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The Fengyun-3 06 satellite lifted off on a Long March-4C carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 11:47 am on Thursday, and will replace the Fengyun-3C satellite.
China issued first large-scale earthquake early warning system book in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday, a day before the 15th anniversary of the catastrophic Wenchuan earthquake.
China will promote a disaster warning service among international communities and enhance the influence of the technology by setting up a technology platform that shares data and integrates industrial chains with multiple kinds of disaster warning systems
China's domestically developed terahertz testing system successfully withstands extreme Antarctic weather in first trial, Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told the Global Times on Monday.
Wang Tun, head of the Chengdu-based Institute of Care-life, who developed an earthquake early warning system in China, said that the disaster is a reminder to all governments in the world on the significance of setting a global network on early warning.
China has swung into gear to fortify its flood-defense network ahead of what may be a heavy flood season.
Coastal Jiangsu Province has installed China's first C-band phased array meteorological radar system, designed to quickly detect and monitor extreme weather including tornados, developers said on Wednesday.
Thanks to high-technology and artificial intelligence, China's earthquake early warning system is able to spread information with a delay of only 6.2 seconds. Scientists estimate that this technology could have saved up to 30 percent of victims of the 8.0 magnitude Wenchuan earthquake in 2008.
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