CHINA DAILY HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, July 11, 2018 CHINA 5 Cutting-edge chip Free screening New moves at light speed security By ZHOU WENTING “Even if we keep updating scanner in Shanghai conventional electronic chips, [email protected] it’s like replacing ox carts with trucks. But now we have a ready for A test production line is solution more like airplanes, expected to be completed this which have obvious advanta- year following Chinese break- ges in distance and speed,” airports throughs in the development said Yu. of a new type of computer chip “Individual end users will By ZHAO LEI — one that replaces electrons also notice big changes in their [email protected] with light, making it incompa- electronic gadgets — faster rably faster than current computers and mobile China Aerospace Science chips. phones, and less time to down- and Industry Corp, the The production line will put load movies,” he said. country’s largest missile China among a handful of The Shanghai research maker, developed what countries in the world capable team said fewer than 10 com- engineers say is the most of manufacturing integral sili- panies in the world are cur- advanced security screening con photonics chips, which rently capable of producing instrument in the nation — will clear the bottleneck creat- such chips, and all are based in the so-called 3D millimeter ed by the physical limits of the United States. Some Euro- wave scanner. conventional chips, according pean countries, Singapore and The scanner, designed to scientists in Shanghai who Japan are also racing to mas- and built by the Beijing made the breakthroughs. ter the techniques. Huahang Radio Measure- Preliminary testing con- “But it’s not too late for Chi- ment Institute under CAS- firms that the research group na to catch up,” Yu said. “We’re IC’s Third Academy, is the has mastered the means to trying to build a library of A doctor from Beijing looks at a scan of a young patient in Jone county in Gannan Tibet autonomous prefecture, Gansu province, on “smartest and most capa- make the chips, and orders are devices, the most basic units in Monday. About 200 medical experts from the across China visited several counties in the prefecture to provide free clinical services, ble” of all security scanners coming in domestically and a chip. So whatever order we including screening for echinococcosis, a parasitic disease that has been afflicting pastoral areas for a long time in western China. in China, according to the from abroad, the group’s lead- receive, we’ll find a solution HAO YI / FOR CHINA DAILY institute, which specializes er said. through some combination of in radar and photoelectric “Our long-term goal is to the units.” equipment. help domestic enterprises stop The Shanghai Municipal Several countries includ- relying on imports,” said Yu Science and Technology Com- ing the United States, the Mingbin, leader of the mission said research on the United Kingdom and Japan research group at the Shang- chips became a major city-lev- have already adopted simi- hai Institute of Microsystems el science and technology lar wave scanners for air- and Information Technology project last year. The city Red alert issued for port security checks. under the Chinese Academy of wants to be a world-class base The device is a whole- Sciences. “And the global mar- for the novel technology, with body imaging device that ket also has big potential the joint efforts of domestic uses a form of electromag- demand for our product.” enterprises, universities and netic radiation to detect The chips are seen as partic- research institutes. objects concealed beneath a ularly useful in fields relating Gan Pin, deputy director of super typhoon Maria person’s clothing. to information transmission, the commission, said the city’s Zhao Yinghai, chief such as smartphones, comput- ultimate goal is to establish at designer of the product, said ers, autonomous vehicles and least 20 enterprises that would Storm expected to pass Taiwan, that compared with the ultra high-definition TV. Proc- be responsible for the whole metal detectors widely essing speeds are dramatically industry chain of the new hit mainland early on Wednesday employed at government improved while energy con- chips, from design to manu- buildings, public venues sumption is reduced. facturing and testing. China’s meteorological ior engineer at the National and security checkpoints at authority has issued its first Meteorological Center. airports and railway sta- red alert of the year for a Qian said the storm is mov- tions, the new scanner offers typhoon on Tuesday morn- ing fast, at about 30 km/h, faster response times and In the mood ing, with super typhoon bringing heavy rainfall in higher accuracy with much Maria expected to hit Fujian southeastern Zhejiang prov- less manpower needed. and Zhejiang provinces with ince, central and northern The scanner is capable of heavy rains and powerful Fujian province and central detecting as many as 89 winds on Wednesday. Jiangxi province. dangerous or risky items Maria, packing winds of up “The public in the affected Waves crash against the shoreline of Wenling, Zhejiang province, within 1 second, including to 216 kilometers per hour, is areas should stay indoors all on Monday, as super typhoon Maria approaches. Huge waves those “invisible” to existing likely to breeze past Taiwan the time because it could turn developed in coastal areas of Shitang township. body-screening devices and lash the coastal areas of from mild weather to torrents JIN YUNGUO / FOR CHINA DAILY such as corrosive or flam- the southeastern Chinese of rain and intense winds in a mable liquids. mainland on Wednesday short span of one to two xi provinces, urging local gov- torical record, resulting in high The device has a 95 per- morning, especially between hours,” Qian said. ernments to stock emergency risk of natural disasters such as cent accuracy rate, meaning Xiapu and Fuqing in Fujian Maria is expected to arrive resources and examine flooding and landslides. most security personnel will province, the China Meteoro- in Jiangxi province on potential risks. The Sichuan flood control be released from time-con- logical Administration said. Wednesday evening and The meteorological admin- authority launched a Level III suming hand searches. The It is the eighth typhoon of gradually weaken to a tropi- istration also warned that emergency response to flood- scanner will greatly boost the year and the first one to cal depression at around 8 am heavy downpours in the Si- ing on Monday evening. The security checkpoints’ effi- trigger a red alert — the high- on Thursday. chuan Basin, southeastern last time a flood control order ciency while being more Visitors feel “personality” and “emotion” through color as they est in China’s four-tier alert The State Flood Control Gansu province and south- of this level was activated in convenient for passengers, learn what materials are associated with different temperatures at system for severe weather. and Drought Relief Head- western Shaanxi province, Sichuan province was July Zhang said, noting it is safe the Shanghai Nature History Museum. The display of 21st century After Maria formed on July quarters has dispatched four will continue on Tuesday and 2013, when major floods left for use on humans. materials opened on Monday. Different types of new materials are 4 in the Pacific Ocean, it teams to guide flood control Wednesday, with some 58 people dead and another “Its radiation on a human showcased in five topic display areas, and visitors can experience a strengthened to super typhoon work — followed by the Min- regions getting precipitation 175 missing. body is one thousandth that range of sensations. FANG ZHE / XINHUA status within 33 hours, signifi- istry of Emergency Manage- of up to 35 centimeters. of a mobile phone signal — cantly faster than average, ment, which sent three teams The amount of rain in these Wang Xiaoyu contributed to so it’s basically radiation- according to Qian Qifeng, sen- to Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiang- regions is up to double the his- this story. free,” he said. “Its safety has been examined and certi- fied by national authorities, and all related information Known reserves of is available to the public.” Elderly woman caught running off with Hu Lin, one of the scan- ner’s designers, said that minerals up sharply even if a passenger carries a experimental corn; others questioned dangerous item smaller By YANG WANLI than a 1-jiao coin, it will be [email protected] instantly detected and dis- 77 By ZHANG ZHIHAO suspects — female residents played on the scanner. China’s known mineral and in Beijing between the ages of 60 and 80 The culprits are old so they As for privacy concerns, energy reserves have grown billion yuan and FENG ZHIWEI — have been questioned. Hu said the scanner shows a significantly over the past five in Changsha “The culprits are old so may not be familiar with laws human figure on the display years, the Ministry of Natural was invested in mineral they may not be familiar with at the checkpoint rather Resources said on Monday. exploration last year. After a crop of test corn val- laws or the significance of the or the significance of the scientific than an actual image of pas- Many new deposits of major ued at 10 million yuan ($1.5 scientific fieldwork,” Liu said. fieldwork.” senger’s body. In a separate strategic minerals — including million) was stolen from “Farmers are a vulnerable control room, security gold, natural gas, shale gas, Four big shale gas fields Hunan Agricultural Universi- group in our society, and we Liu Qiding, head of Hunan Agricultural University’s examiners will be able to see flake graphite and tungsten — were discovered in the Si- ty, the head of the school’s hope this incident will have a publicity department the actual image but the were discovered from 2012 to chuan Basin in Southwest Chi- publicity department said on silver lining,” he said.