On October 16, the Long March-8A carrier rocket blasted off from the Hainan commercial space launch site, successfully deploying the 12th group of low-orbit internet satellites, marking the 600th successful launch of the Long March series.
The 138th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) opened in Guangzhou on October 15 and will continue until early November. As a strategic partner of the event, China Southern Airlines Company Limited (China Southern Airlines), a subsidiary of China Southern Air Holding Company Limited, has optimized its route network and launched a series of global marketing campaigns to ensure smooth travel for global participants.
The Yuheng Pioneer, a roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) vessel operated by COSCO SHIPPING Specialized Carriers Co., Ltd., set sail from Jiangyin Port Area of Fuzhou Port on October 14, carrying over 2,900 vehicles, including 620 units loaded at the port.
On October 11, a freight train carrying photovoltaic modules, mechanical parts and chemical materials departed from Wujiashan Central Station in Wuhan, Hubei Province, heading for Uzbekistan.
On October 16, the world’s first commercial semi-underground small modular reactor (SMR) Linglong One (ACP100), developed by China National Nuclear Corporation, passed the cold-state functional test of its primary circuit in Changjiang, South China's Hainan Province.
The world’s first robot capable of repairing cable-stayed bridge sheaths at heights of over 100 meters, produced by China Merchants Group and Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society, made its debut on Jiashao Bridge in Zhejiang Province.
A China Southern Airlines inaugural flight from Beijing landed smoothly at Hamad International Airport in Doha on Thursday, marking the launch of a direct Beijing-Doha route by the Chinese carrier.
The “Haiyang Dizhi 2 (Ocean Geology 2)” research vessel, constructed by CCCC Fourth Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. of China Communications Construction Company Limited, completed the world’s first ignition of deep-sea combustible ice (methane hydrate).