Havana, Jan 22 (PL). Cuba has fully vaccinated 87.6 percent of its population against Covid-19 and has administered a booster shot to 4,545,231 people. In all, it has administered 33,422,531 shots of domestic vaccines Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala, and 10,544,254 Cubans (of 11 million) have received...more

National Forestry and Grassland Administration is pushing to hasten the construction of a Giant Panda National Park in a bid to better protect the endangered species. Since the establishment of Giant Panda National Park management system, wild giant panda have seen a steady increase in number and have...more

Chinese nucleic acid test kit producers are ramping up efforts to provide nucleic acid tests that the world needs, with some seeing rising orders amid the sudden and unexpected outbreaks of Omicron, the mutant first reported in southern Africa. The rapid spread of Omicron, which is reportedly more...more

The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon in Xizang is one of the most mysterious and isolated places in the world. It is also a rich treasure of biodiversity. The valley, the longest and deepest on Earth, is a secluded paradise for many old and rare species, which are able...more

Editor's Note: Starting from Sunday, more than 100 world leaders will gather in Glasgow, Scotland for the latest round of high-level talks, known as COP26, to help address climate change. It comes at a time when many countries are experiencing tight supplies and soaring prices of natural gas and...more

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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said China will take the lead by investing 1.5 billion yuan ($233 million) to establish the Kunming Biodiversity Fund to support biodiversity protection in developing countries. Xi made the remarks while addressing the leaders' summit of the 15th meeting of the Conference...more

The newly developed and recently unveiled prototype miniature helicopter drone, a possible means to support China's Mars missions, is designed to become a navigator for the Mars rover. It will greatly boost the latter's ability to explore valuable targets on the surface of the Red Planet, the project...more

Amid the consensus among worldwide scientists that the second phase of the study on coronavirus origins should be carried out in multiple places, officials and experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) suggested that the WHO should take cold chain as a key...more

Although the US government has been coercing global scientists lately and pushing forward the lab leak hypothesis as its intelligence community-led 90-day origins probe deadline looms, more scientists spoke out in rejecting the conspiracy without yielding to mounting political pressure and continuing on their scientific path. The latest...more

An institute in Wuhan, under the China National Biotec Group (CNBG), a subsidiary of Sinopharm, has isolated the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus and is accelerating development on Delta-specific vaccines, its director told the media. The new Delta variant spread to Wuhan after about a year of...more

China's top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said that China needs to vaccinate about 83 percent of its population to achieve herd immunity. He also revealed that all the 13 severe cases infected with the Delta variant in Guangzhou COVID-19 outbreak in May did not get inoculated. Zhong made the...more

A third shot of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine given six months or more after the second shot would result in a remarkable increase in antibody levels, a new study has found, and a two-dose schedule appears to generate good immune memory. The results of the study were published on...more

Chinese technology giant Huawei on Tuesday refutes reports that it is set to launch two test satellites for 6G technology verification in July. Nonetheless, China is taking the lead in the next big leap in telecommunications technology, experts said. The company tagged media reports of the launch of...more