China's state-owned Jiangnan Shipyard company has announced plans to build the world's first nuclear-powered container ship.
The South China Morning Post newspaper reported this. The project envisages the construction of a giant ship with a capacity of 25,000 containers, powered by a thorium reactor designed to operate for 40 years.
According to the company's Vice President, construction could begin within approximately ten years. At the same time, Jiangnan is preparing to invest in specialized shipyards capable of building nuclear commercial vessels, reported by korrespondent.net.
A delegation from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan paid a working visit to the People's Republic of China, taking part in a number of meetings and practical events to study China's best practices in ensuring public security, combating cybercrime, introducing modern technologies into practice and training personnel.
In recent years, the scale of work to attract tourists from China, one of the largest tourist markets in the world, has significantly expanded. In particular, 2025 was declared the "Year of Tourism of Uzbekistan in China."
A symbolic opening ceremony of the Uzbekistan-China Laboratory for Soil, Plant and Fertilizer Analysis was held at Tashkent State Agrarian University within the framework of international scientific cooperation.
Deputies of the Legislative Chamber adopted the draft law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On ratification of the Regulation on the Secretariat of the 'Central Asia and China' format" and sent it to the Senate.
