China national badminton team arrived in Paris on Saturday for the upcoming Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games, which is set to open on July 26.
The team members got off the plane and received warm welcome from local fans at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris on Saturday morning.
The team consists of 16 Olympic athletes and 11 support staff including coaches, doctors and rehabilitation therapists.
Before arriving in Paris, the team underwent three months of intensive training. In the next few days, all team members will undergo trainings following the plan formulated by their coaches so as to adapt themselves to the competition venues.
"The state of the athletes has undergone a period of adjustments, from the fierce competitions at the Tomas and Uber Cup, the recount after the competition and to the preparations focused on the Olympic Games. Now their state has basically achieved the intended effect of intensive training. For the next period of time, we will carefully analyze our main opponents and make the final preparations," said Zhang Jun, president of the Chinese Badminton Association.
The badminton competition of the Paris 2024 will take place from July 27 to August 5, leaving the Chinese team a week-long preparation.
Chinese badminton team arrives in Paris for Olympics
Chinese badminton team arrives in Paris for Olympics
Chinese badminton team arrives in Paris for Olympics
China’s first intelligent field plant phenotype precision identification platform went into operation recently in Sanya City, south China’s Hainan Province, which is a milestone in the country’s development of intelligent breeding.
The phenotype of a plant is a term used to describe observable characteristics of the plant, such as its appearance, and some inherent physiological characteristics, such as resistance to drought and diseases.
In an experimental field of the National Nanfan Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a large piece of equipment is moving across the field. The equipment, called the field plant phenotype precision identification platform, can move according to the preset track and can be remotely controlled. While moving, the equipment can scan the plants with its six sensors, just like a CT machine for plants.
"The ultimate goal is to achieve high-throughput, large-scale, efficient and precise collection of germplasm resources, which can be four to five times higher than the efficiency of the traditional manual collection," said Jin Xiuliang, a researcher at the institute.
Although the equipment looks simple from the outside, it contains six high-precision image acquisition devices such as multi-spectral, thermal infrared, and chlorophyll fluorescence devices. Data can be collected at fixed times and points according to experimental needs, and the collection of a germplasm material can be completed within 30 seconds.
After the data collected through this platform is transmitted to the data analysis center, researchers can more quickly and accurately screen out germplasm resources with excellent traits, laying the foundation for subsequent crop breeding.
"The plant phenotype identification facility at the National Nanfan Research Institute is a milestone in the field of crop science in China. It can greatly enhance the independent innovation capabilities of germplasm innovation, gene mining, and variety breeding, and enhance the international competitiveness of China's seed industry," said Li Huihui, vice president of the institute.
China makes major progress in smart crop breeding
