With the formal commissioning of the last unit on Sept 2, the main construction of the Datengxia Water Conservancy Project, which took nine years to finish, has been completed. The accompanying three-dimensional aquatic ecological protection system was also completed and is now operational.
A cargo vessel departed from a container terminal of Nansha Port in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, to Brazil on Monday, marking the first regular direct shipping route from the South China port to eastern South America.
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying three remote sensing satellites of the Yaogan-39 series was launched at 15:36 on Aug 31, 2023, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
China Mobile Limited released China's first reconfigurable 5G RF transceiver chip - "Breaking Wind 8676" - on Aug 30.
At 7:55 am on Aug 29, 2023, the cumulative electricity generation of Guanyinyan Hydropower Plant of Datang Guanyinyan Hydropower Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Datang Corporation Ltd., exceeded 100 billion kilowatt-hours, which is equivalent to saving about 30 million tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 81 million tons.
China's first domestically-developed bamboo-based offshore photovoltaic platform "Jilin No.1" was launched on Aug 28, 2023, in Yantai, East China's Shandong Province.
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Thursday began to solicit names for the new vehicles of future manned lunar exploration missions.
As of Aug 29, the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has provided more than 20 billion cubic meters of water to Central China's Henan Province, equivalent to one-third of the average annual flow of the Yellow River, according to China South-to-North Water Diversion Corporation Limited.