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China Picks Its Top 10 Sci-tech Developments in 2002
The China Association for Science and Technology announced in Beijing Saturday the result of a public ballot to choose the "top 10 science and technology developments in China in 2002".

More than 133,000 people across China voted in the poll. The result is as follows:

  • Chinese scientists began unraveling the mystery of aging cells;

  • Computer expert Wang Xuan and solid state and semi-conductor physicist Huang Kun were awarded the top national prize for science and technology development by President Jiang Zemin;

  • The "Shenzhou III" spaceship was successfully launched and returned to earth;

  • China developed the first cancer detection biochip;

  • Chinese scientists built the world's first continental drill for scientific purposes in super high-pressure metamorphic rock;

  • China discovered its first world-class gas field, with reserves of 600 billion cubic meters;

  • China's first direct and alternating current integration system debuted;

  • China solved the technical problem of building a tunnel through frozen earth in the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway;

  • China introduced its law on disseminating science and technology knowledge;

  • With "Dragon I", China saw the introduction of its own CPU chip.

    (Xinhua News Agency January 27, 2003)


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    Shenzhou III Returns Safely
    President Watches Successful Space Launch
    Nation Awards Its Preeminent Scientists
    Chinese Scientists Find Secrets of Cell Aging
    China’s First CPU Chip Hailed as Breakthrough
    Ultra-Large Gas Field Found in Inner Mongolia
    Ministry of Science and Technology
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