Heavy Metals, Mechanical Cubits, Virtual Hospitals
Tech
China makes graphite that’s 99.99995% pure, the first time it has the led the world in graphite purity.
Since China’s first responses to U.S. export controls, much has changed. The relative strength of China’s domestic semiconductor industry has..
Tsinghua researchers wrote A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents. Now digital simulations of entire medical treatments are being conducted by 42 AI doctors.
Chinese scientists created the first mechanical qubit, which could lead to mechanical quantum computers capable of running long, complex programs, and to novel quantum sensors.
China has 4.1 million 5G base stations, 80 major economic sectors use 5G technologies, and the 5G network is covering more rural areas.
Economy
China bans export of items related to gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the United States and a complete ban on dual-use items to U.S. military users.
National Autumn Grain Purchase Exceeds 100 Million Tons: 100 million tons of autumn rice, corn and soybeans warehoused this year, faster than last year.
Saudi Aramco & Sinopec build a $10 billion petrochemical complex: 16 MT/year oil refinery, a 1.5 MT/year ethylene unit, and a 2 MT/year paraxylene.
The new 5,111 km. China-Russia east natural gas pipeline natural gas pipeline transmits 38 billion cubic meters to 450 million people using 36 indigenous, high-power compressors.
China Rail reaches 99% of cities with 200,000 people, transports 4 billion passengers YTD, on 160,000 km of rail (46,000 km high-speed) stopping with 3,300 passenger stations.
Society
New guidelines curb negative trends like celebrity worship and excessive entertainment while promoting responsible content creation for young people.
Since 2014, 1,100 townships and 45,000 villages have been integrated into rural transport networks and, where conditions allow, now have bus services.
Inequality in rural areas has not intensified with aging, suggesting that increasing transfer income affects income inequality more as aging deepens.
The Supreme Court’s AI-powered judicial platform analyzes its database of 320M records, rulings, cases and opinions, extracts key points and classifies data, makes mediation suggestions.
When Confucius met Darwin: sociobiology in China, from Pan Guangdan to
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Environment
China’s tourists have 2800 ancient towns to choose from, meaning that, on average, each county has two ancient towns.
A sponge made of plentiful squid bone and cotton removes 95% of microplastics from water after repeated cycles. If mass production is feasible, expect the sponge in large-scale water treatment and household water purifiers.
Shi Zhengli, the Wuhan virologist at the centre of ‘lab escape’ claims, presented her lab’s 56 bat coronavirus genomes, none of which is the most recent ancestor of the SARS-CoV-2.
Governance
Above: full Tank Man footage + American equivalent
China has spent $2 trillion on logistics YTD, or 14% of GDP and plans to reduce that to 13.5% by 2027 by integrating and digitizing the entire network.
The MoF suggests government procurement officers give a 20% price preference for goods entirely manufactured within China, from raw materials to finished goods.
54th senior official investigated by the top anti-corruption body this year, beating last year’s bag of 45 crooks. He is Luo Zengbin, Party Secretary of Haikou.
Xi: “China is building a high-standard socialist market economy faster, steadily expanding institutional opening up, taking the initiative to align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, and actively fostering a transparent, stable and predictable institutional environment”.
The Panchen Lama, Gyaincain Norbu, concluded 5 months of study, research, and religious activities in Tibet and learned about the construction and development of socialist new Tibet.
Xi Jinping’s Ten top achievements
Cleaned up corruption
Poverty reduction and common prosperity
BRI, the belt and road initiative1i
Made in China 2025 is on schedule
Prioritized science and technology
Pollution, safety & environment
Military reform
Tech monopolies crackdown
Affordable housing; doubled everyone’s incomes
Cultural, civilizational revival
Geopolitics
China is building a 523km (325-mile) railway to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, with the Kyrgyzstan section budgeted at $4.7B and construction finished by 2030.
The political manageability of democratic capitalism has sharply declined in recent years in the emerging global political-economic system. As a result the risks seem to be growing, both for democracy and for the economy.
“As overseas assets grow thanks to BRI, to safeguard their security we must enhance risk awareness, upgrade mechanisms and plans, and investigate, monitor, assess, and regularly and early warn of risks threatening China’s overseas interests.”
Prabowo Subianto, President of Indonesia, the world’s 4th largest country by population: “The two sides agreed that China and Indonesia are both major developing countries, emerging markets, and significant forces of the Global South. China and Indonesia are similar in the development phase, concept and path, as well as in cultural traditions,”
Argentine President Milei, September, 2023: “Not only will I not do business with China, I won’t do business with any communists.” October, 2024 : “Relations with China are excellent. They are a fabulous partner. They don’t ask for anything in return. I mean, I swear to you, they do not ask anything. Nothing”.
Defense
Drone swarm vs F-35 fighter. High Power Microwave Weapon can defeat drone swarms. Wire mesh can shield drones from microwaves, but you must leave parts of it unshielded for communications.
Pakistan’s acquisition of China’s new J-35 fighter gives it superior combat potential in South-Central Asia and even the Middle East, where only Israel’s American F-35A fighters challenge it.
President Xi emphasized building a strong, networked military information support force while inspecting the new PLA Information Support Force, a strategic branch established last April.
Xi: “We have used the joint construction of BRI as a practical platform to promote the building of a community with a shared future for humanity, establishing bilateral and regional communities of shared future with multiple countries and regions, and making the concept of building a community with a shared future for humanity deeply ingrained in people’s hearts”.
