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The SWQSIM achievement in which the Tsinghua DESS supercomputing team participated winning the 2021 Gordon Bell Prize has recently been rated as “Top Ten News Events on Scientific and Technological Advances in China and the World in 2021”. The news evaluation event has been held for 28 times by far as an important window for the public to have a comprehensive understanding of the latest scien...
Reducing the use of internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) is an important link in the making of carbon mitigation policies in the transport sector. Estimating the carbon mitigation and health cobenefits from the banning of ICEVs across different provinces is of great significance to the formulation of the “step-by-step” strategies and optimization of policy efficiency. Therefore, Cai We...
It is essential to assess the development of China's regions for achieving sustainable development goals. However, the existing research on sustainable development assessment is still restricted to developed countries and lacks the city-level quantitative indicators and evaluation system suitable for China. The United Nations University - International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Envir...
Li Wei’s Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University has recently published a research paper online, revealing the biophysical effects of growing bioenergy crops at large scale in the world, and exploring the impact of different bioenergy crop types, distributions and planting areas on biophysical effects.Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS...
In October 2021, the research group led by Professor Yang Kun from the Department of Earth System Science of Tsinghua University published a paper entitled “Presentation of Stony Surface-Atmosphere Interactions in WRF Reduction Cold and Wet Bias for the Southern Tibetan Plateau” in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. In the field investigation, the research group found that the...
On November 29, Zhang Qiang’s Research Group and Tong Dan’s Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University jointly published a paper titled “Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls” online in Nature Climate Change, revealing that the health co-benefits of carbon emission reduction in th...
On the afternoon of November 18, US time, the winning team of the Gordon Bell Prize in 2021 was announced at the International Supercomputing Conference (SC21) in St. Louis, Missouri. The Chinese supercomputing team won this honor for its achievement “Closing the Quantum Supremacy Gap: Achieving Real-Time Simulation of a Random Quantum Circuit Using a New Sunway Supercomputer” (SWQSIM). The m...
On November 8, 2021，the Press Conference on the 2021 Lancet China Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change (hereinafter the Report) was held in Beijing. Zeng Rong, Vice President of Tsinghua University, and Gong Peng, Co-chairman of “The Lancet Countdown” and Vice President of the University of Hong Kong, delivered speeches online, and Helena Wang, Executive Editor-in-Chief of The Lance...
