7 Chinese creations that amaze the world

FAST telescope:  A hollow that formed 45 million years ago following the collapse of a karst cave in southwestern China's Guizhou province is now home to the world's largest radio telescope. Scientists say it will become a big, sensitive "ear," listening to sounds from distant galaxies and decoding cosmic messages.

With an investment of 1.2 billion yuan ($182 million), China's largest ever astronautics project began in March 2011 and will be completed in September of this year. Once complete, the "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope," or FAST, will surpass the capability of Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, which is 305 meters in diameter.

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge:  Starting from the Lantau Island in Hong Kong, the Y-shaped bridge will have a total length of about 55 kilometers, including a 6.7-kilometer underwater tunnel and a 23-kilometer bridge over the sea. It will be the longest cross-sea bridge in the world.

The bridge will serve as an important channel linking Hong Kong, Macau, Zhuhai and the western part of the Pearl River Delta, one of the most economically developed areas in the Chinese mainland.

Construction of the bridge started in 2009. Its total cost will come to some 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion). Once in operation, the bridge will shorten the four-hour drive from Hong Kong to Zhuhai to just 30 minutes.

Sunway-TaihuLight:  China's new supercomputing system, Sunway-TaihuLight, was named the world's fastest computer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany on June 20.

Able to perform 93 quadrillion calculations per second, Sunway TaihuLight bumped China's Tianhe-2 from the number one spot on the list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. Sunway TaihuLight, with 10,649,600 computing cores comprising 40,960 nodes, is twice as fast and three times as efficient as Tianhe-2, which performs only 33.86 quadrillion calculations per



second. 

BeiDou navigation system:  China is currently establishing an industrial system for its domestically produced BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The country is developing chips, modules, antennae and other products based on the BDS and other compatible systems.

The BDS will provide constant, all-weather, high-accuracy positioning, navigation and timing services to users worldwide.

Longjiang Grand Bridge:  Longjiang Grand Bridge, Asia’s longest suspension bridge in a mountainous area, opened in southwest China’s Yunnan province on April 20.

Linking the cities of Baoshan and Tengchong, the bridge boasts a length of over 2,470 meters and a height of 280 meters. It cost 1.9 billion yuan (over $300 million) to bring the bridge into existence. The bridge will become a juncture between Yunnan province and India via Myanmar.

The remarkable bridge over Longjiang River is also expected to offer drivers breathtaking views of amazing natural scenery. 

World's first ‪‎quantum ‪satellite:  China started developing its quantum satellite in 2011, and launched the quantum optical fiber communication network project, the Beijing–Shanghai line, in 2013. The Beijing–Shanghai quantum private communications line will cover a total length of more than 2,000 kilometers, connecting a network of numerous cities including Beijing, Jinan, Hefei and Shanghai. It will be the world's first wide-area optic fiber quantum private network. 

High-speed rail:  No sector better symbolizes China's shift from a nation of labor- intensive manufacturing to one that excels in sophisticated technology than the high-speed rail. Just a few years ago, the high-speed rail was a new concept to most Chinese people. Now, China boasts the most extensive high-speed railway network in the world. By the end of 2015, its total operating length had reached 19,000 kilometers, accounting for more than half of all high-speed rails across the world.