Science - Technology
As U.S. cuts back, China aims to be top at science
China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the United States and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said Friday. After being the world's main source of cheap manufactured goods, China is investing heavily in science and technology.
"China hopes to become one of the leading sources of intellectual property in coming years," said Denis Simon, a professor at Penn StateUniversity who is also the science and technology adviser to the mayor of the Chinese city of Dalian.
At a time when the United States and Europe are hamstrung by shrinking budgets, China has increased spending on science and technology "significantly," Simon said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Feb 18, 2011
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"China is ue do launch its first space laboratory, Tiangong -1. The 10.5m-long cylindrical module will be unmanned for the time being, but the country's astronauts, or yuhangyuans, are expected to visit it next year.
Tiangong-1 will demonstrate the critical technologies needed by China to build a fully-fledged space station - something it has promised to do at the end of the decade. The space lab is set to ride to orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.
State media say the lift-off from the Jiuanquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert is likely to occur between 21:16 and 21:31 local time (13:16-13:31 GMT). Meteorologists report that weather conditions should be good. The Long March will put Tiangong in a near-circular path around the Earth, just a few hundred km above the surface. It will operate in an autonomous mode, monitored from ground. Then, in a few weeks' time, China will launch another unmanned spacecraft, Shenshou 8, and try to link the pair together.
This rendezvous and docking capability is prerequisite if larger structures are ever to be assembled in orbit. Commentators say Russian technology, or a close copy of it, will be used to bring the two craft into line. Assuming the venture goes well, two manned missions ( Shenshyou 9 and 10) should follow in 2012" "
September 29, 2011 The BBC News reported
CHINA 'TO OVERTAKE US ON SCIENCE' IN TWO YEARS
March 29, 2011 BBC News reports: “China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 - far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK's national science academy. The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback.
An analysis of published research - one of the key measures of scientific effort - reveals an 'especially striking' rise by Chinese science. The study, Knowledge, Networks and Nations, charts the challenge to the traditional dominance of the United States, Europe and Japan.
The figures are based on the papers published in recognized international journals listed by the Scopus service of the publishers Elsevier…”
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"ALL THINGS CHINA"
CHINA'S CHANG' E-3 TO LAND ON MOON NEXT YEAR
November 12, 2012 MoonDaily.com (Beijing, XNA) reported: "China will launch its latest lunar satellite in the second half of next year, the Chang' E-3, paving the way for future manned moon landing, a senior space industry official said on Saturday. Ma Xingrui, general manager of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said the mission will see the lunar exploration orbiter's first ever soft-landin on the moon.
Ma said the Chang'E-3 would probe and explore the lunar surface, and carry out various environmental and space technology related tests. It will spend 15 days on the moon to lay the foundations of what he called, further deep space exploration.
China launched Chang'E-1 in 2007 and Chang'E2 in 2010. The first retrieved lunar data and carried out an initial mapping of the surface, while the second created a full high-resolution map of the moon and high-definition images of the lunar landscape. After its samplin of the moon's surface, the Chang'E-3 is expected to be retrieved in 2017, according to reports."
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