The 1st Beijing College Students' AI+ Innovation Competition kicked off at Beijing University of Technology on Saturday.
The event was designed for undergraduate students from universities in Beijing. A total of 222 teams made the cut to enter the contest after several rounds of screening and recommendation within their colleges.
The competition focused on multiple application scenarios, such as embodied intelligence and medical imaging diagnosis.
It was intended to empower the cultivation of innovative talents, and deepen the integration of industry and education, so as to contribute academic strength and youth wisdom to the development of Beijing into an international center for sci-tech innovation and to the national AI development strategy.
Beijing holds AI competition for college students
A carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and liquefaction facility now runs smoothly in south China's Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), signaling a major technological advance in the region's push toward green and low-carbon development.
The facility, located in Hainan's Chengmai County, was developed by Southern Petroleum Exploration and Development Corporation -- a Hainan-based subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) -- which focuses on oil and gas exploration and new energy development.
It captures, purifies and liquefies CO2 extracted from associated oilfield gas, with daily output of liquid CO2 now surpassing 100 metric tonnes.
"To date, our pilot project has cumulatively stored 360,000 tonnes of CO2 while boosting oil and gas output by 150,000 tonnes. This is equivalent to offsetting the annual carbon emissions of about 150,000 cars," said Wang Haisheng, executive director of Southern Petroleum Exploration and Development Corporation.
Building on its successful industrialization of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), the corporation is now pioneering advanced carbon storage technologies.
By refining capture technology and implementing a multi-dimensional monitoring network, the project has achieved long-term and stable CO2 storage, solidifying the foundation for a safe and low-carbon energy system in Hainan.
CO2 capture, storage facility makes tech advance
