China's contribution to the range of science-based inventions evolved in 2011 was noteworthy.
Chinese and Japanese researchers have jointly developed a robotic system which will likely improve the success rate of surgical brain vascular intervention.
China successfully launched the Ziyuan III satellite Monday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province.
Two heart operations performed in Shanghai were telecast live via satellite to Taipei on Saturday morning.
Data collected by China's Great Wall Station show that the continent is not earthquake-free.
Clock time might not signify a particular time of the day, as we know it, if a proposal to amend the global standard of timekeeping is passed at a conference in Geneva in mid-January.
Alien species are attacking crops and causing billions of dollars worth of damage to the economy even though detection rates have increased fourfold since 2002.
China will try to extract 30 billion cubic meters of coalbed methane in 2015 as part of the country's efforts to reduce deadly coal mine accidents and develop a clean energy industry.
A research institute focusing on the development of the country's aerospace engineering technologies was jointly founded by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC) on Saturday.
China will carry out research on a heavy-thrust carrier rocket in the next five years.
The first fuselage part of China's homegrown large passenger jet, the C919, was put into production on Thursday in Nanchang, capital of East China's Jiangxi province.
A white paper published on Thursday said that China has made innovative achievements and breakthroughs in major space projects, and space technology has been upgraded remarkably.