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Chinese Icebreaker Completes Unprecedented Arctic Voyage A Chinese icebreaker navigated the Arctic’s Northeast Passage in August, marking the first such voyage by a Chinese vessel and opening an Arctic route connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic for future Chinese science expeditions. In completing the voyage, the icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon,     

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正Construction of Largest Hydropower Station in Tibetan Areas Starts To tap rich water resources in the country’s southwest,China has commenced building the largest hydropower station in its Tibetan areas to date.With a total investment of RMB 66.4 billion,Lianghekou Hydropower Station,which straddles the Yalong River in Sichuan’s Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,has an installed generating capacity of three million kilowatts,and a total reservoir capacity of10.767 billion cubic meters.The fi rst generator is expected     

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正China’s Supercomputer Helps Construct"Smart Cities"Developers of China’s Tianhe-1A,one of the world’s fastest supercomputers,are tapping into the digital brain’s higher functions,moving it beyond animation and Internet financing to help in the construction of new"smart cities."The Tianhe-1A can digitize the planning,design,construction,     

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Top Ten Sci-Tech Advances of 2013
On January 24, the Chinese Academy of Sciences （CAS） and the Chinese Academy of Engineering （CAE） unveiled their selection of the top lO domestic and international advances in science and technology of 2013.     

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正Commercial 4G Starts on December 18 China launched commercial4G mobile communications services on December 18,bringing the most advanced telecommunications technology to the country’s more than one billion mobile users.China Mobile,the country’s biggest mobile operator with over 700 million users,started4G services on that date with a new brand He,meaning     

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正16th Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting Concludes The 16th three-party talks between the environmental ministers of China,South Korea and Japan was held in Daegu,South Korea,from April 28 to 29.The participants exchanged views on their progress of environmental protec-     

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China Sets up First Highest-level Biosafety Lab China completed its first biosafety level-4(BSL-4)laboratory on January 31 after more than a decade of construction.The lab,based in Wuhan,capital city of Hubei Province,is used to study dangerous and exotic pathogens that pose a high individual risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections.Its completion     

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China Tests World’sFastest Alpine Railway China in October show-cased the world’s first high-speed alpine rail line, which traverses the country’s three northeastern provinces.A test train departed from Harbin West Station in the capital of Heilongjiang Province and traveled to Da-lian, a port city in Liaoning     

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Launch of China’s First Underwater Engineering Ship China’s first 3,000-meter deepwater multi-function engineering ship Offshore Oil286 went into operation on December 28,2014.It has greatly improved the country’s deep-sea resource exploration capacity and core oceaneering competence.Huangpu Wenchong Ship-building Co.,Ltd.of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation built the ship with an investment of more than RMB1 billion.The ship is 141 meters