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China’s ruling Communist Party will play a bigger role in steering its vast technology industry, the latest sign that Beijing intends to exert more influence over swathes of the world’s No. 2 economy.The Party will refine a mechanism through which top decision makers on the Central Committee steer technological work, according to a CCTV report on a central government meeting led by President Xi Jinping. While it didn’t go into details, the pronouncement suggests Beijing will accelerate its role in funneling resources…

Mount Qomolangma over the Tibetan Plateau. Credit: Xi Zhenhua In a recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered the impact of the spring atmospheric heat source (AHS) over the Tibetan Plateau on summer precipitation in Northeast China, highlighting the crucial role played by soil moisture in this process.…

Tianshan Mountain in China. Credit: Xiaoming Wang, CC BY-ND 3.0 Central Asia is highly agrarian, and most of the croplands rely on irrigation due to sparce precipitation. How this irrigation affects the regional climate in Central Asia however, is not clear. …