Colleges across China have responded to a national advocation for weight loss by releasing weight control directions after a major new initiative announced by China’s top health authority aimed at tipping the scales back toward healthier lifestyles.
Lei Haichao, head of China’s National Health Commission (NHC), announced at a press conference on the sidelines of this year’s two sessions the new initiatives to promote mental health, weight management and healthy lifestyles nationwide. According to the guidelines for weight management released by NHC, the prevalence of overweight or obesity among Chinese adults is anticipated to rise to 70.5 percent by 2030 and the childhood overweight and obesity rate is expected to reach 31.8 percent.
In response to the initiatives, multiple colleges across China such as China Agricultural University, Hubei University and University of Science and Technology Beijing have released weight management instructions and shared successful cases of weight loss.
The University of Science and Technology Beijing shared Tuesday on its official WeChat account a successful weight loss case of a PhD candidate Chen Linyun, who successfully reduced his weight by 52 kilograms from 132 kilograms in July of 2023 to the current 80 kilograms.
According to Chen, the weight loss progress and the sports and exercises not only built up his body but also made him become more confident, optimistic and cheerful when facing all kinds of challenges in his academic path.
In Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, 92 colleges across the province will start from this year's graduation season to implement an assessment system on college students’ physical constitution. As long as the students score above 80 out of 100 in their annual physical fitness tests, they will receive a “super fit” certificate upon graduation, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday, citing Yunnan provincial education authority.
The certificate, designed by the provincial department of education and made and issued by each university, will bear the official seals of the universities and the signature stamps of the universities’ Party secretaries in order to encourage college students to take part in sports, thereby improving their physical health, according to Xinhua.
Meanwhile, some colleges have rolled out the schedules of weight loss competitions to encourage weight management among students.
Topics related to “fat loss and weight management” have been trending on social media over the past few days.
Some netizens posted on social media platforms the notice on the Fifth Weight Loss Competition of Southern University of Science and Technology
According to the notice, competitors will be weighed for the first time between March 14 and 17 and weighed the second time between May 16 and 19. The rankings will be decided by the body mass index, a calculated measure of weight relative to height.
One netizen who took the competition in the past said that he ended up gaining weight by one kilogram when he was weighed the second time.
While some netizens were more curious about what the prizes will be, others expressed concerns over students’ knowledge on weight control, noting that students’ lack of nutrition knowledge may lead to damages to their health in the process of weight loss.
Commenting on the joint statement of the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting and the G7 Foreign Ministers' Declaration on Maritime Security and Prosperity, the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Canada refuted that such statements are filled with arrogance, prejudice and malicious intentions to suppress and attack China.
China strongly deplores and opposes this and has lodged solemn representations with the Canadian side, the embassy spokesperson said in a statement published on its website on Friday local time, criticizing that "such statements repeat the same old rhetoric, ignore facts and China's solemn position, grossly interfere in China's internal affairs, and blatantly smear China."
According to the Statement of the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Charlevoix, a city in Quebec, Canada, the Global Affairs Canada released on local time Friday, the G7 members smeared China in several ways over topics involving situations in Ukraine, security and resilience across the so-called "Indo-Pacific" region.
These G7 foreign minister joint statements clearly carry the intent of fostering internal unity by exaggerating the so-called "threats from China." This once again demonstrates that the G7 is a small clique that creates division, confrontation, and chaos in the world, rather than, as these seven countries claim, a group that brings stability to the world on economic or broader issues, Chinese observers said.
The G7 members hyped in the joint statement their support for Taiwan's meaningful participation in appropriate international organizations while being "concerned by the situations in the East China Sea as well as the South China Sea and continue to oppose strongly unilateral attempts to change the status quo, in particular by force and coercion."
China firmly safeguards its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and resolutely opposes the G7's misdeeds of harming China's sovereignty, the embassy spokesperson said in the statement.
Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. The Taiwan question is purely an internal affair of China, which brooks no external interference. The key to upholding peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits lies in abiding by the one-China principle, and firmly opposing the "Taiwan independence" separatism. The Taiwan region's participation in the activities of international organizations must and can only be handled in line with the one-China principle, according to the statement.
Currently, the situation in the East China Sea and the South China Sea is generally stable. The South China Sea is one of the safest and freest maritime passages in the world. "I want to emphasize that the Asia-Pacific region is a promising land of peace and development, not a chessboard for geopolitical rivalries. The G7 should earnestly respect regional countries' efforts for peace and stability, abandon the Cold War mentality, and stop creating bloc confrontation and fueling tensions in the region," the spokesperson urged.
The G7 members in the statement also baselessly accused China of providing weapons and dual-use components to Russia, calling it a "decisive enabler of Russia's war and of the reconstitution of Russia's armed forces."
"I want to reiterate that China is not a creator of or a party to the Ukraine crisis, and has never provided weapons to any party of the conflict," the Chinese embassy spokesperson refuted. "On the contrary, the G7 members are constantly pouring fuel on the fire, so it is in no position to scapegoat China."
China rejects the unreasonable accusations made by the G7. While the G7 has abandoned the basic principles of maintaining global strategic stability and undermined the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, it chose to attack and discredit other countries' nuclear policies. This will only intensify confrontation and create obstacles for the international nuclear disarmament process, the spokesperson remarked.
Slamming the remarks in the statement that "China should not conduct or condone activities aimed at undermining the security and safety of our communities and the integrity of our democratic institutions," the spokesperson noted that China has never interfered in other countries' internal affairs and has no interest in doing so. The label of "interference in other countries' internal affairs" shall never be pinned on China.
Today, the G7's discussions are no longer confined to economic matters. Originally established as an organization to address economic affairs, it has now shifted its focus to international crises and major political issues, such as the South China Sea, Taiwan, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This reveals that the G7 has effectively become an alliance that sustains its existence — and even strengthens its role—by fabricating external threats. Such an approach is undoubtedly a ticking time bomb for recent global security and prosperity, or in other words, a destabilizing factor, Li Haidong, a professor at China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times on Saturday.
At the same time, we must note that the G7's series of accusations regarding China reflects the views of some elites or establishment factions within Western politics. However, in some Western countries, including the US and Italy, anti-establishment political forces are steadily gaining influence. This suggests that the G7 is undergoing a profound internal rift, he pointed out.
This division was deliberately obscured at the recent G7 foreign ministers' meeting through the amplification of external threats, he said, noting that "no matter how the G7 exaggerates external threats to bolster its existence and functions, it cannot conceal the deepening of its internal divisions, nor the resistance from countries worldwide to its obstruction of global prosperity and creation of global disorder."
China wants to stress to the G7 that a lie even if repeated thousands of times will not become a fact. The world will not be misled by the smearing against China. Suppressing and attacking China is not a "panacea" for resolving G7's internal disagreements. We once again urge the G7 to abandon Cold War mentality and ideological biases, refrain from going against the overwhelming trend of the world and the times, stop the unwarranted and condescending remarks on and gross interference in other countries' affairs, so as to avoid creating confrontation and division within the international community, the Chinese embassy spokesperson stressed.
As the fate of a proposed cease-fire plan to end Russia-Ukraine conflict remains uncertain and the latest battlefield dynamic adds to the complexity of the situation, European leaders presented varying attitudes toward the way and scale of military support for Ukraine in the event of a peace deal after a virtual summit on Saturday.
The differences within Europe, and the divergences between the willingness to support Ukraine and the capacity to do so are very evident when talking about security guarantees and putting forces in Ukraine, Chinese observers said.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that plans to put a peacekeeping force in Ukraine have now entered an "operational phase", as Britain prepares to host military chiefs from a group of Western countries ready to support a cease-fire, The Independent reported.
Sending the strongest signal yet that a "coalition of the willing" - a group of Western nations that have pledged to help Ukraine - is pressing ahead with the pledge to back a cease-fire deal with troops on the ground, Starmer said allies would be prepared to "help secure Ukraine on the land, at sea and in the sky," according to the report.
Military leaders will meet in London on Thursday "to put strong and robust plans in place to swing in behind a peace deal and guarantee Ukraine's future security," the BBC quoted Starmer as saying.
Starmer's remarks were made at a press conference after a virtual meeting with 29 other world leaders on Saturday, including those from NATO, the European Union, other European countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, per the BBC.
The stationing of peacekeeping troops in Ukraine, as proposed by Britain and France as part of a ceasefire agreement with Russia, is a question for Kyiv to decide and not Moscow, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview, per
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who joined the Saturday meeting, said "active pressure is needed, not just talks," according to the BBC.
Zelensky urged European countries to produce their own weapons as soon as possible and to talk to the US to reach a deal more quickly through "full sanctions, strong pressure, and forcing Russia to make peace."
Starmer said "the world needs actions… not empty words and conditions."
The UK is appearing more active and is trying every diplomatic method to unite more European countries and other allies, said Cui Heng, a scholar at the Shanghai-based China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation.
Cui told the Global Times on Sunday that as the UK's military capacity means it cannot act alone, the convening of a "coalition of the willing" is a way to demonstrate British influence and avoid being marginalized by the US and Russia.
However, significant divisions remain over whether individual European countries are willing to deploy troops to Ukraine to keep the peace, CNN reported.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday reiterated his criticism of the EU's military support for Ukraine, and his opposition to Ukrainian accession to the EU, according to Politico.
A statement from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's office said that Meloni, who joined Saturday's virtual summit, does not envisage Italy's participation in a possible military presence in Ukraine, according to CNN.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg program after the summit that Finland was willing to be part of efforts to defend a peace deal, but said: "It is too early to talk about boots on the ground because we don't have a cease-fire, we don't have a peace process. Once we have a clear plan, we start doing the commitments."
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Australia may send a "small contribution" of peacekeepers to Ukraine if asked, but it was premature to discuss the details before Russia agrees to a cease-fire agreement, the Guardian reported.
Cui Hongjian, professor of the Academy of Regional and Global Governance at Beijing Foreign Studies University, told the Global Times on Sunday that in terms of sending ground troops, many countries will want to wait and see, and they are observing whether NATO will continue to act in accordance with the US' orders or present a more independent stance.
The "coalition of the willing" not only needs to reach a political commitment to support Ukraine, but will also need to address technical issues such as leadership and military command, Cui Hongjian said.
There are differing opinions within the "coalition" regarding the risks of deploying troops. If their coordination works out politically and militarily, they may not fully accept the UK's proposal, otherwise they may lean toward the US plan, Cui Hongjian said.
"The functioning of the 'coalition of the willing' determines whether the West will become further fragmented," the expert said.
Prospects of cease-fire
Russian President Vladimir Putin had said that Russia agrees with the 30-day cease-fire plan proposed by the US and Ukraine in principle but will proceed from the fact that this cessation should be one that would lead to long-term peace and eliminate the original causes of this crisis, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Putin indicated that he might call US President Donald Trump to discuss the issue, adding that Russia will negotiate the next steps to end the conflict and reach acceptable agreements based on the situation "on the ground," Xinhua reported.
Starmer on Saturday said Putin's response to a US-proposed cease-fire in Ukraine is "not good enough" and the Russian president would have to negotiate "sooner or later," said the Guardian in another report.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called for joint US and European pressure on Russia to accept the proposed cease-fire.
EU chief European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a message on X that Russia had to show "it is willing to support a cease-fire leading to a just and lasting peace."
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday he was "cautiously optimistic" about reaching a truce, but that a lot more work needed to be done.
"Although different parties have shown interest in a cease-fire, the details and procedures to realize it will take a long time and lots of negotiations," Cui Heng said.
Reuters reported Sunday that Russia and Ukraine have continued aerial attacks on each other, inflicting injuries and damage, which Cui Hongjian cited as a factor dragging down the likelihood of a cease-fire.
While the existing cease-fire plan itself is delicate and far from substantive, the developments on the battlefields have added to the complexity, the expert said.
As different parties are engaging in talks in the fast-changing situation, the Chinese Foreign Ministry, in its latest response on Friday, said that we hope relevant parties will reach a fair and durable peace deal that is binding and accepted by all the parties concerned through dialogue and negotiation.
"China stands ready to work with the international community and continues to play a constructive role in resolving the crisis and realizing lasting peace," Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said.
China's first large-scale intelligent forest fire rescue and emergency response training facility, constructed by a research institute under the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), has passed its final acceptance and was officially put into use at the National Southwest Emergency Rescue Center, according to an announcement made by CALT on its WeChat account on Thursday.
The completion of this significant project not only fills a gap in the field of intelligent forest fire emergency rescue training equipment in China but also marks a new level of technological advancement in the country's forest fire response capabilities.
China's southwestern region is rich in forestry resources and has a high forest coverage rate, making forest fires one of the major challenges in the area. The establishment of this facility will effectively enhance the comprehensive response capabilities of rescue teams and provide a demonstration model for the market promotion of intelligent forest fire simulation training equipment, CALT said.
The training facility integrates multiple advanced technologies developed by CALT, enabling highly realistic simulations of forest fire scenarios and offering rescue personnel a comprehensive, multi-angle, and practical training environment.
Since 2000, the academy has been developing emergency rescue simulation training equipment. Its previous products have been deployed in training bases of over 100 emergency rescue departments across 15 provinces and cities nationwide.
CALT said the academy will continue to deepen technological innovation in the field of simulation training equipment, actively participating in national research initiatives and product development in related areas, and contributing further to the modernization of China's emergency management system.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday sent a message to the 38th African Union (AU) Summit, extending warm congratulations to African countries and people.
In the face of the current complex and intertwined international situation, the Global South, represented by China and Africa, has grown significantly, Xi noted.
Over the past year, the AU has united and led African countries in vigorously advancing integration, actively responding to regional and global challenges, and speaking in unison as the "voice of Africa," Xi said.
Noting that these efforts have led to a continuous boost in Africa's international status and influence, he sincerely wishes African countries and people even greater success on the path of independence, self-reliance and development.
Xi said that the year 2024 saw vigorous development of China-Africa relations.
With the successful Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China and Africa have embarked on a new stage of jointly building an all-weather community with a shared future for the new era, and stayed at the forefront of building a community with a shared future for mankind, Xi noted.
He expressed readiness to work with African leaders to promote the implementation of the six proposals for jointly advancing modernization and 10 partnership actions, so as to bring more tangible results to benefit over 2.8 billion Chinese and African peoples.
Futian district in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province deployed 70 DeepSeek-powered "AI public servants" to assist in administrative governance, ensuring document format corrections with an accuracy rate of over 95 percent. The district also pioneered China's first AI governance framework for government assistance, according to a statement released on its WeChat account on Saturday.
The AI employees were built on the full-size DeepSeek R1 model. They mitigate inefficiencies in conventional administrative workflows. Leveraging a domestically-produced computational power platform for localized sector-specific training, and tailored to the actual business processes of various departments, these personalized intelligent agents are initially deployed across 240 administrative scenarios.
The 70 digital employees were deployed in 11 functional areas, enhancing efficiency across the government service ecosystem, including document processing, public service, emergency management, and business development and investment promotion, among others.
The AI system has reduced the time needed for personalized content generation from five days to just a few minutes. The accuracy rate of document format corrections exceeds 95 percent, cutting audit times by 90 percent, and the error rate remains below 5 percent.
According to the article, with the assistance of these digital employees, the accuracy in processing public service requests has increased from 70 percent to 95 percent. The safety compliance AI assistant has enhanced rehearsal script generation efficiency by 100 times. The AI investment attraction assistant has streamlined corporate analysis and screening, increasing efficiency by 30 percent. The AI task supervision assistant has boosted cross-departmental task delegation efficiency by 80 percent, and the on-time completion rate has increased by 25 percent.
"Compared to humans, AI outperforms humans in both efficiency and accuracy, making it a significant asset in handling government affairs," Xiang Ligang, a telecom expert, told the Global Times on Monday. "In public service, AI's objectivity helps mitigate the high time costs when dealing with the public. When engaging with some emotional citizens, digital employees can accurately extract key information, understand and respond to public needs, and respond swiftly while adhering to legal and regulatory frameworks."
"However, this does not imply that AI services will be devoid of human warmth. One of the standout features of domestically developed models, including DeepSeek, is their focus on training language styles. When faced with the same facts, these models generate responses that are both engaging and contextually appropriate, enhancing user experience. This is a valuable aspect," Xiang said.
The article stated that the Futian district converted raw data into structured, actionable intelligence. It has aggregated 120 million pieces of government data in the past decade, constructing a dedicated knowledge pool covering policies, regulations, service guides, historical cases, and more. By applying text processing techniques compatible with the DeepSeek model, the platform connects the knowledge base to the model through advanced embedding techniques.
Moreover, in terms of institutional innovation, Futian district has introduced China's first regulatory framework for government assistance AI. This framework outlines the full process management for the procurement and use of government assistance robots, establishing ethical guidelines and defining technical standards, application scope, safety management, and regulatory requirements, thus providing institutional support for the legal and compliant operation of intelligent robots in government affairs.
"Although there have not been significant ethical issues arising from the government's integration of AI for smart governance, it's wise to consider regulatory frameworks proactively. This approach will help ensure that any issues emerging during implementation can be addressed in a timely and standardized manner," said Xiang.
China and Australia held the 23rd China-Australia Defense Strategic Dialogue in Beijing on Monday, with the two sides exchanging in-depth views on relations between the two countries, their militaries, regional security and other issues of common concern, according to a statement released by China's Ministry of National Defense.
The dialogue was co-hosted by General Xu Qiling, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department under China's Central Military Commission (CMC), Air Marshal Robert Chipman AO CSC, Vice Chief of the Australian Defense Force, and Hugh Jeffrey, Australian Deputy Secretary of Defense Strategy, Policy and Industry Group.
The two sides agreed to continue strengthening strategic communication in the defense field, properly handle disputes and differences, and carry out exchanges and cooperation, the statement said.
Australia's defense news platform Defence Connect hyped that this dialogue was held against the backdrop of Australia claiming that an Australian air force patrol aircraft experienced an "unsafe and unprofessional" interaction with a Chinese Air Force aircraft in the South China Sea recently.
Australia has been hyping up the PLA's expulsion of an Australian warplane. Against such a backdrop, it shows that it is important for timely military communication to avoid misjudgments, Chen Hong, director of the Australian Studies Center at East China Normal University, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
"This kind of dialogue provides an opportunity for Australia to understand where the boundaries and limits lie, and where China will undoubtedly make a firm response," Chen said.
In response to the Australian defense ministry's claim that an Australian air force patrol aircraft experienced an "unsafe and unprofessional" interaction with a Chinese Air Force aircraft in the South China Sea on February 11, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a regular press conference on February 13 that the Australian military aircraft deliberately intruded into China's territorial airspace of Xisha Qundao without China's permission, infringing on China's sovereignty and endangering China's national security.
The Australian statement claimed that on February 11, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft conducting a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea experienced an "unsafe and unprofessional interaction" with a Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force J-16 fighter aircraft.
"The facts are very clear: the Australian military aircraft intruded into China's territorial airspace of Xisha Qundao, violating China's sovereignty and security. It will definitely be met with expulsion by the PLA, which is a justified action of defense and a legitimate right. No country would tolerate foreign military aircraft intruding into its airspace, and every nation would take corresponding measures in response, applying different levels of interception and countermeasures based on the nature of the provocation," Zhang Junshe, a Chinese military expert, told the Global Times in an earlier interview on February 13.
"The latest China-Australia defense dialogue is aimed at avoiding miscalculations. However, Australia is continuously coordinating with the US to meddle in Asia-Pacific affairs," Song Zhongping, a Chinese mainland military expert, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
Australia should deeply recognize its own position: it is an Oceanian country, not an Asian country, and it should clearly define its own stance and not follow the US in creating trouble in the Asia-Pacific region, Song said.
"If Australia wishes to cooperate with countries in the Asia-Pacific region, it is welcome. But if it intends to assist the US in confronting certain countries within the region, this is unacceptable," Song added.
The China-Australia Defense Strategic Dialogue is a high-level forum between the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Australian Department of Defence, established in 1997. It was last held in 2019.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted Tainan City of China's Taiwan, at 12:17 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing Time), according to China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
The epicenter, with a depth of 14 km, was monitored at 23.24 degrees north latitude and 120.51 degrees east longitude, the CENC said.
The earthquake caused strong tremors across the entire island of Taiwan, with noticeable shaking reported in Quanzhou, Xiamen and Fuzhou in East China's Fujian Province, and Ningbo, Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang Province, as well as Shanghai also felt the tremors, according to CCTV News on Tuesday.
When asked whether she could confirm the reports that a Chinese worker at a local mining company was killed in northern Afghanistan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Wednesday that "I'm not clear about what you mentioned, but I believe our embassy in Afghanistan will do its best to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and should be following up on the situation."
China's new-generation CH-YH1000 unmanned transport aircraft on Monday completed a full-load taxiing test under full working conditions in Zhanghe Airport in Jingmen, Central China's Hubei Province. This cargo drone has been described as a "pickup truck in the air," and will hopefully provide a new logistics solution to "remote regions that lack free shipping."
The Global Times noted that the CH-YH1000 unmanned transport aircraft adopts a typical transport aircraft design with two engines and a high wing. In order to ensure that the cargo can be conveniently and efficiently delivered to the cabin, it is equipped with an upward-flipping nose door. It is also equipped with a belly hatch, which can be used for special needs such as emergency airdrops, pesticide spraying or firefighting.
Huang Wei from Aerospace CH UAV Co Ltd told the Global Times that the taxiing test is a landmark mission node following the advent of the unmanned transport aircraft. Generally speaking, important mission nodes in aircraft development, including unmanned aerial vehicles, include low-speed and high-speed taxiing, first flight, flights with different mission loads, verification test and demonstration flight.
Huang said that unlike the taxiing and flight tests of manned aircraft, which rely on test pilots, comparable tests of the CH-YH1000 unmanned transport aircraft rely on autonomous program control. The operator only needs to upload relevant instructions to the drone, which can interpret the route information and taxiing runway information by itself and make corresponding actions according to the actual situation.
As a result, the taxiing test for the drone has very high requirements for the reliability of related control programs and equipment. At present, the control system of the CH-YH1000 unmanned transport aircraft mainly comes from the mature technology of the CH-3D armed reconnaissance drone, which includes a variety of protection measures, so the overall performance is very reliable, according to Huang.
The CH-YH1000 unmanned transport aircraft project was launched in March 2024. Based on the rich experience of the Chinese Academy of Aerospace and Aerodynamics' Aerospace CH UAV Co Ltd with unmanned aircraft, the drone applied many mature technologies and products on the shelf. A prototype of the drone was publicly displayed during the Zhuhai Airshow in November last year, and it has now smoothly completed its taxiing test in a sign of rapid progress.
After the taxiing test, the project team will further optimize and test the unmanned transport aircraft to ensure that its performance is more stable and reliable before conducting the first test flight.
Huang said that the precautions for drone test flights are slightly different from those for manned aircraft, and more attention is paid to the reliability of the equipment. During the first flight, the drone will place greater emphasis on environmental safety and try to eliminate unfavorable and interfering factors. When other conditions are ripe, the takeoff and landing tests in harsh field environments will be carried out.
Huang explained that the CH-YH1000 unmanned transport aircraft has corresponding defense measures against hacker attacks, including the use of a dedicated radio communication network.
In recent years, there have been frequent cases of drones being interfered with, an eventuality that Huang said the CH-YH1000 unmanned transport aircraft is also prepared for. One of the protection measures that has been adopted allows the drone to return to the departure airport along the originally set response route if it encounters interference and loses contact with the ground command center.
"The unmanned transport aircraft we developed is like a 'pickup truck in the air.' We hope to achieve efficient air transportation at only a slightly higher cost than land transportation, meet the logistics needs of remote areas, and solve the problem of high delivery fees and slow delivery time in regions such as Xizang and Xinjiang," Huang said.
He said that in the future, towns and villages with inconvenient land transportation can rely on unmanned transport aircraft to fill the shortfall, improve their express delivery distribution systems, and promote the convenience of online shopping.
In addition, the CH-YH1000 drone relies on sensors to fly autonomously, which means it makes little difference whether it flies during the day or at night. Therefore, this unmanned transport aircraft, with its large transport capacity of 1,000 kilograms, can operate in the second half of the night when there is no civil aviation activity to achieve high-density air transport. It will bring new solutions to fields such as logistics, emergency rescue and military supply, and will strongly promote the development of China's unmanned transport aircraft industry and inject new vitality into the development of the country's low-altitude economy.
