Manufacturing

China’s 37th manned space mission, Shenzhou-21, blasted off at 11:44 pm Fridayfrom the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, marking a pivotal moment in the nation’s space station era. The spacecraft, carrying three taikonauts, successfully docked with the Tiangong Space Station’s forward portin 3.5 hours—a groundbreaking achievement that sets a new record for crewed missions and underscores China’s mastery of autonomous rendezvous technology .

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China has achieved a significant breakthrough in developing key materials for controlled nuclear fusion, a crucial component of the country's "artificial sun" project, researchers at the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences told the Global Times on Tuesday.

Recently, a research team led by Professor Rong Lijian at the institute developed a domestically innovated purification technology that broke through the technical bottleneck in metallic substrates for second-generation high-temperature superconducting tapes used in controlled nuclear fusion. The team successfully achieved the industrial-scale production of high-purity, ton-level Hastelloy (C276) metallic substrates, according to a statement that the team sent to the Global Times.

A joint research team in China has developed a new method that, for the first time, has enabled a key type of advanced perovskite solar cell to surpass the 30 percent efficiency threshold.

The groundbreaking research, led by Tan Hairen, a professor at Nanjing University, and Chang Chao, a professor at the National Sciences Institute of Innovation, was published on the Nature website on Tuesday, Beijing time.