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China plans to measure the soil of the moon
Aug. 10, 2007 - China plans to measure
every inch of the soil of the moon in its planned lunar probe program,
said Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of the program.By measuring the soil
of the moon we can figure out the exact amount of helium-3, a resource
for nuclear fusion, said Ouyang.(Click
the title for full story.)
- China has 162 mln Internet users
The number of Internet users in China hit
an estimated 162 million by the end of June, with nearly 100 people a
minute going online for the first time, the China Internet Network
Information Centre (CNNIC) announced on Wednesday.
An estimated 122 million Chinese have broadband access to the Internet,
according to the 20th statistical report on China's Internet development
issued by the CNNIC on Wednesday.
One in every four Chinese Internet users, or 44.3 million, accesses the
Internet by phone, largely due to lower mobile charges and about one
third of users access the Internet primarily by wireless devices.
With Internet penetration rate reaching 12.3 percent, China had around
9.18 million domain names, including 6.15 million ending with "cn".
The number of Internet portals stood at 1.31 million, of which the
number of "cn" names grew at 137.5 percent annually to 810,000,
exceeding the number of ".com" names for the first time.
About 67.1 million computers in China are connected to the Internet, up
by 7.7 million in the first six months.
The CNNIC, the country's Internet statistics collector, defines an
"Internet user" for the purposes of the report as someone over the age
of six who uses the Internet on average at least one hour per week.
Since 1997, the CNNIC has been updating figures on the country's
Internet development through automatic Internet searches, surveys by
on-line affiliate networks and telephone sampling. (Source: Xinhua)
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China launches "Compass"
navigation satellite
Xinhua, April 14, 2007 - China on early Saturday morning launched a
navigation satellite, part of the country's "Compass" navigational
system, which is expected to provide services to customers all over
China and neighboring countries by 2008. The carrier rocket, Long
March 3-A, blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in
southwest China's Sichuan Province at 4:11 a.m., and sources with the
center said that the satellite had "accurately" entered its orbit, at
the height of 21,500 km. (Click
for full coverage.)
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China to launch lunar
probe this year
Xinhua News, May 21, 2007 - Beijing- China was "losing no time" in
preparing its first lunar orbiter, Chang'e I, which will most likely
be launched in the second half of 2007, a space official said here
on Sunday. "The moon probe project is the third milestone in China's
space technology after satellite and manned spacecraft projects, and
a first step for us in exploring deep space," said Sun Laiyan, chief
of the China National Space Administration. (Click
for full report.)
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