英國《自然》雜誌評年度重大科學事件 中國多項重要成果上榜
British scientific journal "Nature" has noted China's achievements in aerospace, genetic engineering, and climate change in a report released last Friday regarding science events that shaped the year 2016.
英國科學期刊《自然》上週五公佈了一份關於影響2016年的科學事件的報告，肯定了中國在航天、基因工程和氣候變化等領域取得的成果。The journal lists a series of achievements China made in the aerospace sector while the US, Europe, and Japan suffered errors and failures in several space missions.
該期刊列出了中國在航天領域取得的一系列的成果，而美國、歐洲和日本則在一些太空任務中遭遇了失誤和失敗。China launched the world's first quantum satellite in August and powerful new heavy-lift rocket Long March 5 in November.
8月，中國發射了世界首顆量子衛星。11月，中國發射了新一代大推力重型運載火箭長征五號。
Its Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, the world's largest radio telescope, was put into use in September.
中國的500米孔徑球面射電望遠鏡--世界上最大的射電望遠鏡於9月啓用。It also highlights the two Chinese astronauts who spent one month aboard the Tiangong II space laboratory, in China's longest manned mission in October and November.
10月至11月間，中國兩名航天員在天宮二號空間實驗室過了一個月，創造了中國航天員太空駐留時間新紀錄。In genetic engineering, a patient with lung cancer in China became the first person in the world to be treated with cells edited using CRISPR-Cas9, reports the journal, saying more application of the genome-editing tool is expected in the US and China next year.
在基因工程領域，雜誌稱，中國一名肺癌患者成爲世界上首個接受採用CRISPR–Cas9編輯過的細胞治療的人，明年美國和中國會有更多基於這一基因編輯工具的臨牀應用。The journal also recognizes the positive role of China in the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
此外，該期刊還肯定了中國在《巴黎協定》的生效一事中起到的積極作用。China signed the international climate agreement on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2016, and its top legislature ratified the agreement in September.
中國於2016年4月22日地球日簽署了該國際氣候協議，最高立法機關在九月份批准了這項協議。
