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| "Europe understands the huge potential for scientific research and is keen on working closely with nations that are important in the area of science and technology. In this regard there has been an increase in the level of research in China, as it slowly improves in standard. The EU now feels more than ever that it should further bolster its connections with China," says Clemens Smolders, lead ... |
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| China will launch a new icebreaker for use during an upcoming 2013 polar expedition, a senior oceanic official said on Tuesday. Both the new icebreaker and Xuelong ("Snow Dragon"), an icebreaker that operated in Antarctica, will form an Arctic-Antarctic maritime research team.
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| China successfully launched a new communication satellite, the Zhongxing-10, from its Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest Sichuan Province on early Tuesday. The satellite, carried by a Long March-3B rocket carrier, blasted off from the center at 0:13 a.m., said a statement from the center.
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| Chinese scientists have sequenced the complete genome of the white goose -- a first for the world -- which was likely to benefit research into poultry breeding, anti-epidemic and bird domestication. Researchers from Zhejiang Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhedong White Goose Institute in Xiangshan County of Zhejiang Province |
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| UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Thursday established a training and research center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate (ODC) in Qingdao, a coastal city in east Shandong Province. Hosted by SOA's First Institute of Oceanography, the center will take 15 to 20 trainees each year in the coming four years. |
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| China has taken stricter measures to make sure that the ongoing selection of national science and technology award recipients is conducted in a "clean and fair" way. Zou Dating, director of the National Office for Science & Technology Awards, said on Saturday that one of the office's priorities is to prevent the names of the judges sitting on the national award evaluation board from leaking. |
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