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Top hybrid rice scientist lifts hundreds of millions out of hunger globally
Yang Sheng is a chief reporter at the Global Times covering Chinese politics, diplomacy and military.
Yang Sheng, Lou Kang and Lin Xiaoyi Published: May 23, 2021 11:23 PM Updated: May 24, 2021 12:33 AM
Yuan Longping Photo: VCG
Students present flowers in front of a statue of Yuan Longping at Southwest University in southwest China s Chongqing on Sunday. Yuan, renowned for developing the first hybrid rice strain that relieved countless people of hunger, died of organ failure at 91 on Saturday. Yuan graduated from the Southwest Agricultural College (now the Southwest University) in 1953. Photo: cnsphoto
China s CH-6 armed reconnaissance UAV development breaks cover
21 April 2021
by Kelvin Wong
Chinese defence prime China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is developing a new medium/high-altitude, long-endurance (MALE/HALE) armed reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the CH-6 (Cai Hong 6, or Rainbow-6), industry sources have confirmed with
Janes.
A commemorative model of the yet unannounced CH-6 UAV was observed in a 19 April posting by CASC’s China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics – also known as the 11th Academy – on its official Wechat account, in which CAAA president Hu Meixiao and secretary Wang Xianyu were seen presenting the model to Hunan Provincial Committee secretary and Hunan Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee director Xu Dazhe during an official visit to the provincial capital of Changsha on 16 March.
A report on China s poverty relief experience and its global implications has stirred heated discussions at the ongoing two sessions, as national lawmakers and political advisors explore ways to consolidate the country s poverty reduction accomplishments.
The report Chinese Poverty Alleviation Studies: A Political Economy Perspective released in February by New China Research, the think tank of Xinhua News Agency, offered fresh insights into poverty reduction for many other countries, and will be beneficial for guiding China s rural vitalization drive, lawmakers and political advisors said.
China s poverty reduction practices have gone beyond existing theories in textbooks, said Li Yuncai, a national political advisor and vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of Jiusan Society, one of the eight non-Communist political parties on the Chinese mainland.