{"id":159393,"date":"2026-10-28T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159393"},"modified":"2026-10-28T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:00:10","slug":"china-formally-launches-project-to-build-aircraft-carrier-sized-science-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159393","title":{"rendered":"China formally launches project to build aircraft carrier-sized \u2018science island\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s massive maritime science infrastructure \u2013 an aircraft carrier-sized floating artificial island \u2013 has officially entered its engineering construction phase.<br \/>\nOn October 18, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), the facility\u2019s lead developer, signed a construction contract worth over 2.7 billion yuan (US$405 million) with a shipbuilder under China State Shipbuilding Corporation, according to local media reports.<br \/>\nThe semi-submersible twin-hull platform is the world\u2019s first mobile,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3372330\/china-formally-launches-project-build-aircraft-carrier-sized-science-island\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s massive maritime science infrastructure \u2013 an aircraft carrier-sized floating artificial island \u2013 has officially entered its engineering construction phase. On October 18, Shanghai&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}