China's Week, Dec. 7

Heavy Metals, Mechanical Cubits, Virtual Hospitals

Tech

China makes graphite that’s 99.99995% pure, the first time it has the led the world in graphite purity.

Since China’s first responses to U.S. export controls, much has changed. The relative strength of China’s domestic semiconductor industry has..

Tsinghua researchers wrote A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents. Now digital simulations of entire medical treatments are being conducted by 42 AI doctors.

Chinese scientists created the first mechanical qubit, which could lead to mechanical quantum computers capable of running long, complex programs, and to novel quantum sensors.

China has 4.1 million 5G base stations, 80 major economic sectors use 5G technologies, and the 5G network is covering more rural areas.

Economy

China bans export of items related to gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the United States and a complete ban on dual-use items to U.S. military users.

National Autumn Grain Purchase Exceeds 100 Million Tons: 100 million tons of autumn rice, corn and soybeans warehoused this year, faster than last year.

Saudi Aramco & Sinopec build a $10 billion petrochemical complex: 16 MT/year oil refinery, a 1.5 MT/year ethylene unit, and a 2 MT/year paraxylene.

The new 5,111 km. China-Russia east natural gas pipeline natural gas pipeline transmits 38 billion cubic meters to 450 million people using 36 indigenous, high-power compressors.

China Rail reaches 99% of cities with 200,000 people, transports 4 billion passengers YTD, on 160,000 km of rail (46,000 km high-speed) stopping with 3,300 passenger stations.

Society

New guidelines curb negative trends like celebrity worship and excessive entertainment while promoting responsible content creation for young people.

Since 2014, 1,100 townships and 45,000 villages have been integrated into rural transport networks and, where conditions allow, now have bus services.

Inequality in rural areas has not intensified with aging, suggesting that increasing transfer income affects income inequality more as aging deepens.

The Supreme Court’s AI-powered judicial platform analyzes its database of 320M records, rulings, cases and opinions, extracts key points and classifies data, makes mediation suggestions.

When Confucius met Darwin: sociobiology in China, from Pan Guangdan to