CMG unveils top 10 domestic sci-tech news for 2025

China Media Group (CMG) on Wednesday unveiled its top 10 record of domestic science and know-how news for 2025.

Topping the record is the Central Economic Work Conference, which, held from Dec 10 to 11, put ahead the duty of creating worldwide technological innovation facilities in Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Second, China issued a suggestion on Aug 26 to implement the “AI Plus” initiative, selling the intensive and in-depth integration of AI throughout varied fields to speed up the cultivation of recent high quality productive forces. According to the rule of thumb launched by the State Council, China will bolster the applying of AI in science and know-how, industrial improvement, consumption upgrades, individuals’s well-being, governance and world cooperation.

Third, China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, on May 29, an endeavor to make clear the formation and evolution of asteroids and the early photo voltaic system. The Tianwen-2 mission goals to attain a number of targets over a decade-long expedition: gathering samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 and exploring the main-belt comet 311P, which is extra distant than Mars.

Fourth, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), dubbed China’s “artificial sun,” on Jan 20 maintained a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for a exceptional 1,066 seconds in temperatures over 100 million levels Celsius, setting a brand new world document and marking a breakthrough within the quest for fusion energy era.

Fifth, China’s synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin DeepSeek that includes low prices and open-source sharing drew worldwide consideration, serving to to advertise the intensive utility of AI know-how all over the world. In September this 12 months, a analysis paper on DeepSeek’s mannequin R1 was featured on the quilt of the tutorial journal Nature, marking the primary giant language mannequin to cross authoritative peer evaluate.

Sixth, Chinese scientists unveiled a superconducting quantum laptop prototype named “Zuchongzhi 3.0” with 105 qubits on March 3, marking a breakthrough in China’s quantum computing developments. “Zuchongzhi 3.0” options 105 readable qubits and 182 couplers. It processes quantum random circuit sampling duties at a pace quadrillion occasions quicker than the world’s strongest supercomputer and 1 million occasions quicker than Google’s newest outcomes revealed in Nature in October 2024.

Seventh, China’s first plane provider outfitted with electromagnetic catapults, the Fujian, was commissioned into energetic service at a naval port in Sanya City, south China’s Hainan Province on Nov 5. The ship (Hull 18), independently designed and constructed by China, options world-class electromagnetic catapult know-how. It is China’s third plane provider, after the Shandong and the Liaoning.

Eighth, China efficiently despatched the unmanned Shenzhou-22 spaceship into orbit on Nov 25, marking the primary emergency launch mission within the nation’s manned house program. The spaceship efficiently docked with the house station mixture after simply over three hours of house flight.

Ninth, the world’s largest clear spherical detector started operation in Jiangmen, south China’s Guangdong Province on Aug 26, making it the world’s first operational ultra-large scientific facility devoted to neutrino analysis with ultra-high precision. Having accomplished the filling of its 20,000-tonne liquid scintillator detector, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) started taking information after greater than a decade of preparation and building.

Tenth, China hosted a number of robotics competitions and occasions in 2025, together with the World Humanoid Robot Games, the world’s first humanoid robotic half-marathon, the CMG World Robot Skills Competition, and the CMG Nanny Robot Conference. China has seen a thriving embodied intelligence trade and made exceptional progress in {hardware}, algorithms and information for humanoid robots.

Chinese researchers have efficiently accelerated a ton-class check car to 700 kilometers per hour inside two seconds on a 400-meter magnetic levitation (maglev) monitor utilizing a superconducting electromagnetic propulsion system, setting a brand new world document.

The presently world’s quickest acceleration on such a platform was adopted by a protected cease, based on the analysis workforce at National University of Defense Technology, who made the breakthrough after 10 years of efforts.

The breakthrough addressed a number of challenges in core applied sciences, together with ultra-high-speed electromagnetic propulsion, electrical levitation steerage, transient high-power power storage inversion, and high-field superconducting magnets.

It makes China a world chief in creating ultra-high-speed maglev programs, provides the nation a brand new possibility for the longer term improvement of vacuum tube maglev transportation, in addition to new approaches and new means for aerospace-assisted launch and experimental testing.

The subsequent technological iterations and industrial functions of this achievement will inject new momentum into China’s aviation, aerospace and rail transit industries.

“The success of our ultra-high-speed superconducting electric maglev system will speed up the development of China’s ultra-high-speed maglev transportation. Next, our team will focus on ultra-high-speed tube maglev transportation, aviation and aerospace equipment testing, electromagnetic launch, and other cutting-edge areas while promoting closer collaboration among enterprises, universities, research institutes and end-users to contribute to independent innovation in defense technology,” mentioned Li Jie, a professor on the college.