A staff member works at a factory of SMC Corporation in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area of Beijing, capital of China, June 4, 2022.
At around 3 a.m., the foothills of Helan Mountain in Ningxia are illuminated by headlamps worn by farmers ready to pick grapes in the vineyards here. The low temperature at night helps retain the aroma and flavor of grapes, and therefore ensures the quality of wine.
After more than 700 unsuccessful attempts, Liao Xi and his colleagues developed a stainless steel precision strip that is just 0.02 mm thick. They then improved it to the level of 0.015 mm, or less than one-fifth of the thickness of a sheet of copy paper.
A paper slip retrieved from underneath a mine said that 12 workers are still alive while the other 10 are in unclear situation, after they were trapped following a gold mine blast in east China's Shandong Province.
With a length of 105.6 kilometers and a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the Chaoyang-Linghai railway is an important part of the high-speed railway network in northeast China.