China’s GDP topped 100 tln yuan for first time, reaching 101.59 tln yuan with 2.3% y-o-y expansion in 2020, said NBS official on Mon. It is estimated to account for 17% of global total for the year, with China expected to become only major economy with positive growth in 2020.
1-14-21, National Astronomical Observatory Beijing-Arizona BASS survey team and the Dark Energy Spectral Survey DESI International Collaboration Project team jointly released the latest giant two-dimensional sky map of the universe. This is the largest cosmic sky map obtained by human measurement so far. 200 researchers from all over the world have spent 6 years on joint observation and data analysis, covering 20,000 square degrees of the sky, which is about half the area of the whole celestial sphere, accommodating 10 trillion digital pixels and containing 2 billion celestial objects.
China’s hack-proof quantum communication technology is “primarily ready” for practical use after a 4,600km (2,858 mile) network was put through two years of experimental service, researchers announced. When fully developed, quantum communication can be applied in fields such as finance, defence, government administration and electronic information, according to scientists. This network consisted of the Micius satellite – the world’s first quantum communication satellite launched in 2016 – and more than 700 optical fibres covering 2,000km and connecting 32 nodes across four provinces and three municipalities in China. It was completed in 2017 and has realised communication up to a distance of 4,600km.
China built a high-temperature superconducting maglev train prototype in the SW city of Chengdu. The maglev, which can reach speeds of 620 km per hour, is expected to be the fastest land vehicle.
In the middle of this month, officers and soldiers of the peacekeeping engineering detachment will go to the Kovachok camp to repair the main supply line road from Kovachok to Agaqwaq, which is 168 kilometers long.
The State Council released on the 31st, the new inactivated coronavirus vaccine of Sinopharm Group China Biological has been approved by the State Drug Administration for conditional marketing, the protection effectiveness meets the requirements of the World Health Organization and the relevant standards of the State Drug Administration, and will be provided free of charge to all Chinese people in the future. As I predicted 8 months ago.