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Chinese companies begin to embrace quantum technology​

  • Country’s quantum communication market predicted to be worth more than 80 billion yuan next year
  • In some cases, China ‘has already overtaken America’ in three areas of research, according to recent Harvard report
The China Academy of Railway Sciences, which sets national standards for the railway industry, had approached Wang with a plan to bring quantum communication to high-speed rail.
Wang said the academy wanted to know if quantum-based cryptography – technology that uses the laws of physics to prevent eavesdropping – could help provide affordable protection for the massive amount of infrastructure involved.
“Conventional railway communication systems are plagued with safety loopholes. A quantum security solution offers improved protection with [theoretically] unbreakable equipment and trusted repeaters,” Wang said last month.
“And the technology has become more affordable for industrial buyers as private companies in this area are committed to providing cheaper and smaller devices.”
China’s quantum communication market was worth 32 billion yuan (US$4.82 billion) in 2018 and is predicted to exceed 80 billion yuan next year, according to the Beijing-based Qianzhan Industry Research Institute.
He said major industrial users including China’s largest telecommunication service providers, power grid companies and metro operators began to express interest in XT Quantech’s products last year.
That was a significant change because, for many years, firms like XT Quantech had provided services mostly to the government.


Importance of Chinese government help
Few people at the time had heard of quantum communication technology. The equipment was mostly gadgets built for laboratory experiments, and almost nobody expected Pan and Guo’s ventures to be profitable.
But the start-ups survived, thanks to some mega projects launched by the Chinese government.
That included a 560 million yuan project to build a quantum communication line between Beijing and Shanghai which received central government backing in 2013.
It served as a proving ground for the application of many quantum devices developed by QuantumCtek and other start-ups, and the companies used it to fine-tune their products and foster talent.
XT Quantech, established much later than QuantumCtek, did not receive as much financial support as the early players, but it also participated in government projects in Shanghai and in Guangdong province, with funding ranging from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of yuan.
“I think the Chinese government here is playing an important role,” said a Singapore-based quantum scientist who requested anonymity. “The country is feeding start-ups with projects, and the strategic development of quantum technology is written in the planning of many provinces.”
A quantum physicist working in Guangdong, who also asked not to be named, said “perhaps no other country has been able to spend as much money as China to build Micius [the world’s first quantum satellite], or to build quantum networks that connect distant cities, like the Beijing-Shanghai quantum link”.
China’s achievements in quantum communication were partly due to its rapid economic development, the physicist said. Before 2018, provincial government funding for a project rarely topped 8 million yuan, but many projects since then have received as much as 65 million yuan, he added.
Local governments in China have also built incubators to attract start-ups that offer free rent and facilities, and, sometimes, funding. Guangdong, for example, has built industrial estates where scientists with innovative ideas are welcomed in cities including Zhuhai, Shenzhen and Zhaoqing.
“I have confidence, even though there will be lots of challenges ahead, because more and more talent with good training will enter the industry,” he said.
 

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Chinese rail design standards win intl approval​


By LUO WANGSHU | China Daily | Updated: 2022-07-19 22:18


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A Fuxing bullet train runs on the Lhasa-Nyingchi railway in the Tibet autonomous region on June 24, 2021. [Jiao Hongtao/For China Daily]

Two international standards for high-speed railway infrastructure design and power supply, which were mainly drafted and developed by China, have been published by the International Union of Railways, demonstrating the nation's contribution to promoting the internationalization of high-speed railway standards, national railway operator China State Railway Group said.

The International Union of Railways was founded in 1922 in France and is known by its French initials UIC. It is an international association with 210 members, aiming to promote railway transportation and cooperation globally.

The two standards are the second and third in a series of high-speed railway design and construction standards. They are the first of their kind mainly developed by China.

In November, the first standard in the series, which is about communication signals in high-speed railway design, was published by the UIC. Those standards will fill gaps in international standards.

Led by experts from China, more than 20 professionals from a dozen countries, including France, Germany, Japan and Spain, spent four years drafting the two latest standards.

The standards introduced China's design concept based on its global experience in building high-speed railways, promote China's advanced technologies, such as a system for power supply, and they provide solutions to designing and building high-speed rail globally, China State Railway Group said.

In recent years, experts from China State Railway Group have participated in drafting, revising and developing more than 60 important technical standards published by the UIC in many fields, including high-speed railways, train networks and braking systems.

China's involvement has incorporated its experiences into international standards, such as design concepts, technical equipment and maintenance. But in addition to China's experiences, the new standards have also considered technologies and needs of other countries.

"China has become a major driving force in the development of international high-speed rail standards," according to the group.

"International standards are an important technical foundation for international trade, which is crucial to promote the Belt and Road Initiative. China's railway sector has relied on the international platform to lead the drafting and revising of technical standards, improving the international influence of China's railway standards," said Huo Baoshi, chairman of UIC's Intercity and High-Speed Committee.

"China's involvement in making international standards showcases its strengths in building high-speed railways globally. It will help China's railway to 'go out'," he added.

By the end of last year, China's high-speed railway network stood at more than 40,000 kilometers, accounting for over two-thirds of the world's total high-speed rail.

China's high-speed railway system spans different geographic conditions, including icy weather, frozen soil, mountainous areas and humid coastal areas, providing abundant experience in building high-speed rail.
 

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Importance of Chinese government help

Buy Chinese telecommunications equipment, and that operator can later put a quantum communication add-on to their network. Thereby shutting the door permanently to eavesdroppers.

Heck, who are we kidding, this is to stop SIGINT and ELINT! From you know who!

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Shanghai Institute of Microsystems realizes hybrid integrated optical quantum chip based on III-V quantum dot deterministic quantum light source and CMOS compatible silicon carbide​


  Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology , Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences cooperated to realize a hybrid integrated optical quantum chip based on III-V quantum dot deterministic quantum light source and CMOS compatible silicon carbide . By designing a double-layer waveguide coupler and a 1 × 2 multimode interferometer (MMI) , the research team realized the efficient routing of deterministic single photons in a hybrid quantum photonic chip, as well as the efficient routing of deterministic single photon second-order correlation functions. On-chip experimental measurements. The related research results were recently published online in Laser & Photonics Reviews under the title of Hybrid integration of deterministic quantum dots-based single-photon sources with CMOS-compatible silicon carbide photonics .​

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