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According to the International Olympic Committee, Shanghai will host one stop of the expanded Olympic Q Series in 2028, as the qualification event makes a return to the city that hosted the inaugural edition in 2024.
The four-stop series, formerly known as the Olympic Qualifier Series, will take place between May and June 2028 in Tokyo Shanghai, Montreal and Orlando.
Shanghai's stop is scheduled for May 11th to 14th, one week after the opening event in Tokyo.
The Olympic Q Series will feature six sports 3x3 basketball, beach volleyball golf BMX, freestyle climbing, flag football and skateboarding.
The expanded series builds on the success of the inaugural Olympic qualifier series in 2024, which included stops in Shanghai and Budapest and featured multiple sports in compact, festival-style urban settings.
The 2028 edition will open in Tokyo from May 4th to 7th, a city where 3x3 basketball BMX, freestyle climbing and skateboarding made their Olympic debuts at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
After Shanghai, the series crosses to Montreal from June 1st to 4th at the 1976 Olympic Park, before concluding in Orlando from June 8th to 11th.
The Olympic Q Series serves as a key qualification pathway for the LA.
28 Olympic Games, offering athletes a decisive opportunity to secure direct quota places shortly before the Games begin.
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China's first four independently trained airship pilots have received their commercial pilot licenses from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, marking a breakthrough in the country's ability to cultivate its own airship flight crews.
According to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the milestone fills a critical talent gap, as the country's home-grown hsiung yun a s seven hundred manned airship moves toward large-scale commercial operations.
The four pilots, drawn from both client companies and the airship's developer, completed a comprehensive training program approved by the aviation regulator, encompassing theoretical study, simulation and actual flight training.
They performed more than 400 take-offs and landings aboard the AS700 before passing the final examination.
According to the developer of the aircraft Special Vehicle Research Institute under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, The AS700, the country's first manned airship to secure both type and production certificates, has already received 44 orders, with each airship requiring two to three pilots.
The existing orders alone create a demand for nearly one hundred qualified pilots, a figure which is expected to surge further as the low altitude economy expands.
To address the growing need.
Special Vehicle Research Institute plans to launch China's first airship flight school, build a standardized training platform and scale up both pilot and instructor training programs.
China has taken a step forward in next-generation telecommunications by approving trial spectrum in the 6 GHz band for 6G technology development.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the approval granted to the IMT 2030 6G Promotion Group authorizes 6G technology trials in selected regions.
The move is aimed at advancing technical research, testing and validation based on the key scenarios and performance indicators defined by the International Telecommunication Union for 6G.
The ministry said that the spectrum allocation is expected to accelerate China's efforts in 6G research and development, standardization and industrialization, and to promote high quality development of the country's 6G sector.
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