Happy Birthday Shenzhen!

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826 unmanned aerial vehicles flew near Shenzhen Bay on Aug 26 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Shenzhen’s iconic buildings and words like “We love Shenzhen” were formed by the glowing drones.

USS Mustin trespass

The destroyer USS Mustin on Thursday trespassed into China’s territorial waters in the Xisha Islands. The PLA Southern Theater Command organized naval and air forces to track it and warn it away.

Xisha Islands around Hainan Island in South China Sea
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U.S. U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft intrusion

The U.S. U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft intruded into the no-fly zone of the PLA’s northern combat zone without authorization, seriously interfering with the Chinese side’s normal exercise and training activities, seriously violating the China-U.S. code of conduct for maritime and air safety and relevant international practices, and easily causing misunderstandings and misjudgments or even maritime and air accidents, which is a nakedly provocative action. China demands that the United States side immediately stop such provocative actions and take practical action to maintain peace and stability in the region.

‘We are already in the new cold war.’

Martin Jacques expresses his view on the ongoing contestation between the US and China. This video is extracted for an online international conference titled ‘No To The New Cold War’ on July 25th.
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High-energy super-capacitor tram

  According to Nie Wenbin, manager of 中车株洲电力机车有限公司 urban rail system research and development department of CNR Zhuzhou, this high-energy super-capacitor tram will be used in the rapid transit system of Kunming Changshui International Airport, using three groups of 60,000 fara high-energy supercapacitor power supply. 7 modules (i.e. 7 cars) with a maximum capacity of 500 passengers, can be recharged within 30 seconds of passengers loading and unloading, and run 5 km at a maximum speed of 70 km per hour.

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China sends new high-resolution remote sensing satellite into space

China successfully sent the Gaofen-9 05 高分九号05 – a high resolution Earth observation satellite – into planned orbit via a Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China’s Gansu Province on Sunday morning at around 10:30 am.

The Gaofen-9 05 is an optical remote-sensing satellite that is capable of providing photographs with a resolution of less than a meter.

It will be used for land surveys, urban planning, road network design, agriculture and disaster relief, and support the construction of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, the Global Times learned from China’s space authorities.

A multi-functional experiment satellite that was developed by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Military Sciences, and Tiantuo-5, a spacecraft developed by the National University of Defense Technology, were also launched during the mission.
The multi-functional experiment satellite will carry out work in a series of new fields in orbit ranging from communication to navigation. Tiantuo-5 will be used to verify in-orbit information collection capabilities from ships, spacecraft and Internet of Things.

Travel from Guangzhou to Shanghai by Public Transit

The young man’s name is Tian Xiaolang 田小浪 (pen name).

  By chance, he saw a map of the bus route from Guangzhou to Shanghai, gave him the idea to travel by public transit.

  The total distance from Guangzhou to Shanghai is 1,922 km. He brought only one bag on this trip.

  On August 7, Tian Xiaolang departed from Jiangmen, Guangdong. For ten days, he’s been through 600 or 700 bus stops. He has just arrived in Zhangzhou, Fujian province.

  Tian Xiaolang said. At the most, it was an 8-hour ride a day. Spending an average of no more than ¥ 150 per day. It’s cost about ¥2,000 so far.