Manufacturing

Robots dance during the opening ceremony of the 2011 China Robot Competition in Lanzhou, capital of Northwest China's Gansu province, Aug 23, 2011.

FAW's new energy cars, namely Besturn plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and Besturn EV, debut in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 22, 2011. The two types of new energy vehicles were self-designed by FAW, China's leading carmaker, since 2009.

Major Chinese automaker First Automobile Works (FAW) on Monday launched the first batch of its independently-developed new energy vehicles.

The first 20 new-energy vehicles include the company's Besturn plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and pure electric vehicles (EV).

Xu Jianyi, FAW chairman, said FAW will stick to the strategy of developing both hybrid and electric-fueled vehicles in the future.

China CNR Corp Ltd (CNR) will recall 54 high-speed trains used on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway over safety concerns, the company said in a statement released on Friday.

The Shanghai-listed train manufacturer said in the statement posted on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's website that it has asked the Ministry of Railways for approval to recall 54 of its high-speed CRH 380BL trains.

The Beijing-based company previously decided to suspend the delivery of its CRH 380BL trains, as the company has stated that the trains have flaws in their automatic braking systems.

The trains were assembled by the company's two subsidiaries, Changchun Railway Vehicles Co Ltd in northeast China's Jilin Province and Tangshan Railway Vehicle Co Ltd in north China's Hebei Province.

China launched a communications satellite PAKSAT-1R for Pakistan at 0:15 am Friday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province.

The satellite was carried by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the launch center. It is China's first in-orbit delivery to Asian customers and also the first commercial satellite export to international users this year.

According to statistics from the control center, the satellite successfully separated from its carrier rocket and entered geostationary transfer orbit as scheduled, 26 minutes after being launched.