Beijing official visits Greater Bay Area cities to explore integrating Hong Kong

Beijing’s top official overseeing Hong Kong and Macau affairs has concluded a five-day fact-finding trip to three mainland Chinese cities in the Greater Bay Area to explore ways of deepening the international financial hub’s integration into the national blueprint. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said its director, Xia Baolong, had visited Guangzhou, Zhaoqing … Read more

APEC SOM1 official: Guangdong’s mangrove conservation shows how China balances development and nature

“Agriculture can have negative impacts on mangroves and natural ecosystems, but in Guangdong, significant steps have been taken to address this,” Yuan Derun, senior programme officer at the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific, told South in Guangzhou on February 6. He is attending the First Senior Officials’ Meeting and Related Meetings (SOM1) of APEC … Read more

Guangzhou hospitals expand use of cell, gene therapies

Hospitals and research institutes in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, are expanding the clinical use of cell and gene therapies, with doctors reporting early results in a small number of patients with chronic conditions. Nansha Hospital of Guangzhou First People’s Hospital has recently applied cell and gene therapies in cases involving acute-on-chronic liver failure, ischemic stroke, and … Read more

AI helps treat critically ill infants in Guangzhou

A hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, recently launched a large artificial intelligence model to assist medical workers and parents in the screening, diagnosis, treatment and care of critically ill infants. The new model, NeoAI Precision, was jointly developed by the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center and Digital Health China Technologies Co. It is designed … Read more

OLED panels new growth engine for display makers

Delegates learn about an OLED transparent TV at an expo in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in April. CHEN JIMIN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE Chinese display panel makers are doubling down on cutting-edge semiconductor display technologies represented by organic light-emitting diodes, as an increasing number of OLED panels are gradually being applied in smartphones, tablets, laptops and midsized electronic … Read more