A major milestone was marked in the construction of High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) when electron beams with currents higher than 10mA were successfully stored in the HEPS storage ring on August 18, 2024. This achievement signifies the completion of the accelerator complex and the start of beam commissioning.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will deepen its collaboration with its French counterpart, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), on the basis of their fruitful partnership for almost half a century, and make joint efforts on researches for global sustainable development, according to a bilateral strategic dialogue meeting of the two sides held last week in Beijing.

One among all the payloads the Chang'e-6 mission carried onboard is a laser retroreflector INRRI (INstrument for landing-Roving laser Retroreflector Investigations), jointly developed by the National Laboratory of Frascati, National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN-LNF) and the Planetary Mapping and Remote Sensing Laboratory from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) conferred certificates on Foreign Members newly elected in recent years at a ceremony held on Sunday, June 23, in Beijing, and called for joint endeavors of all Foreign Members to promote S&T innovation in order to address the common challenges facing humanity.

A three-day international symposium was held in Portugal on 6 – 8 June as part of the First Sino-Portugal Joint Laboratory for Marine and Environmental Sciences (JLMES). JLMES is the result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2020 between ISE-USJ, CBQF-UCP, IPMA, and IOCAS for developing cooperation in the areas of marine and environmental sciences and is being funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST).

The National Academy of Sciences of the United States announced on April 30 the election of 120 members and 24 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Prof. WANG Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was the only scientist from the Chinese mainland to be elected an international member this year.

Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Brazilian Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research (IPEN) signed a cooperation agreement on April 9th. The agreement focuses on expanding the The Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for the Belt and Road Regions (ANSO) Atmospheric Observation Network to Brazil.

An opening ceremony for the China-Kazakhstan Joint Laboratory for Remote Sensing Technology and Application was held in Almaty on March 27, 2024, marking the official start of the operation of the laboratory. The opening ceremony signifies the pragmatic cooperation between China and Kazakhstan. XIEG and KazNU will collaborate in scientific research, technological development, and personnel training at the laboratory, better benefiting the people in both countries.

Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, officially unveiled its latest development, a large multimodality model - CARES Copilot 1.0, tailored for the medical field, on March 11 at the Hong Kong Science Park.

Recently, the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), also known as the Chinese "artificial sun," started operation with over a hundred Chinese and foreign scientists conducting joint physics experiments on Science Island before China's Spring Festival. This is to demonstrate and address technical challenges for the international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject ITER.