Yuan Longping, a famous scientist in the field of hybrid rice and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, revealed on March 2 his plan to raise rice production to more than 15,000 kilograms per hectare.
Several senior Chinese nuclear energy experts said China's existing technology can protect the safety of nuclear power.
A Chinese customer downloaded the 25 billionth app from Apple's App Store, pushing the mobile software store to a new milestone.
Chinese scientists will conduct their fifth Arctic expedition this year, said a senior official with the State Oceanic Administration here Monday.
China's third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, is expected to be launched next year and conduct a moon landing and lunar explorations, its designer said.
Preliminary research into a heavy-thrust carrier rocket that could help China send men to the moon and fly to deep space in the future is finished.
An upgraded carrier rocket has completed assembling and is ready for China's first manned space docking due between June and August this year.
China completed a system designed to monitor the movement of the Earth's crust and predict earthquakes.
China has taken another step in localizing key nuclear power equipment for its steadily growing nuclear energy program.
China will launch its manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year, and conduct a space rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module.
China's first high-resolution remote sensing satellite ZY-1-02C has carried out orbit tests, and images delivered from it reach international levels, China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application said Wednesday.
A group of physicists in Anhui province has managed to entangle eight photons in the so-called Schrödinger's cat state.
