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China eliminates malaria
The World Health Organization (WHO) on 29 June 2021 certified China as free of malaria, after a decades long effort that saw an estimated annual toll of 30 million cases in the 1940s, including 300,000 deaths, to zero in 2017. Along the way, China developed new surveillance techniques, medicines, and technologies to break the cycle… Continue reading
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Good news for wind power? Has 6 decades of surface wind “stilling” ended in China?
Since the 1960s, a significant trend has been that global land surface wind speed (SWS) has significantly weakened, a phenomenon known as global terrestrial stilling. The stilling is widespread worldwide. It has seriously affected the ecological environment and social economy, especially as a factor restricting the sustainable development of the wind energy industry. The latest… Continue reading
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Australian virologist who was a researcher at the Wuhan lab speaks out
Half-truths and distorted information have obscured an accurate accounting of the lab’s functions and activities, which were more routine than how they’ve been portrayed in the media. “It was a regular lab that worked in the same way as any other high-containment lab … What people are saying is just not how it is.” Australian… Continue reading
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US bio-warfare labs source of Covid-19 pandemic ?
International pressure builds for independent investigation The lab-leak theory, that COVID-19 was leaked from a laboratory, has once again caused a clamor since the beginning of this year, months after the argument was thrown into the trash can of conspiracy theories by an overwhelming number of scientists. Observers found that things only get more complicated… Continue reading
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COVID lab-leak theory: ‘Rare’ genetic sequence doesn’t mean the virus was engineered
” … there is no evidence presented in the WSJ piece that scientifically supports the concept of a lab leak of a genetically engineered virus.” Two scientific experts from the University of Leeds, Dr Keith Grehan (postdoctoral researcher on molecular biology) and Dr Natalie Kingston (research fellow on virology) argue that the article written for… Continue reading
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New generation of intelligent high-speed trains put into operation
Source: Xinhua| 2021-06-26 BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — China’s new generation of “Fuxing” high-speed trains was put into operation on Friday, offering intelligent operating systems and facilities. The high-speed Electric Multiple Unit (EMU), based on the Fuxing CR400BF EMU, is equipped with technologies and services including intelligent data analysis, a wireless network based on 5G technology,… Continue reading
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Cumulative covid-19 death toll lowest in China, Denmark, Australia, Russia and Norway
News update Latest data published by New Scientist shows the total deaths from covid-19 – the US death toll continues to be highest in the world, followed in descending order by Brazil, India, Mexico, South Korea, UK, and major EU states. The countries with the lowest death count in descending order were recorded in China,… Continue reading
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Chinese scientists ‘reinvent’ potatoes to help solve global food crisis
Chinese scientists have developed a generation of “pure and fertile potato lines” with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement. The experiment, led by Huang Sanwen, a researcher with the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (AGIS) under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), used genome design to transform potato breeding from a slow, non-accumulative… Continue reading
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China takes commanding global lead in research published on decarbonization technologies
TOKYO — China leads the world in the number of research papers published on technologies related to the global pivot away from greenhouse gases, and is catching up to the U.S. in terms of the quality and impact, a Nikkei survey shows. China was wold leader in 16 of 18 research areas for the period… Continue reading
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Could seawater rice determine the future of food security?
Only 14% of China’s vast territory is arable land. China is home to 100 million hectares of wasteland – that’s an area the size of Egypt – where crops cannot grow due to high soil salinity or alkalinity. For decades, the Chinese government and scientists have made great efforts to improve soil quality, and now,… Continue reading
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Fort Detrick and COVID-19: Why do the Chinese want an investigation?
The U.S. has yet to let go of the “lab leak theory” on COVID-19 origin. After the WHO-China joint research concluded that it’s a waste of time to look into this dead-end theory in March, U.S. President Joe Biden followed his predecessor Donald Trump and called for another investigation on the Wuhan-based biolab. But many U.S. biolabs… Continue reading
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Guangdong nuclear power plant incident: Making a mountain out of a molehill?
Speculation about a possible radiation leak at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong has dominated the Chinese media news cycle in the last few days. Taishan has refuted the allegations, saying that the environmental indicators at the plant and its surrounding areas are “normal”. This statement has provided some measure of calm, especially among… Continue reading
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New study finds more evidence COVID-19 was in US by December 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — A new analysis of blood samples by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) research program between January 2 and March 18, 2020 suggested that seven people in five states may have been infected well before the country’s first confirmed cases were reported in January 21, 2020. Blood samples taken from… Continue reading
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New giant rhino fossil from China is one of largest land mammals ever found
A 26.5 million-year-old skull found in northwest China has been identified as another extinct species of giant rhino, one of the largest mammals to ever roam the land. The fossil is remarkably well-preserved, and after close analysis, scientists have named it Paraceratherium linxiaense, the sixth species of this hornless rhino genus to be uncovered in Eurasia. It’s… Continue reading
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Cuba and China to develop a vaccine against new strains of the corona-virus
“All the predictions and scientific rationality indicate that unfortunately we will have to suffer new epidemics as a logical result of the increase in world population, animal production and the movement of people,” explained Dr. Gerardo Guillén, director of Biomedical Research at CIGB. Scientists from Cuba and China want to anticipate future pandemics by investigating a potential… Continue reading
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Modern farming: Coronavirus outbreak spurs high-tech greenhouse boom in China
At Chongming Island just outside Shanghai, China’s most populous city, at a new commercial glass greenhouse harvested their first batch of produce at the site in May. The facility is one of dozens sprouting up on the outskirts of China’s megacities that utilise high-end technology to manage irrigation, temperature and lighting systems to grow vegetables… Continue reading
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DNA tracks mysterious Denisovans to Chinese cave, just before modern humans arrived nearby
In a 2020 scientific paper in Science, archaeologist Dongju Zhang’s research team, of Lanzhou University, reported the first discovery of Denisovan ancient DNA found outside the Denisova Cave.** Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was gleaned not from fossils, but from the cave sediments themselves. Precise dates show the Denisovans took shelter in the cave 100,000 years and… Continue reading
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WHO asks for re-checks of Italian research on possible new Covid-19 virus origin
Antibodies to Covid-19 detected in blood collected in Italy in October 2019 during a lung cancer screening trial Samples from a study suggesting that COVID-19 was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been re-tested at the World Health Organization’s request, a Reuters report quoted two scientists leading the research as saying on Tuesday. While… Continue reading
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Study finds COVID-19 spread in China fueled by “stealth transmission”
Undetected cases, many of which were likely not severely symptomatic, were largely responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, according to a study by Sino-American scientists. published last year. The study, published last year, found that even patients with mild-to-no symptoms could spread the virus. In the light of the latest… Continue reading
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Did US have 4.7 million Covid-19 cases by December 2019?
US owes the world an explanation on Fort Detrick lab secrets A full independent investigation into the massive US Fort Detrick bio-weapons program and its role in spreading Covid-19 world wide is urgently needed. Is the latest US “intelligence” claim that the virus came from a laboratory in Wuhan yet another smoke-screen to divert attention… Continue reading
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China remains world’s largest manufacturing country – as PC makers “green” computers
China has maintained its position as the world’s largest manufacturing country for the 11th consecutive year with the industrial added value reaching 31.3 trillion yuan ($4.84 trillion), according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Monday. Meanwhile, top computer vendors including Acer and Lenovo are adopting sustainable strategies, with laptops made of recycled… Continue reading
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Did US have 4.7 million Covid-19 cases by December 2019?
US owes the world an explanation on Fort Detrick lab secrets A full independent investigation into the massive US Fort Detrick bio-weapons program and its role in spreading Covid-19 world wide is urgently needed. Is the latest US “intelligence” claim that the virus came from a laboratory in Wuhan yet another smoke-screen to divert attention… Continue reading
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