New Remote-Sensing Satellite Launched

　　The Yaogan-40, a new remote-sensing satellite, was launched into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi province on September 10. The satellite will be used to conduct electromagnetic environment detection and technical tests.

　　Orders for C919 Cross 1,000

　　The number of orders for the C919 plane, a China-developed large passenger aircraft, had reached 1,061, according to He Dongfeng, board chairman of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China on September 10. He said the aircraft maker has already delivered two jets to its customers.

　　Science Museum System Serves over 1 Bln person times

　　The modern science museum system has served more than one billion person times offline, according to the China Association for Science and Technology, which established the system in 2012. All provinces and nearly 66 percent of prefecture-level cities have brick-and-mortar science museums.

　　Humanized Kidneys Grown in Pig Embryos

　　A Chinese team has grown, for the first time in the world, early kidneys from human stem cells inside pig embryos. Such an advance will open a new channel to kidney transplants and studying human kidney development, according to a study published on September 7 in the journal Cell Stem Cell.