Chinese scientists have established a quantum entanglement between particles 1200 kilometres apart, smashing the previous world record of 143 kilometres. In early 2016, China announced a successful transmission of “entangled” photon pairs from space to the Earth, which proves that quantum entanglement exists at a large distance. The result is a stepping stone to ultrasecure communication networks and, eventually, a […]
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Twilight in Wuxi, an ancient city by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the longest and the oldest surviving manmade river in the world. The Grand Canal was constructed during the Sui Dynasty (581 – 618) by connecting numerous ancient waterways between the South Song capital and the second Ming capital via Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai. Until the 20th century, about 70 per […]
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On February 25, 2019, Huawei unveiled its foldable 5G phone with the largest extended screen in the world, which can be folded into a slim 6.6-inch smartphone and when unfolded it becomes an 8-inch tablet. Huawei Is Ready for 5G Solution Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled by the end of 2018 the world’s first “5G solution-ready” commercial 7nm (nanometre) chipset Kirin 980 […]
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This earthen pot was excavated in 1956 in Dongzhuang Village in Shaanxi Province and found to be a product of Neolithic Period. It measures 11.8cm in height, with a pair of round holes in the body on opposite sides and an extra small opening in the bottom. For more than a decade since it was unearthed, no one knew what […]
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In 2014, a group of 1,500-year-old state-owned huge grain storages were unearthed in Luoyang, Henan province. The 700 storages were found to be built during the Sui Dynasty (581-619), by then Luoyang was Chinese capital and Henan. The grains stored in the warehouses would be released during the times of crises, such as feminine due to natural disaster or social […]
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Shanghai museum houses tens of thousands of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors, but only four that has a “semi-transparent” quality, and this is one of them. An Over 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Mirror that Is Semi-Transparent The mirror, unearthed from a West Han (206 BC – 24 AD) tomb, weights 50 g and measures 7.4 cm in diameter. If you hold it against […]
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The World’s Tallest Outdoor Elevator in Hunan – Bailong Elevator in Zhangjiajie Geopark took 3 years to complete from 1999 to 2002. The total height of the elevator measures 326 metres, and it takes 2 minutes to travel from the bottom to the top. COMMENTS FROM GOOGLE PLUS Toán Nguyễn: For the purpose of travel, the construction of such an […]
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Majiabang Culture (马家浜文化) existed during the so-called Neolithic Age at the mouth of the Yangtze River, primarily around Lake Tai, in the area between Changzhou in southern Jiangsu and Hangzhou in northern Zhejiang, centred with Jiaxing, 100 km from Shanghai. Its existence was previously unknown until 1959 during a government-organised archaeological study at village Majiabang in Jiaxing. The unearthed items from […]
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China’s First One-Step Modeling 3D Printed Bridge The bridge made with polymer materials was printed on a 3D printer in one step process and installed in a Shanghai park on Friday, January 11, 2018. It took 35 days to get the entire bridged printed out and is expected to last for 30 years. One-step multi-material 3D printed designs have no […]
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The Great Wall was mainly built during the time of the First Emperor Qin more than 2,000 years ago. By then it was just a clay structure. The Great Wall we see today was largely restructured during the early Ming Dynasty in the late 14 and the early 15th centuries, with special brick making and mortar producing techniques not fully […]
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Ancient Chinese Bronze Casting Technology A Money Tree Grow for 2,000 Years This is a 2,000-year-old Chinese money tree true to its name, as each of its bronze leaf is in the shape of a coin. The tree was discovered in 1990 from an East Han tomb set up in a cave on a cliff face in Sichuan Province. This […]
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Traditionally, the pace of Chinese people’s life was rhythemed by the 24 Solar Terms, which divide each lunar month into 2 segments based on the sun’s movement. Chinese farmers schedule their farming work according to these seasonal turning points. It is a great invention that has ensured people in China are adequately fed and Chinese civilisation is able to continue and upgrade for thousands of years. […]
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