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October 2026

Painted illustration of the EAST superconducting tokamak in Hefei, a tall steel cylinder ringed with access ports and beam lines, inside its experimental hall

Science & Tech

China’s Race to Bottle the Sun

On the outskirts of Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, a large circular pit has been filling up with machinery. In October 2025 engineers lowered a 400-tonne steel base into it.

September 2026

Painted illustration of the COMAC C919 airliner, white with a blue and green livery, climbing away from the runway at Shanghai Pudong on its first flight

Science & Tech

The Airport That Came Before the Aircraft

At two o’clock on the afternoon of 5 May 2017, runway four at Shanghai Pudong went quiet in the particular way a busy airport goes quiet when everyone has agreed to look at one aeroplane.

Painted illustration of the white Shanghai Maglev train gliding along its elevated concrete guideway over fields and canals

Science & Tech

Shanghai’s Maglev and the Future That Stalled

Step off Line 2 of the Shanghai Metro at Longyang Road and you reach the platform of one of the strangest railways in the world. The train waiting there has no wheels touching a rail and no engine on board.

Painted illustration of an empty university AI research lab at dawn, with desks, a whiteboard of diagrams and server racks behind glass

Science & Tech

China Now Employs the Most Elite AI Researchers

For two decades the geography of elite artificial intelligence research was easy to describe. The most ambitious graduate students in the field, wherever they were born, tended to end up in the United States.

Painted illustration of the grey aircraft carrier Liaoning at sea with its ski-jump bow and starboard island, escorts in the distance

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How China Built the World’s Largest Navy

Ask which country has the world’s largest navy and the answer depends on what you count. Count warships by hull, and the answer since roughly the late 2010s has been China.

Painted illustration of a slim white Long March 2D rocket lifting off beside its orange launch tower in the Gobi Desert

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China’s Race to Put AI in Orbit

On 14 May 2025, a Long March 2D rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert at 12:12 Beijing time.

Painted illustration of a white high-speed train at a platform under the vast steel roof of Beijing South station in 2008

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How China Built Its Bullet Train Empire

On 1 August 2008, a week before the Beijing Olympics opened, a white train left Beijing South station for Tianjin. It covered roughly 120 km in about half an hour on a line designed for 350 km/h.

Painted illustration of the gold-foiled Chang'e-6 lander standing on the grey far side of the Moon under a black sky

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Chang’e-6 and the Far Side of the Moon

Early on 2 June 2024, Beijing time, a Chinese spacecraft landed on a flat plain of dark basalt inside a crater called Apollo, on the side of the Moon that never faces Earth.

Painted illustration of a filing dossier, a red ink pad and a stone seal beside a closed laptop on an office desk by a window

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How China Regulates AI

At six o’clock on the evening of 14 September 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) put out a short notice of the kind it now publishes every couple of months.

Painted illustration of the huge FAST radio telescope dish filling a bowl among green karst hills in Guizhou, with its receiver cabin suspended above

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Ten Years of China’s FAST Telescope

On 25 September 2016, in a remote corner of Guizhou province in south-west China, engineers switched on a radio telescope so large that it fills a natural bowl in the hills.

Painted illustration of the Fish Mouth levee at Dujiangyan splitting the Min River into two channels below misty mountains

Science & Tech

Dujiangyan Still Feeds Sichuan

Most great works of ancient engineering survive as ruins. Dujiangyan is different.

Painted illustration of fresh sweet wormwood steeping in a porcelain bowl of cold water beside an old book and laboratory glassware

Science & Tech

The 1,700-Year-Old Recipe That Won a Nobel Prize

On the evening of December 10, 2015, in the blue and gold concert hall in Stockholm, an eighty-four-year-old Chinese woman in a dark suit walked across the stage to accept the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.