China science, technology news summary -- Nov. 24

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BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

CHANG'E-5

China on Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body.

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan.

WORLD INTERNET CONFERENCE

Fifteen of the world's leading Internet scientific and technological achievements were unveiled Monday at the World Internet Conference -- Internet Development Forum held in the water-town of Wuzhen in east China's Zhejiang Province.

The achievements, selected by a group of nearly 40 experts from around the world, cover post-pandemic industrial recovery and coordinated development, digital social governance, global public crisis response, cloud life based on artificial intelligence (AI) and other Internet-related fields.

ELECTED CHINESE SCIENTIST

Chinese scientist Yao Tandong has been elected as a 2020 fellow of the American Geophysical Union for years of research on glaciers and the environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, sources at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said on Monday.

A CAS academic, Yao is the chief scientist on China's second comprehensive scientific expedition to the plateau that began in 2017. He has led several research programs, including the "Third Pole Environment" (TPE) project, which has become internationally significant. Enditem

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