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Major tech projects resume as China continues to fight coronavirus epidemic

(People's Daily Online)    17:02, March 05, 2020
Major tech projects resume as China continues to fight coronavirus epidemic

A number of key science and technology projects delayed by the coronavirus outbreak have been resumed, even as the country makes all-out efforts to fight the epidemic.

On March 2, the fifth test jet of China’s first independently developed C919 trunk airliner taxied on the wetland runway of Nanchang Yaohu Airport in east China’s Jiangxi province for four hours and seven minutes.

Work on the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has resumed completely and is being carried out as normal. When the last two geostationary orbit satellites of the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System are launched in March and May this year, China will have completed construction of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System global network.

On Feb. 5, China’s Long March-5B carrier rocket arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan province. The rocket is scheduled to make its maiden flight in April, and work at the launch site is in full swing.

On Feb. 20, China successfully sent four new technological experiment satellites into planned orbit with its Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan province.

The lander and rover of China’s Chang'e-4 probe were switched to dormant mode for the lunar nights on March 2 and March 1 respectively, after completing their 15-lunar day mission.

Trial production of water tank doors for China’s independently developed AG600 large amphibious aircraft entered an important stage of development when the doors were riveted on Feb. 27. The amphibious aircraft was developed for forest firefighting and water rescue work.

Work at the Baihetan hydropower project, the largest of its kind in the world, currently under construction in southwest China’s Sichuan province, has continued as normal this past Spring Festival holiday, with around 5,000 construction workers sticking to their posts. The station is scheduled to impound its reservoir in 2020 and put its first batch of generator units into operation in 2021.

Hot functional tests on the fifth nuclear unit of China's Hualong One nuclear reactors, a domestically developed third-generation reactor design, was basically completed on March 2, 2020 in Fuqing, southeast China’s Fujian province. This has laid a solid foundation for upcoming tasks, including the loading of nuclear fuel and electricity generation. 


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