high-tech boat in clean-up campaign

A boat specifically designed to purify water will start operating within a day or two in Shishahai. The vessel has been brought from Shanghai to control the rapidly increasing algae.

Health comes first to Beijingers

What’s the thing Beijing people want most? Money? Family? House? No, none of the above! According to the Beijing Statistics Bureau, the answer is:a healthy life!

Combining Networks to Speed Up

Combining the networks of cable TV, telecommunications (mobile) and the Internet will enhance the present relatively low transmission speed in Internet, according to officials at a conference on High Speed Network Construction held on Thursday.

Math Olympics coming to Beijing

The International Mathematician Conference will be held in Beijing from August 20 to 28 next year, announced Ma Zhiming, director of the China Mathematics Association. Some 3000 domestic and overseas mathematicians will attend the conference. This is the first time for China, and for a developing country, to organize this kind of conference, which is known as the mathematics “Olympics?”

Cable eyesore gone from Wangfujing

Local residents were surprised to find that hundreds of electricity poles along Wangfujing, China’s most famous pedestrian street, have been removed, creating a brand new cable-fre Wangfujing Street.

Police get state-of-the-art security equipment

Police in Haidian District are equipped with a sound-image collection system; a military standard microwave transmission system for field operations. Reconnaissance vests, armed with a special camera enable patrolling police to deliver sound and image data back to headquarters. This information setup can deliver the message as far as 50 km.