Bacterial assassins cut colorectal, melanoma, bladder cancer
Magnetoplasma engine operates stably at 100 kW full power. It generates plasma by ionising a gas like argon then accelerating the plasma into a high-speed particle stream that generates thrust.
After two hours’s surgery a completely paralyzed patient stood up and walked. A brain chip captures its motor signals, bypasses damaged spinal areas, and directly activates his lower limbs.
Lab-engineered ‘bacterial assassins’ cut colorectal, melanoma, bladder cancer volume 80% with a 100% survival rate.
90% of patients with advanced, treatment-resistant cancers halted tumour growth, with one cervical cancer patient clinically cured. Scientists turned the same immune response that rejects organ transplants to their advantage – to target cancer.
Beida’s bismuth-based 2D transistor is 40% faster than TSMC’s 3-nm silicon chips on 10% less energy.
Fudan’s silicon photonic integrated high-order mode multiplexer chip enables ultra-high-capacity on-chip optical data transmission. A solution for optical interconnection in data centers and high-performance computing servers?
Naura, China’s leading chip tool maker, moved to sixth among global chipmaking equipment suppliers last year, up from eighth in 2023, and expects to grow revenues 40% in 2024.
The first carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor chip has ‘third state’ and uses a novel ternary logic system to compute AI faster and cheaper. It demonstrated flawless accuracy in image recognition tasks.
Zuchongzhi 3.0 quantum processor outperforms Google’s Sycamore one-millionfold, puts China ahead in the global quantum computing competing with Google’s Willow processor, unveiled earlier this year.
The CJ-2000 high-bypass turbofan engine completed its full-state high-altitude platform tests. Max thrust 35 tons exceeds the 33 tons of GEnx-1B on the Boeing 787.
New, 100,000W plasma engine puts China ahead of the US in the race to develop plasma technology for Mars missions and brings China closer to leader Russia.
The first AI-driven, 110-kV autonomous power grid restoration system restored power in just 17 seconds during a fault scenario, a 95% improvement over manual operation.
Last month, Chinese mathematician Wang Hong solved an infamous geometry problem called the “Kakeya conjecture within three dimensions”. This month, a trio said they had resolved “Hilbert’s sixth problem” by proving the mathematics of fluid mechanics.
Economy & Trade
BYD’s Zhengzhou factory and housing. 10x larger than Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory
Beijing summoned Walmart executives for asking its Chinese suppliers to cut prices “in an attempt to shift the burden of U.S. tariffs to Chinese suppliers and consumers”.
Antimony (for microchips and weapons) prices rose 22% and tungsten, tellurium, indium, and molybdenum doubled following Beijing’s export restrictions. Cobalt rose 49%.
60,000 foreign-invested companies were established last year, up 10% YoY, to 1.24 million, with $2.87 trillion foreign investment actually utilized. FDI growth averages 9% pa.
China sends Laos 100,000 doses of frozen semen and 10 proprietary Huaxi breeding bulls: fast growing, they produce high-quality meat, highly adaptable, they weigh up to 900 kg.
Society
Full-scale automation of all manufacturing and mission-critical industries. The robot is the first industrial piece that is not merely supplemental but additive: it adds 24/7 superhuman labor. China is the only country positioned to capture this level of automation, and China’s achieving it without the US following suit.. poses an existential threat by outcompeting the US in all capacities.
Environment
Washington paid Canada’s Lion Electric Company $160 million to build 435 school buses for $360,000 each. Now the company is bankrupt with most of the buses undelivered. We should have bought them from China. For $67,000 each.
Smart Yangtze River is a digital twin of the Yangtze River basin, a 3D simulation of
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the region, using centuries of data gleaned from tens of thousands of monitoring points.
10,000 bamboo processing enterprises’ revenues rose 30%, from $11.3 million in 2010 to $60 billion in 2022 and will exceed $130 billion by 2035.
11 million acres (4.5 MH) reforested, 7 million acres of grassland replanted in 2024. The forest and grass industry generated $1.5 Tn, up 9.6% YoY, produced 200 MT of forest foods. 2.76 billion forest ecotourists, up 9%.
Society
The five fastest-growing cities, like Hefei, Guiyang, and Zhengzhou, are midwestern provincial capitals that are the primary drivers of demographic growth.
Chinese apartments are ‘towers in a park’, Americans favor mid-rise Five Stories-Over-Ones, but the two achieve identical densities. Chinese building codes mandate at least two hours of direct sunlight to their lowest floors on the coldest day of winter.
Governance
Beijing approved commercial robotaxi operations by Pony AI and WeRide between Beijing South Railway Station to Yizhuang District, through and within the city’s bustling third and fourth ring roads.
Seven national digital economy innovation development pilot zones like Tianjin, Xiong’an New Area pilot optimizing data infrastructure construction, breakthrough core digital technologies, deepening digital transformation and promoting digital reform.
Geopolitics
The U.S. Department of Defense conducted a covert disinformation campaign targeting China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during the height of the pandemic in the Philippines, a country heavily reliant on Chinese aid at the time, and later expanded to other regions like Central Asia and the Middle East.
Beijing links South Africa with a quantum key distribution system in an intercontinental communication network resistant to hacking, for sensitive fields like finance and national security.
Moral, idealist diplomatic thinking prioritises grand, long-term and in-depth considerations over short-term, superficial, or immediate concerns. Indeed, such opinions are often seen in foreign policy discussions within China, but they stem from a misreading of the surface in China’s diplomatic actions.
Georgia turfs Western firms, awards Black Sea port project to China, plus the first highway linking its east and west and a highway tunnel to Russia. The US called the award “incompatible with membership in U.S. and E.U.-based international organizations.”
Freeport-McMoRan sold its Tenke Fungurume Cobalt Mine stake for $2.65 billion in 2016 and the Kisanfu mine to the China’s CMOC for $550 million, and made China the world’s largest cobalt producer.
24 GW of electricity, a record, installed in BRI countries in 2024.
Defense
PLAN assault barges form a temporary pier, or series of barges, with jack-up supports for more stability.
