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The first fuselage part of China's homegrown large passenger jet, the C919, was put into production on Thursday in Nanchang, capital of East China's Jiangxi province.
A white paper published on Thursday said that China has made innovative achievements and breakthroughs in major space projects, and space technology has been upgraded remarkably.
The Information Office of the State Council on Thursday published a white paper on China's space activities in 2011.
China will begin monitoring space debris and small near-Earth celestial bodies and collision pre-warning work in the next five years.
China on Thursday issued a white paper on the development of space industry since 2006 and the major tasks for the next five years.
China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System is designed to meet diversified civilian needs, said National Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun Wednesday.
China started to run its own satellite positioning system, Beidou, as the country climbed the global tech ladder and challenged the monopoly of the West.
China's indigenous satellite navigation system Beidou started providing initial operational services to China and its surrounding areas from Tuesday.
China will push ahead the convergence of television, Internet and telecom services in 2012, said Miao Wei, minister of Industry and Information Technology, Monday.
A luxury hotel built on a former aircraft carrier in North China's Tianjin municipality will open at the end of this month, making it the world's first aircraft carrier hotel.
Government's intensified efforts to root out software piracy are bringing concrete benefits to software providers.
China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control and hydropower project, is scheduled inject water into the lower reaches of the Yangtze River by the end of December or early January 2012.