Some of China's most sophisticated aviation and aerospace technology has been unveiled at the 6th International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, which kicked off in Zhuhai city in southern China on October 30, 2006.

NASA announced on Tuesday that it will add a space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, according to NASA TV.

China's first face transplant patient will receive his second and final operation in Xijing Hospital in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Wednesday, said the hospital.

China's most advanced fighter-pilot trainer, the "Shanying", or Mountain Eagle, will be delivered to customers in 2007, said the chief architect Sun Huizhong on Tuesday.

Chinese agronomists have cultivated a new species of high-yield super rice they have named Jijing 88, a significant breakthrough in the study of super rice cultivation in north China's cold areas.

An anti-terrorism underwater security system, proved to be very successful during trials at the 2006 Qingdao International Regatta, has been developed by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The system is expected to operate as a safeguard during the 2008 Olympic Games.

Results from the latest survey show that the number of graduate applications received by US universities, and the number of overseas students actually accepted increased significantly in the autumn of 2006. This is the first time international student enrollment in US universities has grown in the last three years. There were 20 percent more Chinese applicants and admissions this year, the highest growth rate across all regions. The number of Chinese students applying to US undergraduate programs is also growing, but enrolment figures are unchanged. Comparatively speaking, US universities are now showing a greater interest in Chinese graduate students.

Egyptian government official said Monday that this country plans to launch three new satellites by the end of 2006 or early 2007, the official news agency MENA reported.

A senior Chinese cultural heritage official on Monday in Beijing expressed the hope that Chinese astronauts could prove whether the Great Wall can be seen with naked eye from space during next space mission.

A prototype of China's proposed lunar orbiter went on display at a major air show on Monday.