China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe has made three breakthroughs in its lunar exploration journey which successfully concluded on Tuesday with fruitful results, said a commentator from China Media Group (CMG).
The returner of the Chang'e-6 probe touched down on Earth on Tuesday in Siziwang Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, bringing back the world's first samples collected from the moon's far side.
Yang Fujiang, the commentator, said that from its launch to sample collection on the Moon, Chang'e-6 made three breakthroughs comparing with Chang'e-5.
"Compared with Chang'e-5, I think Chang'e-6 has made three major breakthroughs. The first breakthrough is that it passed the test of a narrow launch window. The time window for the launch was inadequate. There were 50 minutes for the window for two consecutive days. Considering the weather, the time was quite short. This time, researchers adopted a 'narrow window, multiple trajectories' launch scheme. It means that the time is short, but we designed ten orbits which ensures the launch to be conducted as scheduled and improves the stability," said Yang.
"The second breakthrough is communication. Any probe that flies and lands to the far side of the Moon will face communication challenges due to the Moon's enormous mass, which will block direct communication between the probe and the Earth. At this time, the relay satellite Queqiao-2 which has been standing by in the orbit can serve as a signal receiver for Chang'e-6," he said.
Yang said that intelligent sampling is the milestone breakthrough and highlight of Chang'e-6.
"The Chang'e-5 mission used a remote control and command approach. In other words, every instruction was sent from the Earth and the probe on the lunar surface would receive the instructions and perform the corresponding operations. To save time, Chang'e-6 adopts an intelligent sampling approach, which allows it to autonomously conduct some basic movements without waiting for commands. On the one hand, it improves its independent preprocessing ability and becomes more intelligent, and on the other hand, it greatly reduces the time of unnecessary interaction and communication between the probe and the Earth," said Yang.
Chang'e-6 mission makes three breakthroughs during moon journey: commentator
Chang'e-6 mission makes three breakthroughs during moon journey: commentator
Chang'e-6 mission makes three breakthroughs during moon journey: commentator
Active policy measures to boost the economy, the fostering of new quality productive forces and the optimization of measures for the real estate sector will ensure China sustains a robust GDP growth this year, said Dora Liu, deputy CEO for Deloitte China, a global auditing and consulting firm, at the just-concluded Summer Davos forum.
The three-day Summer Davos forum, or the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s 15th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, concluded in Dalian City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, on Thursday.
In an interview with China Global Television Network on the sidelines of the forum, Liu noted that from January to May, the Chinese economy has shown a vigorous growth momentum in manufacturing, consumption and exports as the World Bank has raised the growth estimate for China's economy in 2024 from 4.5 percent to 4.8 percent.
"In the first five months we have seen very strong performance of three sectors. First and foremost, manufacturing, no doubt. Second is service consumption, and third is external demand - you can interpret as exports. From a production side, manufacturing, particularly advanced manufacturing, or high-tech-related manufacturing has achieved a very impressive result," said Liu.
Official data showed that in the first five months, China's industrial output increased 6 percent year-on-year. In May, the output of the high-tech manufacturing sector surged 9.4 percent, 4.4 percentage points faster than the pace of overall industrial output growth.
The data also showed that China's consumption growth picked up pace in May with retail sales expanding 8.6 percent year-on-year, while fixed-asset investment grew 5.6 percent year-on-year in the first five months.
"That indicates we (China) are on the right track of high-quality growth, particularly, the new [quality] productive forces as the top priority of our economic growth. The combination of our measures, the new [quality] productive forces, and the optimization of real estate measures. All in all, I'm very confident that we can achieve more than 5 percent GDP growth in this year," said Liu.
First introduced in 2023, new quality productive forces refer to advanced productivity freed from the traditional economic growth mode and productivity development paths. It features high-tech, high efficiency and high quality.
On May 28, Deloitte hosted the inaugural MNC Future Summit in Shanghai, gathering together over 200 global delegates, including senior executives from renowned multinational companies (MNCs) in China, top industry professionals, and Deloitte's client service lead partners.
The attendees to the summit all agreed that the Chinese economy is too big and too important to ignore, and that despite the complexities, the Chinese market still hold abundant opportunities for global investors, according to Liu.
"The reason behind why we were all so confident of China's economy is exactly as what Premier Li Qiang mentioned and pointed out [at the opening plenary of the Summer Davos forum]. First and foremost, the mega size of our digital economy, the huge amount of user cases and the innovation - pivotal is the power of the innovation hub. Second is the talent pool, and third is China has been keeping advocating the open-door policy and it put words into action," said Liu.
Deloitte deputy CEO confident in China's economic development
