Earthquakes

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Madoi county in NW China’s Qinghai at 2:04 am (Beijing Time) Saturday.

One was killed and six others injured in the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that has hit Yangbi of Dali in S China’s Yunnan province on Fri evening.

Russian-technology-powered nuclear generating units

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5-18-21 China and Russia jointly build new units at two Chinese nuclear power stations in Jiangsu and Liaoning provinces. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin witnesses the opening ceremony of the project via video link on Wednesday.

China began construction on Wednesday of four Russian-technology-powered nuclear generating units, which will have a reported combined power generation output of 37.6 billion kWh a year upon completion, reducing carbon emissions by 30.68 million tons.

Dredger Hao Hai Long

A Chinese-developed dredging vessel has wrapped up a three-day trial voyage. The large dredger is capable of mud-dredging, bedrock-digging and sand-digging.

Looks like the West

Wuhan’s Strawberry Music Festival, set for May 1 and 2 this year, began Saturday as scheduled, being the first outdoor music festival the city held after it managed to control the epidemic.

Yaogan-34

China successfully sent a new remote sensing satellite, Yaogan-34, into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 15:27 Friday (Beijing Time).