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Beijing’s draft budget announcement shows it is positioning frontiers such as satellite internet as China’s future industries. Photo: Xinhua

China boosts science budget: is it listening to everything Elon Musk says?

Beijing says greater allocation reflects importance of science and tech self-reliance in driving China’s economy and its rivalry with the US.

5 Mar 2026 - 7:44PMvideocam

Why China’s anti-corruption push in academia is key to its science and tech aims

5 Mar 2026 - 6:50AMvideocam

‘Two sessions’, two paths: China prioritises AI integration amid US tech rivalry

5 Mar 2026 - 12:51AMvideocam

China team’s space laser breakthrough takes communication speeds to high orbit

Experiment sustains uninterrupted high-speed data transmission between satellite and Earth for more than three hours, team reports.

4 Mar 2026 - 9:30PMvideocam

The laser communication ground station at the Gaomeigu Observatory in Yunnan province, southwest China where the experiment was conducted. Photo: Handout

75% cost cut: China unveils world’s first fixed-wing drone made of bamboo fibre

Material also holds potential for new energy vehicles, marine equipment, satellites and spacecraft.

4 Mar 2026 - 5:57PMvideocam

Manufacturing talent boom? Why China’s smartest students are factory-bound

Some of the country’s brightest minds enter traditional industrial sectors as manufacturing loses its blue-collar stigma.

5 Mar 2026 - 3:55AMvideocam

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China team mulls hitting typhoons with an energy beam from space

Scientist Duan Baoyan says the Zhuri project could also act as a ‘space-based power bank’ to charge satellites and other facilities.

3 Mar 2026 - 5:00PMvideocam

Duan Baoyan theorises that microwave beams from outer space could “alter regional atmospheric circulation and change a typhoon’s intensity and path”. Photo: Shutterstock

What cost foreign prestige? China says no to some Western science journal fees

Chinese researchers will no longer be reimbursed for paper publication charges in Nature Communications, among other titles.

2 Mar 2026 - 3:15PMvideocam

Why Chinese team’s flexible organic battery could revolutionise wearables

Innovative material defies temperature extremes while offering efficient and stable performance in potential leap from lab to reality.

1 Mar 2026 - 2:00PMvideocam

Chinese gene-editing technique raises prospect of new autism treatments

Lab tests on mice given the treatment showed considerable cognitive and behavioural functions, new study says.

28 Feb 2026 - 12:00PMvideocam

The scientists used a new gene-editing tool to correct the mutation in mice. Photo: Shutterstock

Chinese scientists may have found battery that could double EVs’ range

Study says new type of lithium battery technology may offer a solution to the current ceiling on performance.

27 Feb 2026 - 9:00PMvideocam

Lithium batteries are essential for electric vehicles, but so far efforts to improve their performance have hit a ceiling. Photo: STR/ AFP

When did our ancient ancestor Homo erectus first arrive in China out of Africa?

Researchers push back the timeline for their arrival by 600,000 years, raising new questions about how the species spread around the globe.

27 Feb 2026 - 3:53PMvideocam

‘Father of graphene’ Andre Geim leaves Britain for chair professorship at HKU

British Nobel laureate who has kept close ties with Chinese researchers says he is drawn to Hong Kong’s distinctive East-West synergy.

26 Feb 2026 - 10:18PMvideocam

China team unveils 3D printing leap, creates solid structure in under 1 second

Showing broad applicability, researchers use biocompatible materials to make helical tubes and branched structures mimicking blood vessels.

26 Feb 2026 - 2:11PMvideocam

Traditional 3D technologies rely on mechanical scanning by a printing nozzle to build objects layer by layer over minutes or even hours. Photo: Shutterstock

Suicide lawsuit against China-born scientist Jane Wu’s US university to proceed

County judge says the family’s key claims are strong enough for the case to continue.

25 Feb 2026 - 9:41PMvideocam

The legal battle over the death of Chinese-American neuroscientist Jane Wu will move to a more substantive phase after a court ruling on Tuesday, with the next hearing set for mid-May. Photo: Handout

SCMP Highlights

EU’s tech ban; China’s mysterious Nantianmen project: 7 science highlights

From a leading biologist leaving US for China to a semiconductor breakthrough, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

25 Feb 2026 - 3:30PM

Smaller, faster, smarter: Chinese transistor ready for future AI chips

Breakthrough said to overcome long-standing limitations of traditional ferroelectric transistors, ‘paving way for large-scale application’.

25 Feb 2026 - 6:19AMvideocam

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World-leading EV motor expert joins Hong Kong PolyU after 38 years in Britain

Permanent magnets scientist Zhu Ziqiang is continuing his globally renowned research in his new role.

24 Feb 2026 - 2:00PMvideocam

Zhu Ziqiang, who has joined Hong Kong Polytechnic University as chair professor of electrical machines and control systems. Photo: Handout

Nearly all advanced nations are part of a defence pact. Will China try to join?

International regime controls defence tech exports but a push for self-reliance has seen Chinese weaponry surpass that of Western nations.

24 Feb 2026 - 9:44AMvideocam

Smells like popcorn: Chinese scientists’ gene-edited tomato offers aroma tweak

By silencing two genes with CRISPR/Cas9 tool, Chinese team creates a tomato with a surprisingly sweet scent.

23 Feb 2026 - 3:42PMvideocam

Chen Mo – the man behind Heroes of Jin Yong – on AI and making a blockbuster game

Creator of new incarnation of martial arts epic says connection to the game is more than commercial – it is personal.

22 Feb 2026 - 12:00PMvideocam

A still from the upcoming martial arts title, Heroes of Jin Yong, which is on track to be the most expensive video game ever made in China. Photo: Handout

EU bans Chinese organisations from critical tech programmes, including AI, chips

Chinese space scientist Wu Ji doubts the policy will hurt China much and may instead ‘make Europe appear more isolated’.

21 Feb 2026 - 9:31PMvideocam

The EU has barred most organisations based in China from applying for its Horizon Europe grants in “critical areas”. Image: Shutterstock

How China’s Yangtze River fishing ban is also helping finless porpoise recover

Restoration and sustainable aquaculture project held up as model for other major river systems such as the Mekong and Amazon.

21 Feb 2026 - 12:00PMvideocam

Chinese scientists create new battery with electrolyte as safe as tofu brine

Moving beyond flammable lithium-ion batteries, Chinese scientists have developed a long-lasting battery that uses a non-toxic electrolyte.

21 Feb 2026 - 11:15AMvideocam

Chinese researchers achieve ‘slow motion’ in quantum chaos for better data

Researchers have controlled a temporary stable phase in the system, offering a possible avenue for preserving quantum information.

20 Feb 2026 - 4:32PM

Liu Zhenghe of the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences is part of the team that recently observed a prethermal plateau in a 78-qubit quantum processor. Photo: Xinhua

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