https://www.scmp.com/rss/522866/feed The latest news and top stories on Chinese Academy of Engineering. A prominent Beijing-based national academic institution, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) is dedicated to uniting leading experts to advise on major engineering and technological issues. Established in 1994, it serves as the highest honorary and advisory body in China’s engineering sciences and technology fields. Its main areas of activity include conducting strategic studies, providing consultancy for national... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Stephen Chen Stephen Chen A leading Chinese aviation engineer has set out a detailed blueprint for building a fully self-sufficient supply chain for large passenger jets. The paper, written by Zhang Yanzhong, a senior academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the former chief scientist of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, acknowledged there was a very real risk that the country could be cut off entirely from components made in the West. Known as the “father of China’s large aircraft” for his... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3353117/chinese-aviation-expert-lays-out-plan-sanction-proof-domestic-passenger-planes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3353117/chinese-aviation-expert-lays-out-plan-sanction-proof-domestic-passenger-planes?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:05 +0000 Amber Wang Amber Wang Major General Feng Yufang, a leading missile scientist with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force, died on Monday at the age of 63, according to state media and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). The official CAE website confirmed that Feng, one of its academicians, died on April 13. Although it did not give a cause of death, an article by state media outlet China Daily on Tuesday stated that he died of illness. With a career spanning nearly 40 years in military equipment... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3350064/chinese-rocket-force-scientist-major-general-feng-yufang-dies-aged-63?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3350064/chinese-rocket-force-scientist-major-general-feng-yufang-dies-aged-63?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:00:10 +0000 Ling Xin Ling Xin A senior Chinese scientist has outlined the potential military applications of space-based solar power technology, offering a rare glimpse into how energy beamed from orbit could also support surveillance and electronic warfare. Duan Baoyan, a leading architect of China’s “Zhuri” space solar power initiative, wrote in a paper published in Scientia Sinica Informationis last month, that his team had revamped the design of the giant orbital infrastructure. In addition to energy transmission, the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3348871/china-reveals-military-capabilities-new-space-solar-power-plant-design?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3348871/china-reveals-military-capabilities-new-space-solar-power-plant-design?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:00:08 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang Seeram Ramakrishna, a leading researcher at the National University of Singapore and the most cited scientist from the city state, has joined one of China’s leading universities full time. He joined the department of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University in September, but the university only announced the appointment this week. The Singaporean, who was described by MIT Technology Review China as the “father of electrospinning”, has been appointed as a Xinghua distinguished chair... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3348141/top-singaporean-materials-scientist-seeram-ramakrishna-joins-chinas-tsinghua-university?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3348141/top-singaporean-materials-scientist-seeram-ramakrishna-joins-chinas-tsinghua-university?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:00:08 +0000 Holly Chik Holly Chik A former top-ranking scientist in the Chinese military and one-time nuclear test site commander, Liu Guozhi, has been removed from the website of the country’s top national research institute. In 2016, Liu was named head of the science and technology commission of the Central Military Commission – China’s top military decision-making and command body – a position he is believed to have held until the early 2020s. Liu, 65, was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2009. Some Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3347200/liu-guozhi-former-top-pla-scientist-and-nuclear-test-commander-delisted-cas-website?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3347200/liu-guozhi-former-top-pla-scientist-and-nuclear-test-commander-delisted-cas-website?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:58:48 +0000 Holly Chik Holly Chik The profile of one of China’s top nuclear weapons scientists has been scrubbed from the website of the nation’s engineering brains trust. Zhao Xiangeng, 72, was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), the nation’s highest academic body for engineering science and technology, but his profile page has disappeared from the CAE’s site. It is not known when the page was removed, but Chinese media reports noted the change on Saturday. Similar online references to other CAE academicians,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3346672/top-nuclear-radar-and-missile-experts-vanish-chinese-academy-engineering-site?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3346672/top-nuclear-radar-and-missile-experts-vanish-chinese-academy-engineering-site?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:44:43 +0000 Ling Xin Ling Xin China should not follow SpaceX in launching artificial intelligence data centres into orbit, but instead focus on more practical near-term space-based computing, a senior researcher has said. Gao Wen, a computer scientist at Peking University and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said on Thursday that electricity demand was not a major bottleneck for AI data centres in China, meaning there was little reason to move them into space. In a Sina News interview during the annual “two... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3345685/china-cant-buy-elon-musks-theory-space-based-ai-centres-experts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3345685/china-cant-buy-elon-musks-theory-space-based-ai-centres-experts?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:30:08 +0000 Ling Xin Ling Xin Steve Durst, a US space entrepreneur who spent decades building rare bridges with China’s space sector despite restrictions on official cooperation, has died aged 82. Durst, who founded the non-profit International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA), was publishing on China’s astronaut training as early as 1980, when the country’s human space flight ambitions were still little known to the outside world. He died at his home in California last month, shortly after attending a workshop in Chiang... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3343571/steve-durst-us-citizen-space-diplomat-who-reached-out-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3343571/steve-durst-us-citizen-space-diplomat-who-reached-out-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:07 +0000 Alcott Wei Alcott Wei China has removed three senior defence industry executives, including a nuclear weapons expert, from the national legislature as part of a deepening anti-corruption campaign. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Wednesday said it had expelled Liu Cangli, former president of the China Academy of Engineering Physics, Luo Qi, chief engineer of the China National Nuclear Corporation, and Zhou Xinmin, former chairman of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. It did not say... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3342411/china-expels-defence-industry-officials-legislature-amid-corruption-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3342411/china-expels-defence-industry-officials-legislature-amid-corruption-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:49:39 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang Twenty years ago, technologies developed by Liang Jie at Microsoft were incorporated into products like the Windows Media Video Player and Blu-ray discs used by millions worldwide. A decade on, while a professor in Canada, Liang ventured into entrepreneurship, developing an intelligent sensor system for elderly care to address global population ageing. Today, he brings his top-tier expertise in image and video compression back to China. According to the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341662/north-americas-top-computer-vision-scientist-liang-jie-returns-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341662/north-americas-top-computer-vision-scientist-liang-jie-returns-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:00:11 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng Although the war in Gaza has clearly cooled diplomatic ties and sparked disputes between China and Israel, science and technology cooperation at a civil level between the two countries has continued. “I have a feeling that we have a lot of common ground and plenty of opportunities for cooperation in sectors such as energy and agriculture,” said Yaroslav Efimov, head of science and technology at PLANETech, an Israeli non-profit innovation community specialising in climate change-related... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341618/china-israel-continue-collaborate-science-and-tech-despite-unrest-gaza?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3341618/china-israel-continue-collaborate-science-and-tech-despite-unrest-gaza?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:00:09 +0000 Yuanyue Dang Yuanyue Dang In the daytime the temperature in northern China often stays below freezing, but for many rural villagers the prohibitive cost of heating means that they have little choice but to endure the cold. “We dare not turn on the heating during the day,” one woman from Guan county in Hebei named Wang said. The 75-year-old’s home is around 70km (43 miles) from the centre of Beijing, but running the heating all day would cost between 60 and 90 yuan (US$8-13), an expense that could soar over the course of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3339631/north-china-farmers-pay-heavy-price-winter-beijings-clean-air-success?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3339631/north-china-farmers-pay-heavy-price-winter-beijings-clean-air-success?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:00:16 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang China has pulled off a daring underground feat, using a multimillion-dollar tunnel boring machine (TBM) to recover its stranded twin beneath the country’s largest river. The rendezvous between the TBMs was achieved with just 2mm (0.078 inch) of vertical error and no horizontal deviation under the Yangtze’s riverbed, setting a benchmark for precision in deep underground engineering, according to state media on Wednesday. The feat saved a megaproject that might otherwise have been scrapped. In... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3339450/how-china-turned-mega-project-failure-defining-moment-modern-engineering?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3339450/how-china-turned-mega-project-failure-defining-moment-modern-engineering?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:00:11 +0000 Zhang Tong Zhang Tong Researchers in China have developed a fully modular, intelligent electric-drive heavy-duty vehicle that could be used as a mobile launcher for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The researchers said the vehicle could “crab walk” through tight or obstructed terrain that would defeat conventional launchers and its near-silent operation improved its stealth abilities. A prototype was unveiled in Beijing on December 21, less than two years after the project was approved in January 2024 as... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3337995/nuclear-game-changer-china-builds-crab-walking-electric-icbm-mobile-launcher-prototype?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3337995/nuclear-game-changer-china-builds-crab-walking-electric-icbm-mobile-launcher-prototype?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:00:08 +0000 Zhang Tong Zhang Tong China has activated what may be the world’s largest distributed AI computing pool, alongside a high-speed data network developed over more than a decade, according to a state newspaper. The official Science and Technology Daily said the optical network connected distant computing centres, so they could work together almost as efficiently as a single giant computer. The 2,000km-wide (1,243-mile) computing power pool formed via this network could achieve 98 per cent of the efficiency of a single... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3335773/over-10-years-making-china-launches-2000km-wide-ai-computing-hub?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3335773/over-10-years-making-china-launches-2000km-wide-ai-computing-hub?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:00:15 +0000 Victoria Bela Victoria Bela Guo Wei, the chief scientist of China’s top naval institute, has been suspended as a foreign academician to the Russian Academy of Engineering after he became the subject of a police probe over alleged academic misconduct. The Chinese headquarters of the Russian academy announced on its social media page on Friday that it had taken note of the case against Guo and was verifying information regarding his election as a foreign academician earlier this year. The Beijing News reported on Sunday that... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3333973/russian-academy-breaks-chinas-top-naval-institute-chief-scientist-under-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3333973/russian-academy-breaks-chinas-top-naval-institute-chief-scientist-under-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:11:25 +0000 Liu Zhen Liu Zhen Key scientists behind China’s latest stealth fighter and aircraft carrier have been promoted to one of the country’s top scientific academies in recognition of their contributions to advances in military technology. The honours also highlight the global lead Chinese military technology has taken in a number of areas. Wang Yongqing, the chief designer and expert of the J-35A stealth fighter; Huang Weina, the lead designer of the WS-19 engine for the J-35 series; and Lu Junyong, a key researcher... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3333823/top-honours-engineers-spotlight-chinas-gains-military-technology?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3333823/top-honours-engineers-spotlight-chinas-gains-military-technology?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:00:21 +0000 Zhang Tong Zhang Tong China has completed ground and altitude tests of an adaptive cycle engine prototype with unprecedented thrust, efficiency and speed range, according to presentations at the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics annual conference in Beijing last week. During the opening day report, Xu Gang, deputy director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, presented his team’s research progress in adaptive cycle engine (ACE) technology. This advanced engine... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331932/chinese-scientists-build-mach-4-ace-turbojet-engine-record-smashing-performance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331932/chinese-scientists-build-mach-4-ace-turbojet-engine-record-smashing-performance?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:00:09 +0000 Shi Huang Shi Huang The recent return to China of cancer researcher and professor Wang Qianben marks the reunion of a family of high-achieving Chinese scientists and the culmination of a decades-long journey for Wang Qi, a renowned traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) researcher in Beijing. In the 1970s, Wang Qi bestowed upon his newborn sons names laden with ambition – Wang Qianfei (“to fly forward”) and Wang Qianben (“to run forward”). Now, both have returned home from the United States as distinguished scientists... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3329898/return-china-cancer-researcher-wang-qianben-reunites-esteemed-scientific-family?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3329898/return-china-cancer-researcher-wang-qianben-reunites-esteemed-scientific-family?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:00:21 +0000 Zhang Tong Zhang Tong As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we explore what China will do in the field of science and technology, particularly regarding the introduction of scientific talent. For more stories in this ongoing series, click here. China aims to become a global leader in science and technology by 2035, and has identified the next five years as a critical, decisive... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3327566/china-charts-path-global-competitiveness-chips-and-ai-next-five-year-plan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3327566/china-charts-path-global-competitiveness-chips-and-ai-next-five-year-plan?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:00:08 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng Over his nearly two-decade career as an environmental researcher, Ma Jun has witnessed arguably the fastest environmental improvement in the world. In 2006, he founded the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) – a non-profit environmental research organisation based in Beijing. At the time, data collected by his organisation showed around 28 per cent of monitored water sources nationwide were severely polluted and rendered unusable, leaving nearly 300 million people without... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3324409/more-factories-less-pollution-how-chinas-green-tech-revolution-works?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3324409/more-factories-less-pollution-how-chinas-green-tech-revolution-works?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:00:09 +0000 Luna Sun Luna Sun While its home-grown airliners bring China the most attention in the complex, lucrative field of aviation, the country is also making strides in an equally important realm: the many components necessary to ensure the safe, smooth operation of jets and other aircraft. Recent developments in a number of areas show Beijing is continuing to reduce its reliance on foreign parts, close long-standing technological gaps and assert itself as a major player in civil aviation at all levels of the supply... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3320682/nose-tail-how-china-reshaping-aviation-supply-chain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3320682/nose-tail-how-china-reshaping-aviation-supply-chain?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:00:35 +0000