China Service Trade Fair: Metaverse idea sets off 'gold rush' for tech companies to build immersive digital...

Source：CGTN

​The 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services opens today in Beijing. We have a series of stories lined up on China's latest developments in the sector. In this episode, our reporter Dai Kaiyi talks to some of the industry's insiders on what lies ahead for the metaverse, which busines...

China's plastic problem: lack of circular economy stifling ‘necessary’ reform of high-pollution industry

Source：SCMP

China lacks substantial impetus in its push to implement a circular economy for its plastics industry, leaving the root cause of plastic pollution largely unchecked, industrial experts and research have implied.

Reliability and safety of intelligent systems feature at 2nd HK Tech Forum at CityU

Source：SCMP

​Eminent scientists from around the world tackled some of the most challenging issues found in complex systems that incorporate artificial intelligence at the HK Tech Forum on Reliability and Safety of Intelligent Systems. The event was hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at Cit...

How climate change is driving water scarcity in Asia

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By the middle of this century, the entire Tibetan Plateau, also known as the "Water Tower" of Asia, will lose a substantial part of its water storage, a study has revealed. The study is the most comprehensive research on the issue to date, and was published in the Nature Climate Change journal.

Robots may help take the heat off testing staff

Source：China Daily

​Amid the sweltering heat waves that have roasted southern China for days, it's a tough challenge for medical staff wearing heavy protective suits to collect throat swabs at COVID-19 testing sites.