BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

QUANTUM SATELLITE LINKS WITH WORLD'S FIRST MOBILE GROUND STATION

China's quantum satellite -- Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) -- has successfully linked up with the world's first mobile quantum ground station and conducted an encrypted data transmission in Jinan, Shandong Province.

According to a source of the Jinan city government, the mobile ground station linked with QUESS at around 11:31 p.m. Monday when the satellite was approximately 500 km from the ground.

The test successfully wrapped up after the ground station received encrypted data from the satellite for nearly eight minutes, said the source.

CHINESE TECH FIRMS ATTRACT MORE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATES

More international graduates are favoring Chinese technology companies to start their careers in recent years, according to a report issued Thursday by New York University Shanghai on the employment of the class of 2019.

The number of graduates starting their careers in the field of information technology has continued to grow over the years, up 19 percent over 2017. The financial industry also remains popular among graduates, the report said.

GENOME PROJECT LAUNCHED FOR PROTISTS

Chinese scientists recently launched a program to map the genomes of about 10,000 representative species of protists and establish a large-scale database of protist genetic resources.

A protist is a single-celled organism of the kingdom Protista, such as a protozoan or simple alga. More than 60,000 protist species have been described, and the number of unknown species is hard to estimate. Enditem

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