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China-Made Satellite Navigation System To Support Olympic Games
Beijing (XNA) Dec 07, 2007A leading engineer for China's indigenous satellite navigation system said the new system would be used in guiding traffic and monitoring sports venues during the Beijing Olympics in summer 2008. Ran Chengqi, deputy director of China Satellite Navigation Engineering Center, said the Compass Navigation Satellite System, which consists of five positioning satellites orbiting the Earth, will help a ... more China resists binding curbs on climate-change emissions 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 6, 2007China said Thursday it would not back any new proposals at a UN climate change conference that run counter to existing frameworks that exempt the booming country from reducing greenhouse-gas output. "We believe under current circumstances... we should not break away from the framework set by the United Nations Framework on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol," foreign ministry spokesman Qi ... more Youth crime in China explodes as social values decline: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 5, 2007The number of juvenile criminals in China has more than doubled over the past decade, as broken homes and a decline in social values have spurred youth delinquency, state media said Wednesday. An estimated 80,000 youngsters would commit crimes this year, up from 33,000 in 1998, the China Daily said, adding that as the number of young offenders had grown, their average age had fallen. "Of ... more China Will Soon Have Its Own Moon Globe 
Beijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2007China will make its own lunar globe soon, using pictures and data collected by its own moon orbiter, said an official in charge of the country's moon exploration mission on Tuesday. "I believe that China will soon come up with a full map of the moon," said Hu Hao, head of the lunar exploration center under the Commission of Science Technology and Industry of National Defense (COSTIND). "Th ... more China says space ambitions no cause for foreign concern 
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 4, 2007Budding space power China on Tuesday sought to counter fears of an Asian space race and accusations it is ignoring the needs of its poor in pursuit of glory. "We will always adhere to the principle of the peaceful use of space," said Chen Qiufa, vice minister of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, in a government Internet forum. He added that China wo ... more |
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Shanghai (XNA) Dec 04, 2007Scientists and astronomy enthusiasts all over the country all have access to data sent back from China's first lunar orbiter Chang'e-I, a leading scientist in the program said here Sunday. Ouyang Ziyuan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and chief scientist of the lunar exploration program, said at present the scientific instruments on board Chang'e-1 have all gone into operat ... more Workers in China strike over rising food costs: officials 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 3, 2007Police in southern China used batons and dogs to keep thousands of workers from leaving their factory premises after they went on strike over rising food costs, officials and reports said Monday. Workers at the Aigao Electronics Factory in Guangdong province went on strike on Wednesday last week after the company announced that it would raise food prices, a company official said. "The pr ... more Suntech Supports The Green Long March In China 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2007Suntech Power Holdings has announced its support of The Green Long March initiative to promote increased understanding of environmental successes and challenges in China, and encourage sustainable development. In early 2007, Future Generations and the Beijing Forestry University, with the support of the State Forestry Administration, launched The Green Long March -- a nation-wide youth program t ... more China's vast sovereign wealth fund to be 'stabilising force': report 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2007China Investment Corp., a company established recently to handle 200 billion dollars of forex reserves, has vowed to play a "stabilising role" in global financial markets, state media said Friday. Lou Jiwei, the former vice finance minister in charge of the company, said no similar sovereign wealth fund had ever been a destabilising factor abroad, the China Daily reported. "They are stab ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2007China published the first picture of the moon captured by Chang'e-1 on Monday morning, marking the success of the country's first lunar probe project. The framed black-and-white photo was unveiled by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. The image showed a rough moon surface with scattered round craters both big and small. The area covered by the picture, abou ... more China Completes Enclosure Of Land For Fourth Satellite Launch Center 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2007China has finished enclosing land for its fourth satellite launch centre near Wenchang City on the southern Chinese island of Hainan. The Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre covers an area of 20 square kilometres, it will include a command centre, in addition to a rocket-launching site, rocket assembly plant, and a space-science theme park. The most important part, the rocket-launching site, ... more China Has No Timetable For Manned Moon Landing 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2007China currently has no plan to send a man onto the moon, said Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration, on Monday. "I've read reports by foreign media saying that China would carry a manned moon landing in 2020, but I don't think there has been such a plan," Sun told a press conference in Beijing. "So far, our moon mission only includes unmanned probing projects. The su ... more China wins right to explore Afghan copper mine: ministry 
Kabul (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Afghanistan has chosen a Chinese bidder to lease a copper mine which is possibly the world's largest, in a contract that is set to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, the mines ministry said Tuesday. The 30-year lease has been offered to China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) to develop the Aynak mine 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Kabul, a Afghan mines ministry spokesman said. ... more
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