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Top ten 2003 sci-tech news of China, world unveiled

The top ten scientific and technological developments of China and the world, voted out by 582 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, were unveiled in Beijing on January 12.


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The top ten scientific and technological developments of China and the world, voted out by 582 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, were unveiled in Beijing on January 12.

The top ten domestic sci-tech news are: China successfully completed its first manned space flight; Chinese scientists uncovered the molecular secrets of high rice production and notched a breakthrough in the research of super hybrid rice; the country achieved great stage-results in the research of SARS; breakthrough made in surface nanocrystallization of metal and nano cluster; Shanghai built the world first commercial Maglev demonstration line and successfully put it into operation; the Yangtze River was successfully dammed and the Three Gorges permanent ship lock opened to navigation, and the first-batch generator began to work; the University of Science and Technology of China made great progress in the field of quantum communication experiment by working out a server processing 100 trillion-level data; breakthrough made in the research of controlled thermonuclear fusion; China found fissile of a four-winged dinosaur.

The top ten world sci-tech news are: scientists developed the world smallest nano generator; the World Health Organization formally confirmed the SARS virus; scientist from many countries decoded the No. 14, 7, 6 and Y chromosomes of human being; scientists for the first time measured the velocity of gravitation; the world first chip brain-repairing came out; Europe and America successfully launched a Mars exploration rover; a series of major breakthroughs were made in stem cells research; Japan worked out basic circuit of quantum computer; and scientists found direct evidence to the existence of dark energy.

By People's Daily Online


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