China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations need to further cooperation on technology innovation to better face global challenges and realize sustainable development, Premier Li Keqiang said.Li made the remark as he sent a congratulatory message to the launching ceremony of the China-ASEAN Year of Innovation on Thursday. The ceremony, along with the China-ASEAN innovation forum, opened in Beijing on Thursday.This year marks the 15th anniversary of the China-ASEAN strategic partnership and also the China-ASEAN Year of InnovationCurrently, the new round of technological and industrial revolution is sweeping across the world, and technology innovation is playing an increasingly supporting and guiding role in social and economic development, Li said in the message. He said China is implementing the innovation driven strategy for development and to boost entrepreneurship to nurture new driving forces of the economy and push forward economic upgrading.China and the ASEAN in recent years have achieved a series of cooperation outcomes in technological communication and building laboratories as well as science parks, he said, and the two sides should take this year as an opportunity to push forward technological innovation cooperation to inject new impetus into China-ASEAN cooperation as well as to East Asia regional development.Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is concluding his five-day working visit to China on Thursday, also sent a congratulatory message to the ceremony. cool bracelets to make with rubber bandsdebossed wristbandstriple single rubber band braceletbracelets with sayings customize24 hour wristband
The new communication satellite APSTAR-6C blasts off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center on May 4, 2018. [Photo/VCG] A Long March rocket launched an advanced communications satellite on Friday for a Hong Kong-based operator. The APSTAR-6C was atop a Long March 3B carrier rocket that blasted off at 12:06 am from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to a statement from China Great Wall Industry Corp in Beijing, prime contractor on the project. The satellite was designed and manufactured by the China Academy of Space Technology based on the DFH-4 satellite design. With a design life of 15 years, it is equipped with 45 transponders in C, Ku and Ka bands. It will provide regional communications and broadcasting services to users in the Asia-Pacific, the statement said. The launch marked the 273rd flight of the Long March rocket family. APSTAR-6C's user, APT Satellite in Hong Kong, now has five communications satellites including the latest one, the second in the firm's satellite fleet made in the mainland. The company's first mainland-made satellite was APSTAR-9, which was also developed by the China Academy of Space Technology based on the DFH-4 and launched in October 2015 by a Long March 3B rocket. It is capable of covering China, South and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii.
