Month: September 2023

The researchers based their findings on the China global Merged Surface Temperature data set, which they developed using global land surface air temperature data from 1850 to 2023. The data set integrated new findings from several countries and regions over the past decade. 02:32 July 2023 expected to be world’s hottest month in recorded history July 2023 expected to be world’s hottest month in recorded history The data set showed the global average surface temperature in the first half of this year reached its third warmest since records began, behind…

China faces a growing risk of cyberattack, data leaks, disinformation and AI-driven cognitive warfare, the country’s state security chief has warned. State Security Minister Chen Yixin sounded the alarm in an article published on Tuesday in China Internet and Information, the official journal of the Cyberspace Administration of China. “Our biggest hidden risk is that our critical basic information infrastructure can be vulnerable to attack,” Chen wrote in the article “Strengthening National Security Governance in the Digital Era”. “Our finance, energy, electricity, communications and transport operation networks have become key…

China’s central bank pledged on Wednesday to provide “more powerful” policy support for the real economy and maintain a “healthy” property market, as the rebound of the country’s industrial profits provided further signs of economic stabilisation. The People’s Bank of China will “step up macro policy adjustments” and implement monetary policies in a more targeted and powerful manner to aid the recovering domestic economy, according to its third-quarter monetary policy implementation statement. “There will be a focus on expanding domestic demand, boosting confidence, speeding up a healthy economic cycle and…

Chen Shanguang, director of the China Astronaut Centre, said on CCTV: “The entire manned programme is about quality. From astronaut training to spacesuits and spacecraft, we must have zero flaws. It is not a goal. It is a starting line.” Wearing his Chinese-made Feitian spacesuit, Colonel Zhai – a 42-year-old fighter pilot – began to open the hatch at about 4.30pm. A stiff latch and hatch delayed his departure from the space module. After struggling for nearly 10 minutes, and with the help of his colleague Colonel Liu Boming ,…

Beijing has sent a welcoming message to US companies during a visit by American banker and former treasury secretary Henry Paulson, while urging Washington to expand “positive” policies and cut “negative” ones. Paulson, founder of the US-China policy think tank the Paulson Institute, was received on Tuesday by China’s Vice-President Han Zheng and top diplomat Wang Yi, with the Chinese side expressing hopes to “bring bilateral ties back on the track of sound and steady growth” with Washington. “We welcome more US companies to invest and do business in China…