At 09:08 eijing Time on December 13, the Kuaizhou-11 Y8 carrier rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, successfully sending the Dier-5 space experiment device and the Xiwang-5 Phase II satellite into their intended orbits. The flight test mission achieved complete success.
This mission marks the 4th flight of the Kuaizhou-11 carrier rocket.
The scale of China's core artificial intelligence industry surpassed 900 billion yuan in 2024, with a growth rate of 24 percent. According to preliminary estimates, the scale of the core artificial intelligence industry is expected to exceed 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025.
The CH-7 stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently accomplished its successful maiden flight. Adopting an advanced aerodynamic layout with a high-aspect-ratio flying wing configuration, the CH-7 can carry a variety of high-performance mission payloads such as visible light and infrared sensors.
It boasts advantages including long endurance, high service ceiling, fast cruising speed and strong mission capability, which can meet high-end demands such as ground observation and data support under complex conditions.
China's farthest offshore wind power project — the Three Gorges Jiangsu Dafeng 800 MW Offshore Wind Power Project — has been connected to the power grid at full capacity. The farthest point of the project is 85.5 kilometers away from the shore, making it the farthest offshore wind power project connected to the grid for power generation in China at present. The project has installed a total of 98 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 800 MW.
A medical team from Sun Yat-sen University successfully performed the first eye surgery on China's first flying eye hospital converted from a C909 medical aircraft.
The success of the surgery not only verified the clinical feasibility of China's flying eye hospital in a real aviation environment and marked that the country's first fully independently developed and operated "flying eye hospital" has officially gained clinical service capabilities, but also symbolized that China has achieved a key "from 0 to 1" breakthrough in the integration of high-end mobile medical equipment.
