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Ministry of Defence: On the evening of 14 April 2023, China conducted a test of ground-based midcourse anti-ballistic missile interception in China territory, which achieved its intended purpose. This test was defensive in nature and did not target any country. Haven‘t seen any 'munificent sightings' photos in the night sky...yet

Construction of commercial launch pad at Wenchang going well: the construction of Launch Pad I is already 10m above the ground, and the four surrounding lightning towers are being built in parallel. The construction of Launch Pad II was also began last year. "Launch pad I will be able to be finished by the end of May, with the overall schedule ahead of the originally anticipated. And the related rupport is scheduled to be fully completed by the end of 2023. By the end of June 2024, the Hainan commercial space launch site is to ensure that make its first launch." Then read the news about these commercial rocket companies that have set up assembly plants in the places where there're adequate shipping facilities, such as CAS-SPACE in Nansha, Guangzhou. When the commercial launch site is finished, they can put their rocket directly on the ship and send them through the Pearl River into the sea, then go to Hainan Island. Instead of currently cross nearly entire country diagonally to JSLC. With the same convenience is also offered to Landspace and Space-Pioneer.

Between snow and rain, the region around Mongolia opted for mud.

From 101 to 403 seconds, EAST broke its own previous record.

ERA meme but in CNSA version: Is that what you guys did on the CZ-2C? The two universities with "aerospace" in their names, Beihang University and Astronautics and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, haven't launched hypersonic vehicles. While Tsinghua University, Northwestern Polytechnic University and Xiamen University have each launched one. via. https://weibo.com/2645044133/MBCQnhYyL

Today I drove two of my female colleagues and my mentor to a client's factory somewhere on the outskirts of the city. When we got in the car, mentor: How about we listen to your song list today? Never heard before. Me: *Random* *Parademarsch und Locke* It's time to make a less violent, less rocking, less 'symphonic' song list

According to image from the FY-4A weather satellite, the sandstorm from the Mongolian plateau is sweeping across northern and north-eastern China. The front has reached the Korean Peninsula, the Yellow sea, and is about to cross the Huai River. Which means is about to cross the 'normal definition' of central China and entering the southern China.

Arrived. The photos about the long rocket containers unload from the ship and deliver to the Wenchang Lauch Site should be on the way.

Nah, it may have existed when my parents' generation was in primary or secondary school. Now it doesn't. At least since 2000s. We have a way to alleviate poverty, called relocation to alleviate poverty - which means, this **hole is too difficult to build a road to get in, we have vacated a good place in the county, the government has built and repaired the houses, schools and other facilities for you, you guys can move to live and work here. "The relocation targets are mainly rural poor people living in poor living environments such as deep mountains, desertification, endemic diseases and other areas that do not have basic development conditions, as well as areas with fragile ecological environments and restricted or prohibited development, and priority is given to poor people living in seismically active zones and those threatened by geological disasters such as mudslides and landslides." Sad fact is, before this relocation, in many natural disasters such as earthquakes, it is common for such 'target villages', now prioritised for relocation, to be buried by natural disasters such as mudslides and floods that bury entire villages and towns. Add: on the other hands about population movement between different regions, which just occurred to me is the problem called "left-behind children". And it seems that it's only in the last few years that the gov has figured out somewhat useful way to resolve this conflict. When I was in the primary school, there was had some kind "student exchange programme" in our school between somewhere pretty poor. These "special classmates" are good looking and dark-skinned, introverted and sensitive. Often easy to think "are you guys trying to bully us".

You can think the high-speed train and the normal slower train as some kind highway and secondary highway. Many areas that were once less developed were given better development potential because of the access to trains and then, decades later, to high-speed rail. In this country we believe that "If you want to get rich, build the roads first" If only costs and benefits were considered, the mountainous regions of south-western China would never be accessible by train: those places were extremely poor, the geographically are literally as complicated as hell - when you dig the tunnel, the rock would even explode because the instantaneous release of stress. But the people here have the right to have a better life and the right to bring back developments from outside the mountains to develop their homeland. At this point, the train is the best option. First of all, let the poor people get on the train, let the local children get into good schools and colleges in the big cities of this country, and let them return home with what they have learned. Decades later, when they have been lifted out of poverty and the original one is already congested, why not let them get on a 250km/h high-speed train too? (In plain areas the speed limit for high-speed trains is 350, while the speed limit for some lines in complex terrain with many bridges and tunnels is 250) In terms of giving more potential for local development, "admiring" is just a side effect. While I do resent the phrase "they just don't care", it is true that we don't care what foreigners think when it comes to high-speed rail. How complex is the terrain in those places? For example, the Chengdu-Kunming railway, the video about the slower one: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18a411r76L/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click&vd_source=6fef304b8d0c4737896e6b702ddfbfb3. And the faster one: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ix4y1P7Hj/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click&vd_source=6fef304b8d0c4737896e6b702ddfbfb3 (350km/h one of this route is currently under construction)

Tiangong TV S04E22: Beautiful and sacred - this is the Tibetan plateau! According to the Maintenance & Malfunction Workstation, this should be shot in the Wentian Module. Really needs a new Tianzhou to save more room! The bgm it use is the new one for CCTV's special programmes during the entire space station launch instead of the previous Positive Outlook (make the CZ-5B as an instrument). For example, in the launch of Shenzhou-15 and Tianzhou-5.

Tesla, the catfish of the "catfish effect" in the Chinese electric car industry, has indeed brought a lot of dynamism to the market. Although my dream electric car won't be Tesla.

If it's too sweet or too salty, I just suggest that think twice to do that. Not good for the little one's fur, at least my lab was needed to concern this.

Tiangong TV S04E21: Keep clean and hygienic! Looks the cables and wires are getting more and more in the station

Your computer is a little 'sturdy' than you think. Of course, I always recommend that people with important files and work on their pc get an UPS. It doesn't matter: it's Easter today and it will come back to life if something bad happened

Made a visit to Europe including France in 2021 with my friends. Pretty good place but it can be better if my friends' wallet wasn't stolen. When we arrived the reception of the hotel, the one of us just using his rubbish Franch "bonjour" the staff. The staff used standard Mandarin without any accent: it's ok to speak Chinese to me, I studied at China before. We: WT...

Replacing the engine from using the toxic fuel to paraffin. Then implement the tech about recover the fairings by parafoil and the grid fins on fist stage. With the de-orbit sail already using on the second stage - that's the best for CZ-2D can do. As for the CZ-3, there's nothing left for it to improve, and if there have, it probably would be left to install parafoil to it at most. The best choice is retired it when the CZ-6, 7 and 8 is fully mature, reliable and about the same cost. This would take at least five to ten years I think. But actually, the most interesting part I think is the flexibility now available to switch between petroleum-based and coal-based aviation paraffin as international crude oil prices change.

It's probably the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China recently, and there have been particularly many exchanges with France in various fields. Meanwhile China bought 160 Airbus planes and France signed a deal with CSSC for 16 container ships worth 21 billion RMB.

Now it's finally 'hyperbola': because of the previous failure, Chinese space enthusiasts would call it 'parabola'. Congratulations to them.

Back to 1973, the first French president who make a visit to China, Georages Pompidou, was suffering from cancer. Just in case, China gov converted a CA770 courtesy car into a CA770JH: It looks like same to the other cars in the fleet, except that the boot is slightly higher and the stretcher can be tucked into the car from here along the slides.

It should have been done so to train Egyptian talent in the satellite field. After all, sending a satellite from China to Egypt and then sending it back from Egypt to China for launch is pretty troublesome.

Xuyang (绪洋) 16 is now carrying the CZ-7 rocket scheduled to launch Tianzhou in May to the Qinglan port, which next to the Wenchang Launch Center.

No trees or bushes - altitude must over 4500 here