Astronomy Themed Town of Pingtang - China

Astronomy Themed Town of Pingtang - China

A staff member gestures while guiding tourists to experience extended reality (XR) at an XR immersive experience center in Kedu Town of Pingtang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, February 18, 2025. In 2007, Pingtang County launched a relocation program that involved 6,653 rural residents from Kedu and Tangbian townships. The program was implemented in order to prepare for the construction of the FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope), also known as the "China Sky Eye." Located in a naturally deep and round karst depression in Guizhou, FAST was completed in 2016 and started formal operations in 2020. Kedu Township started a plan to transform itself into an astronomy-themed town from September 2015, taking advantage of its proximity to the FAST. Many relocated rural residents have found jobs or started their own businesses in the town. Today's Kedu Town is full of sense of science, technology and future with landmarks such as experience planetarium, time tower, interstellar commu

US Forces Shoot Down Houthi Missiles And Drones

US Forces Shoot Down Houthi Missiles And Drones

Handout photo dated May 18, 2014 shows n F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Sunliners of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81 launches from the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the Pacific Ocean. On Tuesday, U.S. fighter jets and a warship shot down an onslaught of missiles and attack drones in the southern Red Sea over a 10-hour period, military officials said. The downed weapons included a dozen one-way attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two land attack cruise missiles. “U.S. assets, to include the USS Laboon and F/A-18 Super Hornets from the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, shot them down,” said U.S. Central Command, the Pentagon’s top combatant command in the Middle East. “There was no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries.” It wasn’t clear exactly what the drones and missiles were targeting, but U.S. forces in the region have carried out a number of “self-defense strikes” and shot down other drones and rockets in recent months. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Commu

Xinhua research report sheds light on China's approach to humanomics

STORY: Xinhua research report sheds light on China's approach to humanomics SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 3, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:55 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 5th World Media Summit STORYLINE: Xinhua News Agency on Sunday unveiled a research report during the ongoing 5th World Media Summit, shedding light on China's practice of a new development format that underscores the symbiotic relationship between humanities and economy. The report, titled "The Humanomics in the New Era," was released by New China Research (NCR), the think tank under Xinhua, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Structured into seven parts, it offers an overview of China's new development format focusing on a people-centered approach and the integrated development of culture and economy in the process of advancing Chinese modernization. Addressing the report launch ceremony, Fu Hua, president of Xinhua and chairman of the academic committee of NCR, said that the Commu

Foreign volunteers help fight COVID-19 in E China's Fuzhou

STORY: Foreign volunteers help fight COVID-19 in E China's Fuzhou DATELINE: Nov. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:19 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of volunteers in Fuzhou's Tangbian community 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ALADDIN COLAK, Volunteer in Fuzhou's Tangbian community 3. various of a nucleic acid sampling point 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): STASI, Volunteer in Fuzhou's Tangbian community 5. various of people lining up for nucleic acid tests 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ALADDIN COLAK, Volunteer in Fuzhou's Tangbian community 7. entrance to the community STORYLINE: In Fuzhou City, capital of east China's Fujian Province, two foreigners join a local community's fight against COVID-19 by doing volunteer work. Turkish businessman Aladdin Colak came to China 27 years ago and has been running a Turkish restaurant in Fuzhou. He considers Fuzhou as his second home and is eager to offer help whenever the city needs him. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ALADDIN COLAK, Volunteer in Fuzhou's Tangbian commu

A flagship project between China and Laos | Stories shared by Xi Jinping

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Osaka Univ. develops new talking robots

Osaka Univ. develops new talking robots

New talking robots CommU (front L) and Sota (front R) developed by scientists at Osaka University engage in conversation with a Japan Science and Technology Agency staff member (far L) at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo