Highlights of the completion of China's large scientific facilities

— 1986: China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station, a system for receiving, processing, archiving and distributing various remote sensing satellite data.

— 1988: Beijing Electron Positron Collider, China's first high-energy accelerator.

— 2001: ShenGuang-II Laser Facility, one of the few high-energy fusion lasers internationally.

— 2007: Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, the world's first such device, known as the "artificial sun".

— 2009: Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope, a new type of optical astronomical telescope with a large field of view and large aperture.

— 2010: Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, a third-generation medium-energy synchrotron facility.

— 2015: Marine research vessel Science, China's first comprehensive scientific research vessel with independent intellectual property rights and deep-sea exploration and research capabilities.

— 2016: Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the world's largest and most sensitive single-aperture radio telescope.

— 2018: China Spallation Neutron Source, China's first and the world's fourth spallation neutron source.

— 2020, Shanghai Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser User Facility, China's first X-ray coherent light source.

— 2023: Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory, the world's highest-altitude, largest-scale and most sensitive cosmic ray detection facility.