28th September 2018 Beijing, China
On 16 September Severe Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong, Macao and the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province, leaving a trail of damage, flooding, hundreds’ injuries and a few deaths in its wake. Pictures posted on internet, showing the extent of floods were shocking: the river water flooded out; cars soaked desperately; car parks turned […]
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27th July 2018 Beijing, China
Dr. Wang Wei is a professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has developed a new type of material for Li-ion batteries. Using this material, battery performance is increased 12 times. This innovation will provide critical support to the popularisation of electric vehicles. More importantly, demands of graphite, a high-polluting and energy intensive material, […]
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6th December 2017 Beijing, China
Collaboration is part of the ethos of the Met Office and a fundamental component of the Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) programme, supported by the UK Government’s Newton Fund. A core part of the WCSSP programme is the Climate Science for Service Partnership China (CSSP China) – a scientific research programme that […]
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27th September 2017 Beijing, China
China is becoming a world leader in science and innovation, with ever increasing amounts of money to spend. But China still has abject poverty, and severe issues stemming from its unprecedented rapid exit from poverty. This makes it a perfect partner for the UK through the Newton Fund, where we are harnessing both countries excellence […]
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13th July 2017 Beijing, China
The China Newton Fund Alumni are a diverse bunch. Professor Tida Ge is working on carbon sequestration and nutrient efficiency in crops such as rice. Professor Lei Shi is studying a medical condition affecting newborn babies. Professor Zhixun Xie has just been awarded a research and development grant to support his work on infectious disease […]
13th January 2017 Beijing, China
Checking the air quality index is pretty much the first thing I do every morning. It’s funny how life is governed by a (hopefully) double digit number; when it goes into triple digits you’re in trouble. Christmas and New Year were a blur of pollution in our latest ‘airpocalypse’, not helped by the recent arrival […]
7th December 2015 Beijing, China
Guest blogger, Stella Wei, Newton Fund South China Lead An initial idea of just me meeting a Newton International Exchanges recipient was upgraded to an official visit led the Consul General of the British Consulate in Guangzhou to the Newton awardee’s host university –South China University of Technology (SCUT), one of the top universities in […]
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4th December 2015 Beijing, China
This week, two years ago, when UK Prime Minister met Chinese Premier Premier Li Keqiang, the UK-China Research and Innovation Fund was announced. With a combined value of £200m over 5 years, both sides committed equally. The UK funding comes from the Newton Fund, which aims to promote economic development and social welfare in partner countries. Newton in China is all about forming […]
1st December 2015 Beijing, China
With COP21 meeting in Paris this week, and a recent announcement that we are on track to have the hottest year on record, it was timely that over 150 researchers from the UK and China gathered together to discuss advancements in climate science for the second annual science meeting of the Climate Science for Service […]
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