Initiated in 2008, the ‘Pujiang Innovation Forum’ is annually jointly organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the Municipal Government of Shanghai. Current chair is Mr. Xu Guanhua, the former minister of MOST, member of the Standing Committee of CPPCC, director of the Education, Science, Culture, Healthcare and Sports Subcommittee, and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. …
Delft students win international solid state lighting award
Consul-General Ms. Anne Luwema and some of the TU Delft students next to their winning entry in the ISA Global Student Contest. ‘Helios’ consists of a total of 9216 LEDs and is described by the students as ‘enormous and awesome’. More about Helios at helios3d.nl. Today a team of students from the Delft University Technology has been awarded the first …
Applikon Biotechnology establishes demo lab in Guangzhou
On November 1, Dutch company Applikon Biotechnology held a ceremony at the South China University of Technology (SCUT) to inaugurate its joint demonstration lab in the School of Biological Science and Engineering. The company has donated two sets of highly innovative mini fermenters and two of the latest RAM resonance acoustic mixers to further improve to provide a higher quality …
Chinese Research Developed New Nano Lithium Titanate Material
A research team from Fudan University led by Prof. Xia Yongyao successfully developed new nano lithium titanate material of high electronic conductivity for better and safer lithium-ion batteries. Combination of solid-phase synthesis techniques and carbon-coating technology is applied in this research. The new lithium-ion battery can be used for storage of large scale energy from, for example, solar and wind. …
Ministry of Science and Technology issued plan for China’s cloud computing industry
Last week, Ministry of Science and Technology issued its 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) for China’s cloud computing industry. The Plan aims at the establishment of China’s cloud computing technology system and standards and breakthroughs in key technologies by 2015 in cloud computing equipment, core software and supporting platforms. It also foresees R&D of cloud computing systems and solutions and expects …
China’s top 20 internet companies
Below is a list of China’s top 20 internet companies, ranked by total reached users in the first half of 2012. The research was based on long-term monitoring for 400,000 network behavior samples. Table made by NOST, data from iResearch
Why isn’t there a Mark Zuckerberg in China?
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, founder of Innovation Works and previously founding president of Google China, gives his thoughts on this question in his blog on CaiJing. He makes the case that the Chinese education system is more focused on depth rather than breadth. Chinese students might excel at math and engineering, they often need many years after their study to become …
World University Rankings: Netherlands and China rising
The Times Higher Education (THE) posted this interesting graph on the 2012-13 World University Rankings website. Source: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk The graph is showing an outstanding performance of the Netherlands, both in terms of the number of institutions in the top 200, as well as in terms of average change in rank per university. There are now 12 Dutch institutions in the …
Chinese researcher granted European Gene Patent
‘Encoding chicken type II collagen (CCOL2A1) full-length gene and its application” was recently granted the “European Gene Patent” by the European Patent Office. This gene patent was invented by Professor Xi Yongzhi from China’s 307 Military Hospital. It will be China’s first internationally recognized European gene patent with high potential in its application in gene drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis. …
Vice-minister Buijink visits Huawei in Shanghai
Today vice-minister Buijink visited Huawei in Shanghai. He had a meeting with mr. Zhang, Senior vice president of Huawei. The topics that they spoke about were among others experiences from Huawei in the Netherlands, the Dutch High-Tech knowledge and the cooperation and possible expansion with ACE. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services …