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China REBCO C276 2025

China has achieved a significant breakthrough in developing key materials for controlled nuclear fusion, a crucial component of the country's "artificial sun" project, researchers at the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences told the Global Times on Tuesday.

Recently, a research team led by Professor Rong Lijian at the institute developed a domestically innovated purification technology that broke through the technical bottleneck in metallic substrates for second-generation high-temperature superconducting tapes used in controlled nuclear fusion. The team successfully achieved the industrial-scale production of high-purity, ton-level Hastelloy (C276) metallic substrates, according to a statement that the team sent to the Global Times.

A joint research team in China has developed a new method that, for the first time, has enabled a key type of advanced perovskite solar cell to surpass the 30 percent efficiency threshold.

The groundbreaking research, led by Tan Hairen, a professor at Nanjing University, and Chang Chao, a professor at the National Sciences Institute of Innovation, was published on the Nature website on Tuesday, Beijing time.

China's industrial firms posted faster revenue growth in the first nine months of 2025, with operating income up 2.4 percent year-on-year, driven by a rise of 8.7 percent in the profits of the high-tech manufacturing sector, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday.

Major industrial firms recorded 5.37 trillion yuan ($745.8 billion) of profits from January to September, up 3.2 percent year-on-year, the highest cumulative growth since August last year, the NBS said.