China aims to build a more ubiquitous, integrated, and intelligent comprehensive system with the next generation BeiDou System (BDS) at its core by 2035 to provide efficient positioning, navigation and timing services, according to the China Satellite Navigation Annual Conference held in Beijing on Wednesday.

BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) -- China plans to send one to three network backup satellites for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space this year to improve the stability and usability of the constellation, according to the 13th China Satellite Navigation Conference on Thursday.

The ongoing UN 2023 Water Conference in New York, the first UN conference on water of its kind since 1977, is highlighting the global water crisis where billions are affected. The crisis has been exacerbated by climate change, as disrupted water cycles cause irregular droughts and floods. Chinese scientists at the conference say their latest findings show weak points in the global water system but also offer some remedies.

BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have discovered that biomass-burning emissions are one of the key factors causing the increase of global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and significantly impact global climate change.

China is intensifying its efforts nationwide to make the country greener with a variety of afforestation activities involving both public and private sectors. The country's forest coverage rate rose to 24.02 percent in 2022, according to a report from the National Greening Commission on Feb. 12, 2023.

BEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- In the office of remote sensing scientist Liu Shaochuang, there is a huge photograph of a camel he snapped a decade ago in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Wearing camouflage clothing, he crouched for hours by a pool of water in the Gobi Desert to capture an image of the wild animal. This is the subject of his research.