China’s biggest 2024 science advances are shaping future of healthcare, chips, space race
From a brain-inspired vision chip to an ice core time machine, these were the most important breakthroughs last year, according to top experts
As China and the United States go head-to-head in the arenas of science and technology, some of China’s top scientists have rated the most significant advances of 2024 that have helped push the country to the forefront of several fields – from space and deep-sea exploration to chips and quantum technologies.
On January 22 in Nanjing, leading scientists and engineers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) announced the nation’s top 10 achievements from last year.
Sun Peijie, a professor at the CAS Institute of Physics in Beijing, whose own research made the list, said the tabulations were decided directly by experts from the two academies and were evaluations of the previous year’s scientific achievements, designations that carry much weight in China’s scientific community.
These are the 10 most important scientific advancements in China last year, as judged by the nation’s leading scientific minds.