BEIJING Brandon Saad Blackhawks Jersey , Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- After saying nihao, or hello, to his Austrian counterpart some 7,000 kilometers away, Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, completed the world's first intercontinental quantum communication in Beijing.
The dialogue between Bai and Anton Zeilinger, Austrian quantum physicist and President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Artem Anisimov Blackhawks Jersey , on Sept. 29 could be ultra-secret if they keep it private between them.
Encrypted by quantum communication technology, what they said could not be wiretapped, intercepted or cracked.
Bai's greeting was first sent out through a control center in Beijing along the Beijing-Shanghai Trunk Line, the first of its kind for secure quantum telecommunication open for use the same day.
The 2,000-km trunk line had been connected through a ground station to the world's first quantum satellite Micius launched by China in August last year.
Micius was named after a fifth century B.C. Chinese philosopher and scientist who was credited as the first person to conduct optical experiments.
During their talk, Zeilinger expressed congratulations on the achievements Chinese scientists made in quantum communication and hoped to strengthen cooperation.
Earlier that day, Bai had video talks with staff in Hefei, Jinan Richard Panik Blackhawks Jersey , Shanghai and Urumqi ground stations through the trunk line.
Pan Jianwei, chief scientist of the trunk line, said the video call between Bai and Zeilinger involved a long distance and multiple nodes.
Given that some nodes were not built by Chinese scientists, the tests showed the ground-space quantum communication network was stable, compatible and good for practical use, said Pan.
Chinese businesses, including the Bank of Communications, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Alibaba Alex DeBrincat Blackhawks Jersey , have used the quantum communication technology for information transmission.
Zhu Yu, deputy head of the China Information Industry Association, expected the tests would attract more companies into the sector of quantum communication, and a brand new industrial chain would come into shape.
A number of encryption communication products including quantum USB key, a protecting device for mobile payment, have been put to the market.
In one or two years, China is likely to issue national standards for quantum key distribution equipment, according to sources close to the trunk line project.
JIUQUAN Brent Seabrook Blackhawks Jersey , Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- China launched Venezuela's remote sensing satellite, VRSS-2, into a preset orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi desert at 12:13 on Monday.
The VRSS-2 was the third satellite jointly launched by China and Venezuela, and also the later's second remote sensing satellite. It will be primarily used by Venezuela for land resources inspection, environmental protection, disaster monitoring and management, crop yield estimation and city planning.
The satellite was launched by a Chinese Long March-2D carrier rocket which was designed by Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.
This was the 252nd flight mission for the Long March rocket family.
In 2008, China launched Venezuela's first satellite -- the Venesat-1 Corey Crawford Blackhawks Jersey , or "Simon Bolivar" -- which carried communications facilities.
In 2012, Venezuela's first remote sensing satellite, the VRSS-1, was launched into space from China.