(July 12): China s first batch of rice seeds that traveled 23 days in space on the Chang e-5 lunar probe in November 2020 have begun yielding grain, which experts said will enrich China s grain varieties and safeguard the country s food security, and also lay grounds for future manned deep-space explorations to the moon, Mars and other celestial bodies,
Global Times reported.
After over four months of growth, the dropping ears of the 2,000 space rice plants at the space breeding research center of the South China Agricultural University in South China s Guangdong Province promise a fruitful harvest, as researchers bagged the seeds that are each 1 centimeter long into three large parcels,
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China’s J-10C fighter aircraft with indigenous WS-10 Taihang engines have entered operational service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).
Images released by China National TV from a PLAAF live shooting exercise at an unspecified location show J-10C ‘Vigorous Dragons’ with distinctive WS-10B Taihang turbofan engine exhaust nozzles, marking the first time that the WS-10 has been officially seen in an operational J-10.