Jilin Carbon Valley is the force behind China's Carbon Fiber industry & wind turbine build out. This region fully integrates CNPC's 吉林石化 that produces 1.2mt ethylene plant & supplies acrylonitrile to Jilin Fiber. 吉林碳谷 use that as feedstock & CF precursor. It's world's largest precursor producer. Jilin Fiber itself has expanded from just 600t in 2020 to 74000t in 2025 in capacity. The output is then used to producing composite for wind turbine blades. Full closed loop production: 丙烯腈一原丝一碳丝一复材 2t to precursor is needed for 1t of carbon fiber The 100x growth of Jilin Fiber supply chain in 5 yr has fundamentally changed global CF industry. It has also been the driver behind mass CF adoption in China & low cost 48k tow CFRP for large wind turbine blades.

Changbai Mountain lies in southeastern #Jilin# Province, China. Its autumn beauty reveals itself in valleys awash with vibrant #fall# colors and in crystal-clear streams flowing over pristine beds. #ChineseNation#

Autumn in Ji'an, #Jilin# Province, in northeast China, by the Songhua River. Trees lining both sides of the road are tinged with warm #autumn# hues. Reflected in the tranquil river, they create a landscape painting that slowly unfolds before our eyes. #ChineseNation#

CAS Space's Kinetica 1 had successful launch today w/ 9 sats including 谛听01组A/B/C for the Jilin-1 constellation. In order to fully build out all the constellations, the private launchers need to continue to ramp up their launch cadence

The flame for the 33rd Winter World University Games to be held in Changchun, northeastern China's Jilin province, was lit in Turin, Italy, on Thursday, marking another milestone in preparations for the event to be held early next year.

Volunteers for the Changchun 2027 Winter Universiade send greetings in different languages. Take a test and find out what they're saying! The Games will be held in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin, from Jan 15 to 25, 2027, presenting a spectacular feast of winter sports to audiences.

NEW ROBOT HAND: This one is maxing out the degrees of freedom! Yuequan Bionic Technology (北京大器月泉仿生) is a Chinese firm building bionic humanoid robots and their core components Founded by a father-son academic team: Ren Luquan (Chinese Academy of Sciences academician, Jilin University) and Ren Lei (tenured University of Manchester professor, 25 years in bionic robotics). Its flagship is the Ying Shou Y-Hand M1, a dexterous hand it claims has 38 degrees of freedom (breaking the current global record), a 28.7 kg grip, 0.2 s finger closure, and 0.04 mm positioning accuracy, able to thread needles, twist playing cards, unscrew bottle caps and turn pages. The hand is built on the founders' Bionic Tensile-Compressive Body Robot Theory, a rigid-flexible design mimicking human skeletal-muscular anatomy driven by magnetic collector-driven artificial muscles. Around it sit a lower-DoF X-Hand M1 (11 DoF, 530 tactile units), a bipedal X-Bot, and a wheeled W-Bot billed as the world's smallest, with a roadmap to a ~70-DoF Y-Hand M3. I wonder why go for the DoF-maxxing route when other manufacturers seem to converge on ~23 ? 38 now, ~70 next, exceeding the human hand, but a human hand is only ~21–27 DoF, and Sharpa's 22-DoF hand (arguably one of the best in the market) still fails force tasks (screw-bulb 36% on Gemini Robotics 2). Joint count is being marketed as capability, but the binding constraint is force-controlled contact and control, not more joints. More DoF just means more tiny actuators to coordinate. Their approach to actuation is genuinely new however: tensile-compressive rigid-flexible coupling with muscle-like antagonistic drive, not tendon-cables or rigid rotary joints. Most dexterous hands are tendon-driven (Mimic's 16-DoF cable hand) or rigid-jointed. Yuequan claims an anatomy-mimicking rigid-flexible body driven by magnetic collector-driven artificial muscles. If real, that antagonistic muscle approach is what would buy the 28.7kg grip and 0.2s closure with compliance —> a genuinely different mechanical philosophy.