{"id":851497,"date":"2026-08-11T14:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851497\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:10:39","slug":"china-says-us-tried-to-buy-its-super-magnet-that-has-40-higher-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851497\/","title":{"rendered":"China says US tried to buy its super magnet that has \u201840% higher\u2019 performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US laboratory that once dominated the field of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3229898\/what-are-superconductors-and-why-are-scientists-sceptical-about-breakthrough?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">superconducting<\/a> magnets is now hoping to buy Chinese technology used in a leading particle accelerator, official Chinese media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The US Department of Energy\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory once \u201cmonopolised\u201d this type of specialised technology, according to Science and Technology Daily.<\/p>\n<p>But in May last year it contacted the Chinese Institute of High Energy Physics \u201choping to purchase the Chinese-made combined superconducting magnet\u201d \u2013 the type used in the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3199043\/chinese-particle-collider-takes-scientists-one-step-closer-figuring-out-world?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Beijing Electron-Positron Collider<\/a>\u2019s latest upgrade.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There has been no indication that the US lab has acquired the magnet.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe have proven that the Chinese are capable of competing head-to-head with the world\u2019s best in cutting-edge fields of basic science, and can consistently win,\u201d Yu Chenghui, chief operator of the collider, told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTo break free from our dependence on others as soon as possible, we spent 13 years developing the world\u2019s best combined superconducting magnet,\u201d Zhu Yingshun, a researcher at the institute, told the newspaper, which is run by the science ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US laboratory that once dominated the field of superconducting magnets is now hoping to buy Chinese technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[64,63,418209,237127,422078,418211,292,422079,128,24964,134950,293680,72708],"class_list":["post-851497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing-electron-positron-collider","tag-brookhaven-national-laboratory","tag-chinese-institute-of-high-energy-physics","tag-glueball","tag-physics","tag-radiation-detection-technology-and-methods","tag-science","tag-science-and-technology-daily","tag-standard-model","tag-superconducting-magnets","tag-us-department-of-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}