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Top 10 sci-tech events in Zhejiang in 2021

ezhejiang.gov.cn| Updated: January 18, 2022 L M S

Zhejiang Daily, a State-controlled mainstream news outlet in East China's Zhejiang province, recently published a list of the Top 10 Science & Technology Events in Zhejiang in 2021.

The ten entries were the result of an online vote among the general public and an expert review by some top scientists in China.

The list of the events is as follows.

1. Lianfei Cao from the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in collaboration with several other scientists, decoded chromosome-scale genome assembly of the high royal jelly-producing honeybees.

2. Scientists from Zhejiang Lab developed the 800G ultra-high-speed optical transceiver integrated circuit and optical engine technologies.

3. Scientists from Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Lab developed a self-powered soft robot that mimics fish to explore the extreme depths of the ocean.

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Scientists from Zhejiang University have developed a bionic soft robot for deep-water exploration. [Photo/Chinanews.com]

4. Yongjiang Laboratory and Oujiang Laboratory, two provincial-level research institutes, were both founded in May 2021.

5. A study by Zhejiang University scholars showed subspecies divergence and the evolutionary characteristics of the giant panda.

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Sichuan giant panda (left) and Qinling giant panda (right) [Photo/screenshots from CCTV]

6. Zhejiang ranked third among all provincial-level regions in terms of the number of national science and technology awards it received in 2021.

7. Zhejiang University scholars invented a super micrometer that realizes direct imaging of single-molecule electrochemical reactions.

8. A huge rice plant measuring 1.8 meters in height was harvested in Jiande city in October 2021.

9. More than 1.2 million senior citizens received popular science training in Zhejiang in 2021.

10. Zhejiang authorities designated in May six esteemed scientists' former residences or memorial halls as the province's first education bases to celebrate scientists.

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A sculpture of Tu Youyou inside her former residence in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, where she spent her childhood. Tu, born in 1930, is a pharmaceutical chemist who received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of artemisinin in an herb, which can treat malaria. [Photo/zjol.com.cn]