Photo taken on May 9, 2018 shows the Gaofen 5 satellite being launched off the back of a Long March 4C rocket at 2:28 am Beijing Time from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING - The Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed that one of its institutes has successfully tracked and received the data from the recently launched Gaofen-5, a the hyperspectral imaging satellite. The Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of CAS said researchers with the Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station it runs received the first Gaofen-5 data from Miyun location on the outskirts of Beijing on May 13. The data size was 60GB and the time frame was nine minutes and 32 seconds. The Gaofen-5 satellite was launched using a Long March 4C rocket at 2:28 am Beijing Time on May 9 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. Gaofen-5 will be used for comprehensive environmental monitoring. The satellite can dynamically reflect the state of air pollution in China through the monitoring of air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and aerosols. figured wristbandcool rubber band bracelets with loomcustomized silicone braceletssilicone braceletspersonalized rubber band bracelets
Children learn about earcare in Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on March 3, 2017. [Photo/Baotou Daily] BEIJING -- Chinese experts have called for improved awareness of hearing impairment and increasing the use of hearing aids as the country has about 100 million people with hearing disabilities. Long Mo, deputy director of the China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment, said only 7.9 percent of Chinese who suffer from medium-level or worse hearing impairments use hearing aids or artificial cochleas. Gao Zhiqiang, director of the Department of Otolaryngology with the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, said people also tend to make mistakes in wearing hearing aids, causing further deterioration of their hearing abilities. Patients with hearing loss in both ears are recommended to wear hearing aids on both sides, Gao said. But only 15 percent of those wearing hearing aids go through fitting for both of their ears. Wang Shuo, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, said hearing aids with Chinese language processors can help improve the equipment's recognition of speech and therefore better suit users whose mother tongue is Chinese.
