Three mainland Chinese scientists have won this year’s Future Science Prize for breakthroughs in molecular mechanisms, porous materials and arithmetic geometry, as China’s first privately funded award recognising scientific achievement returned to Hong Kong for a fourth consecutive year. Hosting the annual event multiple times underscored Hong Kong’s growing role as an international hub for…
Chen Liquan wins the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in Beijing on July 8, 2026, for his pioneering contributions to lithium-ion battery research and its industrialization. (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY） Lithium battery pioneer Chen Liquan and radar expert Ben De won the national top sci-tech award for 2025 on Wednesday. They received the State…
Since US President Donald Trump launched a tariff war against China during his first term in office, Washington has steadily expanded restrictions on Chinese access to advanced technologies, targeting semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, aerospace systems, supercomputers and a broad range of dual-use technologies. These export controls are aimed at slowing China’s rise in…
Image Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences. China may be leading the solid-state battery race on paper, but its own industry analysts are warning that the advantage is not guaranteed to last. The country currently holds one of the world’s largest research pipelines and patent portfolios in the sector. Solid-state batteries are viewed as a breakthrough…
Scientists in China have achieved a major milestone in clean energy generation. According to Interesting Engineering, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have built the world’s first working thorium molten salt reactor (MSR). The big breakthrough came when they successfully loaded fresh fuel into the working reactor. Up to this point, uranium has been…
China’s “in-orbit factory” has taken shape following a technological breakthrough in the form of an inflatable, reconfigurable space module, as it joins the United States and other countries to build large-scale industrial production lines in orbit. According to the developers, components of this smart morphing framework can be compactly folded during launch and inflated and…
Scientists in China have solved a 140-year-old chemistry problem in a breakthrough that could overturn traditional production methods and slash the cost of cancer treatments and other expensive medicinal compounds. The research was co-led by Zhang Xiaheng, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, and Xue Xiaosong, a professor with the…
In a one-of-a-kind experiment, China’s latest space mission included four unusual passengers – two male and two female mice – joining a new crew of three astronauts to the Tiangong space station in orbit. Selected from more than 300 candidates after 60 days of specialized training, the rodents are part of a biological experiment to…
The recent return to China of cancer researcher and professor Wang Qianben marks the reunion of a family of high-achieving Chinese scientists and the culmination of a decades-long journey for Wang Qi, a renowned traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) researcher in Beijing. In the 1970s, Wang Qi bestowed upon his two sons names laden with ambition…
China’s top counter-espionage agency has accused the United States of conducting cyberattacks against the country’s national time centre, which it said could have had a severe impact on the orderly functioning of society. In a social media post on Sunday, the Ministry of State Security said the US National Security Agency was behind a number…