A Scientist's Biography discloses China's Strategic Laser Weapon Project

World has known China's anti-satellite missile test in 2007. Besides the kinetic kill vehicles, however, China has been finding directed energy weapons, such as laser, to play a significant role in outer space competition since 1980s. But few opened information can be available to evaluate China's Energy Weapon Development. And some western analysts just surf via Google Earth to discover some strange facilities in China then estimate the pace of...

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China opposed to US listing Taobao as market for piracy

China is "greatly concerned and strongly opposed" to the United States' listing of Taobao, the country's largest consumer e-commerce website, as a notorious market for piracy, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday.Last month, the United States kept Alibaba Group's Taobao unit on the United States Trade Representative's (USTR) November notorious markets list for offering a wide range of copyright infringing products. "When...

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Sunway BlueLight supercomputer in operation

The Chinese Sunway BlueLight supercomputer, which was built with domestically produced microprocessors and is capable of performing around one-thousand-trillion calculations per second, has officially gone into operation at the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in east China's city of Jinan, the center said Thursday. The computer was installed in September 2011 and underwent a three-month-long trial operation period before going into official...

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Ziyuan III satellite sends back images

The Ziyuan III satellite has sent back its first set of visual data days after the orbiter was successfully launched on January 9 to produce high-resolution imagery for civilian use. According to a statement released Thursday by the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, the administration has made hi-res imagery based on analysis of the data and posted it on tianditu.cn, a map website made by the administration with...

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