A senior engineer commented during the first session of China's top advisory body on Saturday that China is leading the world in bullet train technology and will implement a self-driving system on the high-speed train in time for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
When information technology (IT) is better utilized in agriculture and rural areas, poverty reduction will be markedly transformed, lawmakers and political advisors said during China's ongoing two sessions.
A top quantum scientist has revealed that China will make significant breakthroughs in quantum computing in the next three to five years, leading to advancements in supercomputing and public information security.
Prior to the opening of the "two sessions," China's big annual political meetings, a seminar organized by the Girls' Protection Foundation and Foundation of China Culture and Arts for Children was held in Beijing on Mar. 2, focused on protecting children from sexual abuse.
Before the opening of the 13th National People's Congress, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee made public its proposal to amend the Constitution.
China is developing a heavy-lift launch vehicle with a planned low Earth orbit (LEO) payload capacity of 140 tons, much higher than that of the Falcon Heavy whose launch on Tuesday captured world attention.
The beginning of 2018 witnessed four successful steps in China's aerospace development: on Jan. 9, SuperView-1 03/04, a pair of 0.5-meter high-resolution remote sensing satellites, was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center; on Jan. 12, the twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites were sent into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center; on Jan.13, a land resources exploration satellite was launched into a preset orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center; on Jan.19, two high-resolution optical remote sensing satellites, Jilin-1 Video 07 and 08, were launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
January bears the coldest days in Liaoning province, northeast China. Early in the morning, smoke can be seen curling upwards from kitchen chimneys in the Biangou Village, Yangmuchuan Town of Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County, Dandong City.
China.org.cn presents a live coverage of the opening ceremony of the first session of China's 13th National People's Congress (NPC) on the morning of March 5, 2018.
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