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CHENGDU, China, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The 9th World Biomaterials Congress, hailed as the Biomaterials Olympiad, is being held in Chengdu, capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province, from June 1 to June 5, the first time the event has been held in China since it first took place in 1980. During this five-day event, more than 3,000 leading experts, scholars and government officials around the world have exchanged ideas regarding cutting-edge biomaterials technology...
CHENGDU, China, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- General Electric Co (GE) announced that a China Innovation Center (CIC) has been completed in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province, southwest China. Located in the west park of the Chengdu High-tech Industrial Development Zone (CDHT), CIC Chengdu is the first functional innovation center of GE worldwide. According to GE, CIC Chengdu will combine research and development sections with marketing ones, focusing on local...
CHENGDU, China, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Recently, Wang Qiao, the eight-year program student of Liver and Vascular Surgery of West China Hospital tutored under Yan Lynan, went to San Francisco to attend the 18th ILTS (International Liver Transplantation Society) annual meeting with the director of his department, Mr. Li Bo. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120525/CN13960) The theme of the meeting is "The Pros and Cons Trade-Off for Liver Transplantation", and...
Using nature's beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China's valued panda preserves, but it isn't an automatic ticket out of poverty for the human habitants, a unique long-term study shows. The policy hitch: Often those who benefit most from nature-based tourism endeavors are people who already have resources. The truly impoverished have a harder time breaking into the tourism business. Wei Liu's study, published in the April 25 edition of PLoS One, looks at nearly a decade...
BEIJING, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S.-based Telairity, Inc., the global leader in encoding technology, announced today two more major milestones in providing encoding technology equipment to the People's Republic of China: the sale of multi-channel SD 7000 series encoders as the cornerstone of an advanced digital TV (DTV) terrestrial network being installed throughout Sichuan Province; and the sale of its ultra-low bitrate SD/mobile 9000 series encoders for China Telecom's...
CHENGDU, China, April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- At the invitation of the Laboratory of Medicine of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Mr.Vishnu Chaturvedi, the expert from the New York State Department of Health, the Professor of the Albany Medical College, USA, and also the Editor in Chief of the Magazine Mycopathologia, recently gave a lecture to the faculty and the students of the Laboratory of Medicine on the topic of the 'Future of Fungal Identification'. In the...
NEW YORK, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The publication of two seminal books that illustrate the destruction caused by the Wenchuan Earthquake in May 2008 and then the miraculous reconstruction of that part of Sichuan Province four years later, has been announced jointly by McGraw-Hill Education and Sichuan People's Publishing House, an affiliate of the Xinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co. Ltd. The two illustrated books are being released and shown at this year's London...
BEIJING, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The 2013 FORTUNE Global Forum will be held in Chengdu, China from June 6 to 8, 2013. It was announced by Andy Serwer, FORTUNE magazine's managing editor, at a press conference in Beijing on Monday. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120409/CN82932) "At a time when China is in the forefront of global business, Chengdu is the ideal location for the next FORTUNE Global Forum," Serwer said in his announcement. "Situated in the heart of...
CHENGDU, China, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- On March 29, 2012, the 2nd World Shushang Grand Meeting was held in Pixian, China. An original report by Chengdu Juhe Shengdao Cultural Communication Co., Ltd follows: The main theme of the meeting was to gather Sichuan merchants who have expanded their careers abroad and bring them home. As the tradition goes, 280 Shushang paid homage to two ancient kings: Wang and Cong, then sat down to hold a forum discussing the development and...
CHENGDU, China, March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Siemens is starting to build the Siemens Electronics Works Chengdu (SEWC) in Chengdu High Tech zone today. This is the largest modern digital factory of Siemens in China. The completion of first phase and production is targeted by early 2013. Covering 40,000 square meters at West Park of Chengdu High Tech Development Zone. The new factory will create more than 1000 new jobs in Chengdu and Sichuan province. Mayor of Chengdu, Ge Hong...
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The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), also known as the panda, is a species of bear that is native to southwestern and central western areas of China. Its range includes mountain ranges located primarily in Sichuan province, but pandas can also be found in the Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. It once preferred a habitat within lowland areas, but human encroachment has driven the giant panda into small areas, which contain forested habitats. There are two recognized subspecies of the giant...
Gigantspinosaurus, meaning "giant spined lizard", is a genus of stegosaur dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period. It was found in the Upper Shaximiao Formation of Zigong, Sichuan, China. It is known from a partial skeleton missing most of the skull, hind feet, and tail. The type species, G. sichuanensis, was described in 1992. It was known as Nomen nudum until 2006. This dinosaur had a unique appearance. It had small dorsal plates and large shoulder spikes (or spines). The spines were...
The Chinese Prickly Ash or Flatspine Prickly Ash (Zanthoxylum simulans) is a species of flowering plant native to eastern China and Taiwan. It is one of several plants of Zanthoxylum from which Sichuan Pepper is produced. It is a small spreading tree that grows to 23 feet tall. Its leaves are 2.75 to 5 inches long and pinnate (having parts of a leaf arranged on both sides of the stem). Each leaf has 7 - 11 small leaflets that are each 1.25 to 2 inches long. There are numerous spines on the...
