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China Box Office: ‘Endless Journey’ Opens on Top as Crime Genre Dominates Weekend Chart

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Chinese-made crime drama, “ Endless Journey ” opened on top of the mainland China box office on a weekend with three new releases in the top five.

The Wanda Pictures and Alibaba title earned $20.5 million (RMB146 million) between Friday and Sunday, its official opening weekend, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. Together with previews from the week earlier, it ended the weekend with a cumulative total of $34.5 million (RMB245 million).

Adapted from a book “Please Tell the Director, the Mission of the Third Brigade Has Been Completed” by Shenlan, and apparently based on real events, the film recounts how a disgraced former detective hunts down criminals as a private citizen.

“Wolf Project,” another crime action film, opened in second place with $11.2 million earned from only two days in theaters. Its official release had previously been advertised as Dec. 22, but last minute advances in release dates do occur in China, especially when a distributor perceives that competing titles are weak or underperforming. The Nick Cheung-starring picture comes from the Hengye stable and is backed by streamer iQiyi.

Third place was taken by Japanese animation “Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine.” It too only got a Saturday release, but managed a $10.2 million total.

Imax reports that “Endless Journey” and “Detective Conan” shared its China circuit, earning $2 million and $700,000 of their respective scores on its screens.

“Love Life Light,” released by Enlight Pictures, took $6.5 million in its second weekend, down from $10.1 million in its opening session. Its cumulative score now totals $26.8 million.

Luc Besson ’s “Dogman” was another new release over the weekend. But it failed to make the top five, despite in-person promotion by the director in recent weeks. Local sources report the film’s cumulative as some $750,000 after three days on release.

Artisan Gateway reports the Chinese box office’s year to date total as $7.40 billion. That is an 82% rebound from a shoddy 2022, but still some 15% behind 2019’s comparable figure.

The flood of new releases for the Christmas-calendar New Year period means that a year-end surge is possible. Key titles include “Goldfinger,” with top Hong Kong stars Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and “Aquaman 2.” The end of year line-up was swelled by the addition of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” which in recent days was given a Dec. 31 release .

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China, 2023, colour, 1.85:1, 132 mins.

Director: Dai Mo 戴墨.

Rating: 6/10.

The best is in the first half in this performance-driven drama centred on the members of a vengeful detective squad.

Taiping city, Guangdong province, southern China, 21 Sep 2002. Police detective Cheng Bing (Zhang Yi) and his Third Squad are called out to the rape and murder of Yue Yang, a 14-year-old girl whose body lies in a flat. Much to the disappointment of Second Squad, which was hoping to be assigned the case, Third Squad has a very good track record. With the police department under heavy pressure, Cheng Bing tells police chief Chen (Ning Xiaozhi) that he’ll solve the case in five days. After intense work, on the evening of 23 Sep the oldest member of the squad, Zhang Qingliang (Yang Xinming), who trained Cheng Bing and is about to retire, finds a fingerprint match to a similar case in Sichuan province, in which the suspects were brothers Wang Dayong (Wang Yutian) and Wang Eryong (Zhang Benyu). Both gained access to the property by posing as air-conditioner engineers. Cheng Bing and his squad rush to arrest the brothers but Second Squad, which is already at the address following up a separate report, has already alerted the suspects with the noise of their police cars. As a huge row breaks out between the rival squads, Zhang Qingliang, folowing up a private lead, spots Wang Eryong in an alleyway, gives chase but loses him. The next day Zhang Qingliang has a cerebral haemorrhage – supposedly caused by his pursuit of Wang Eryong – and is hospitalised in a coma. On the evening of 25 Sep Wang Dayong is arrested and confesses to burglary but says it was his brother who raped and killed the girl. Halfway through the interrogation news comes that Zhang Qingliang has died. In a fury Cheng Bing and his colleagues attack Wang Dayong, who later dies. Cheng Bing and his squad are sent to prison: he for eight years, Xi Yizhou (Wei Chen) for six, and Cai Bin (Cao Bingkun), Ma Zhenkun (Wang Xiao) and Liao Jian (Zhang Zixian) for five each. In Mar 2009, after six years, Cheng Bing is released early for good behaviour. He hears from new police chief Yang Jiantao (Li Chen) that Wang Eryong is still at large: almost caught twice, he was last heard of in Changsha city, Hunan province. Cheng Bing visits his wife Liu Shu (Huang Lu), who has since divorced him, and teenage daughter Huihui (Zhang Yitong); both are distant towards him. He then gets together with his four old colleagues, all in new jobs, and tells them he’s going to Changsha to hunt down Wang Eryong. All except Cai Bin decide to join him, though Cai Bin unexpectedly turns up later in Changsha. It’s the start of a five-year odyssey which leads Cheng Bing across the whole of the country in a relentless quest to bring Wang Eryong to justice.

The names of creative producer 监制 Chen Sicheng 陈思诚 and noted scriptwriter Zhang Ji 张冀 get equal billing alongside director Dai Mo 戴墨 on the posters of Endless Journey 三大队, a psychologically dark police drama in which a squad leader and his old colleagues relentlessly try to hunt down a criminal who escaped justice. Chen and Zhang’s names on a movie are enough to generate interest, although Dai, a theatre and TV actor who graduated from Beijing’s Central Academy of Drama in 2004, already did a smoothly efficient job on his first directing gig, the twist-laden hospital-hostage drama Fireflies in the Sun 误杀II (2021), on which Chen was also creative producer. Though Journey wasn’t quite the box-office success of Fireflies (RMB1.12 billion), it still took a nice RMB705 million at the end of last year.

Chen – like Dai, from Shenyang, northeast China – is a successful director in his own right ( Beijing Love Story 北京爱情故事, 2014; Detective Chinatown 唐人街探案 series, 2015- ) and productions with his stamp as creative producer ( Sheep without a Shepherd 误杀, 2019; Lost in the Stars 消失的她, 2022) are never less than professionally mounted. Zhang, too, has a considerable track record, writing regularly for director Chen Kexin 陈可辛 [Peter Chan] ( American Dreams in China 中国合伙人, 2013; Dearest 亲爱的, 2014; Leap 夺冠, 2020) as well as other quality titles ( The Ark of Mr. Chow 少年班, 2015; The Island 一出好戏, 2018). Added to which, he recently made a noteworthy directing debut with the ensembler Tale of the Night (2023), set in Changsha, in his home province of Hunan. As might be expected from Dai’s background, Journey , like Fireflies , is a very performance-driven drama, with a visceral, physical feel underscored by the umbrous photography of d.p. Dong Jinsong 董劲松 ( Black Coal, Thin Ice 白日焰火, 2014; The Wild Goose Lake 南方车站的聚会, 2019). Much of the film is shot either at night or in underlit interiors, and always with muted colours.

The basic plot of Journey has some similarities with Dust to Dust – released a few months earlier but actually shot back in mid-2019 – in that both films centre on a detective singlemindedly hunting down a criminal who escaped justice, and both are as much interested in the characters’ psychology as in the procedural details. However, in practice they’re very different. Dust gussied up its simple plot with lots of script tricks, some of which were designed to throw the viewer off balance; the whole film also benefited from a creepy performance by comedian Da Peng 大鹏 [Dong Chengpeng 董成鹏] in a straight role. In contrast, Journey has a straight linear structure and no performance on a level with Da Peng’s. As the obsessed detective, out to avenge a colleague’s death, character actor-turned-leading man Zhang Yi 张译 ( One Second 一秒钟, 2020; Cliff Walkers 悬崖之上, 2021; Seven Killings 刀尖, 2023) is all focus with his hangdog looks; but he doesn’t quite dominate the movie as he should. Zhang’s minimalist style always throws a heavy burden on his scriptwriter and director, and here neither provides the necessary extra boost. Zhang is never worse than okay but as the second half unfolds his character carries less and less dramatic weight.

The most powerful scenes in the film are in the first hour, as the ground is laid for the manhunt-to-come: a shocking crime involving a teenage girl, the loyal Third Squad and its rivalry with Second Squad, the death of an old mentor, an interrogation that goes tragically wrong, and the resultant prison terms for the five squad members. There’s dramatic tension to this section of the film that’s strong and involving, even down to brief scenes of squad leader Cheng Bing (Zhang) and his family. But as the former colleagues reassemble to hunt down the fugitive villain – the point of the whole movie – the air slowly goes out of the bag. The problem is partly structural, with short segments set in various locations and members of the group gradually peeling off; but it’s also in the script, which struggles to come up with fresh things to say, and Zhang’s character, which doesn’t dominate as it should. After an over-long two hours, the film does manage to pack a brief emotional punch at the end, though the whole finale feels rather contrived on a plotting level.

Performances down the line are strongly etched and convincingly varied, with a brief but touching performance by veteran character actor Yang Xinming 杨新鸣 (the grumpy father in I Like You More 倍儿喜欢你, 2023) as the squad’s mentor. The music score by Peng Fei 彭飞 jarringly introduces a Morricone-ish flavour around the 70-minute mark, as the five squaddies walk together in slo-mo – though thankfully this “magnificent five” idea is never pursued.

Presented by Wanda Pictures (Hainan) (CN), As One Pictures (Beijing) (CN), Beijing Anrui Film & TV Culture (CN), China Film (CN), Shanghai Toupiaopiao Movie & TV Culture (CN). Produced by As One Pictures (Tianjin) (CN), Wanda Pictures (Horgos) (CN).

Script: Zhang Ji. Short story: Shenlan. Photography: Dong Jinsong. Editing: Sun Xiaomiao. Editing advice: Yang Hongyu, Tang Hongjia. Music: Peng Fei. Art direction: Chen Weiren. Styling: Tan Xiaoshi. Sound: Li Tao. Action: Xue Feiwei. Executive direction: Zhang Zhe.

Cast: Zhang Yi (Cheng Bing), Li Chen (Yang Jiantao, police chief), Wei Chen (Xi Yizhou), Cao Bingkun (Cai Bin), Wang Xiao (Ma Zhenkun), Zhang Zixian (Liao Jian), Yang Xinming (Zhang Qingliang), Chen Chuang (Yue Yang’s father), Huang Lu (Liu Shu, Cheng Bing’s wife), Ailiya (Zhang Qingliang’s wife), Zhang Xincheng (Qin Zhe), Gao Ye (Ma Zhenkun’s wife), Zhang Benyu (Wang Eryong), Zhang Lei (Tongchui/Hammer), Sheng Zihang (young Liao Xiaobo), Ma Qianyi (young Huihui, Cheng Bing’s daughter), Lai Weijia (Zhang Qingliang’s daughter), Ning Xiaozhi (Chen, police chief), Wang Yutian (Wang Dayong), Wang Shuangbao (Hongzhong/Red Dragon, prison bully), Zhang Yitong (adult Huihui, Cheng Bing’s daughter), Gao Xuanming (Liao Xiaobo), Feng Bing (Yu, Hongzhong’s sidekick), Dong Xiangrong (Qianzi), Xu Dongdong (Mo, Changsha massage girl), Huang Ting (Chen Lan, young woman in Deyang supermarket), Li Yanxi (Qin Zhe’s wife), Han Jing (Wang Eryong’s wife).

Release: China, 15 Dec 2023.

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Trailer: ‘Endless Journey’

‘Endless Journey’ (三大队) is a 2023 Chinese crime drama directed by Dai Mo.

By Phil Mills | Dec 14, 2023

Based on true events, the film revolves around the former captain of a criminal investigation brigade who is determined to solve his last case. The cast includes Zhang Yi , Li Chen , Vision Wei, Cao Bingkun , Lawrence Wang, and Zhang Zixian.

Synopsis: Cheng Bing (Zhang Yi), the captain of the criminal investigation team known as the Third Brigade, is sentenced to prison after his team cause the accidental death of one of their suspects in a particularly vicious case. Following his release from prison, Bing insists on tracking down the fugitive suspects as an ordinary citizen. [© Far East Films]

‘Endless Journey’ opens across China on December 15, 2023.

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2023 ‘三大队’ Directed by Dai Mo

Adapted from documentary literature " Please tell the director, three brigade task completed. " The rape and murder suspect died in the interrogation room after being beaten by the crowd. The three brigades in charge of the case were also sent to prison. The other suspect is still at large. After his release from prison, three brigade under the leadership of Captain Old Cheng to track down his whereabouts, and finally assist the police to capture the suspect, chasing the murderer for 12 years.

Zhang Yi Vision Wei Cao Bingkun Wang Xiao Zhang Zixian Yang Xinming Jerry Lee Gao Ye Zhang Benyu Chen Chuang Yutian Wang Huang Lu

Director Director

Producer producer.

Chen Sicheng

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CMC Pictures

Alternative Titles

请转告局长，三大队任务完成了, The Lonely Warrior, Endless.Journey, 三大隊

Crime Drama

Releases by Date

15 dec 2023, 22 dec 2023, 04 jan 2024, 25 jan 2024, releases by country.

Theatrical IIA
Theatrical 16
Theatrical PG13
Theatrical 15

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Drama : Endless Journey (2023) Director : Dai Mo Writer : Zhang Ji Main Stars : Zhang Yi, Li Chen, Vision Wei Genres : Mystery, Crime, Movie Country : China Language : Chinese Release Date : 15 December 2023 Season: 1 Also Known As : San Da Dui, Qing Zhuan Gao Ju Zhang, San Da Dui Ren Wu Wan Cheng Le, 请转告局长，三大队任务完成了, 三大隊, 請轉告局長，三大隊任務完成了, 三大队, Endless Journey 2023

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Modern day foodie Xue Xiaoran runs away from home, falls off a cliff, and wakes up in a deserted forest where she comes across a man who's practically half dead. But wait, she's time travelled?! Struggling to survive through eating scraps she can find in the jungle is tantamount to torture for Xue Xiaoran (Cheng Fan), so she rolls up her sleeves to climb trees and brave the river. If there's no pot, she shall make one. If there's no fire, she shall make one. Life is turning out well for her, but why did she even have to time travel? What is this plot about a bandit who now wants her as his wife? What is this development of having the son of the richest man invest in her abilities? She just wants to be an ordinary cook, but she is forced to go to the palace... Sure enough, every time traveler has to experience such ups and downs. Xue Xiaoran has long been prepared, but why is the wanted fugitive beside her hiding a big secret?

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The Hit New Film Pushing Chinese Sci-Fi Into Unexplored Territory

In Kong Dashan’s hit new movie “Journey to the West,” the aliens aren’t hiding in the corn fields of the U.S. Midwest. They’re lurking in the villages of northern China.

The film has become a sensation on the festival circuit in recent months by offering audiences something rarely seen before: a science fiction tale with a distinctly local flavor.

Tang Zhijun, a middle-aged magazine editor from Beijing, travels to a remote village to investigate the mass sighting of an unidentified flying object. There, he meets a local poet who says the answer to the mystery lies at a distant mountain.

As the tension mounts, the pair embark on a road trip that turns into a journey of self-discovery. It’s a quirky, often comic narrative that echoes the original “Journey to the West,” the classic Chinese novel about the monk Tang Sanzang’s quest to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures from India.

Last October, the film scooped an unprecedented four awards — including best film — at the Pingyao International Film Festival, China’s leading platform for independent cinema. It has since played overseas at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Osaka Asian Film Festival to more acclaim.

With a Chinese theatrical release pending, film industry insiders say the buzz building around the feature is palpable. Kong, the film’s 32-year-old director, says the movie’s low-budget, down-to-earth style has proved to be an asset.

“We have given people science fiction within a story that might feel familiar to aspects of their own lives,” says Kong. “That is something new.”

Leading figures in China’s science fiction scene have hailed “Journey to the West” as a step forward for the industry — and a sign it’s finally ready to step out of the shadow of star author Liu Cixin.

Chinese sci-fi has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, propelled by the breakout success of Liu’s “The Three-Body Problem.” The novel, which transcends time and space as it charts humanity’s war against an alien civilization, became a global sensation after winning the prestigious Hugo Award in 2015.

The Chinese government, once wary of sci-fi movies, began to actively embrace the genre as a soft power tool over the following years. This has opened the door for a string of big-budget science fiction productions, many of them drawing inspiration from Liu’s work.

In 2019, “The Wandering Earth” — an adaptation of a Liu novella about a group of astronauts trying to save the planet from destruction — became a box office smash, generating 4.4 billion yuan (then $638 million) in ticket sales and winning a slew of local awards.

Other Chinese sci-fi films to attract big audiences that year included the wacky comedy “Crazy Alien” — also based on a story by Liu — and the special effects-heavy alien invasion movie “Shanghai Fortress.”

Though the pandemic has caused major disruptions to film production in China, a big-budget sequel to “The Wandering Earth” is set for release in 2023. Streaming giants Tencent and Netflix, meanwhile, are currently putting the finishing touches on a TV adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem.”

Liu continues to loom large over China’s sci-fi scene. His style of fiction — speculative, epic in scale, and informed by hard science — has influenced an entire generation of Chinese writers.

“Currently, I see a lot of physics, astronomy, and space — natural science stuff,” says Chen Qiufan, a leading sci-fi author and honorary president of the Chinese Science Fiction Writers’ Association. “It’s pretty much like America back in the ’50s. Like (Isaac) Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, those ‘golden-age’ authors.”

But there are signs this is starting to change. Some creators are starting to experiment with a folksier style of sci-fi — one that draws more heavily on China’s cultural heritage and current affairs. For Chen, it’s part of a movement to explore “what are the Chinese characteristics of sci-fi.”

“Maybe in the future, there’ll be something different,” he says. “I might also do some exploration myself to connect with some ancient Chinese philosophy and mythology … so the work is using a different kind of language.”

Filmmaker Kong appears to be ahead of the game. “Journey to the West” turns on the travails of its relatable main character and his search for answers: not only about what might lie in the great beyond, but also about how his own life has panned out.

It’s a work that comes steeped in the traditional themes found in science fiction, such as the search for redemption and humanity’s fascination with the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Kong says his inspiration came from the hours he spent poring over sci-fi magazines as a child growing up in 1990s Shandong, a province in eastern China.

“My generation all grew up reading science fiction magazines, books about unknown mysteries,” says Kong. “If we think carefully about what aliens represent, it’s actually another kind of system, totally different from human beings’ existence.”

As opposed to Liu Cixin, whose work is often compared to the “golden age” sci-fi authors of the 1940s and ’50s, Kong’s work shows faint echoes of more recent classics. The central character — played by veteran actor Yang Haoyu — is fixated with outer space while his real life on terra firma falls apart, much like the protagonist in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 masterpiece “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” As in that film, too, there’s a journey of discovery that’s as personal as it is otherworldly.

But there are also sly nods to arguably the greatest road trip of all — the one taken by Tang Sanzang and his three disciples in the original “Journey to the West.” In Kong's feature, however, the characters’ quest for fulfillment is rooted in a firmly contemporary setting.

“In both that book and my film, you have characters looking for the ultimate answers in life,” says Kong. “I think this comes from the influence of ‘Journey to the West’ subconsciously. It’s a road trip, but inside it’s also his own mental journey. I think it’s necessary to have this kind of journey in science fiction.”

The hope is that more Chinese filmmakers find opportunities to experiment with science fiction over the next few years. Chen, the author, says the outlook for Chinese sci-fi has never looked better, especially given the government’s embrace of the genre.

“There have been themes of science fiction in China for about 100 years, but they’ve not been continuously developed because of wars or due to political reasons,” says Chen. “But (now) seems to be a golden age because it’s top-down. We have got a lot of support from the government and, also, the market is ready.”

Chinese authorities are pouring resources into science -fiction-related projects. Next year, the southwestern city of Chengdu will host the influential World Science Fiction Convention. Officials have greenlit a massive $8 billion Paramount Park theme park in Kunming, another city in southwest China, which will include a zone themed around the “Star Trek” franchise.

In 2019, the government also helped launch the Chinese Science Fiction Academy at Chengdu’s Sichuan University, a facility whose stated mission is to develop “a sci-fi theoretical system with Chinese characteristics.” Last year, researchers estimated that China’s sci-fi industry was worth a massive 36.3 billion yuan in the first half of 2021.

The scene is also benefitting from the growing demand for sci-fi movies among young Chinese, Chen says. Unlike previous generations, who often didn’t have easy access to science fiction, Chinese millennials like Kong grew up immersed in sci-fi culture.

“So many in the younger generation are so passionate about sci-fi as a genre, no matter if it’s literature, movies, or video games,” says Chen. “I think that’s been a fundamental change, because in the ’80s, or even in the ’50s and ’60s, maybe people weren’t ready yet for science fiction.”

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The Annual UN Women China Newsletter 2023: A Journey of Overcoming Challenges Towards a More Equal Future

In this annual newsletter, we are proud to share some of UN Women China’s top results from 2023. We are most grateful for the many partnerships that made these achievements possible, particularly when multiple points of crisis are slowing steps toward gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Conflicts, economic downturn, the climate emergency and a pushback against women’s rights are among the many concerns that have left the world as a whole lagging far behind on Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality (SDG 5). If current trends continue, more than 340 million women and girls will still live in extreme poverty by 2030. Globally, it is estimated that USD 6.4 trillion per year is needed, covering nearly 70 per cent of populations in 48 developing countries, to achieve gender equality in key areas and to support more equal participation of women in society by 2030. We reinforce our dedication and call for continued support and increased investment to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls everywhere.

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China on track for crewed moon landing by 2030, space official says

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HELSINKI — China is on target to reach its goal of putting its astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade, according to the country’s human spaceflight agency.

Officials with the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) provided a rare update on the crewed lunar program during a press conference at Jiuquan spaceport April 24.

“The program development for major flight products, including the Long March 10 rocket, the Mengzhou crew spacecraft, the lunar lander Lanyue and the lunar landing suits, are all complete,” said Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of CMSEO. “Their prototype production and tests are in full swing.”

Chinese officials previously announced a plan to put a pair of astronauts on the moon before 2030. Two Long March 10 lunar variant rockets will separately launch Mengzhou and three astronauts and the Lanyue lander. The pair will then perform a lunar orbit rendezvous and docking ahead of descent to the lunar surface. Two astronauts will spend six hours on the lunar surface before rejoining their colleague in lunar orbit and returning to Earth.

“The development of mechanical and thermal test products for the crew spacecraft and lander have been basically completed. Various rocket engines are undergoing hotfire tests , and the Wenchang crewed lunar exploration launch site is under construction,” Lin said.

New launch infrastructure is required to facilitate the missions. This is being built near China’s existing coastal spaceport at Wenchang, Hainan island.

CMSE: China's crewed lunar missions are underway, and everything is in plan. Two Chinese astronauts will land on the Moon in 2029 #CNSA pic.twitter.com/PcMs69LBP3 — Yuqi Qian (@YuqiiQian) February 26, 2023

Furthermore, proposals for a “crew lunar rover and lunar surface payloads solicited from the public are under selection,” Lin stated. CMSA announced a call for proposals for a lunar crew rover, potentially using a commercial development model, in May 2023.

Lin added that astronaut training for the mission includes mastering operation of the Mengzhou and Lanyue spacecraft, including in normal and emergency flight conditions. Rendezvous and docking and manually avoiding obstacles during the lander’s descent were noted as part of the training. Other activities include entering and exiting the lander, working in one-sixth of Earth’s gravity, long-range lunar roving, drilling, sampling and other scientific work on the lunar surface.

The crewed lunar landing mission is part of China’s wider plans to establish a robotic and eventually inhabited moon base. The initiative is known as the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS).

China's lunar exploration blueprint: – Queqiao-2 (March) – CE-6 (May) – CE-7 (~2026) – CE-8 (~2028) – Crewed lunar landing before 2030 – ILRS moon base in 2030s – Queqiao constellation (Tiandu test satellites launching soon) pic.twitter.com/4IdwjLcFvt — Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) February 21, 2024

Lin stated that a human lunar landing is a challenging and innovative scientific and technological project. He said efforts will be made to progress with the development and manufacturing in a coordinated way to fulfill the mission as scheduled.

The U.S. meanwhile is working towards returning humans to the moon with its Artemis 3 mission. That mission, earlier scheduled for late 2025 was officially delayed to no earlier than September 2026 in January this year. A report by the Government Accountability Office in December 2023 concluded that the mission was unlikely to happen before 2027 .

The CMSEO press event —held on China’s national space day—was primarily to unveil the crew for the Shenzhou-18 mission. That mission is due to launch at 8:59 a.m. (1259 UTC) April 25, reaching Tiangong space station around 6.5 hours later.

The crew will be commanded by Ye Guangfu, veteran of the 2021 Shenzhou-13 mission. Completing the crew will be former PLA Air Force pilots Li Guangsu and Li Cong. The latter pair will be embarking on their first spaceflight missions.

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Huawei's 7nm chip capability and HBM development reflect China's advanced processes ambition

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Huawei continues its relentless journey towards chip self-sufficiency, showcasing signs of China's further advancements in advanced manufacturing processes.

According to market research firm TechInsights, the latest teardown of Huawei's newly launched Pura 70 series smartphones reveals the highly anticipated presence of the Huawei Kirin 9010 chip, believed to be manufactured using SMIC's 7nm N+2 process, an enhanced version of the 7nm process. This highlights Huawei's capability to design advanced chips.

In addition, reports suggest that Huawei is also developing the domestic production capacity of High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM), a critical component for Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips. The Information reported that a group of Chinese chip companies led by Huawei and backed by the Chinese government aims to start HBM production by 2026.

The HBM production initiative, which began in 2023, involves various participants, including Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit, a Chinese memory chip manufacturer sanctioned alongside Huawei by the US government. The goal is to provide China with alternatives to Nvidia's AI chips, reducing dependency on foreign technologies.

These Chinese chip companies, led by Huawei, are also collaborating with other local chip manufacturers and packaging technology developers to develop memory chips tailored for Huawei-designed AI processor chips and supported motherboard components.

The Information reports that these Huawei-led Chinese chip companies have established at least two HBM production lines, employing memory chips from different companies, fostering internal competition, with Huawei possibly being the largest buyer of HBM.

Huawei and Fujian Jinhua have yet to respond to these reports. While HBM chips are not directly affected by US export restrictions, they are manufactured using US chip technologies that Huawei is barred from using.

According to Bloomberg, Huawei began selling its Pura 70 series smartphones last week, featuring the Kirin 9010 processor, an upgrade from the Kirin 9000 chip used in Huawei's Mate 60 Pro smartphones manufactured in the latter half of 2023 by SMIC. The mass production of Huawei's Kirin 9000 chip in 2023 raised concerns among US federal officials, as the White House believed China could not produce 7nm chips.

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Formerly known as the P series, the Pura series has traditionally focused on camera features. Now, Huawei's introduction of the new Pura series caters to Chinese consumers, potentially adding further pressure on Apple's iPhone, which is not expected to upgrade until September 2024.

For Huawei, this marks a milestone in rebuilding its consumer business shattered by sanctions during the Trump era. As of the first quarter of 2024, Huawei's share of the Chinese smartphone market is roughly on par with Apple, highlighting Huawei's gradual erosion of Apple's market share in China over the past few months.

Despite ongoing upgrades to US government technology export restrictions, Huawei's achievement of advanced semiconductor manufacturing capabilities in China has sparked a wave of celebration domestically. US officials are currently considering additional sanctions aimed at more broadly restricting Huawei and China's semiconductor ambitions.

According to the Financial Times, amid growing concerns about Huawei's development of advanced semiconductors, the US is urging European and Asian allies to tighten restrictions on the export of chip-related technologies and equipment to China.

Sources reveal that Washington hopes Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands will more actively utilize existing export controls to prevent engineers from these countries from providing services for chip manufacturing equipment at advanced semiconductor factories in China.

The US aims to make it more difficult for China to circumvent US restrictions through its allies, particularly by making it harder for third-country companies to supply products containing technologies produced in Japan, South Korea, or the Netherlands to China.

The US is targeting Huawei through a broad measure known as the "Foreign Direct Product Rule," allowing the US Department of Commerce to block non-US companies from supplying products containing US technologies to Huawei, even if the products are manufactured outside the US. However, allied countries have yet to implement measures that could have a similar impact.

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Are ‘Forever Chemicals’ a Forever Problem?

The environmental protection agency says “forever chemicals” must be removed from tap water. but they lurk in much more of what we eat, drink and use..

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From “The New York Times,” I’m Sabrina Tavernise. And this is “The Daily.”

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This month for the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency began to regulate a class of synthetic chemicals, known as forever chemicals, in America’s drinking water. But the chemicals, which have been linked to liver disease and other serious health problems, are in far more than just our water supply. Today, my colleague Kim Tingley explains.

It’s Wednesday, April 17.

So Kim, any time the EPA announces a regulation, I think we all sort of take notice because implicit in it is this idea that we have been exposed to something — something bad, potentially, lead or asbestos. And recently, the EPA is regulating a type of chemical known as PFAS So for those who don’t know, what are PFAS chemicals

Yeah, so PFAS stands for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They’re often called forever chemicals just because they persist so long in the environment and they don’t easily break down. And for that reason, we also use them in a ton of consumer products. They’re in makeup. They’re in carpet. They’re in nonstick cookware. They’re in food packaging, all sorts of things.

Yeah, I feel like I’ve been hearing about these chemicals actually for a very long time. I mean, nonstick pans, Teflon — that’s the thing that’s in my mind when I think PFAS.

Absolutely. Yeah, this class of chemicals has been around for decades. And what’s really important about this is that the EPA has decided, for the first time, to regulate them in drinking water. And that’s a ruling that stands to affect tens of millions of people.

So, help me understand where these things came from and how it’s taken so long to get to the point where we’re actually regulating them.

So, they really actually came about a long time ago. In 1938, DuPont, the people who eventually got us to Teflon, they were actually looking for a more stable kind of refrigerant. And they came upon this kind of chemical, PFAS. The thing that all PFAS chemicals have is a really strong bond between carbon atoms and fluorine atoms. This particular pairing is super strong and super durable.

They have water repellent properties. They’re stain resistant. They’re grease resistant. And they found a lot of uses for them initially in World War II. They were using them as part of their uranium enrichment process to do all these kinds of things. And then —

Well, good thing it’s Teflon.

In the 1950s is when they really started to come out as commercial products.

Even burned food won’t stick to Teflon. So it’s always easy to clean.

So, DuPont started using it in Teflon pans.

Cookware never needs scouring if it has DuPont Teflon.

And then another company, 3M also started using a kind of PFAS —

Scotchgard fabric protector. It keeps ordinary spills from becoming extraordinary stains.

— in one of their big products, Scotchgard. So you probably remember spraying that on your shoes if you want to make your shoes waterproof.

Use Scotchgard fabric protector and let your cup runneth over.

Right — miracle product, Scotchgard, Teflon. But of course, we’re talking about these chemicals because they’ve been found to pose health threats. When does that risk start to surface?

Yeah, so it’s pretty early on that DuPont and 3M start finding effects in animals in studies that they’re running in house.

Around the mid ‘60s, they start seeing that PFAS has an effect on rats. It’s increasing the liver and kidney weights of the rats. And so that seems problematic. And they keep running tests over the next decade and a half. And they try different things with different animals.

In one study, they gave monkeys really, really high levels of PFAS. And those monkeys died. And so they have a pretty strong sense that these chemicals could be dangerous. And then in 1979, they start to see that the workers that are in the plants manufacturing, working with these chemicals, that they’re starting to have higher rates of abnormal liver function. And in a Teflon plant, they had some pregnant workers that were working with these chemicals. And one of those workers in 1981 gave birth to a child who had some pretty severe birth defects.

And then by the mid 1980s, DuPont figures out that it’s not just their workers who are being exposed to these chemicals, but communities that are living in areas surrounding their Teflon plant, particularly the one in Parkersburg, West Virginia, that those communities have PFAS in their tap water.

Wow, so based on its own studies, DuPont knows its chemicals are making animals sick. They seem to be making workers sick. And now they found out that the chemicals have made their way into the water supply. What do they do with that information?

As far as we know, they didn’t do much. They certainly didn’t tell the residents of Parkersburg who were drinking that water that there was anything that they needed to be worried about.

How is that possible? I mean, setting aside the fact that DuPont is the one actually studying the health effects of its own chemicals, presumably to make sure they’re safe, we’ve seen these big, regulating agencies like the EPA and the FDA that exist in order to watch out for something exactly like this, a company that is producing something that may be harming Americans. Why weren’t they keeping a closer watch?

Yeah, so it goes kind of back to the way that we regulate chemicals in the US. It goes through an act called the Toxic Substances Control Act that’s administered by the EPA. And basically, it gives companies a lot of room to regulate themselves, in a sense. Under this act they have a responsibility to report to the EPA if they find these kinds of potential issues with a chemical. They have a responsibility to do their due diligence when they’re putting a chemical out into the environment.

But there’s really not a ton of oversight. The enforcement mechanism is that the EPA can find them. But this kind of thing can happen pretty easily where DuPont keeps going with something that they think might really be a problem and then the fine, by the time it plays out, is just a tiny fraction of what DuPont has earned from producing these chemicals. And so really, the incentive is for them to take the punishment at the end, rather than pull it out early.

So it seems like it’s just self-reporting, which is basically self-regulation in a way.

Yeah, I think that is the way a lot of advocacy groups and experts have characterized it to me, is that chemical companies are essentially regulating themselves.

So how did this danger eventually come to light? I mean, if this is in some kind of DuPont vault, what happened?

Well, there’s a couple different things that started to happen in the late ‘90s.

The community around Parkersburg, West Virginia, people had reported seeing really strange symptoms in their animals. Cows were losing their hair. They had lesions. They were behaving strangely. Some of their calves were dying. And a lot of people in the community felt like they were having health problems that just didn’t really have a good answer, mysterious sicknesses, and some cases of cancers.

And so they initiate a class action lawsuit against DuPont. As part of that class action lawsuit, DuPont, at a certain point, is forced to turn over all of their internal documentation. And so what was in the files was all of that research that we mentioned all of the studies about — animals, and workers, the birth defects. It was really the first time that the public saw what DuPont and 3M had already seen, which is the potential health harms of these chemicals.

So that seems pretty damning. I mean, what happened to the company?

So, DuPont and 3M are still able to say these were just a few workers. And they were working with high levels of the chemicals, more than a person would get drinking it in the water. And so there’s still an opportunity for this to be kind of correlation, but not causation. There’s not really a way to use that data to prove for sure that it was PFAS that caused these health problems.

In other words, the company is arguing, look, yes, these two things exist at the same time. But it doesn’t mean that one caused the other.

Exactly. And so one of the things that this class action lawsuit demands in the settlement that they eventually reach with DuPont is they want DuPont to fund a formal independent health study of the communities that are affected by this PFAS in their drinking water. And so they want DuPont to pay to figure out for sure, using the best available science, how many of these health problems are potentially related to their chemicals.

And so they ask them to pay for it. And they get together an independent group of researchers to undertake this study. And it ends up being the first — and it still might be the biggest — epidemiological study of PFAS in a community. They’ve got about 69,000 participants in this study.

Wow, that’s big.

It’s big, yeah. And what they ended up deciding was that they could confidently say that there was what they ended up calling a probable link. And so they were really confident that the chemical exposure that the study participants had experienced was linked to high cholesterol, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, testicular cancer, kidney cancer, and pregnancy induced hypertension.

And so those were the conditions that they were able to say, with a good degree of certainty, were related to their chemical exposure. There were others that they just didn’t have the evidence to reach a strong conclusion.

So overall, pretty substantial health effects, and kind of vindicates the communities in West Virginia that were claiming that these chemicals were really affecting their health.

Absolutely. And as the years have gone on, that was sort of just the beginning of researchers starting to understand all the different kinds of health problems that these chemicals could potentially be causing. And so since the big DuPont class action study, there’s really just been like this building and building and building of different researchers coming out with these different pieces of evidence that have accumulated to a pretty alarming picture of what some of the potential health outcomes could be.

OK, so that really kind of brings us to the present moment, when, at last, it seems the EPA is saying enough is enough. We need to regulate these things.

Yeah, it seems like the EPA has been watching this preponderance of evidence accumulate. And they’re sort of deciding that it’s a real health problem, potentially, that they need to regulate.

So the EPA has identified six of these PFAS chemicals that it’s going to regulate. But the concern that I think a lot of experts have is that this particular regulation is not going to keep PFAS out of our bodies.

We’ll be right back.

So, Kim, you just said that these regulations probably won’t keep PFAS chemicals out of our bodies. What did you mean?

Well, the EPA is talking about regulating these six kinds of PFAS. But there are actually more than 10,000 different kinds of PFAS that are already being produced and out there in the environment.

And why those six, exactly? I mean, is it because those are the ones responsible for most of the harm?

Those are the ones that the EPA has seen enough evidence about that they are confident that they are probably causing harm. But it doesn’t mean that the other ones are not also doing something similar. It’s just sort of impossible for researchers to be able to test each individual chemical compound and try to link it to a health outcome.

I talked to a lot of researchers who were involved in this area and they said that they haven’t really seen a PFAS that doesn’t have a harm, but they just don’t have information on the vast majority of these compounds.

So in other words, we just haven’t studied the rest of them enough yet to even know how harmful they actually are, which is kind of alarming.

Yeah, that’s right. And there’s just new ones coming out all the time.

Right. OK, so of the six that the EPA is actually intending to regulate, though, are those new regulations strict enough to keep these chemicals out of our bodies?

So the regulations for those six chemicals really only cover getting them out of the drinking water. And drinking water only really accounts for about 20 percent of a person’s overall PFAS exposure.

So only a fifth of the total exposure.

Yeah. There are lots of other ways that you can come into contact with PFAS. We eat PFAS, we inhale PFAS. We rub it on our skin. It’s in so many different products. And sometimes those products are not ones that you would necessarily think of. They’re in carpets. They’re in furniture. They’re in dental floss, raincoats, vinyl flooring, artificial turf. All kinds of products that you want to be either waterproof or stain resistant or both have these chemicals in them.

So, the cities and towns are going to have to figure out how to test for and monitor for these six kinds of PFAS. And then they’re also going to have to figure out how to filter them out of the water supply. I think a lot of people are concerned that this is going to be just a really expensive endeavor, and it’s also not really going to take care of the entire problem.

Right. And if you step back and really look at the bigger problem, the companies are still making these things, right? I mean, we’re running around trying to regulate this stuff at the end stage. But these things are still being dumped into the environment.

Yeah. I think it’s a huge criticism of our regulatory policy. There’s a lot of onus put on the EPA to prove that a harm has happened once the chemicals are already out there and then to regulate the chemicals. And I think that there’s a criticism that we should do things the other way around, so tougher regulations on the front end before it goes out into the environment.

And that’s what the European Union has been doing. The European Chemicals Agency puts more of the burden on companies to prove that their products and their chemicals are safe. And the European Chemicals Agency is also, right now, considering just a ban on all PFAS products.

So is that a kind of model, perhaps, of what a tough regulation could look like in the US?

There’s two sides to that question. And the first side is that a lot of people feel like it would be better if these chemical companies had to meet a higher standard of proof in terms of demonstrating that their products or their chemicals are going to be safe once they’ve been put out in the environment.

The other side is that doing that kind of upfront research can be really expensive and could potentially limit companies who are trying to innovate in that space. In terms of PFAS, specifically, this is a really important chemical for us. And a lot of the things that we use it in, there’s not necessarily a great placement at the ready that we can just swap in. And so it’s used in all sorts of really important medical devices or renewable energy industries or firefighting foam.

And in some cases, there are alternatives that might be safer that companies can use. But in other cases, they just don’t have that yet. And so PFAS is still really important to our daily lives.

Right. And that kind of leaves us in a pickle because we know these things might be harming us. Yet, we’re kind of stuck with them, at least for now. So, let me just ask you this question, Kim, which I’ve been wanting to ask you since the beginning of this episode, which is, if you’re a person who is concerned about your exposure to PFAS, what do you do?

Yeah. So this is really tricky and I asked everybody this question who I talked to. And everybody has a little bit of a different answer based on their circumstance. For me what I ended up doing was getting rid of the things that I could sort of spot and get rid of. And so I got rid of some carpeting and I checked, when I was buying my son a raincoat, that it was made by a company that didn’t use PFAS.

It’s also expensive. And so if you can afford to get a raincoat from a place that doesn’t manufacture PFAS, it’s going to cost more than if you buy the budget raincoat. And so it’s kind of unfair to put the onus on consumers in that way. And it’s also just not necessarily clear where exactly your exposure is coming from.

So I talk to people who said, well, it’s in dust, so I vacuum a lot. Or it’s in my cleaning products, so I use natural cleaning products. And so I think it’s really sort of a scattershot approach that consumers can take. But I don’t think that there is a magic approach that gets you a PFAS-free life.

So Kim, this is pretty dark, I have to say. And I think what’s frustrating is that it feels like we have these government agencies that are supposed to be protecting our health. But when you drill down here, the guidance is really more like you’re on your own. I mean, it’s hard not to just throw up your hands and say, I give up.

Yeah. I think it’s really tricky to try to know what you do with all of this information as an individual. As much as you can, you can try to limit your individual exposure. But it seems to me as though it’s at a regulatory level that meaningful change would happen, and not so much throwing out your pots and pans and getting new ones.

One thing about PFAS is just that we’re in this stage still of trying to understand exactly what it’s doing inside of us. And so there’s a certain amount of research that has to happen in order to both convince people that there’s a real problem that needs to be solved, and clean up what we’ve put out there. And so I think that we’re sort of in the middle of that arc. And I think that that’s the point at which people start looking for solutions.

Kim, thank you.

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