Year-ender: China's sci-tech achievements in 2022 (5)

Photo taken on April 24, 2022, shows an automatic meteorological station set up at an altitude of about 5,200 meters on Mount Qomolangma. [Photo/Xinhua]

World's highest automatic weather station set up on Mount Qomolangma

On May 4, Chinese scientific researchers 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, known in the West as Mount Everest, 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 US scientists in 2019, to become the world's highest.