https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/china-just-turned-desert-sand-171657326.html

still far away from real solid business, but it's a good start.

many ridiculed china progress on S and T, i like china attitude, esp the way of being pragmatic and profitable.

remember the doubt on massive planting trees? it's not working, tress dying,tress use too much under water, blab.... now so many satellite images show hte astouding effect

solar panels, i still remember about 15 yrsa go iread sci am wrtings asking how to decrease the price of new energy making them competitive with fossil fuels. china delivered.

ev, bio med, ai, one can argue quite convincingly there's no real top S there , but china focusing on T in my mind is best way this moment. for so called get ahead through the curve, this is the only. west and america still dominate the original work, but turning them from S into practical T, no one does better than china.

las ttime tianjin group reported "turning air into bun", again so many belittel it, but to me, the S is alread threre, artifical or simulated CO2 fixation, now is just how to make it profitable. if china can do tha on solar, they can do this.

nowadays even chaoyang dama talk aboutchips and asml, i am confident china can find comparable ones, again on S it's not remarkable, but in T which is the real deal china can do it the china way.

xi is a dicatator, but as long as he keeps the china way of treating S and T , esp T with repsect, china would be ok