The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy will send warships to participate in celebrative events marking the 328th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Navy from late July to mid-August, a Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesman said on Thursday.
The PLA Navy has formed two warship fleets to participate in the related celebrative events to be respectively held in St. Petersburg and Vladivostok, and one of the fleets will also visit Egypt, according to Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, the spokesman.
"According to the annual plan, at the invitation of the Russian and Egyptian Navies, from late July to mid-August, a fleet consisting of the Jiaozuo and Honghu warships of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy will sail to the St. Petersburg Port in Russia to participate in celebrative events marking the 328th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Navy, and to visit the Alexandria Port in Egypt. In late July, a separate fleet consisting of the Longhushan and Zhenghe warships of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy will sail to the Vladivostok Port in Russia to participate in similar events marking the founding anniversary of the Russian Navy," Zhang said at a press conference in Beijing.
Chinese warships to participate in events marking founding anniversary of Russian Navy: spokesman
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
