BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.
DIGITAL PANDA MASCOT
As the Beijing Winter Olympics wraps up, the craze for acquiring a Bing Dwen Dwen, the panda mascot for the games, has persisted, now expanding into the digital art market supported by blockchain technology.
A San Francisco-based mobile-game company called nWayPlay rolled out its second batch of 200 Legendary Box packages containing the digital pins to several non-fungible tokens (NFTs) featuring images of the mascot.
Each package is officially priced 349 U.S. dollars, much more expensive than a stuffed toy figurine, which sells for about 30 dollars. However, the digital pins were sold out only three days after their launch.
BIG DATA PROJECT
China has started work on a mega project to build an integrated national big data system to improve overall computing power and resource efficiency, both crucial factors defining the country's future productivity and development sustainability.
The project involves establishing eight national computing hubs in the country's economic powerhouses and less developed yet resource-rich regions, plus 10 national data center clusters, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the top economic planner.
By creating a national computing power network, the project will support the less developed regions with abundant renewable energy resources to store and process data transmitted from the economically advanced areas to address the soaring demand and the regional capacity imbalance.
HIGH-TECH UPGRADE
North China's Tianjin Municipality aims to build 20 leading manufacturing enterprises, with a potential of raking in more than 400 million yuan (about 63 million U.S. dollars) in revenue each annually.
The city plans to upgrade 12 key industrial chains, including those covering innovation in information technology application and biological medicine this year, said Liao Guoxun, mayor of Tianjin, in the government work report delivered during the annual session of the municipal people's congress.
According to the report, Tianjin will also develop the Industrial Internet and build 100 new smart factories and digital workshops this year.