In 2023, the total revenue of the science fiction industry in Beijing reached CNY 37.38 billion, representing one-third of China's national total. Resulting from its accelerated growth, Beijing's science fiction industry has achieved an average annual increase rate of revenue of 26 percent in the past three years. An industrial layout characterized by "one core and multiple spots" has taken shape, with the sci-fi industry cluster in Shijingshan District as the "core" and those in Haidian, Chaoyang, Tongzhou, Daxing, Huairou and other districts as the "spots".

Chinese lawmakers have designated September as the country's National Science Popularization Month to enhance public scientific literacy under a newly revised Science and Technology Popularization Law.

China's domestically designed and built deep-sea multi-functional research and archaeological vessel, Tansuo 3, or Exploration 3, was delivered and launched from Nansha in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, on Thursday, according to China Central Television. The vessel is China's first all-purpose research vessel capable of global deep-sea exploration and supporting manned submersible operations in polar regions.

Under the "AI" concept, a new business model in the education industry - "AI self-study rooms" - has recently emerged in China and is attracting increasing attention and sparking mixed reactions.

Chinese scientists are set to engineer a lunar robot equipped with charging capabilities for the country's Chang'e-8 mission, which is slated for launch around 2028.

A recent study by Chinese scientists has identified a new molecular target for developing safe and efficient green pesticides, offering a promising solution to combat pesticide resistance in pests.

According to the latest Implementation Plan for Development of Beijing's New-type Energy Storage Industry (2024-2027)(the Plan for short), by 2027, Beijing's new-type energy storage industry will achieve high-end, intelligent, and green development, with the revenue expected to exceed CNY 100 billion.

Beijing will implement new traffic restrictions based on the last digit of the license plate numbers of motor vehicles from December 30, 2024.

The Global Top 10 Engineering Achievements 2024 were announced on Dec 18 in Beijing by the Chinese Academy of Engineering's journal, Engineering. The list includes CAR-T cell therapy, the Chang'e-6 lunar mission, low earth orbit communication satellite constellation, flexible displays, high-temperature gas-cooled-reactor nuclear power station, smart factories, autonomous vehicles, surgical robots, the Sora video-generation artificial intelligence model, and ultra-large wind power equipment.

China's top procuratorate said procuratorial technologies have played an increasingly prominent role in the case-handling of procuratorates, as the number of cases handled with the support of the technologies continues to rise.