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FAW Red Flag C131 spy shots released online.

FAW Redflag C131 is targeted at luxury auto market, consider Audi A6L as rival. C131 based on Red Flag brand new platform - H, which going to release SUV model. Above it, there is a L platform which has a classic model - HQE.

A Long March 2D carrier rocket carrying Chuangxin 1-03 and Shiyan Satellite 4 blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, Nov 20, 2011. The launch was the 151th of China's Long March series of rockets. The Chuangxin 1-03 will be used to collect and relay hydrological, meteorological, and electric power data as well as data for disaster relief. The Shiyan Satellite 4 will be used for space technology experiments and environmental observation. [Photo/Xinhua]

China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 departed from the prototype space lab Tiangong-1 at 6:30 pm Wednesday, preparing for return to earth, a spokesperson for China's manned space program said.

This came after China had successfully completed its first two space docking tests that joined the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, launched on November 1, and the target orbiter Tiangong-1 on November 3 and November 14, respectively.

Tiangong-1, a module of a planned space lab, has been in orbit since its launch on September 29.

China supercomputer Dawn 5000.

Supercomputer Dawn 6000, which performs 1.27 quadrillion (1.27 petaflops) calculations per second at peak speed, was in full operation at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen yesterday.

The system was developed jointly by Dawning Information Industry Co Ltd and the Calculation Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is the fourth-fastest computing system in the world.

Li Jun, president of Dawning Information Industry Co Ltd, said Dawn 6000 was the most advanced technology in the Dawning family. At a launching ceremony yesterday, he said it would be mainly used for high-speed calculations, cloud computing, and key national projects and research.