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China has around ten marine research vessels under design or construction by the end of August 2017, according to the Oceanic Scientific Research Vessel Technology Summit 2017 held in Shanghai on Friday.

It is learned at the summit that the country’s first domestically built polar research vessel and icebreaker is expected to be put into use in 2019. The vessel will be able to break polar ice with both its bow and stern.

China has 50 marine research vessels at present, which fall into series including Dongfanghong, Xiangyanghong, Yuanwang, Haiyang, Kexue and Shiyan, said Xing Wenhua, president of Shanghai Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers.

Qu Tanzhou, head of science and technology department under the State Oceanic Administration, said the number and performance of these research vessels are far from adequate in terms of global marine research and international cooperation.

The 2nd World Congress on Marxism is scheduled to be held in Peking University in Beijing next May, the organizer said Sunday. The congress, to be held from May 5 to May 6, is expected to attract more than 300 Marxism researchers to discuss Marxism in… read more

Police of China’s Hong Kong have arrested a man from Southeast Asia for pushing a cleaner onto a rail track in the town of Yuen Long, according to local media on Sunday. A closed-circuit video posted online showed that a female cleaner standing on the… read more

Mining has been suspended in all nature reserves in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, local authorities said. A total of 11 mines are located in nature reserves in the province. All mines will be closed by the end of this year. According to Li Yong… read more

The new high-speed trains, Fuxing, carried 460,000 passengers between Beijing and Shanghai in their first full month of operations at maximum speed, Beijing railway bureau said Saturday.

On Sept. 21, China increased the maximum speed of Fuxing trains on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway to 350 kilometers per hour.

Fuxing trains are also used on Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway and Beijing-Tianjin intercity rail, but they are allowed to run at 300 kph only for the time being.

Fuxing trains on the Beijing-Guangzhou line reached 100 percent capacity, with 420,000 passengers carried.

The Fuxing, literally meaning Rejuvenation, became the world’s fastest train service some six years after speeds were reduced to 300 km per hour on the Beijing-Shanghai line.

China has the world’s longest high-speed rail network, with 22,000 km currently in operation. About one-third of the country’s high-speed railways were designed to run at a speed of 350 km per hour.