Global media professionals urged Europe to strengthen cooperation with China in interviews with China Media Group (CMG) at the Munich Security Conference (MSC).
Amid profound and complex changes in the international landscape, both Europe and China have sent positive signals on enhancing communication and expanding cooperation at the conference. Several foreign journalists told CMG that Europe is actively advancing its relations with China and that the two sides enjoy broad prospects for cooperation across multiple fields, making closer collaboration both necessary and beneficial.
"As far as I'm concerned, China can be a friend to the world. It doesn't have to be a threat. We can all work together to our mutual benefit. Let's work to save the planet we have and stop fighting each other when we can just have so much benefit by working together," said Nick Holdsworth, a British journalist.
"I think it (the cooperation between China and Europe) is important also. It makes it more important, the fact that we see the Trump administration advertising for unilateralism. And on the other side, we see that China is coming here to an international conference to say that we need to respect multilateralism, and this is the way forward in the world. And this is where I think it's the most important," said Raghida Bahnam, a German journalist.
Global media professionals call for stronger Europe-China cooperation at MSC
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
