Jiuquan, China News

Workers debug the equipment at the wind power base in Jiuquan City, northwest China's Gansu Province, Dec.

The installed capacity of China's first massive wind power base in northwestern Gansu Province reached two gigawatts, local authorities said Friday.

Pictures show the unique hilly terrain featuring red rocks and cliffs of the danxia landform in the mountainous areas of the Zhangye Geology Park near Zhangye in northwest China's Gansu Province.

Soyuz Spacecraft Welcome to another addition of This Week In Space! Last week, we reported on the upcoming launch of the WISE observatory.

China has developed a family of boosters over the years, including new development of a heavy-lift launcher to fly by 2011.

More than 100 wind turbines make up a wind farm in Yumen district of Jiuquan in China's remote western Gansu province, the first part of a massive wind power project nicknamed "Three Gorges on the Land." It will eventually create more energy than the Three Gorges Dam hydroelectric dam.

A remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan VII," is launched from Jiuquan in northwestern China's Gansu Province yesterday afternoon by a Long March 2D carrier rocket.

China's top legislator Wu Bangguo has urged northwest China's Gansu Province to blaze a new trail of development in the western region to realize sound and fast economic and social development.

The Long-March II-F rocket carrying the Shenzhou VII manned spacecraft blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu province September 25, 2008.

The Scientific Organization Committee members of the workshop were G. X. Ai , C. Fang , B. Lites , Z. X. Liu , H. Wang , T. Sakurai , K. Shibata , S. Solanki , J. Stenflo , H. Q. Zhang , M. Zhang .

On August 1, 2008 a total solar eclipse was visible within a narrow corridor that traversed from North America to China.

Posted October 2, 2009, 1:46 p.m. The weather has been all rain and cold the last few days.

At least four people were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in a coal mine in Gansu Province, the local work safety watchdog said Sunday.

"Danxia" landform is a special landscape of red stones that is very rare in north China.[Xinhua] GUIYANG: Experts from the International Union for Conservation of Nature will start reviewing danxia landform Sunday in southwest China's Guizhou Province which is applying to be included in the World Natural Heritage in 2010.

China boldly began work Monday on a space launch center in Wenchang city in the northeast corner of the tropical island province of Hainan, laying more groundwork for the nation's more sophisticated space program.

The crew of China's third manned space mission, launched on Sept 25 2008: Zhai Zhigang, centre, Liu Boming, right, and Jing Haipeng Photo: AP China's rapidly developing space programme has taken another giant leap forward with the beginning of the construction of its fourth space launch centre.

China's three existing major satellite launch bases have already conducted nearly a hundred and twenty launches.

Two to three space laboratories may be launched by China between 2010 and 2015, roughly less than a decade before the nation embarks upon a space station in 2020, a top scientist said.

Announced back in October 2008, the first phase of what will be a 1.5 GW wind farm outside of Jiuquan city, Gansu Province, China has begun.

Gansu Province listed a 9.2 million kilowatt coal-fired program in Jiuquan City into the plans of a new energy base in Hosi Corridor.