Cured cancer in H1
I often claim that China gets more done in a week than the West in a year and this half-year report supports that. Our media would celebrate even one of these breakthroughs – curing cancer, saving the environment, disproving Einstein, becoming the world’s largest auto exporter and its happiest people – for years. But when it happens in China… crickets.
Health
The biggest cancer news in decades: treatment drastically reduces metastasis, dissolves breast, prostate, and liver cancers.
Researchers discovered a new organelle
12 new particle therapy centers under construction
Shanghai: embryo-to-puberty disease screening
Technology
Renewables provide 51% of national electricity generation
Beijing holds the most nuclear fusion patents
China installed 150GW of new PV capacity
The world’s largest hybrid solar-hydro power plant began producing 2 billion kWh of electricity for 700,000 households.
Peak emissions arriving 7 years early
115,000 tons of EV batteries recycled
First hi-powered commercial Solid Oxide Fuel Cell rolls off the line
World’s first solid-state EV battery rolls off the line
Xie Xiaoliang, Zhang Yonghao, hundreds of scientists move to China
Chinese researchers..
disproved Einstein’s photoelectric hypothesis
converted seawater directly into H2 + O2 via PV
pulled ahead of the US in 37 of 44 new technologies
created a commercial nanolattice
discovered water on the Moon
mastered quantum precision measurement
set the optical fiber transmission record
built the country’s first flight simulator
mastered CL-20, world’s deadliest explosive
filed 54% of global semiconductor patents
outranked Oxbridge, Caltech in high quality research
overtook the US in Nature Index of Contributions to Research
trounced the US in AI research output and quality
Economy
Trade with 10 neighbors grew 77%
China became the world’s largest vehicle exporter
New energy exports rose 113%
RMB exceeds Euro in trade use
Taiwan GDP equals Shanghai’s
China launches 80% of global IPOs
UnionPay crushes Visa
Couriers deliver 60 billionth parcel – 30 days earlier than last year
Retail sales, services rise 12%
Electricity consumption rises 7.4%
Porsche China sales rose 21%
97% of foreign firms are happy in China
149th country joins the BRI
Pensions rise for 19th consecutive year
Urban salaries rose 6.7%
CPI rises 0.1%
Median Household Net Worth exceeds America’s, PPP.
Society
Tibet gives 12 months paid maternity leave, awards 13 monks Geshe Lharampa degrees (PhD in Dharmic studies).
Chinese are the world’s happiest people
Xinjiang opened its 27th airport
Chinese hold both men and women’s Chess World Championships
Bank deposits hit record $40 trillion
