BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.
MARTIAN SAMPLES
China is poised to collect Martian samples and return them to Earth around 2031, with its foremost scientific goal being the search for life signatures on the red planet, according to the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory on Wednesday.
HUAWEI
Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday launched a series of smartphones capable of running on HarmonyOS NEXT, the company's self-developed operating system built independent of Android architecture.
HarmonyOS NEXT was released on Oct. 22. Its fully independently developed features include its own operating kernel, database, programming language and AI framework.
TELESCOPE
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope is under construction in northeast China's Jilin Province.
Located in Huadian, Jilin, the radio telescope will be 120 meters in diameter and help scientists in understanding planets and asteroids more accurately. ■
