https://www.scmp.com/rss/521980/feed The latest news and top stories on the Jilin Cancer Hospital. A prominent and comprehensive tertiary care facility, based in Jilin province, China, Jilin Cancer Hospital is dedicated to oncology, encompassing medical treatment education research and disease prevention. Established in 1984, it stands as the sole such institution in the province and is recognised as the largest tumor prevention and treatment centre with advanced skills. The late Cheng Ying, a top-tier oncologist and pioneer in... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ling Xin Ling Xin German biochemist and Nobel laureate Hartmut Michel has taken up a full-time position as a professor at Jilin University in Changchun, northeastern China, according to the university. The 77-year-old – who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for revealing how photosynthesis works at the molecular level – will join the university’s First Hospital as “a flagship hire under its talent recruitment strategy”, the university said in a statement last week. It said Michel told the university’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3351541/nobel-laureate-biochemist-hartmut-michel-joins-jilin-university-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3351541/nobel-laureate-biochemist-hartmut-michel-joins-jilin-university-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:00:10 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang In the 1987 American action film RoboCop, protagonist Alex Murphy is a police officer in a dystopian 21st-century Detroit when he is mortally wounded and rebuilt by cybernetic enhancements so that he can keep fighting crime. Nearly 40 years on, a Chinese policeman and a team of doctors at Jilin University have turned what once seemed a highly futuristic treatment into an encouraging new reality. Recently, state broadcaster CCTV reported that the Second Hospital of Jilin University earlier this... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3330581/real-life-robocop-chinese-policeman-beats-paralysis-spinal-interface-implant?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3330581/real-life-robocop-chinese-policeman-beats-paralysis-spinal-interface-implant?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:00:15 +0000 SCMP SCMP We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Apparently impatient Trump slaps 25% tariffs on Japan, South Korea US President Donald Trump, apparently impatient with the slow progress of negotiations, slapped 25 per cent unilateral tariffs on Japan and South Korea and equal or... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3317626/trumps-new-tariffs-hong-kong-bomb-scare-over-british-cannon-barrel-scmps-7-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3317626/trumps-new-tariffs-hong-kong-bomb-scare-over-british-cannon-barrel-scmps-7-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:36:56 +0000 SCMP SCMP Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China denies giving Iran air defence systems after conflict with Israel China has denied transferring surface-to-air missile batteries to Iran following Israel’s attacks on the Islamic Republic last month. 2. Export ban for Taiwan firms a stern warning for separatist forces: Beijing Beijing has banned the export of dual-use items to eight Taiwan-based... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3317595/china-denies-giving-iran-air-defence-systems-taiwan-export-ban-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3317595/china-denies-giving-iran-air-defence-systems-taiwan-export-ban-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:36:22 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang A top Chinese oncologist and physician-scientist, Cheng Ying, has died suddenly aged 62, according to multiple sources. There has been no official statement about the doctor’s death, and the cause of death is not known. Cheng was director of the Jilin Cancer Hospital and according to their outpatient records, she last appeared at the specialist team clinic she led on the morning of July 2. Subsequently, her appointment schedule was removed from the hospital’s outpatient information sheet, and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3317414/cheng-ying-jilin-cancer-hospital-director-and-astrazeneca-funded-scientist-dies-suddenly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3317414/cheng-ying-jilin-cancer-hospital-director-and-astrazeneca-funded-scientist-dies-suddenly?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:00:15 +0000