China releases over 130 sci-tech achievements on food security

China’s National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration on Monday launched 132 scientific and technological achievements masking grain procurement, allocation, and inexperienced storage to bolster safeguards for the nation’s food security.(*130*)

The achievements embrace inexperienced grain storage integration, unmanned grain transport autos, inspection robots, and nitrogen-based grain storage expertise.(*130*)

Some superior grain storage applied sciences have already been totally utilized in central China’s Hubei Province, delivering outstanding outcomes.(*130*)

In Xiaogan City of Hubei, a grain storage base of Hubei Reserved Grain and Oil Management Group Co., Ltd. — which at present shops 50,000 tons of rice and 20,000 tons of wheat — has had its warehouses retrofitted for airtightness, enabling nitrogen charging for insect management below regular stress and particular humidity situations.(*130*)

“By controlling the temperature and oxygen concentration inside the grain warehouses, we can achieve green pest control, reduce the use of chemical agents, and meet the goals of insect prevention, temperature regulation and quality preservation,” mentioned Liu Xiang, head of Xiaogan Reserve Depot Co., Ltd. below Hubei Reserved Grain and Oil Management Group Co., Ltd.(*130*)

In latest years, China has stepped up efforts in technological analysis and improvement in addition to the applying of analysis leads to grain storage. A number of superior, sensible storage applied sciences and tools have already been deployed, offering sturdy and efficient technological help for food security.(*130*)

To enhance the sharing and trade of prime achievements in grain storage, a nationwide science and expertise week on grain and strategic reserves kicked off Monday in Wuhan, the provincial capital metropolis of Hubei.(*130*)

At the opening ceremony, Han Jizhi, director of the division of secure storage and expertise below the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, outlined China’s technological innovation priorities for grain security in the course of the fifteenth Five-Year Plan interval (2026-2030) for nationwide socioeconomic improvement.(*130*)

“During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, our key sci-tech innovation priorities in grain circulation include developing green and low-carbon grain storage, ensuring quality and safety for nutrition and health, reducing grain loss and waste, and promoting agricultural machinery and equipment. At the same time, we aim to foster in-depth integration between enterprises and research institutions in an innovation ecosystem where businesses play a leading role. By unclogging channels for basic research, application development, and commercialization of scientific-technological research achievements in the innovation chain, we can better harness the power of science and technology to safeguard the country’s grain reserves,” Han mentioned.(*130*)

Chinese humanoid robotic maker Unitree Robotics handed the evaluate of its preliminary public providing (IPO) utility on the nation’s STAR Market on Monday, in keeping with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.(*130*)

Based in Hangzhou, in east China’s Zhejiang Province, Unitree Robotics specializes within the improvement of high-performance humanoid and quadruped robots, robotic parts and embodied AI fashions. It was among the many first firms on this planet to commercialize high-performance quadruped robots and apply them to industrial eventualities.(*130*)

The firm’s prospectus states it plans to lift 4.2 billion yuan (about 616.13 million U.S. {dollars}) by way of the IPO. The proceeds can be used for researching and growing clever robotic fashions and robotic our bodies, growing of latest clever robotic merchandise, and constructing an clever robotic manufacturing base.(*130*)

The agency’s working income rose from 159 million yuan (about 23.5 million U.S. {dollars}) in 2023 to 393 million yuan (about 58 million U.S. {dollars}) in 2024, and reached almost 1.7 billion yuan (about 251 million U.S. {dollars}) in 2025, the prospectus mentioned.(*130*)

In June 2025, the China Securities Regulatory Commission rolled out measures to reform the STAR Market, together with a pilot pre-review mechanism for IPO functions from high-quality expertise firms. Unitree Robotics is the second firm to file an IPO utility below this mechanism.(*130*)

The STAR Market was inaugurated in June 2019 on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It is designed to bolster firms within the high-tech and strategic rising sectors.(*130*)

Timothy Pope, a market analyst for China Global Television Network (CGTN), mentioned that Unitree exemplifies a broader coverage shift the place Chinese regulators are opening curated “green channels” for the itemizing of firms which can be strategically essential.(*130*)

“There are a lot of companies in a similar position to Unitree being strategically important in those key sectors for Chinese tech development – embodied AI, semiconductors, aerospace – and many more of these were given quite a lot of prominence in the latest Five-Year Plan. But the problem for a lot of young companies in these sectors is that they reinvest almost everything that they make into R and D, which makes it very difficult for them to list on the stock markets, because there are profit-and-revenue rules governing listing. There are other avenues for those companies, of course, to raise money, but the Chinese government and the stock exchanges are keen to have some of these companies listed and are not necessarily relaxing rules, but sort of opening green channels for these companies in special cases, which want to list on the Shanghai STAR market in particular,” mentioned Pope.(*130*)

He highlighted different high-profile IPOs advancing below this framework, together with Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s flagship reminiscence chip developer.(*130*)

“Aside from Unitree, you mentioned one of the most prominent ones lately has been CXMT, China’s flagship memory chip company. This one really is viewed as being, I guess, China’s answer to Samsung or Micron, which those two companies really dominate this sector globally. CXMT is planning a 29.5 billion RMB (about 4.4 billion U.S. dollars) IPO. It did pass the committee review last week. So, it is plausible that we will see it come to market in the next couple of months. We do not have a firm listing date yet, nor do we have a sort of price range for the company yet, but it is probable that it will be the biggest A-share IPO this year,” mentioned Pope.(*130*)

Meanwhile, business rocket maker LandSpace is progressing with a 7.5 billion yuan (about 1.1 billion U.S. {dollars}) fundraising plan to develop reusable launch automobile expertise, in keeping with Pope.(*130*)

“Another one that’s in the middle of the application process is the rocket company LandSpace. Its application is on pause right now while it updates its financials, but it’s looking to raise 7.5 billion RMB (about 1.1 billion U.S. dollars) again to fund research and development, in this case of reusable rocket technology.” mentioned the analyst.(*130*)

He famous that with extra of those firms going public all through this 12 months, China’s tech sector is poised to develop strongly.(*130*)

“So we are seeing the exchanges allow, I guess what you call a curated selection of promising companies in key sectors into the equity markets. And we can definitely expect this to feed the rally in tech shares as they list throughout this year,” mentioned Pope.(*130*)