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BEIJING: Beijing, China’s first megacity to achieve population reduction, has kept its permanent population below the 23 million cap for six consecutive years since 2017, according to a municipal conference held on Thursday. According to a report by the research team of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, while Beijing’s […]

As the second-largest economy in the world explores new frontiers above and below the planet’s surface, Chinese scientists have started drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808 foot) hole into the Earth’s crust. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, drilling for what is expected to be China’s deepest ever borehole started on Tuesday in the nation’s oil-rich […]