BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TEAM

A total of 13 members of a Chinese expedition team reached the summit of Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak at a height of 8,848.86 meters, on Wednesday.

At the summit, the squad measured the thickness of ice and snow using high-accuracy radar for the first time and collected samples for further research.

WEATHER STATION ON MOUNT QOMOLANGMA

Chinese scientific researchers on Wednesday established an automatic meteorological monitoring station at an altitude of over 8,800 meters, making it the world's highest of its kind, on Mount Qomolangma on the China-Nepal border.

It has replaced the station sitting at an altitude of 8,430 meters on the south side of the mountain, set up by British and U.S. scientists in 2019, to become the world's highest.

CAPTIVE BREEDING OF MALAYAN PANGOLINS

Chinese scientists have tackled the difficulties of the captive breeding of critically endangered Malayan pangolins to the third filial generation. Study results were published in the journal Communications Biology.

Pangolins are an important species that influences the structure, function and health of forest ecosystems. Due to excessive hunting and habitat loss, wild stocks of pangolins once plummeted sharply. Captive breeding has thus become a hopeful means to protect the species from extinction. Enditem

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