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Rubbed the Private firm right way Wearing traditional Chinese hanfu, students from Port land, Oregon, get a taste on Tuesday of the printing technique of rubbing, often planning first used in wood engravings known as nianhua, or new year paintings. During their threeday trip to Suzhou, Jiangsu province, the stu dents learned about Chinese orbital launch culture through painting, pottery, tea art and Kunqu Opera. Stateowned enterprises moving over HUA XUEGEN / FOR CHINA DAILY to allow competition in space market
By ZHAO LEI [email protected] 200 1,000 kilometers Private enterprises play an impor Range of altitudes at which the tant role in almost every facet of the OSM carrier rocket is able to Chinese economy, and now they have place satellites into orbit begun to march into a topnotch field long dominated by Stateowned companies — the space industry. have also verified the launch The duopoly of Stateowned giants sequence, ground control and track China Aerospace Science and Tech ing procedures, he added. nology Corp and China Aerospace Established by Shu Chang, who Science and Industry Corp remains has been dubbed China’s Elon Musk, unchallenged because they are in con and several companions in 2015, BeijingZhangjiakou bullet line gets powered up trol of the most essential part of the OneSpace Technology has carried out space business — the carrier rockets. two successful suborbital launches of By WANG KEJU project for the 2022 Beijing Winter station, and open and close its The laying of track for the rail However, private players appear to be its OSX sounding rocket and has [email protected] Olympic Games — will be the world’s doors, said Jiang Ming, deputy chief way is expected to be completed in very close to breaking the duopoly. received huge amounts of investment first intelligent, highspeed railway engineer of China Railway Signal the first half of this year, and trial In the latest attempt from the pri from the capital market. The compa Construction is underway on the on which automatically operated and Communication Corporation. operations and adjustments to the vate sector, OneSpace Technology, a ny aims to thrive in the burgeoning electrical facilities for the Beijing trains reach speeds of 350 km/h, the The train is equipped with sever line will be launched in the second space startup based in Beijing, commercial space market in China. Zhangjiakou highspeed railway, corporation said. al thousand sensors, which allow half. announced on Tuesday that it has Since the beginning of China’s which will have the world’s first The automatic operation of bul automatic inspection at any time to After the 174kilometer line goes finished the construction and test space industry, the research and automatically driven trains run let trains in coordination with the ensure safe operation. into operation by the end of this ing of its first carrier rocket, the development of carrier rockets has ning at speeds of up to 350 kilome Beidou Navigation Satellite System The train is also designed with an year, the trip between the two cities OSM, and is ready to transport it to been tightly held by Stateowned ters per hour. — the first time it has been applied area to store snowboards, a device will be shortened to 50 minutes, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center enterprises. The first 1,300meter overhead to trains — was tested on a section to secure wheelchairs and a mobile from three hours or more at in northwestern China for the mod However, in the wake of private wire for the railway is now being set of the BeijingShenyang line from news center where passengers can present. el’s debut mission in late March. firms’ rise in the global space up, and smart devices will be ena July to September and passed all watch live Olympic broadcasts. The line will also connect with the If the mission is successful, OSM sphere, the Chinese government has bled throughout the power supply safety tests. A variety of intelligent robots will ZhangjiakouHohhot highspeed will become the first carrier rocket realized that it is necessary to intro system to ensure operational safety, Using the system, the train can also be used at highspeed rail sta railway, cutting travel time from designed and built by a private Chi duce new players to stimulate inno China Railway Corporation said on automatically start, run between tions to guide passengers and help Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autono nese company to fulfill an orbital vation and competition and to fill Monday. stations, adjust its timing according them carry their baggage, China mous region, to Beijing to three launch. gaps in the market left by State The new line — an important to the schedule, accurately stop at a Railway Corporation added. hours, down from nine. In October, LandSpace, another owned contractors. private space company based in Bei President Xi Jinping has instruct jing, launched a carrier rocket, the ed the nation’s longinsulated space first of its ZQ 1 series, at the Jiuquan industry to open its doors to private center, aiming to complete an orbit participants and take advantage of Icebreaker returns home al mission. However, the rocket, their participation to boost sustain which carried a small satellite, failed able growth. to reach orbit due to mechanical Several government departments early after hitting iceberg malfunctions. have published policies and guide OneSpace said in a statement on lines that encourage private enter By CAO CHEN in Shanghai bution of phytoplankton in the Tuesday that OSM is a type of solid prises to take part in spacerelated [email protected] eastern Amundsen Sea area was propellant rocket with four stages. It businesses. As a result, nearly 10 pri preliminarily proved through the is 19 meters long and weighs 20 met vate rocket firms have come into The Chinese icebreaker Xuelong, first application of a trace metal ric tons when loaded with fuel and existence in China over the past carrying the 349 members of Chi sampling method developed by satellites. The booster is able to three years. OneSpace, iSpace and na’s 35th research mission to Ant China. place satellites into orbit at altitudes LandSpace, all based in Beijing, arctica, returned to Shanghai safely At Changcheng station, scien ranging from 200 to 1,000 kilome have become leading firms when it on Tuesday, about a month earlier tists conducted ecological environ ters above the earth. comes to research and production than originally scheduled due to a ment monitoring, glacier Zhang Jie, chief designer of OSM, capabilities, as well as funding. collision with an iceberg. monitoring and regular meteoro said engineers have examined and LandSpace and iSpace have also Despite the Jan 19 collision in the logical observation projects. Seis Sun Bo, leader of icebreaker Xuelong’s expedition team, walks tested the compatibility and stabili announced that they want to make at Amundsen Sea, the crew managed mic stations there have been down the ship’s stairs after its return to Shanghai. DONG JUN / XINHUA ty of equipment mounted on the least one launch of their carrier rock to carry out comprehensive upgraded, and a radar sealevel rocket and the launchpad. They ets, but have yet to publish a schedule. research at five stations, including observation system has been con The construction of Taishan station area since the start of 2019 has Changcheng, Zhongshan and Tai structed, the administration said. was also completed during the greatly increased the number of shan, aerial geophysical remote Nearly 200 kilograms of samples expedition. floating ice fragments, while in 2018 sensing observation in the south of soil, water, animal and plant Xuelong left Shanghai on Nov 2 the area was a single large ice sheet, east polar ice cap, and marine sur specimens and other materials, and arrived at Zhongshan Station Chen said. The floating ice drifted veys in the Amundsen Sea. were collected at Changcheng sta on Nov 30. The icebreaker entered to the north, pushed by the wind, “Our team obtained valuable tion. Scientists also established the the Amundsen Sea in early January which also affected navigation on data and samples on the expedi country’s first polar region sodium for a marine survey but experienced Xuelong’s trip home, he added. tion, and filled the scientific gaps in fluorescence laser Doppler radar “the worst sea conditions since The collision broke the ship’s the investigation of the Amundsen room at Zhongshan station. During departure”, according to an earlier mast and left about 250 metric tons Sea area,” said Li Yuhong, an assist its trial run, about 51 hours of valid report by China Ocean News. of snow and ice on its front deck. ant researcher from No 3 Marine data and 2.5 GB of original data On Jan 19, the ship was caught in The rest of the ship was undamaged. Institute of the Department of Nat were collected. a sudden thick fog on the Amund The difficult ice conditions and ural Resources, who joined the The research team also complet sen Sea and collided with an ice active cyclones in the Amundsen 35th expedition. ed its first test drilling without a berg, Cheng Xiao, dean of the Sea have vexed Chinese explorers Scientists discovered the possi drill pipe core in polar ice bedrock, College of Global Change and Earth for decades. It was not until March ble presence of krill breeding which helped the scientists obtain System Science at Beijing Normal that China’s 34th expedition suc An OSM carrier rocket in its assembly workshop. grounds around Peter I Island in the first few samples of bedrock University, told Xinhua. cessfully completed the first PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY the Amundsen Sea area. The distri under the ice cores at the station. An increase of cyclones in the marine survey of the sea. Afforestation projects succeed in greening up China US should not feel uneasy
By LI HONGYANG As part of the plan to build a tares of natural grassland Area affor ested in China over Chinese 5G technology [email protected] “Beautiful China”, the country has accounting for 41.7 percent of the Unit: hectare vowed to increase its forest coverage country’s land. Protection and resto By MO JINGXI ing the participation of Huawei or 2018 7.1 million China has witnessed remarkable to 26 percent by 2035. ration of grassland resources will be [email protected] other Chinese equipment vendors growth of tree coverage with the To fulfill the target, Zhang said strengthened, Zhang said. in the 5G project would mean the implementation of afforestation China should maintain the pace of Measures to be taken include 2017 7.3 million Washington should admit that US won’t be able to maintain the projects, a senior forestry official afforestation — about 6.7 million finding out the entire picture of every country has a justified right same level of cooperation with said on Tuesday, National Tree hectares of trees newly planted each grassland resources, assessing cur 2016 6.8 million to develop and most countries can German security agencies. Planting Day. year — while implementing strict rent policies, and drafting a guide make their own choices independ Lu said that some people in the 2015 6.3 million The forest coverage rate in China protection of forestry resources. line on how to strengthen grassland ently, a Foreign Ministry spokes US should not count on any other has increased by nearly 10 percent However, he said that the low sur protection and restoration, he said. man said on Monday. country catering to Washington’s 2014 6 million age points in the past four decades, vival rate of trees remains a challenge As for national parks, Zhang said “More and more people have self interest or political calculations with the world’s largest planted for for afforestation, and the administra that after the central authorities Source: National A orestation Committee shown an increasingly just atti by sacrificing their own reasonable CHINA DAILY ests and an 80 percent expansion of tion is determined to tackle this released an overall plan for intro tude toward Chinese technology development rights and interests. forest areas, said Zhang Jianlong, problem in the coming years. ducing a national park mechanism, companies’ participation in 5G According to Reuters, Altmaier head of the National Forestry and “To maintain a high survival rate, the administration drafted a layout form a unified management system network construction. The United said earlier that Germany did not Grassland Administration. most of the effort should go toward of national parks and standards for by 2020. States should not feel uneasy about want to ban Huawei, but would The green coverage rate in rural keeping plants in a healthy state their protection. China’s achievement in afforesta this,” ministry spokesman Lu Kang change its laws to ensure all com areas has reached 20 percent, while rather than simply planting trees,” Illegal projects have been gradu tion was recognized in a study by told a news conference in Beijing. ponents used in the 5G networks in urban areas it has hit 37.9 percent. he said. “Also, species should be ally eliminated to protect natural the United States’ space agency His remarks came after Richard are secure. According to a report released by planted with the right techniques in reserves. So far, more than 100 ille NASA published last month. It said Grenell, US ambassador to Ger Grenell, who assumed his cur the National Afforestation Commit inhospitable places.” gal mining projects have been with China and India are leading the many, explicitly warned in a letter rent post as ambassador in May, tee on Tuesday, 7.1 million hectares The administration will also pro drawn from Mount Qilian National increase in greenery globally — with to German Economy Minister caused a stir in Germany with a of trees were planted and 6.7 million mote the ecological restoration of Park, one of the country’s 10 pilot China alone accounting for a quar Peter Altmaier dated Friday that series of threats, including warn hectares of degraded grassland grasslands and push forward the national parks, Zhang said. ter of the global net increase in leafy the country faces consequences if ing of significant sanctions risk to were treated last year. Per capita establishment of pilot national Under a plan released in 2017, area despite having only 6.6 percent Huawei participates in its 5G German companies participating greenery coverage in urban areas parks. China aims to set up a batch of of the world’s vegetated area. infrastructure. in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a was 14.1 square meters in 2018, up China is rich in grassland resour national parks covering about According to The Wall Street joint project between Germany by 0.6 square meters yearonyear. ces — with nearly 400 million hec 200,000 square kilometers, and to Xinhua contributed to this story. Journal, Grenell wrote that allow and Russia.