Here are six stories you may have missed from China this week.

Canton Fair

The 132nd session of the China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, is taking place online. More than 35,000 domestic and overseas companies are participating in the event – approximately 10,000 more than that of the previous session – and they have submitted over 3 million exhibits. 

Ultra-fast charger

An electric vehicle station that can charge 20 cars with enough power to travel 200 kilometers in just eight minutes has entered service in Ningde City, Fujian Province. It can gather and store solar power and also test battery performance in the vehicles as it charges.

Shale gas find

China Sinopec Corporation has discovered shale natural gas reserves in southwestern Sichuan Basin with geological reserves of 387.8 billion cubic meters and daily gas flow of 258,600 cubic meters.

Wetlands protection

By 2025, 50 new wetlands of national importance will be established, and the national wetland protection rate will reach 55 percent, according to the National Wetland Protection Plan (2022-2030), jointly issued by China's Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Natural Resources in October.

China now has a total area of 56.35 million hectares of wetlands, including mangrove forests, forested swamps, shrub swamps, marshes and other types of wetlands, according to the results of the third National Land Resource Survey and the 2020 National Land Change Survey.

Space hydrogen cloud

The biggest hydrogen cloud yet identified in the universe has been picked by by a Chinese telescope.  China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope made the discovery, which scientists said raised questions over current theories of how such phenomena occur.

Corpse flower produces fruit

Two Titan Arums, commonly known as corpse flowers because of their pungent aroma, have produced fruit in China National Botanical Garden in China's capital Beijing. It is the first time that the plants have produced fruit under cultivation in a Chinese botanical garden. 

Video editing: James Sandifer