Chinese researchers have found that morphological changes of an immune receptor play a key role in allergic reactions, a discovery that could provide new insights useful for the development of allergy medications. Allergic diseases, including allergic rhinitis, asthma and allergies to food and medications, affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide and have emerged as major public health issues.
An international team led by scientists with the Institute of Chemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new type of high-efficiency solar cell.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that 69.5 per cent of the autumn grain harvest had been reaped across China, 2 percentage points faster than that of the previous year.
Beijing released a blue alert for a cold wave on Thursday afternoon as the city is expected to embrace a cold wave from Friday to Sunday, with the lowest temperature dropping by over 10 degrees Celsius, according to the municipal meteorological service.
China on Wednesday sent a new Earth observation satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
China unveiled a national mid and long-term development program for space science on Tuesday, which will guide the country's planning of space science missions and space research from 2024 to 2050.
After attending three days of discussion at the 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum from Sept. 12 to 14, and spending over a week in China, it is apparent to me that neither the people of China nor the government desire confrontation with the United States.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other Party and state leaders attended a ceremony to present flower baskets to fallen heroes at Tian'anmen Square in central Beijing on Monday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday presented medals to recipients of the national medals and honorary titles, the highest state honours, ahead of the 75th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently replied to a letter from the faculty and students of the Communication University of China on the occasion of its 70th anniversary, extending congratulations and greetings to the faculty, students and alumni of the university.
China launched a Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket from the waters near the city of Haiyang in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday, placing eight satellites into planned orbit.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed cultivating more loyal, upright, responsible and high-caliber cadres for Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
China sent six new satellites into space on Friday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.
China will launch a nationwide population sample survey in 2025 to help monitor the demographic development of the country, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Some 14 million people from about five million households, or 1 per cent of the country's population, will be surveyed from Nov. 1 next year, said the NBS.
China's independently developed Zhuque-3 reusable test rocket successfully completed a 10-kilometre vertical takeoff and landing flight test at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Wednesday.