China launched a group of internet satellites into orbit late on Tuesday night, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the leading State-owned space contractor. The satellites, part of the 18th group of low-orbit hardware in China’s State-owned internet network, were lifted by a Long March 8A carrier rocket that blasted off at 11:25 pm from the Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Center, a coastal spaceport in Wenchang city, and soon reached their orbital positions, CASC said in a news release. The satellites were designed and made by the…
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The ongoing Dutch restrictions against Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia risk causing “multi-layered and irreversible” real-world damage to the stability of semiconductor supply chains in Europe and globally, deputy chief of a chip industry association has warned in an exclusive interview with the Global Times. The comments from Wei Shaojun, vice chairman of the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA), came in response to the Netherlands placing Nexperia under special administrative measures over so-called security concerns. The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs revealed on October 12, 2025 that it had invoked the 1952…
Chinese A-share tech stocks extended last week’s rally on Monday, with more than half of the sector rising in early trading and seven stocks posting gains of more than 5 percent. On Sunday, Bloomberg described China’s market performance by “another key element of investing in Asia tech.” Earnings growth for a gauge of China’s tech megacaps is poised for a major inflection point in 2026 when it’s expected to overtake Magnificent 7 for the first time since 2022, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. As enthusiasm for the nation’s tech sector picked…
China’s top aircraft manufacturer, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), on Wednesday announced that it had hosted first flights of the new year for the J-35 carrier-based stealth fighter jet among other types of aircraft, accompanied by photos and a video. An expert said the move demonstrated China’s confidence in its warplane production capabilities. AVIC revealed in Weibo posts on Wednesday that a J-35 conducted its maiden flight of the new year on Tuesday at the AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Corporation in Shenyang, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province. The J-35 carrier-based…
HEFEI — Researchers have identified a method to surpass the plasma density limit in experiments with the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), known as the “artificial sun,” providing a crucial physical basis for high-density operation in magnetic confinement fusion devices. This research was conducted collaboratively by the institute of plasma physics at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Aix-Marseille University in France, among other institutions. The findings were published in the journal Science Advances on Friday. A…
China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Friday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a group of internet satellites into space. The rocket lifted off at 7:26 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. It successfully placed the payloads, the 17th group of low-orbit internet satellites, into preset orbit.
Recent studies have found the existence of vast, hitherto unknown reservoirs of primordial water thousands of kilometers below the Earth’s surface, which could offer clues to understanding the process of the planet’s evolution. While simulating the extreme high-temperature and high-pressure conditions that exist 660 kilometers underground, researchers discovered that the main mineral of the Earth’s mantle — bridgmanite — possessed significant water-retention capacity even at temperatures of up to 4,100 C. The Earth’s mantle is the thick, semi-solid layer of hot, dense rock that lies between the crust and the…
United States President Donald Trump’s decision to conditionally approve exports of Nvidia’s advanced H200 artificial-intelligence semiconductors to China has drawn wide attention. But while the move reflects the eased bilateral trade tensions, two realities remain unchanged: China is an indispensable market for global AI-chipmakers, and Washington’s high-tech export controls on China remain firmly in place. China is one of the world’s largest and most competitive AI markets. For Nvidia — whose revenues were unavoidably hit this year after sales of its H20 chips to China were restricted by the US…
The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, over 5,000 nautical miles across, protects the West Coast of the United States against Chinese naval forces in the event of a war. The appearance of new extra-extra-large underwater drones (XXLUUVs) changes this, providing China with low-risk options to directly threaten West Coast ports. For decades American strategy in East Asia, focused on a potential conflict with China, have viewed the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean as both a challenge and an advantage. While the distances involved make logistics harder (known as…
China’s State-owned defense contractors are known for their expertise in ultrafast weapons such as the DF-17 and the YJ-21. Now, a private sector firm has stepped into this cutting-edge sector, developing a system that can launch a missile with a top speed of Mach 7. Lingkong Tianxing Technology, a Beijing-based aerospace company, announced earlier this week that it has developed a hypersonic missile system — the YKJ-1000. According to the company, the YKJ-1000 missile consists of two parts — a booster rocket and a hypersonic glide vehicle, which is equipped…