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BEIJING, China (AFP)— China on Friday reported no new local cases of the deadly coronavirus for a second straight day, but its progress against the disease was confronted by another increase in imported infections. The country’s drop in cases offers a ray of hope for the rest of the world as a slew of other nations go into lockdown in an effort to emulate China’s tactic against the disease. The number of deaths in China has […]
CHANGSHU, China (Reuters) — The 2017 China Intelligent Vehicle Future Challenge opened Saturday in Changshu City of east China’s Jiangsu Province, attracting 25 teams from famous universities, scientific research institutions and companies nationwide. After various competitions in nine consecutive years, the annual event has become the highest-level competition for driverless intelligent vehicles with the largest number of competing teams in China. The competitors this year are required to finish a road test and an off-line […]
SHANGHAI / SUQIAN, Jiangsu Province, China (Reuters) — Bright red, grey and black, they are the robot postmen of the future, and are controlled from a command center 40 kilometers (25 miles) away by e-commerce giant JD.com. Online retailers Alibaba, JD.com and S.F. Express have been investing in drone programs they hope will one day perform so-called last-mile deliveries, especially in hard to reach rural areas. Others, like delivery firm BEST Inc, have begun testing […]
NANTONG, China (Reuters) — China launched Asia’s largest cutter suction dredger on Friday at the port of Nantong, east China’s Jiangsu Province, marking a big stride forward in the country’s building of dredgers. The dredger, “Tiankun”, is 140 meters long and 27.8 meters wide. It can smash underwater rocks, suck out sand, water and squirt to as far as 15 km at a speed of 6,000 cubic meters per hour, equivalent to three standard swimming […]
