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Science & Tech
The Chinese Academy of Sciences is at once a national research organisation, an honorific learned society and a university system, and on most quantitative measures it is the largest scientific institution in the world.
Economy
China now produces more than a quarter of the world’s manufacturing value added, runs the largest goods trade surplus ever recorded, and holds a commanding share of global output in industries as different as steel, ships, solar modules, batteries and industrial robots.
History
By the early spring of 1368 the Red Turban armies of Zhu Yuanzhang had been besieging Khanbaliq, the great Mongol capital on the road from Shangdu to the southern territories, for the better part of a year.
History
In the spring of 808 AD an obscure Taoist alchemist named Sun Simiao sat in his laboratory on Mount Taibai and wrote down the recipe for a mixture he called huo yao, which translates literally as ‘fire medicine’.
History
The wokou also have a particular place in the modern Chinese historical imagination.
History
On the morning of 30 April 1661 a thick mist lay over the sandbar of Tayouan, off the south-west coast of Taiwan, where the Dutch East India Company kept its fortress and its trading town.
Science & Tech
In the spring of 2024, a small group of engineers at the Shanghai AI Lab and at DeepSeek-AI released, in open-source form, a distributed-training library that they called DualPipe.
Science & Tech
In the late summer of 2018, in a quiet clean room at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, a small group of Chinese photonic chip researchers gathered around a single optical bench.
Science & Tech
In the autumn of 2016, in a small conference room in the Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone, in the central Chinese province of Hubei, a small group of semiconductor industry engineers gathered around a single legal document.
Science & Tech
In the late summer of 2016, in a small conference room in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, in the western suburbs of Beijing, a small group of computer science researchers and a small group of venture capital investors gathered around a single legal document.
Science & Tech
On a winter afternoon in late November 2020, in a small conference room in the Zhongguancun district of Beijing, a small group of senior engineers gathered around a single printed circuit board.
Science & Tech
In the autumn of 1978, in the small auditorium of the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, in the western suburbs of Beijing, a young computer science faculty member named Xu Xiangshan delivered a lecture that was, in many respects, the first lecture on artificial intelligence ever delivered in the People’s Republic of China.
