The city is already home to several major scientific projects, including the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility and the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, which is key to a nuclear fusion reactor. The EAST program is key to both the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor project and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project.

Chinese scientists are working on a survey to measure the depth of a major lake in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, sources with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Tuesday. This is the first time for Chinese scientists to conduct a comprehensive measurement of the depth contours of the lake.

An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost and hand-powered water disinfection system based on triboelectric nanogenerator technology. In the new study, researchers from Tsinghua University, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States proposed the concept of TriboPump, including a water pump, a disinfection device and a disk triboelectric nanogenerator (D-TENG) as the power source.

Chinese authorities have made public a work plan to strengthen mathematical science research. The plan was jointly made by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation.

Chinese researchers from the Kunming Institute of Botany have called for promoting industrial production of fungi to benefit people and they have reviewed 50 ways in which fungi can potentially be utilized as biotechnology, according to a new study paper.

Deep within the Taklimakan Desert, known by locals as the "Sea of Death", grows a unique type of shrub with reddish stems, small pink flowers and feathery, pale green foliage. Legend says the plant germinated from the blood of a young warrior who ventured into the desert to slay the drought demon.

Chinese scientists will conduct the second-phase clinical trial of a new drug to treat lupus, an autoimmune disease, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said. The new drug SM934 is a water-soluble artemisinin derivative developed by researchers with the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica under the CAS. It has been patent protected.

After helping scientists complete many significant experiments such as growing rice and vegetables in space, observing the strongest explosions in the universe and setting up the most precise clock in space, China's first space lab Tiangong-2 ended its mission and reentered the atmosphere under control Friday night (Beijing Time).

Chinese scientists have recently identified a new species of a flying squirrel genus, the rarest and most wanted rodent in the world. The study published in ZooKeys described the specimen unexpectedly found in the collections of the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

China, in collaboration with several countries, is now at the forefront of lunar exploration. In an article, researchers laid out what the China Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) has accomplished since their launch in 2007 and their plans into the next three decades.

Researchers from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tufts University in the United States developed a type of biodegradable synthetic lipid nanoparticle to deliver CRISPR/Cas9. The nanoparticles, which are much easier to penetrate the cell, contain the messenger RNA encoding Cas9.

Chinese and Canadian scientists have developed a predictive model for hydrogen trapping and bubbling in nanovoids, which is crucial to the understanding of hydrogen-induced damage in structural materials.

The 2019 Chinese Science Education Summit was held in Beijing recently and its theme was "Make science education more scientific". Speaking at the event, Zou Caineng, an academician from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, emphasized the importance of cultivating a sense of innovation sense in kids.

The Sino-UK Joint Center for Earth and Planetary Sciences, involving the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) and the University of Leeds, has been set up in China, according to the CAS.

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology have found the remains of a nearly complete lizard preserved in the Microraptor's stomach. The lizard is distinguished from previously recognized early Cretaceous species based on its unusual teeth and bones.

Chinese researchers have discussed the remote sensing development of snow cover during an academic symposium in Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Tuesday.

A workshop with 40 world scientists opened in Beijing Thursday to enhance global study of Third Pole environmental changes. The workshop mainly focused on water resources, ecosystems and human activities in the region. Attendees from Germany, Sweden, Nepal, the United States and other countries will share their observations, address local impact and provide scientific advice to policy makers.

27 universities from throughout China formed the Planetary Science Alliance of Chinese Universities, which aims at exploring solutions for issues such as training professionals, expanding scientific frontiers, and potential development strategy for planetary science in China.