Country seeks cooperation on space station China is asking the world to collaborate on experiments for its planned space station so as to promote international space cooperation and sustainable global development. The offer is open to the entire international community. Proposals and projects can be submitted and peer-reviewed online at www.css-research.cn. 1st hypersonic aircraft tested successfully China has successfully developed and tested a cutting-edge hypersonic* aircraft that rides its own shock waves. The first flight-test of Starry Sky 2, a hypersonic experimental waverider* vehicle, was conducted at an unidentified testing field in northwestern China last Friday. A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft that has a wedge-shaped fuselage* designed to improve its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves generated by its own flight as a lifting force. More affordable cancer drugs More cancer drugs will be made affordable, as a new round of negotiations between the country’s State medical insurance administration and pharmaceutical* companies to add such drugs to the medical insurance list is scheduled to finish by the end of September. All of these drugs are of great clinical value and will bring huge benefits to patients with different blood cancers or solid tumors*. China has exempted import tariffs from all common drugs, including cancer drugs, cancer alkaloid*-based drugs and imported traditional Chinese medicine since May 1. Beijing Zoo to fine visitors feeding animals Beijing Zoo will hold a joint patrol* with urban management officers to ban visitors from feeding and harming animals, Beijing Daily reported on August 1. The joint patrol would conduct inspections and law enforcement to educate visitors on behaving properly. Those who feed animals in forbidden areas will be fined 50 to 100 yuan (US$14.7).(SD-Agencies) | 