enabled food trucks are a project developed between Yum Foods, the parent company of KFC, and Neolix, one of China’s leading tech…
China has launched a mission to the moon to retrieve lunar rocks – the first mission of its kind since the USSR in 1976. Monday’s successful launch was China’s 35th this year, as it cements its title as a ‘space-superpower’. Launched off Hainan Island’s Wenchang Space Site, the mission, named Chang’e-5, is the nation’s ambitious…
Sinovac Biotech, one of China’s most promising Covid-19 candidates, has announced its vaccine has triggered a quick immune response. The news comes hot off the heels of breakthroughs by Pfizer and Moderna. Sao Paolo, the Brazilian state ravaged by the Covid pandemic, has ordered 46 million doses. President Jair Bolsonaro, who himself has recovered from…
Driverless car and AI firm, Pony.ai, has reached a $5.3 billion evaluation after it raised $267 million in a new round of funding. The Chinese start-up, which says it has raised more than $1 billion in its four-year existence, said the financial injection would go into research and development. Pony.ai is the brainchild of Chinese…
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A team of Chinese engineers has managed to ‘walk’ an 85-year-old Shanghai building to safety and a new home, using robotic legs. The nearly century-old education centre, in Shanghai’s eastern Huangpu district, was successfully lifted off its concrete foundations, hoisted on to a network of robotic legs – known as the ‘walking machine’, and moved…
China says it will turn to international investors to further its green crusade as it seeks to become a carbon-neutral country in the next 40 years. The Asian powerhouse said it would incentivise green financing by encouraging climate-friendly projects, enticing international investors to get behind green bonds, phasing out conventional petrol-powered cars and launching a…
China’s first private 5G network will be used in the day-to-day operations at a coal mine in Shandong Province, in line with Beijing’s push to modernise heavy industry through digital transformation. The network, built by state-owned Shandong Energy Group, was deployed at their Baodian Coal Mine subsidiary in East China and went live in late…