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Saving US
From March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, China has exported 43.85 billion face masks, 1.19 billion surgical gloves, 950 million sets of protective clothing, 54.03 million pairs of goggles and 17,585 sets of respirators to the US.
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IPR innovations
China authorised 530,000 invention patents in 2020, 17% more than the previous year, and the country applied for 68,720 international patents in 2020, indicating China has become a major nation of IPR innovations.
P.O. with Dutch mask aligner
Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation SMIC, announced on Wed a deal for $1.2 bln worth of purchase orders with Dutch mask aligner manufacturing giant, ASML, based on an amended and restated volume purchase agreement.
Thailand and UAE join China’s global digital currency push
China’s central bank said Wednesday it has joined its counterparts in Thailand and the United Arab Emirates to study the use of digital currencies in cross-border payments, a move that puts it closer to setting the global rules for international transactions handled in national virtual currencies.
Fighting back Indian troops
China EU’s No.1 trading partner
China surpassed the US becoming the EU’s No.1 trading partner in 2020, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday. This was due to an increase in imports (+5.6%) and exports (+2.2%) with China. With the EU-China CAI making progress while the future of transatlantic trade remains unclear.
International Scientific Lunar Station
2-12-21 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has instructed Roscosmos, Russia’s state space agency, to complete a Memorandum of Understanding with China confirming cooperation on the creation of an International Scientific Lunar Station, Russian media reported on Friday.
China’s Tianwen-1 probe successfully enters Mars orbit
Tianwen-1, China’s first Mars probe, successfully reached the Red Planet on Wednesday at around 7:52 pm, homing in on the Earth’s planetary neighbor after an epic seven-month journey of nearly 500 million kilometers.
After a 15-minute firing of its 3,000-newton thrust engine, the spacecraft reached an elliptical Mars orbit at around 400 kilometers from the planet, according to a statement China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) provided to the Global Times on Wednesday.
Tianwen-1 circuitous flight has seen the spacecraft travel some 475 million kilometers, taking it some 192 million kilometers from Earth, with all systems in good condition, CNSA said. The communication time delay between the probe and Earth is about 10.7 minutes.
It will carry out several orbital course corrections before finally selecting a landing spot and touching down, which is scheduled to happen between May and June.
