At the closing ceremony of the 2017 Chongqing International Talent Innovation Entrepreneurship Symposium on Sunday, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area awarded Meng Min's pharmaceutical company 19 million yuan ($2.9 million) for its innovative project: a public service platform for biological medicine research development. "Our project will get a jumpstart with this generous support, and it will help me hire more high-level talent," said Meng, former chief scientist at Covance, one of the world's largest drug development companies. She is one of the hundreds of highly talented people attracted to this southwestern city in recent years as Chongqing aims to become an international cosmopolis by 2030. Born and raised in Chongqing, Meng returned to her hometown last year and started her own biological medicine company in Liangjiang, attracted by the fast growing pharmaceutical industry and favorable local policies. "Chongqing is the youngest municipality in China. You can reach your goals here if you have solid knowledge and skills," she said. In recent years, Liangjiang New Area, China's first inland State-level pilot zone for opening-up and development, has launched a large-scale talent recruitment program, such as the annual international talent symposium, which aims to attract highly-skilled individuals from home and abroad to start businesses in Chongqing. Over the weekend, more than 1,000 people from 18 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore, participated in the event. They are highly educated and top experts in the fields of information technology, renewable energy, biological medicine and manufacturing. There was one academician and 18 experts from the national Thousand Talents program. "The symposium has drawn increasing attention from overseas and greatly assisted our talent recruitment," said He Yousheng, deputy director of the Liangjiang New Area Administrative Committee. To encourage entrepreneurship, the new area has issued a series of policies and subsidies to startups, including rent cuts, tax cuts and seed money. "We will set aside at least 100 million yuan ($15.4 million) in talent funding each year, a 10-billion-yuan seed capital fund and over 1 million square meters of housing for talent," he said. In addition to financial and policy support, human resources experts attending the event said that the city needs to upgrade its "software", such as world-class international education and medical facilities. "Overseas high-level talent pays great attention to their children's education here and the quality of local medical services," said Jiang Ao, CEO of a consulting firm based in the United Kingdom that helps Liangjiang recruit. Chongqing boasts the world's largest laptop manufacturing base and China's largest vehicle production base. Since 2014, it led GDP growth in the country for 13 consecutive quarters with an annual average of 11.7 percent. In January last year, President Xi Jinping said during an inspection trip that Chongqing is "full of promise" and set to become an inland international logistics hub. hospital wristbandfidget spinner braceletwrist band com coupon coderubber arm bandssilicone fidget spinnercustom printed wristbands
BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have discovered six new pulsar stars in the Milky Way, by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest radio telescope. One of the pulsars is estimated to be 16,000 light years away, rotating at a speed of 1.83 seconds, while another is thought to be about 4,100 light years away, spinning at 0.59 of a second. Pulsars are so strange that when the first one was discovered, it was mistaken for a signal from aliens. They are still an enigma. A pulsar is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star, which emits two beams of electromagnetic radiation. This radiation can be observed only when the beam of emission is pointing at Earth, in much the same way as a lighthouse can be seen only when the light is pointed at an observer. A neutron star is the collapsed core of a large star. Neutron stars are the smallest and densest stars known to exist. They typically have a radius of 10 km, but can have a mass about twice that of the Sun. A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon of its material would have the mass of a mountain over 3,000 meters high on Earth, or about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Most of the basic models for these objects imply that they are composed almost entirely of neutrons. Neutron stars have very precise intervals between pulses that range from milliseconds to seconds. They are regarded as the most accurate astronomical clock in the universe. Scientists believe they can use pulsars as "lighthouses" to help navigation in future interplanetary or interstellar travel. British astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discovered the first pulsar on Nov. 28, 1967. They nicknamed the strange signal LGM-1, for "little green men". It was not until a second pulsating source was found in a different part of the sky that the "LGM hypothesis" was abandoned. Scientists have now identified more than 2,000 pulsars. The Milky Way is thought to have around 100 million of them, based on an estimate of the number of stars that have undergone supernova explosions. With their super strong gravitational and electromagnetic fields and high density, pulsars are regarded as natural laboratories of extreme physical conditions. For instance, the magnetic field on the surface of a neutron star is at least a million times that created in the most advanced laboratory. In addition, neutron stars might be particle accelerators with the highest energy in the known universe. Scientists could study many phenomena that they cannot replicate on Earth by observing neutron stars.
