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Physics World China Briefing 2022

Physics World China Briefing 2022

In September 2020 Chinese president Xi Jinping laid out the country’s plan to transition from one of the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas emitters to a “net zero” carbon society by 2060. In this free-to-read briefing, find out how China could achieve this ambitious goal via renewable energy, carbon capture, improving coal power stations and, possibly, a renaissance of nuclear power. This year’s briefing also examines China’s latest work in quantum tech, its upgrade to the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider and studies of samples brought back from the Chang’e-5 mission to the Moon.

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Global network news

Citations in science are biased towards a handful of nations

The Beijing Spectrometer at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider analysis

China’s premier particle collider set for major upgrade

Fast radio burst illustration research update

Huge haul of fast radio bursts hints at astrophysical origins

Structural colour printing research update

Inkjet technique prints rainbow of structural colours

Software button showing a Chinese character and the letter A review

Technology with characters

Thomas Smith interview

Studying the Chang’e-5 Moon samples

Opening ceremony of carbon neutrality research centre at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Beijing analysis

China sets out its climate ambitions

China and US chess game opinion

US-China quantum rivalry creates harmful barriers to progress

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