Executive Director of Latin American Information Alliance (AIL) Juan Carlos Isaza has extended warm wishes to the Chinese people ahead of the Spring Festival, which will usher in the Year of the Horse.
In a warm video greeting from Bogota, Colombia, holding a horse toy in hand, Isaza noted that the animal symbolizes energy and dynamism in the Chinese culture - qualities that aptly describe the relationship between AIL and China Media Group (CMG).
The Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year, falls on Feb 17 this year. It is one of the most important holidays in China, celebrated with family reunions and wishes for good luck in the coming year.
The full text of his message is as follows:
Hello, greetings from Bogota, Colombia. For us in the West, the new year began several weeks ago. But for you in China, it is about to begin with the start of the Spring Festival.
In Chinese culture, this new year is represented by the horse. This lovely pony in my hands symbolizes energy and dynamism. I want these two words to represent the relationship between the Latin American Information Alliance and the China Media Group.
May we continue working together, hand in hand, to unite our regions and our peoples. From here, from Bogota, I want to wish the China Media Group, our friends at CCTV Video News Agency, and our colleagues at the Spanish-language channel CGTN a happy new year.
I wish you prosperity, peace, and happiness in this new year. See you soon.
AIL Executive Director extends Chinese New Year greetings
China's domestically developed T1200-grade ultra-high-strength carbon fiber holds broad application prospects in strategic emerging industries, according to its developer.
The country on Wednesday unveiled SYT80, a domestically developed T1200-grade ultra-high-strength carbon fiber, marking a major breakthrough in the China's high-performance carbon fiber technology.
This new material has achieved a hundred-tonne-level annual production capacity, making China the first nation to mass-produce this caliber of fiber, according to its developer, China National Building Material Group Co., Ltd. (CNBM).
Featuring lightweight and high-strength properties, the fiber's diameter is less than one-tenth that of a human hair, and yet its tensile strength is 10 times that of ordinary steel and its density is only one-quarter of steel's.
"Compared with the previous-generation T1100, T1200 has seen its tensile strength increase by more than 14 percent. With its ultimate lightweight and high-strength characteristics, T1200 can achieve weight reduction of over 10 percent for equipment in related fields. It holds broad application prospects in strategic emerging industries such as commercial aerospace, low-altitude economy, and humanoid robots," said Chen Qiufei, head of T1200 ultra-high-strength carbon fiber research and development at Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Company, a subsidiary of China National Building Material Group.
The new material also possesses many other outstanding properties.
As the fiber undergoes carbonization at nearly 2,000 degrees Celsius during production, its chemical properties remain stable and its corrosion resistance is excellent.
This fiber material also features strong fire and flame retardant properties, offering good safety performance.
The development of this fiber material demonstrates China's fully independent and controllable capabilities across the entire industrial chain of high-performance carbon fiber, spanning technologies and equipment as well as the transition from laboratory research to mass production, said Zhou Yuxian, chairman of CNBM.
China's high-strength carbon fiber shows strong potential in strategic emerging industries
