BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

CHANG'E-6 LUNAR PROBE

China's next lunar probe Chang'e-6 will be launched around 2024 as planned, with related development tasks currently in progress.

According to the country's lunar exploration program, the Chang'e-6 mission will collect samples from the far side of the moon. It aims to land in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side to explore and collect lunar samples from different regions and ages.

CROSS-SEA HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY

China's fastest cross-sea high-speed rail started operation on Thursday, with trains running at a maximum speed of 350 km/h along the west coast of the Taiwan Strait.

This is China's first cross-sea high-speed railway with a designed speed reaching 350 km/h. It has stops in the cities of Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Zhangzhou.

AI FOUNDATION MODELS IN AUTO INDUSTRY

With the rapid development and wide application of AI foundation models, the Chinese automobile industry has become highly intelligent. Passenger cars with combined driver assistance, or Level 2 autonomous driving, accounted for 42.4 percent of all passenger car sales in China in the first half of 2023.

Since the beginning of 2023, with the explosive development of generative artificial intelligence technology, autonomous driving has begun to evolve into an end-to-end foundation model. Enditem

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