Adequate food supply pledged
SHANGHAI authorities are buckling down to ensure adequate food supplies and stable prices during Spring Festival.
The city’s wholesale markets have strengthened links between production and sales and organized sources of food, as more people will remain in the city for the holiday than in years past, according to Liu Min, deputy director of the city’s commerce commission.
Major vegetable wholesale markets have enhanced their connections with large-scale vegetable production bases in Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Yunnan and Hainan provinces, while wholesale markets for pork will ensure access to stable supplies from 127 slaughterhouses in 16 provinces, including Hebei, Shandong, Heilongjiang and Jiangsu.
The city pledged to ensure the daily supply of 7,000 tons of vegetables, while more than 8,000 pigs will be put on the market every day.
The Shanghai Vegetable Group will increase its daily turnover of vegetables from 6,000 to 8,000 tons.
Major wholesale markets for aquatic products will supply more than 1,000 tons of fresh, chilled and frozen products every day.
The city’s wholesale and vegetable markets, supermarkets and e-commerce businesses that sell fresh produce will stay open for business as usual.
CHINA’S Xi’an Satellite Control Center has completed a status check of 52 in-orbit BeiDou navigation satellites ahead of the Spring Festival holiday that begins tomorrow, the center said yesterday.
This is the center’s first comprehensive operational examination of all BeiDou satellites since the completion of the BDS-3 system for global users. With the help of a selfdeveloped satellite operational assessment system, the staff at the center analyzed key data of the satellites from July 1 to December 31, 2020.
“Any satellite malfunction may affect the navigation accuracy. Only by keeping the satellite in good working condition at all times can we assure they serve our daily life,” said Lu Pengliang, an engineer with the center.
Since it was put into service on July 31, 2020, the BDS-3 system has provided services for global users and many industries, including transportation, agriculture and fishery.
The longest-serving satellite is the GEO-1 satellite of the BDS-2 system, which was launched on January 17, 2010. “Customized self-examination and diagnosis programs have enabled the BeiDou satellite to remain in service for three more years, despite its eightyear design life,” said senior engineer Luo Chunyan.
During the week-long Spring Festival, the center will continue to carry out realtime monitoring of BeiDou satellites.
Six documents detailing technical requirements and test methods for key, or basic, civilian products using the BDS-3 system have been published.
The documents have been issued to facilitate the construction of a certification system for key BDS-3 products, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
Technical requirements and test methods were drafted for chip, integrated chip, antenna, receiver board and navigation module products, as well as other key BDS-3 products that are used in civilian applications.
Prior to the publication of these technical requirements and test methods, China issued four national technical standards for data formatting, map application, the ground-based augmentation system and the BDS atomic clock.
China has built a complete BDS industrial chain with independently developed key products.
That extends the application of BDS to various fields of economic and social development, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
BDS has provided comprehensive services for sectors such as transport, public security, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry and urban governance, read a report released by the office in 2020.
SHANGHAI’S strategic industry output jumped 8.9 percent in 2020 thanks to rapid development in the new-energy car, integrated circuit, artificial intelligence and bio-medicine industries, the city’s industry regulator said yesterday.
It reached 1.39 trillion yuan (US$213.8 billion), jumping 8.9 percent from the previous year, much higher than the 1.7 percent growth in the city’s GDP, Shanghai’s economy and informatization commission said.
Shanghai three “leading growth industries” — IC, bio-medicine and AI — have boosted the city’s digital economy and innovation-oriented transformation.
In 2020, the IC industry revenue reached 200 billion yuan, a growth of 21 percent year on year. A complete and advanced chip industry chain has been built in the city.
In bio-medicine, 18 firms among top 20 global pharma firms have set up regional headquarters and research centers in Shanghai.
Last year, Shanghai’s AI revenue hit 200 billion yuan with a 30 percent growth. A total of 36 investment and projects were signed and confirmed in the city during the year.