Beijing to switch from coal to gas to go green

Beijing is to take action to make its coal-fired power plants and heating facilities go green amidpublic concern over the city's poor air quality, said a government official. Zhang Gong, director of Beijing municipal development and reform commission, said&nbs...

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China ups bullet train brake test record

  China has completed the construction of a powerful test bench for a train braking system, setting a world record by allowing a maximum test speed of up to 530 kilometers per hour, a railway researcher said Sunday.   Li Heping, a political adviser and researcher with the China Academy of Railway Sciences (CARS), said that as a key technology for high-speed trains, the test bench has been put into operation at a state key laboratory...

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China starts manufacturing third lunar probe

China has begun designing and manufacturing the flight model entity of its third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, according to the administration of China's lunar probe project. As a key part of the second step of China's three-phase lunar probe projects, the Chang'e-3 mission has entered the flight mode phase from prototype phase, according to a statement from the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) on Tuesday. The third probe will carry a lunar rover and other instruments for land surveys, living...

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China aims to launch 100 satellites by 2015

China has set a target of completing a space mission of "100 rockets, 100 satellites" during the five years between 2011 and 2015, a senior space executive said Saturday. On average, China will complete about 20 launch missions each year before 2015, said Zhang Jianheng, deputy general manager of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC). "The densely arranged launch missions and flight tests have posed an unprecedented challenge to the country's space program," Zhang, a deputy to the country's top legislature, the National People's...

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Manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 to be launched

China will launch the manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year and achieve space rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, a spokesman for China's manned space program said Friday.  The new space docking mission will be realized by astronauts' manual operation, another chance for China to test its docking technology, he spokesman said. The three crew members of Shenzhou-9...

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