China's smart digital satellite launch center facilitates safe, efficient space missions

China's satellite launch center has used smart and digital technologies to realize accurate task planning, rational resources allocation and real-time risk monitoring, providing a guarantee for the country's safe and efficient space missions. At the digital smart center of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a giant screen, many auxiliary displays and other multimedia equipment clearly show the overall situation of the space missions, the progress of each system, and the allocation of resources.

With the platform, the staff of each system can intuitively track and monitor the progress of the tasks and make decisions, which has greatly improved their work efficiency.

"Through platform management, we can achieve automatic task planning and online work management, which can effectively resolve our current pain points. In addition, it enables our commands at all levels to quickly and accurately know the process of the task and the availability of resources," said Hu Yonggang, who comes from the launch center.

Supported by cutting-edge technologies including big data mining and artificial intelligence, the digital smart center has gained the ability of assisted decision-making and independent planning for command, and can realize scientific resource allocation and command management in the case of multiple launch tasks in parallel. The model of information services is more flexible than ever.

"In the past, we displayed information extensively. But now, we have personalized notification push for different scenarios and different users. What I would like to highlight is the mission live broadcast that we have made every effort to develop. It regularly collects mission information at the launch site and pushes it to commands at all levels in real time, making the mission decision-making more timely and effective," Hu explained.

Regarding the possible safety risks of manually filling rockets on the launch tower, the center has installed a gas concentration monitoring device at the external hose connection in the sealed-off area, making intelligent identification and image monitoring cover all key valve positions.

With inspection along the filling pipe corridor by robots, the digital smart center can monitor risky processes in real time in the background and gradually realize unmanned operation of hazardous tasks, so as to greatly improve the safety of refueling staff.

China's smart digital satellite launch center facilitates safe, efficient space missions

Profits of China's major industrial firms increased by 0.1 percent year on year in the first 11 months of 2025, official data showed on Saturday.

In the January-November period, the industrial firms each with an annual main business revenue of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.8 million U.S. dollars) saw their combined profits reach nearly 6,626.86 billion yuan (945.79 billion U.S. dollars), according to the latest official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

In the 11-month period, the total profits of equipment manufacturing enterprises nationwide increased by 7.7 percent year on year. Seven out of the eight major categories within this sector achieved year-on-year profit growth.

Also in the first 11 months, the profits of high-tech manufacturing companies rose by 10 percent year on year, with those of the manufacturing sector of specialized equipment for semiconductor devices, the manufacturing sector of aerospace-related equipment and the intelligent in-vehicle device manufacturing sector surging by 97.2 percent, 192.9 percent and 105.7 percent respectively.

From January to November, the profits of the major raw materials manufacturing industry saw a year-on-year increase in profits of 16.6 percent. In particular, the iron and steel sector saw its profits significantly rise and the non-ferrous metal sector kept a two-digital growth in revenue in the first 11 months.

Profits of China's major industrial firms up 0.1 percent in first 11 months