Tech China weekly highlights

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12 Jul 2020, 13:48 GMT+10

BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's major technology news from the past week:

NEW COMMERCIAL TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITE

China successfully sent a commercial telecommunication satellite, known as APSTAR-6D, into a planned orbit from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

The APSTAR-6D telecommunication satellite was launched by a Long March-3B carrier rocket at 8:11 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday.

CLOUD DATA CENTER

Chinese tech giant Tencent has begun to operate a cloud data center in south China's Guangdong Province to boost digital technologies. The data center, covering an area of 26.7 hectares, will serve the cities around the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The technologies of cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain and the Internet of Things will be promoted by the data center, which has a designed capacity to accommodate one million sets of servers.

COVID-19 CONVALESCENT PLASMA POOL

China's Wuhan plans to build a pool of convalescent plasma collected from donors who have recovered from COVID-19, to help more patients.

Over the past five months, a total of 1,319 recovered COVID-19 patients have donated 460,000 ml plasma in Wuhan. The city has also received 17,500 ml of donated plasma from other Chinese provinces.

DATA FROM REMOTE-SENSING SATELLITE

China has successfully received data from the newly launched high-resolution multi-mode imaging satellite.

The satellite, launched on July 3, is a civil-use optical remote-sensing satellite with a resolution up to the sub-meter level.

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