Top 10 sci-tech news from China in 2024 released on Tuesday

(ECNS) -- Top 10 domestic sci-tech news in 2024 was released on Tuesday by Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. They are:

China held a meeting conflating the national sci-tech conference, the national science and technology award conference, and the general assemblies of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering on June 24.

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has discovered a giant ultra-high-energy gamma-ray bubble structure in the Cygnus star-formation region. This is the first time in human history that the origin of cosmic rays with energy higher than 10 Peta-Electronvolt (PeV) has been discovered.

Chinese scientists have deciphered the genetic basis behind the formation of clustered-spikelet rice, which has been an interest of agricultural science for nearly a century.

A Chinese research team has realized the fractional quantum anomalous Hall state of photons for the first time by using an independently developed quantum experimental system.

Chinese scientists have developed the world’s first brain-inspired vision chip with two pathways that could have broad uses in autonomous vehicles and defence.

The returner of the Chang'e-6 probe touched down on Earth on June 25, bringing back the world's first samples collected from the moon's far side, marking another remarkable achievement in China's space exploration endeavors.

The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link in Guangdong Province, south China, opened on June 30. The 24-kilometer passage starts at the Shenzhen airport interchange and connects with Ma'anshan Island in Zhongshan across the Pearl River. It cuts travel between Zhongshan and Shenzhen from two hours to approximately 30 minutes.

Chinese researchers made a breakthrough in the allogeneic CAR-T therapy which can be used to treat patients with autoimmune diseases.

Chinese tech giant Huawei released HarmonyOS NEXT, its self-developed operating system built truly independent from Android and Apple's iOS.

The Meng Xiang, China's first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel, has a maximum drilling depth of 11 kilometers and was officially commissioned in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou on November 17.