China science, technology news summary -- Sept. 8

Source: Xinhua| 2021-09-08 11:49:00|Editor: huaxia

BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SATELLITE

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a satellite for pursuing sustainable development.

The satellite, SDGSAT-1, has already passed the round-the-clock and multi-load coordinated observation. It is expected to provide advanced, open and shared data resources for monitoring and evaluating the sustainable development index representing the interaction between human and nature.

COVID-19 VACCINES

All of the COVID-19 vaccines developed by China, including both those currently in use and those pending approval, have now embarked on clinical trials, a Chinese health official said at a press conference Tuesday.

China's vaccines fall into five technical categories: inactivated vaccines, adenovirus-based vaccines, recombinant protein vaccines, live attenuated influenza vaccines, and nucleic acid-based vaccines.

Among them, three inactivated vaccines have been approved by China's medical-products administration for conditional marketing and two for emergency use, said Zheng Zhongwei, an official of the National Health Commission, who is also head of the working group for vaccine development under the State Council joint prevention and control mechanism against COVID-19.

CYBERSPACE REGULATION

China's multi-pronged campaign to regulate cyberspace has made further headway, with 822 administrative and criminal cases handled and over 400,000 vulgar online posts removed.

Starting in June, the campaign shut down over 4,800 irregular websites and oversaw the removal of over 20 million vulgar posts as well as the handling of over 8 million online accounts by online platforms as of the end of August. Enditem

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