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Chinese researchers have discovered "that compounds in coffee inhibit hIAPP" to "help prevent diabetes."

Coffee prevent diabetes: Coffee prevent diabetes new study reveals why - latimes.com

"Coffee helps prevent diabetes, now scientists learn why
By Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel
January 16, 2012 | 1:25 p.m.

Scientists have long known that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but researchers out of China may have figured out why.

Researchers Ling Zheng, of Wuhan University, and Kun Huang, of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, have found that compounds in coffee inhibit hIAPP (human islet amyloid polypeptide), a substance linked to diabetes. Their study appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Prior global epidemiological studies have shown that those who drink four or more cups of coffee a day have a 50 percent lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the most prevalent type of diabetes accounting for 95 percent of all cases. Every additional cup reduces the risk by an additional 7 percent.

Scientists looking for ways to prevent diabetes have been investigating ways to block hIAPP, which is present in high levels in the pancreases of those with the disease. Zheng and Huang decided to study whether coffee was doing that.

They analyzed the effects of the major active compounds in coffee, including caffeic acid and caffeine, on hIAPP, and found it inhibited hIAPP significantly. "These findings suggest that the beneficial effects of coffee consumption on type 2 diabetes may be partly due to the ability of major coffee components to inhibit the toxic aggression of hIAPP," the authors concluded.

'A beneficial effect may thus be expected in regular coffee drinkers,' they said."

 

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Pan hopes to help China launch its first quantum satellite in 2015. (Photo/CNS)

A prominent scientist in China has shared his plans to develop a quantum satellite within ten years.

Pan Jianwei, who is the youngest scientist at China's Academy of Science, said he entered his field purely out of interest. After receiving his master's degree from the University of Science and Technology in China, Pan went to the Universitat Wien in Austria for his PhD. When he graduated in 1999, quantum was not yet considered a crucial subject to research in China, and it took Pan several years to secure funds for his research.

As more and more quantum researchers sprung up in China, Pan found more partners for his projects. In 2009, Pan and his colleagues created the world's first quantum telephone network. Now Pan says he wants to complete a quantum satellite by year 2015. Pan has brought on board a former professor from Austria to assist with the project and says the project will help the nation.
Chinese researcher wants to complete quantum satellite by 2015

The achivement that chinese scientist get in quantum communication, The report was pressed in 2010:
Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.

China's secure communications quantum leap
By Matthew Luce

A team of 15 Chinese researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences, a government-directed research center, in May published a research paper announcing a successful demonstration of "quantum teleportation" (liangzi yinxing chuan) over 16 kilometers of free space.

These researchers claimed to have the first successful experiment in the world. The technology on display has the potential to revolutionize secure communications for military and intelligence organizations and may become the watershed of a research race in communication and information technology.

Although much of the science behind this technology is still young, quantum technologies have wide-ranging applications for the fields of cryptography, remote sensing and secure satellite



communications. In the near future, the results from this experiment will be used to send encrypted messages that cannot be cracked or intercepted, and securely connect networks, even in remote areas, with no wired infrastructure, even incorporating satellites and submarines into the link [1].

Roots in quantum physics, applications in intelligence
Rather than transporting matter from place to place, quantum teleportation's most practical applications currently involve using photons for instantaneous, almost totally secure data communication. Using the term "teleportation" to describe this effect can be justified by what Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance": after two particles are linked together through quantum entanglement, any change in the state of one particle immediately alters the other, even from kilometers away. In effect, the state of the particle at the sender's end is destroyed and reappears as an exact replica at the receiver's end, with a negligible chance of undetected third-party interception [2].

While the teleportation of physical matter remains science fiction at this point, quantum teleportation could be immediately implemented as a means for secure communications and cryptography. Current encryption techniques are based upon mathematical functions involving very large prime numbers and secure key management and distribution, but this strategy has a number of drawbacks and is nearing the end of its shelf life.

In particular, as computing power continues to double every year and computer bits speed up through the use of quantum particles, the cryptographic keys used for encoding and decoding must now be changed more often to prevent encrypted data from being cracked. As a result, it has become very difficult to "future proof" the encryption of data, and were any major breakthrough in quantum computing to be achieved in the near future, current encryption techniques could become obsolete and encrypted data could suddenly become unprotected [3].

The security of using quantum teleportation to distribute cryptographic keys, on the other hand, is upheld by the laws of physics and has a seemingly infinite time horizon. These keys cannot currently be detected and cracked even with the help of the most powerful computers. Owing to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the quantum states of photons cannot be observed without changing the state of the particle, which has the result of immediately informing the sender and receiver of any eavesdropping. Quantum communication can thus be used to send the most sensitive information, including keys to decode encrypted data sent over less secure means.

Significance of the China's achievement
As a result, the issue has found itself at the center of a rapidly developing geopolitical race to apply quantum technology to military and intelligence work. Since secure quantum key distribution (QKD) provides a much higher level of security between communication networks, employing quantum teleportation over a satellite network allows for completely secure communications, even in sensitive and remote areas, without fiber optic infrastructure, as long as all parties are able to maintain line of sight with a satellite. This could have wide applications in communications and intelligence for ground troops, aircraft, surface ships and submarines, and fits into China's current plans to grow its satellite network even further.

Using quantum teleportation to send this type of information has been technically possible for several years, but according to the Chinese research paper, it had been previously demonstrated experimentally only over an enclosed fiber optics network and then only over a distance of several hundred meters [4].

The Chinese experiment appears to shatter these records by claiming to be the first to use a high-powered blue laser to exchange quantum information over a free space channel, and to demonstrate the principle over a distance as great as 16km. This distance is significant because it displays approximately the same degree of light distortion as is seen in communication from the earth's surface to a satellite, and so would allow for quantum communication using satellites. If this experiment were indeed the first of its kind, it would appear that China has succeeded in leapfrogging the West, and gained a significant edge in next-generation communications and cryptography.

A quantum space race?
The Chinese claim to be the first may not be entirely accurate, although certain elements of their experiment were unique and innovative. In 2005, a group of universities and defense corporations under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant and led by BBN Technologies, the company responsible for developing the precursor to the Internet, succeeded in transferring cryptographic keys over a free-space link of 23 km in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Well beyond the single link employed by the Chinese, the BBN program has developed an expanding, multi-node web of secure quantum communication that will be able to further expand and link seamlessly with existing Internet technology [5]. There are a few differences in the physics of their experiment that still make it notable and may not technically disqualify the Chinese from claiming their status as first, but nonetheless American researchers seem to have had a five-year head start in demonstrating the principles of the technology.

However, one notable difference between the Chinese and American experiments is that the Beijing experiment used a blue laser for their teleportation experiments while the BBN team had been employing infrared. Both have advantages and disadvantages in range and power, but the primary difference in their applications seems to be that blue and blue-green lasers penetrate further into water and so have wider applications for sub-surface communications. China is currently modernizing its submarine fleet as a way to project force further past its coastal waters to deter any US naval response to a potential invasion of Taiwan as well as doing significant research into laser communications in submarines [6].

Quantum laser links with satellites would allow sub-surface communication without most of the traditional downsides of radio communications and allow subs to operate with even greater autonomy and silence [7]. Judging from the interest in blue lasers for underwater communication and the interesting choice of a blue laser for the teleportation experiment, it would be safe to venture a guess that applications for quantum communication are already beginning to find their way into Chinese military research and development.

Because of its security level and applications for satellite and submarine communications, quantum communication technology figures centrally in the objectives of the Chinese military to upgrade their growing command and control capabilities. A functional satellite-based quantum communication system would give the Chinese military the ability to operate further afield without fear of message interception.

However, Chinese researchers must also be aware of the potential for the United States to employ the same technology and may be seeking ways to counter this eventuality. While it is still almost impossible to intercept quantum messages without being detected, it may be feasible to jam the laser signals that send them with "optical noise" or other lasers. Understanding the ways in which quantum cryptography functions may also eventually expose further weaknesses in the network that can be exploited by a savvy adversary.

China's continuing cutting-edge quantum cryptography, lasers and optics research thus seems as much a reaction to the same research in the United States and an attempt to counter it as it is to develop its own indigenous network.

Conclusions
All of these potential uses are motivations for Chinese labs to be the first to develop successful applications of quantum technology for immediate deployment and to claim milestones like being the first to successfully execute teleportation over several miles of free space.

Besides the military uses and academic prestige, this accomplishment could attract a significant amount of international funding for China's developing optics industry, and if quantum teleportation becomes the new paradigm for the future of secure communications, China would like to make a name for itself as the premier research and development hub. Claims of this recent "first" for China then have that much greater significance for security and the continued health of US technological superiority.

Notes
1. Jin Xian-Min, et al. "Experimental free-space quantum teleportation." Nature Photonics 4, 376 - 381 (2010). Published online: May 16, 2010 doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.87. See also the Chinese Academy of Sciences review.
2. Lei Zhang, Jacob Barhen, and Hua-Kuang Liu. "Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Quantum Teleportation." Center foe Engineering Science Advanced Research, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2000).
3. David Pearson, "Building a QKD Network out of Theories and Devices," BBN Technologies (December 2005).
4. The Chinese paper cites R Ursin, et al. "Quantum teleportation across the Danube" and I Marcikic, et al "Long-distance teleportation of qubits at telecommunication wavelengths," both descriptions of quantum cryptography over hundreds of meters of optical fiber.
5. Chip Elliott, et al. "Current status of the DARPA Quantum Network." In Quantum Information and Computation III, edited by Eric J. Donkor, Andrew R. Pirich, Howard E. Brandt, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5815 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2005).
6. See Yingzhuang Liu and Xiaohu Ge, "Underwater laser sensor network: a new approach for broadband communication in the underwater." Department of Electronics & Information Engineering, Huazhong University for Science and Technology (May 2006).
7. These include detectability, the need to surface to communicate, limitations in range, and the reliance on cryptographic keys that may be cracked.

Matthew Luce is a researcher and Chinese linguist at Defense Group Inc’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis, where he does primary source research and analysis of China’s science and technology policies and development programs. Mr. Luce's research and writing focuses on cyber security, C4ISR-related technologies, and China's ethnic relations. He has worked and traveled extensively in China and speaks and reads fluent Chinese.

 

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The Secret Document That Transformed China

In 1978, the farmers in a small Chinese village called Xiaogang gathered in a mud hut to sign a secret contract. They thought it might get them executed. Instead, it wound up transforming China's economy in ways that are still reverberating today.

The contract was so risky — and such a big deal — because it was created at the height of communism in China. Everyone worked on the village's collective farm; there was no personal property.

"Back then, even one straw belonged to the group," says Yen Jingchang, who was a farmer in Xiaogang in 1978. "No one owned anything."

At one meeting with communist party officials, a farmer asked: "What about the teeth in my head? Do I own those?" Answer: No. Your teeth belong to the collective.


In theory, the government would take what the collective grew, and would also distribute food to each family. There was no incentive to work hard — to go out to the fields early, to put in extra effort, Yen Jingchang says.

"Work hard, don't work hard — everyone gets the same," he says. "So people don't want to work."

In Xiaogang there was never enough food, and the farmers often had to go to other villages to beg. Their children were going hungry. They were desperate.

So, in the winter of 1978, after another terrible harvest, they came up with an idea: Rather than farm as a collective, each family would get to farm its own plot of land. If a family grew a lot of food, that family could keep some of the harvest.

This is an old idea, of course. But in communist China of 1978, it was so dangerous that the farmers had to gather in secret to discuss it.

One evening, they snuck in one by one to a farmer's home. Like all of the houses in the village, it had dirt floors, mud walls and a straw roof. No plumbing, no electricity.

"Most people said 'Yes, we want do it,' " says Yen Hongchang, another farmer who was there. "But there were others who said 'I dont think this will work — this is like high voltage wire.' Back then, farmers had never seen electricity, but they'd heard about it. They knew if you touched it, you would die."

Despite the risks, they decided they had to try this experiment — and to write it down as a formal contract, so everyone would be bound to it. By the light of an oil lamp, Yen Hongchang wrote out the contract.

The farmers agreed to divide up the land among the families. Each family agreed to turn over some of what they grew to the government, and to the collective. And, crucially, the farmers agreed that families that grew enough food would get to keep some for themselves.

The contract also recognized the risks the farmers were taking. If any of the farmers were sent to prison or executed, it said, the others in the group would care for their children until age 18.

The farmers tried to keep the contract secret — Yen Hongchang hid it inside a piece of bamboo in the roof of his house — but when they returned to the fields, everything was different.

Before the contract, the farmers would drag themselves out into the field only when the village whistle blew, marking the start of the work day. After the contract, the families went out before dawn.

"We all secretly competed," says Yen Jingchang. "Everyone wanted to produce more than the next person."

It was the same land, the same tools and the same people. Yet just by changing the economic rules — by saying, you get to keep some of what you grow — everything changed.

At the end of the season, they had an enormous harvest: more, Yen Hongchang says, than in the previous five years combined.

That huge harvest gave them away. Local officials figured out that the farmers had divided up the land, and word of what had happened in Xiaogang made its way up the Communist Party chain of command.

At one point, Yen Hongchang was hauled in to the local Communist Party office. The officials swore at him, treated him like he was on death row.

But fortunately for Mr. Yen and the other farmers, at this moment in history, there were powerful people in the Communist Party who wanted to change China's economy. Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who would go on to create China's modern economy, was just coming to power.

So instead of executing the Xiaogang farmers, the Chinese leaders ultimately decided to hold them up as a model.

Within a few years, farms all over China adopted the principles in that secret document. People could own what they grew. The government launched other economic reforms, and China's economy started to grow like crazy. Since 1978, something like 500 million people have risen out of poverty in China.

Today, the Chinese government is clearly proud of what happened in Xiaogang. That contract is now in a museum. And the village has become this origin story that kids in China learn about in school.

But the rest of the story for the original Xiaogang farmers is more ambiguous.

Our first day in Xiaogang, we asked to talk to Yen Hongchang, the farmer who actually wrote the contract. The local Communist Party officials told us he was out of town.

It turns out that wasn't true: We went back to Xiaogang the next day and tracked Yen Hongchang down. He told us he had been in town the day before.

Yen Hongchang told us he started a couple businesses over the years, but the local communist party took them away once they became profitable. He also said that the new new factories springing up around Xiaogang these days are largely empty, and haven't created many jobs.

Local officials say none of this is true. They say everything in Xiaogang is going great.

The Secret Document That Transformed China : Planet Money : NPR

 

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Shanghai's GDP grows 8.2% in 2011
Updated: 2012-01-20 22:43

(Xinhua)

SHANGHAI - Shanghai's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 8.2 percent year-on-year to 1.92 trillion yuan ($304 billion) in 2011, the local statistics bureau said Friday.

Shanghai saw a full-swing economic transformation last year, cutting its reliance on fixed-asset investment, heavy and chemical industries, real estate, and labor-intensive processing industries, said Yan Jun, chief economist of Shanghai's municipal bureau of statistics. The fixed-asset investment in China's financial and business center rose just 0.3 percent year-on-year to 506.7 billion yuan, Yan told a press briefing.

Meanwhile, the real estate sector contributed to 5.3 percent of the GDP last year, compared to 5.8 percent in 2010, Yan told reporters. Retail sales in Shanghai jumped 12.3 percent annually, far outpacing the growth rate for fixed-asset investment.
Imports rose 21 percent, outpacing the 16-percent growth rate for exports. This was in line with the country's policy of encouraging imports to reduce the trade imbalance, the official said. Foreign direct investment climbed 13.3 percent year-on-year to a record $12.6 billion, Yan said. "This showed that foreign businesses had confidence in Shanghai's growth prospects," he said

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By Tu Lufang (Beijing Daily)
13:52, January 21, 2012

Edited and translated by People's Daily Online

Beijing's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 1.6 trillion yuan in 2011 (247 Billion USD), up over 8 percent from the previous year at comparable prices, according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics on Jan. 19.

The added value of its primary industry totaled over 13.6 billion yuan last year, up nearly 1 percent from 2010.

The added value of the secondary industry rose nearly 7 percent to over 374.4 billion yuan, including 303.9 billion yuan of industrial added value which increased over 7 percent from 2010.

The added value of its tertiary industry increased nearly 9 percent year-on-year to over 1.2 trillion yuan. It is obvious that the tertiary industry, which contributed to about 80 percent of Beijing's over 8 percent economic growth last year, remains the major driving force for the city's economic growth.

The per capita net income of Beijing's rural residents reached over 14,700 yuan last year, up nearly 14 percent from 2010, or nearly 8 percent if allowing for inflation.

The city's per capita GDP exceeded 10,000 U.S. dollars in 2009 for the first time. The number of the city's permanent residents reached nearly 20.2 million by the end of 2011, with the per capita GDP standing at nearly 80,400 yuan, or nearly 12,500 U.S. dollars.

Although gross national income (GNI) is generally smaller than GDP in China, available GDP data are enough to evaluate the overall income level of Beijing residents. At present, the city is moving from the upper-middle-income level to high-income level, said a relevant official from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics.

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Guangdong Reports 10 Pct GDP Growth in 2011

2012-01-19 22:54:02 Xinhua Web Editor: Zhangjin

South China's bustling province of Guangdong posted 10-percent economic growth last year, the local statistics bureau said Thursday.

Gross domestic product in Guangdong reached 5.3 trillion yuan (840 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011, the provincial bureau of statistics said in a statement.

Guangdong's exports rose 17.4 percent year-on-year to 532 billion U.S. dollars, according to the statement.

Meanwhile, the province's fiscal revenue totaled 551 billion yuan (87 billion U.S. dollars), up 22.1 percent from a year earlier.

The province's economy is facing more uncertainties this year, including rising costs and weak external demand for Chinese goods due to the slow global economic recovery, it said.

The province will speed industrial transformation and upgrading to move up the value chain while maintaining steady economic growth in 2012, the statement added.

 

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China rolls out low-cost maglev trains|Society|chinadaily.com.cn
China rolls out low-cost maglev trains
Updated: 2012-01-20 20:52
(Xinhua)

A newly developed maglev train is seen at a factory of the Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd. of China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation in Zhuzhou, Central China's Hunan province, Jan 20, 2012. The three-carriage train is designed to run at a maximum speed of 100 km per hour and carry 600 passengers. It is more environmental-friendly than conventional trains. [Photo/Xinhua]

The three-carriage train is designed to run at a maximum speed of 100 km per hour and carry 600 passengers, said Xu Zongxiang, general manager of Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd. of China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation (CSR).

Xu said the new train was much quieter than conventional ones.

While a conventional train moves forward by using friction between its wheels and the railway tracks, the maglev train replaces wheels by electromagnets and levitates on the guideway.

According to Xu, his company's has minimized the risk of the new maglev train derailing or overturning.

"It's ideal for mass transportation, as it is quiet and environmental-friendly. Its manufacturing cost is about 75 percent of a conventional light-rail train," said Xu.

The maglev train has a minimum turning radius of 50 meters and can easily run in residential communities or on hilly slopes. "It's an ideal public transport option for Chinese cities and major tourist destinations," said Xu.

Railway transport specialist Liu Youmei, also an academician with Chinese Academy of Engineering, said the new train is green, economical and safe. "It can be used for public transport in populous areas and at scenic spots with fragile environments."

Liu said China is one of a few countries that have applied maglev technology.

Beijing is building a maglev route, the Daitai line (S1), which starts at its IT center in Haidian district, passes through Shijingshan district, and ends in Mentougou district on its western outskirts. The line will be operational next year.

The eastern metropolitan of Shanghai runs the world's first commercial maglev system on a 30-km stretch between the downtown business district and Pudong airport. The German-made maglev went into operation on December 31, 2002.

 

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I concern on equipment industry, Especially the stragety equipment. Here I will try my best to put some info here, many of them, we have their Independent knowledge property rights. But I can't find the English report, Maybe they are nothing for the western, But I think, for our country, It is progress. If you have the sourse, Thank you for sharing. And maybe some had been posted by other buddy, I am sorry for these.
Some of them are old news in china!!

Of course, when I read such kind of news, I will think about what eqiupment make these, And can we design and manufacture.

450 tons class electroslag remelting furnace
I had no English sourse, But Chinese sourse.
chinese website:450
Pic:

Some info may help you learn the technology.
Electroslag Remelting (ESR) - ALD Vacuum Technologies

 

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China's World Largest 18500 tons oil press machine
English website:
http://www.chinatechgadget.com/chinas-world-largest-18500-tons-oil- press-machine.html
chinese website:
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On June 28 2010, CITIC heavy machinery company launched the new project, 18500 tons oil press machine, the beam has been successfully put in place, the workers were busy with later installation and debugging. This marks the world’s most advanced 18500 tons oil press machine, flat-dieforging,completed installed in CITIC company.

As the biggest and advanced oil press machine, the core components 5.2m turntable bearings,and this bearing adopted Outer diameter 3.4m combination ball and roller ，the structural form of bearings can withstand the largest axial,the radial load, Made by luoyang heavy-duty bearing co.,ltd, all around and multi-level quality control, ensure top quality and first-rate quality。

Adopt a composite structure of ball and column, this bearing should support not only more axial force but also radial force.

a 438-ton huge steel ingot was successfully forged by the 18,500-ton free forging hydraulic oil press

The New CITIC HIC project, with its 18,500-ton oil hydraulic press centrepiece, was completed on schedule, marking the establishment of an advanced heavy equipment manufacturing system with a RMB3.9 billion investment from CITIC Heavy Industries.

At 6:36pm, on 22nd May of 2008, the advanced open forging equipment -18,500t oil hydraulic press machine is poured very successfully. The weight of the upper beam blank is 520t. This heavy casting has a strict requirement on the temperature, safety of equipment and team cooperation, and its process is complicated as well as the pouring is very difficult. In the history of China foundry industry, it is a miracle.

It is reported that this world largest oil hydraulic press is the core equipment of “New Heavy Machine Engineering”, which has invested 3.9 billion yuan by CITIC HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO., LTD. The height of this equipment is 20m from ground level, depth of 7.5m, and the whole machine weights about 4,000 tons. The annual production capacity of large forgings in CITIC HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO., LTD could reach 150,000 tons after this “giant” has been put into use.

One of the core components of this “giant” oil hydraulic press is oil hydraulic press supporting bearing E8331-7P which was independently developed, designed and produced by Luoyang Heavy-duty Bearing Co., Ltd, now it has also entered the operating phase and accepted the quality & performance testing together with the oil hydraulic press. The outer diameter of this supporting bearing is Φ3400mm, belongs to the rare single-row double-row cylindrical roller、single row ball composite structure in China. At the same time, the application of LTZC E8331-7P bearing in this world largest, most advanced “giant” oil hydraulic press fully proved the technical strength and advanced production technology of Luoyang Heavy-duty Bearing Co., Ltd in China’s bearing area.

On Oct 10 2011 , a 438-ton huge steel ingot was successfully forged by the 18,500-ton free forging hydraulic oil press, the largest and most advanced forging press in the world. It proves China has reached the international advanced level for large-scale forging and pressing.

The 438-ton steel ingot is the large forging piece provided for the 4,300 rolling mill of Xingcheng Special Steel Plant in Jiangxin, east China’s Jiangsu Province. Double vacuum smelting system has been used in forging processing and the inner quality of the forging piece is strictly complies with the criteria from DANIELI assessment.

LTZC, Luoyang Heavy-Duty Bearing Co., Ltd., which was founded in 1992, is one of the largest bearing production bases in China. From industry to military, Luoyang bearings play a decisive role. LTZC now is under CITIC HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO.

Expenditure of the project: 2Billion Yuan:

165000 ton class Free forging hydraulic press machine
I have no English sourse
Chinese sourse:
The same with the "China's World Largest 18500 tons oil press machine"

 

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DL250:world largest horizontal lathe produced by china
DL250: World Largest horizontal lathe produced by China | China's Great Science and Technology
In May, 2009, the DL250 NC 5-meter extra heavy horizontal lathe which was developed by Wuhan Heavy Machine Tool Group Co., Ltd for the key equipment of national important project of during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan has been put into service, and after four-month running, it is in good condition. The successful running of this equipment is significant for the improving of the level of the equipment manufacturing industry in China and for the enhancing of the national defense and security as well as the industrial security.

The DL250 NC 5-meter extra heavy horizontal lathe is the new product developed by Wuhan Heavy Machine Tool Group Co., Ltd, which is the largest extra heavy horizontal lathe in the world so far. It can be applied widely in the water power industry, nuclear power industry, ship industry and spaceflight industry. The total weight of this lathe is 1,450 tons. Only the spindle box is 177 tons. The radial runout of the spindle end surface is within 0.008 mm. The largest rotary diameter is 5 meters. The largest load it can carry is 500 tons. Besides the basic function of the heavy horizontal lathe, it can carry out the NC machining of tapered surface, curved surface, the step shaft, groove and sculptured surface.

 

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China develops world's largest 36000-ton vertical extruder
http://www.chinatechgadget.com/china-develops-worlds-largest-36000-ton- vertical-extruder.html
On Jul 15, 2009, boasting the world’s biggest set, China self-developed-36-thousand-ton vertical extruder has produced its first thick-walled seamless steel pipe in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, winding up the nation’s long dependence on massive imports of high-end materials.

The Inner Mongolia North Heavy Industrial Group Co. teamed up with Tsinghua University, and jointly set up the production line of the large-diameter thick-walled seamless steel pipes after 3 and a half years’ research and construction.

Covering a vertical extruding press and 63 related auxiliary equipment sets of hot-extrusion production line, the project transcended traditional designs by achieving a spate of techonological breakthroughs, said a deputy manager of the North heavy Industrial Group.

It is learned that the new steel pipe production line is the world’s largest and China’s first set with independent intellectual property rights.

An output of 50,000 ton of large diameter thick-walled seamless steel pipes, together with a sale revenue of 2.5 billion yuan ( around 370 mln USD) is expected every year.

The company’s board chairman Xu Heming said this project will not only furnish China’s nuclear power equipment and reinforce the 600,000 (and above) kilowatt thermal power generation equipment.

On Feb. 25th 2011, the project of 36,000 ton black metal vertical extrusion press has passed the judgment made by committee. The committee, composed of 11 experts, considered that the project group developed successfully 36,000 ton vertical extrusion press and 15,000 ton perforating blanking press adopting of prestress steel wire wound technology.

 

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world First Wartsila X35 low-speed engjine successully started up in china
http://www.chinatechgadget.com/world-first-wartsila-x35-low-speed- engine-successfully-started-up-in-china.html
The first of the new electronically controlled Wartsila X35 low-speed engines has been successfully started. The running engine was introduced to an audience of invited guests during a ceremony on 11 November 2011 at the Yuchai Marine Power Co. Ltd (YCMP) plant in China. YCMP, a Wartsila licensee since October 2009, is a part of the Yuchai Machinery Group.

The Wartsila X35 is a completely new Wartsila engine that, together with the Wartsila X40, will cover the small-bore end of the market. It is a segment where Wartsila has not been present for a number of years.

Wartsila launched its new low-speed X-generation engine series in May 2011. This series employs Wartsila’s well-proven common-rail RT-flex technology, and incorporates additional features designed to meet the emerging needs of the fast changing shipping sector. Wartsila X series engines feature an extra long stroke that achieves excellent fuel economy, and the operational flexibility enabled by the technology is exceptional. Furthermore, optimum propeller requirements can be satisfied within the rating field provided. Originally introduced as the Wartsila RT-flex35 and RT-flex40 engines, it was decided to change the names in order to align the Wartsila product portfolio in a consistent way.

The first Wartsila X35 engine was produced at YCMP’s new 48,000 m2 factory, which is one of Wartsila’s low speed engine licensees, located in Zhuhai on the southern estuary of the Zhujiang Delta in Guangdong Province. The Zhujiang Delta is the third largest shipbuilding area in China, and is an area targeted by the Chinese government for further shipbuilding development.

“The production of the new Wartsila X35 engine at these high-quality new manufacturing facilities is indeed a landmark occasion. We believe that this series of electronically controlled low-speed, two-stroke engines is absolutely in line with the current and future needs of the marine sector. In particular it meets the requirements set by coastal and river transportation vessels. China is one of the key markets for this engine, and the fact that it is manufactured by our licensee YCMP is indicative of our commitment to further strengthening our presence in the Chinese market,” says Mr Martin Wernli, President Wartsila Switzerland and Vice President Product Centre 2-stroke.

“The smooth assembly and running of this first of the new type engines at this brand new factory is the result of the excellent co-operation between Wartsila and YCMP. YCMP has secured substantial orders for this new engine type and is committed to being a dedicated manufacturer of it,” says Mr Jiang Shihong, President and CEO of YCMP.

The start-up of the first Wartsila X35 engine at YCMP was attended by representatives from Guangdong Province, the Zhuhai city government, the General Consuls of Finland and Switzerland, senior Wartsila executives, and major customers in China.

During the ceremony YCMP also signed the first supply contracts for the new Wartsila X40 engines.

 

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china to complete world's first 4in1 Hybrid Green Power station
http://www.chinatechgadget.com/china-to-complete-worlds-first-4in1- hybrid-green-power-station.html
2012-01-17–China’s first integrated wind-solar power demonstration project has been completed and put into operation on December 25 in Zhangbei county of north China’s Hebei province, according to a source at North China Grid Co., Ltd, constructor of the project.

The project is the largest new energy project in the world that integrates wind power generation, solar PV power generation, power storage and intelligent power transmission, said Zhao Yuzhu, deputy general manager of North China Grid.

With an initial investment of 3.3 billion yuan, the project is currently equipped with installed capacity of 100-megawatt (MW) wind power, 40-MW solar PV power and a storage capacity of 20 MW.

The power plant realizes complementary use of solar power and wind power by generating electricity through solar PV power during the daytime and electricity through wind power at night, which has enhanced the utilization rate of wind turbines by 5-10 percent, noted Zhao Yuzhu,

Meanwhile, with the power storage and intelligent power transmission, the project is to break down the bottleneck of the China’s new energy development in areas of grid connection, according to Zhao.

Solar power has already become an essential part of China’s strategy for sustainable development, and is also key to Zhangbei county’s plans to develop its economy. The sunshine in Zhangbei is abundant and its duration is quite long. The total sum of radiation measured there can peak at 5860 mega joules per year, while 2994.7 hours’ radiation can be used, making Zhangbei an ideal place to develop the solar power plant. To speed up the development of solar energy resources, the county continues to consolidate its position as the leading industry of wind power bases and diversify its way of developing into a more comprehensive strategy, relying on multiple energy sources to continue to strengthen the development of solar and wind power and attract investment.

For this project, BYD, a large Chinese manufacturer of automobiles and rechargeable batteries, has teamed up with the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and constructed what they think is the world’s largest battery energy storage station.

“This large utility-scale project, located in Zhangbei, Hebei Province, combines 140 Mega-Watts of renewable energy generation (both wind & solar), 36 Mega-Watt-Hours (MWh) of energy storage and a smart power transmission system,” the news release notes.

“BYD’s battery energy storage system provides a solution for the realization of energy storage in the smart grid that improves renewable energy efficiency by 5%-10%.”

BYD provided “energy storage batteries in arrays larger than a football field” for the project and state that the entire project is worth over $500 million USD.

“This State Grid project demonstrates a solution and will be the model of development for China’s new energy resources,” Xiu Binglin, Deputy Director of the National Energy Administration, said.

 

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The world s largest 5500mm heavy-plate rolling mill delivered from Dalian(34817)
The world s largest 5500mm heavy-plate rolling mill delivered from Dalian
Write: Uda [2011-05-20]

In September, 10th, the delivery ceremony of the POSCO 5500mm heavy-plate rolling mill made by CFHI was held at the Heshang Port of Dalian Bay. Deputy Major of Dalian Qu Xiaofei, CFHI general manager Wu Shengfu, POSCO vice manager Xu Nanshi took part in the ceremony and delivered their speeches. Over 80 representatives from CFHI and companies and departments, who were involved in the engineering and manufacture of this project, participated the ceremony, such as the Dalian Economic and Trade Commission, the Dalian Customs, Dalian Ruiqiao Jinde Transportation Ltd.,Dalian Port Group,etc.

In his speech, Mr.Wu said that the POSCO 5500mm heavy-plate rolling mill is at present the world s largest mill of its kind, with many performance figures present the top-level of metallurgic rolling equipment. POSCO contracted this important equipment with CFHI shows the mutual trust and cooperation between the two companies.

During the manufacture of this mill, CFHI has constantly observed its the Four Conformities Ideology , i.e. the quality of CFHI s products should always be in conformity with customer s requirements, engineering drawings, technical standards and procedure specifications. Modern management, improved quality assurance system, organized production of 500 days finally created this giant rolling mill.

POSCO vice manager Mr.Xu said that the successful delivery of this 5500m rolling mill shows not only the supply of equipment, but also indicates that POSCO has found a reliable partner that could promote its competitiveness in China. He blessed in his speech that CFHI could go ahead of the China s First and step forward into the global market.

The Deputy Major Qu Xiaofei addressed that CFHI has domestically supplied a great lot of key technical equipment, involving steel and iron, power stations, automobile, energy, national defense, etc. Its products have found a great portion of international market and created many China s Firsts . The brand of China First Heavy has become one of the most competitive ones in China s heavy equipment manufacturing industry with the highest market share and profit.

He pointed out that this delivered rolling mill is up till now the largest one ever exported, and for the first time Chinese manufactures supplied important rolling equipment to the world-class steel&iron companies.

Wu Shengfu, Qu Xiaofei, Xu Nanshi and other guests cut the ribbon for the delivery. Sound of firecrackers, whistles of the tugboat and pompons all over the sky has made the ceremony into its climax.
The delivery ceremony has draw attention of various circles. CCTV, Economy Daily, China Industry, Dalian Television and Dalian Daily have sent their correspondents for site reporting.

 

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China developing new front wheel drive 8AT transmission
China Developing new front wheel drive 8AT transmission | China's Great Science and Technology
Following an extensive programme of vehicle based demonstrations at Weifang, China, the highly advanced eight-speed automatic transmission – developed as the result of a close collaboration between Shengrui and Ricardo – has moved a significant step closer to production.

The new front wheel drive 8AT transmission offers the prospect of improving powertrain efficiency and hence fuel economy, while also providing highly satisfying and sporty performance. The 8AT design is a relatively simple arrangement that requires no special gear design or manufacture. It offers the potential for excellent shift quality and is notably compact, offering significant packaging benefits.

The vehicle tests of the 8AT transmission were carried out at Weifang on 1st of September in the presence of approximately 25 officials of the Chinese government as well as senior representatives of SAE China and major Chinese automakers including ChangAn, FAW, Great Wall and Dongfeng. Feedback from the tests was extremely positive, with those driving the vehicle commenting on the high quality of the transmission and the smoothness of its performance, helped by the 8AT’s advanced Ricardo control software and calibration. As a result of this formal review of the 8AT transmission, the Chinese government has now given its formal approval for the prototype to proceed to production.

Commenting on Commenting on the achievement of this key project milestone, Mark Garrett, Ricardo plc executive director, said: “We are extremely pleased to have been able to assist Shengrui in the development of the 8AT transmission. This is an internationally competitive and feature rich product that has been the result of a highly effective collaboration between Ricardo and Shengrui in which teams of engineers from both companies have worked together in China and Europe. We look forward to seeing the first production applications of this exciting new product in the near future in both the Chinese and international export markets.”

The project to develop the 8AT transmission commenced in mid-2009. The ground-breaking 8AT concept was first proposed by a respected transmission specialist, Professor Peter Tenberge, director and chair of machine elements in the faculty of mechanical engineering at Chemnitz University, Germany. As developed in collaboration between Ricardo and Shengrui over the past year, the 8AT includes a unique combination of epicyclic and parallel axis gearing, in which three simple planetary gears are used together with a single brake and four clutch units. Just seven months following the start of the project the first prototype was demonstrated at Ricardo’s Leamington Spa, UK, facility in February 2010, and in April a vehicle featuring an 8AT was subsequently unveiled at the prestigious Beijing Motor Show. Following completion of this important milestone review announced today, it is anticipated that a production version of the new gearbox will be ready for manufacture in China in the near future.

in this exhibition on Beijing auto show, China’s first 8AT transmission (ie 8-speed automatic transmission) and display to attract the industry’s attention. This is Rui Sheng Co., Ltd. and a number of transmission units with independent intellectual property rights developed in cooperation with the World’s first pre-precursor 8AT gearbox, breaking the long-standing similar products in Germany and Japan monopoly.

AT automatic transmission is a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and electronic control in one of the core automotive powertrain components, along with its high-tech and high value-added features of known, independent research and development and so far China can not produce core auto parts One of the domestic passenger car market, Automatic, foreign technology has become a monopoly.

“According to the plan, to be mass production next year in November, 2012 to achieve an annual output of 400,000 units for 3 ~ 4 supporting production of automobile manufacturers do.” Sheng Liu, Rui Wu, chairman of that drive.

Although the market can not just bulk supplies, Sheng Rui transmission has been established order. FAW Mazda now has reached a cooperation intention, the two sides work together to develop suitable models produced by FAW-Mazda 8AT gearbox, can supply next year in October.

 

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China's 450-ton electroslag remelting furnace

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"Shanghai Heavy Machinery 450-ton electroslag remelting (ESR) furnace is the world's largest

China manufactures the world's-largest ESR (ElectroSlag Remelting) furnace at 450 tons.

Shanghai Heavy Machinery (SHM) 450-ton electroslag remelting furnace is the world's-largest ESR furnace. It is indigenously designed and manufactured. SHM owns all of the intellectual property rights. SHM's ESR furnace can produce a 450-ton ingot with a maximum diameter of 3.6m, height of 6m, and is equivalent to a 600-ton ingot from "vacuum cast" method. This meets the current tonnage of the world's-largest forging ingots used.

The ESR technique passes a current through the slag and the heat generated from the resistance of the material serves as a heat source for melting. Its main purpose is to purify the metal and produce dense homogeneous ingots. ESR ingots have high purity, low sulfur, non-metallic inclusions (excluding ingot surface) is smooth, clean uniform density, uniform microstructure, and chemical composition; with the segregation of small ingots of high purity.

The SHM 450-ton ESR remelting furnace has greatly enhanced Shanghai Electric's large-forging manufacturing capacity to produce equipment for the second- and third-generation gigawatt nuclear generating units' low-pressure turbine rotor, rotor, evaporator tube plate, and other major nuclear power roll-forging equipment; such as electric utility equipment and large-slag ingot requirements.

(Source: Information Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipal Economy)"

[Note: Thank you to SweetGrape for the newslink.]

 

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I think in terms of heavy industry, China has reached the top 5 spots. The others would be Germany, France, Japan and the US in that league. The question is how is the quality of Chinese heavy industry compared to the other top players?

Any Chinese forumer could enlighten me on that?