FILE: Beijing, China - June 24, 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Great Hall of the People
2. Meeting conflating national sci-tech conference, national science and technology award conference, and general assemblies of members of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in progress
3. Attendees

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4. Animation of Chang'e-6 lunar probe approaching moon

FILE: In Space - June 2-3, 2024 (China National Space Administration - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Footage showing lunar surface
6. Various of Chang'e-6 lunar probe operating on lunar surface

FILE: Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, south China - November 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Aerial shots of China's first homegrown ultra-deepwater drilling ship "Meng Xiang"

FILE: Hefei City, Anhui Province, east China - July 10, 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Scientists talking in lab, quantum simulator
9. Photographs showing quantum simulator, physical structure

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10. Aerial shot of meteorological institute

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11. New-generation meteorological supercomputing system

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12. Various of "Q Family" humanoid robots in operation, on display

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13. Lunar geologic map set copies in display
14. Various of geologic maps in display

FILE: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, northwest China – Sept 27, 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
15. Long March-2D rocket carrying Shijian-19, China's first reusable, returnable test satellite, blasting off, flying

FILE: Ejin Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China - Oct 11, 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
16. Various of Shijian-19, staff at work

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17. Aerial shots of traffic on Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link

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18. Various of researcher working in lab
19. Photograph showing brain organoid
20. Brain-on-a-chip intelligent complex information interaction system

China Media Group unveiled its selection of the country's Top 10 scientific news stories for 2024 on Saturday, ranging from the successful Chang'e-6 lunar mission to the world's first brain-on-a-chip intelligent interaction system.

The Top 10 scientific news events for 2024 are as follows.

1. A meeting conflating the national sci-tech conference, the national science and technology award conference, and the general assemblies of the members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), was held on June 24.

Addressing the meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping underscored the importance of sci-tech modernization and innovation in pursuing Chinese modernization and high-quality development.

2. China's Chang'e-6 lunar module carried out the historic mission to collect the first ever samples from the far side of the moon in a major milestone for the country's space program.

After its launch on May 3, the Chang'e-6 mission lasted 53 days, consisting of 11 flight phases, and achieved breakthroughs in key technologies such as the design and control of the lunar retrograde orbit, intelligent and rapid sampling from the moon's far side, and takeoff and ascent from the moon's far side.

The returner of the Chang'e-6 probe touched down on the Earth on June 25.

3. The Meng Xiang (Dream), China's first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel, was officially commissioned in November, marking a significant milestone in the country's deep-sea exploration technology.

The drilling ship, weighing 33,000 tons and measuring 179.8 meters in length and 32.8 meters in width, can operate continuously at sea for 120 days with a full crew of 180 members and travel up to 15,000 nautical miles.

More importantly, it is the world's only drilling vessel capable of reaching a depth of 11 kilometers.

4. Chinese scientists have made a major breakthrough in quantum computing research by building a quantum simulator capable of solving a specific scientific model.

A team led by renowned Chinese quantum physicist Pan Jianwei, academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has observed the antiferromagnetic phase transition in a three-dimensional fermionic Hubbard system, laying an important foundation for understanding the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity.

5. In January, China announced that it had launched a new-generation weather forecasting system using supercomputers which will greatly enhance the precision of its global and nationwide weather and climate forecasting.

The newly developed supercomputing system will help accelerate the digitalization of China's weather forecasting system, multiplying its current computing power by 6.5 times.

6. "Q Family" humanoid robots developed by a research team of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, made their public debut in Beijing in February.

The Chinese researchers developed a sophisticated "big factory" to design and assemble the humanoid robots. Several prototypes of "Q Family" humanoid robots have obtained preliminary technical verification.

7. In April, China released a set of geologic atlas of the global moon with a scale of 1:2.5 million, which is the first complete high-definition lunar geologic atlas in the world.

This set of geologic atlas, available in Chinese and English, includes the Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe and the Map Quadrangles of the Geologic Atlas of the Moon.

8. China successfully retrieved its first reusable and returnable test satellite, Shijian-19, in October, after it had achieved a number of technological breakthroughs during its flight tests, including in reusability and damage-free recovery.

9. A cross-sea highway project linking the cities of Shenzhen and Zhongshan in south China's Guangdong Province went into trial operation in June, set to further improve the transportation network in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area city cluster.

With a total length of 24 kilometers, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link consists of one underwater tunnel, two bridges and two artificial islands, crossing several main waterways of the Lingdingyang Bay, and will further expand the one-hour life cycle in the Greater Bay Area.

10. Chinese researchers have developed the world's first open-source brain-on-a-chip intelligent complex information interaction system.

The system enables a brain organoid to autonomously control robots for tasks, shedding a new light on brain-computer interface research.