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'Nature' journal appreciates China's achievements in science



*'Nature' journal appreciates China's achievements in science*

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Photo taken on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 shows the screen at the Beijing
Aerospace Control Center showing the two Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng
(L) and Chen Dong waving hands in the space lab Tiangong II. [Photo/Xinhua]


British scientific journal 'Nature' has noted China's achievements in
aerospace, genetic engineering, and climate change in a report released on
Friday regarding science events that shaped the year 2016, reports Xinhua
News Agency.

The journal lists a series of achievements China made in the aerospace
sector while the US, Europe, and Japan suffered errors and failures in
several space missions.

China launched the world's first quantum satellite in August and powerful
new heavy-lift rocket Long March 5 in November. Its Five-hundred-meter
Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest radio
telescope, was put into use in September.

It also highlights the two Chinese astronauts who spent one month aboard
the Tiangong II space laboratory, in China's longest manned mission in
October and November.

In genetic engineering, a patient with lung cancer at a hospital in China
became the first person in the world to be treated with cells edited using
CRISPR-Cas9, reports the journal, saying more application of the
genome-editing tool is expected in the US and China next year.

In addition, research teams in China, as well as the UK and Sweden, have
announced their intentions to use the CRISPR-Cas9 technology to optimize
the use of embryos and to study human development, says the report.

The journal also recognizes the positive role of China in the
implementation of the Paris Agreement. China signed the international
climate agreement on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2016, and its top legislature
ratified the agreement in September. The agreement, forged in Paris in
December 2015 by representatives from 195 countries, came into force last
month.

Other science events that shaped the year, as listed by Nature, include the
announcement in February that researchers had detected gravitational waves,
the outbreak of Zika virus and the following research, the artificial
intelligence AlphaGo beating world-class human player Lee Sedol at the
ancient game of Go, the development of assisted-reproduction techniques
that mix DNA from three people, as well as the influence of politics and
economic events on science.

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The world's largest radio telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture
Spherical Telescope (FAST), is put into use on Sept 25, 2016, in a
mountainous region in Pingtang County of Southwest China's Guizhou
province. [Photo/Xinhua]

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China launches the world's first quantum satellite on top of a Long
March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan,
Northwest China's Gansu province, Aug 16, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]



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China's brand-new heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-5 blasts off from
Wenchang Space Launch center in South China's Hainan province, Nov 3, 2016.
[Photo/Xinhua]