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Jiuquan wind power base achieves landmark capacity
Workers debug the equipment at the wind power base in Jiuquan City, northwest China's Gansu Province, Dec.
Capacity of China's massive wind power base hits 2 GW
The installed capacity of China's first massive wind power base in northwestern Gansu Province reached two gigawatts, local authorities said Friday.
Filming location for movie Amazing Tales: Three Guns in Zhangye City
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.
This Week In Space, December 14th, 2009
Soyuz Spacecraft Welcome to another addition of This Week In Space! Last week, we reported on the upcoming launch of the WISE observatory.
Chinese Rocket Launches With Top Secret Spy Satellite
China has developed a family of boosters over the years, including new development of a heavy-lift launcher to fly by 2011.
China's Wind Power Plans Turn On Coal
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 urges northwestern province to blaze new path of development
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.
China says space plans peaceful
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.
A special issue on the International Workshop of the 2008 Solar Total Eclipse
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 .
A special issue on the International Workshop of the 2008 Solar Total Eclipse
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.
Gas poisoning kills four in NW China coal mine
At least four people were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in a coal mine in Gansu Province, the local work safety watchdog said Sunday.
China's Danxia to be reviewed for World Heritage status
"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 starts work on new space center
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.
Backgrounder: China s 3 big satellite launch centers
China's three existing major satellite launch bases have already conducted nearly a hundred and twenty launches.
China strives to launch space labs
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.
500 MW Chinese Wind Farm Begins Construction - To be Completed 2010
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.
Hosi Corridor to build huge coal-fired base
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.