Amajor problem in China's present transportation sector is the lack of major roads connecting two or more cities that can meet the needs of regional economic development.

Supercomputers making our future

2011-12-30 08:51

When the Tianhe-1 supercomputer was ranked No 1 in the world last year, it suddenly and greatly raised the profile of supercomputing in China. This year, with the announcement of the Sunway Blue Light, which uses domestic processors, in Jinan, there are three petaflop-level supercomputers in China including Tianhe-1 in Tianjin and Nebulae in Shenzhen. It is clear that China's computer science and computational science is making great progress.

Getting ready for challenges of space

2011-12-30 08:51

With the successful completion of the Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace mission, China showed the world that it had accomplished a major milestone in space technology by mastering the sophisticated interdisciplinary knowledge in building, delivering and sustaining a near-orbit complex space infrastructure.

A message from robots: it's our turn

2011-12-30 08:51

An upsurge of workers who are replaced by robots is now a hot topic in the Pearl River Delta region, with Foxconn being one of the most prominent examples. Foxconn, one of the largest OEM (original equipment manufacture) companies in the electronic assembling industry in China, has been heavily hit by labor issues over the past few years. To improve productivity and product quality it has declared it will introduce 1 million robots over the next three years to replace some of its workers.

The bridges that hold nations together

2011-12-30 08:51

To promote balanced economic development and improve a country's overall national strength, many countries have begun to build cross-sea bridges. China is no exception.

Comac gaining ground on aircraft

2011-12-30 08:51

Company president says C919 gives nation new chance to innovate

The promise of tunnel vision

2011-12-30 08:51

Wuhan, like many other cities in China, has a view of the future that is to some extent tunnel-visioned. The city of 9 million people in Central China has just published an ambitious plan: every year from 2012 to 2017 it will build a new subway line. At the end of 2017, the new subway system will stretch over 215 kilometers.

Unlocking the secrets of the sea

2011-12-30 07:40

Between July 1 and Aug 18, this year, China's first independently designed manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong conducted five diving expeditions across three sea trials in the Eastern Pacific.

Like a breath of fresh air

2011-12-30 07:40

Earlier this year, I traveled to Guangzhou to celebrate the completed Guangzhou Opera House design.

The high-rise future is here now

2011-12-30 07:40

Building of the 606-meter-high Wuhan Greenland Center, in the business district of Wuchang in Wuhan, Hubei province, started just over a year ago, and when it is finished it will be China's second-tallest building. The project's total construction area is about 3 million square meters and the cost is 30 billion yuan ($4.7 billion, 3.6 billion euros). The complex will include five-star hotels, A-grade office buildings, luxury apartments and shops.

A Christmas chill

2011-12-16 08:57

Chinese manufacturers are reliant on the festive buying season search for new ways to ward off economic woes in the West.

Reaping greener pastures

2011-12-16 11:02

any Chinese exporters might be reeling from the economic chill in the West this Christmas, but demand for some US products is fueling a bumper season on this side of the Pacific.

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