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Shanghai the world’s largest international air travel hub
The coronavirus pandemic has reshuffled the international air travel market, and Shanghai has replaced London as the world’s largest hub, the latest report released by the International Air Transport Association showed.
Shanghai is now the top-ranked city for connectivity with the top four most connected cities all in China – Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu.
The report said London, the world’s number one most-connected city in September 2019, has seen a 67 percent decline in connectivity. By September 2020, it had fallen to number eight. The report also said New York (-66 percent fall in connectivity), Tokyo (-65 percent), Bangkok (-81 percent), Hong Kong (-81 percent) and Seoul (-69 percent) have all exited the top ten.
Chinese military urged to modernize theories, organization, weapons to reach PLA’s 2027 centennial goal
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1208192.shtml The Chinese military was urged to modernize military theories, organizations, personnel and weapons and equipment in order to reach its centennial goal by 2027 recently set by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday. It marked the first time that the country’s defense ministry explained the goal after it was unveiled in the country’s new development plan for the next five and 15 years approved at a key Party meeting in late October and a new military outline released in early this month stressed design on future warfare.
Chinese military development goal by 2027:
- Integrated devt of mechanization, informatization and intelligentization
- Modernized theories, organizations, personnel and weapons and equipment
- Quality and effectiveness
- In tandem with economic devt
Hualong One 3rd-generation nuclear power plant
China’s first Hualong One 3rd-generation nuclear power plant in Fuqing, Fujian Province, achieved its first grid connection and power generation early Friday, breaking the foreign technology monopoly.
China discovers world’s smallest dragonfly in Sichuan
There are approximately 5,000 dragonfly species in the world. China is home to more than 990 species, more than any other country.
Giant panda birth in Japan
A new bishop ordained in Qingdao
A new bishop was ordained in a Catholic cathedral in Qingdao, Shandong on Mon, marking the first bishop consecration being publicly reported after China and Vatican announced the renewal of their agreement on bishop appointments.
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Chang’e-5 lunar probe mission
China leads the industry that powers electric cars by a country mile
- China has 72 gigawatt hours of domestic battery demand, controls 80 per cent of the world’s capacity for raw material refining, with the capacity to produce 77 per cent of worldwide battery cells and 60 per cent for components
- Control over the global supply of EV batteries are expected to remain in the hands of the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean producers, analysts said