I wouldn't say it is excellent. It very much leans toward "... China bad..."
News on China's scientific and technological development.
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Maybe Not abt being weak.. Maybe just reciprocal basis, West shared some tech but not the best dual use tech to CN before..
Looks like a private start up only test flew a scaled demonstrator.
This is like 10+ years away from full sized demonstrator maiden flight and another 10+ years to certifying and serial production. Add another 20+ years on top of that passengers can trust a reliable near hypersonic commercial airliner.
From a Facebook article:
"CHINA NOW HOME TO HALF OF WORLD'S TOP SCIENCE HUBS
A single country, China, now has half of the world's top 20 leading "superstar science cities", researchers reported yesterday.
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And even China's smaller cities are beating long-established western centers of scientific excellence such as London, according to a new study by Nature, the world's top academic science journal.
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The world's number one place on the science city ranking is Beijing, with more than twice the score of any equivalent place on earth. Shanghai is in second place, with New York third and Boston fourth, the latest index shows. (Ranking is based on publication article share.)
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SCIENCE MEGA-STRUCTURES
But what's really remarkable is the placing of smaller Chinese cities, says Nature writer Jacob Dreyer. Nanjing is in fifth place and Guangzhou in eighth place—ahead of Tokyo, Paris, Seoul, and London.
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Furthermore, the Chinese are quietly making science mega-structures in places far away from the capital, he reports. This is an attempt to spread the wealth away from the richer parts of the country to areas that need economic growth--to avoid inequality leading to dissatisfaction.
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Guizhou has a Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the Kunming Institute of Botany in Yunnan houses Asia’s largest seed bank, and Xinjiang has 3.5-gigawatt solar panel field.
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Hefei, another place most westerners have never heard of, is a fascinating example, Dreyer writes. The city, capital of Anhui province, "scores higher for natural sciences in the Nature Index Science Cities list than London, Los Angeles or Chicago, and is home to the University of Science and Technology of China, the fifth ranked institution globally in the Nature Index in 2023".
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AVOIDING POPULIST ANGER
Dreyer believes that the wide geographical spread of investment is strategic. "As China faces an unequal, two-tier economy, with coastal provinces having much higher incomes than interior provinces, it has become politically essential to balance the country’s wealth, lest they experience some Chinese version of the populism that is gripping many Western societies," he writes.
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In some ways, the astonishing development of science in China is unsurprising.
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Think about it: China and the US have similar-sized economies, but the first focuses strongly on education, while the second blows a trillion US dollars a year on the military – despite the fact that there are literally no countries on earth with any plan to invade it."
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"CHINA NOW HOME TO HALF OF WORLD'S TOP SCIENCE HUBS
A single country, China, now has half of the world's top 20 leading "superstar science cities", researchers reported yesterday.
.
And even China's smaller cities are beating long-established western centers of scientific excellence such as London, according to a new study by Nature, the world's top academic science journal.
.
The world's number one place on the science city ranking is Beijing, with more than twice the score of any equivalent place on earth. Shanghai is in second place, with New York third and Boston fourth, the latest index shows. (Ranking is based on publication article share.)
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.
.
.
SCIENCE MEGA-STRUCTURES
But what's really remarkable is the placing of smaller Chinese cities, says Nature writer Jacob Dreyer. Nanjing is in fifth place and Guangzhou in eighth place—ahead of Tokyo, Paris, Seoul, and London.
.
Furthermore, the Chinese are quietly making science mega-structures in places far away from the capital, he reports. This is an attempt to spread the wealth away from the richer parts of the country to areas that need economic growth--to avoid inequality leading to dissatisfaction.
.
Guizhou has a Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the Kunming Institute of Botany in Yunnan houses Asia’s largest seed bank, and Xinjiang has 3.5-gigawatt solar panel field.
.
Hefei, another place most westerners have never heard of, is a fascinating example, Dreyer writes. The city, capital of Anhui province, "scores higher for natural sciences in the Nature Index Science Cities list than London, Los Angeles or Chicago, and is home to the University of Science and Technology of China, the fifth ranked institution globally in the Nature Index in 2023".
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.
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AVOIDING POPULIST ANGER
Dreyer believes that the wide geographical spread of investment is strategic. "As China faces an unequal, two-tier economy, with coastal provinces having much higher incomes than interior provinces, it has become politically essential to balance the country’s wealth, lest they experience some Chinese version of the populism that is gripping many Western societies," he writes.
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In some ways, the astonishing development of science in China is unsurprising.
.
Think about it: China and the US have similar-sized economies, but the first focuses strongly on education, while the second blows a trillion US dollars a year on the military – despite the fact that there are literally no countries on earth with any plan to invade it."
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This is forced technology transfer by the Europeans. They are going to steal, cheat and bluff.
China now leads the world Germany and Japan (error in the original post, HT @sunnymaxi)in Robotic density in the area of Industrial use, according to SCMP. I think this was inevitable.
And people think "over-capacity" is bad now, just you wait...
And people think "over-capacity" is bad now, just you wait...
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