China Is Still Building Ghost Cities

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Plans for new urban areas would provide housing for 3.4 billion people — far more than China’s total population.

A new surge of urban development may create a new wave of “ghost cities” in China, as the country draws up plans to house as many as 3.4 billion people, far in excess of its current population.

Reports from both official news agency Xinhua and the independent media outlet Thepaper.cn say that urban planning in China is out of control, as each of the country’s provincial capitals is planning to build an average of 4.6 new urban districts, and regional cities look to build an average of 1.5 new districts.

Rise of the brain-controlled robot ARMIES: Chinese military trains students to control machines with their minds

Students at the People’s Liberation Army Information Engineering University in Zhengzhou are being taught to control robots using only their thoughts. In the image above an instructor looks at a computer with a student, who is wearing a cap with electrodes embedded in it to detect the electrical activity of their brain

 

• Researchers have developed technology that allows students to control robots through a cap that detects the faint electrical activity of their brains
• Students can control the robots’ movement and get them to pick up objects
• Officials say the technology could provide new types of home appliances
• It is being developed at a Chinese military academy in Zhengzhou

Forget joysticks and exoskeletons, the future of warfare could see robot armies controlled using just a commander’s mind.

China has been training students at a military academy to use headsets that detect and interpret the brain activity of the wearer, allowing them to control the machines.

PLA to commission more third-generation warships this year

After commissioning three Type 052C guided-missile destroyers — Changchun, Zhengzhou and Jinan — between 2013 and 2014, a destroyer division of the PLA Navy’s East Sea Fleet based in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province is expected to soon get its fourth destroyer, Xian, equipped with the Zhonghuashendun system also known as the Chinese Aegis.