Year-ender: China's sci-tech achievements in 2023 (2)

Chinese scientists achieved precise total synthesis of sugar from carbon dioxide in the laboratory, marking a crucial step in artificial sugar synthesis.

The synthesis, which took more than two years to realize, was achieved by teams from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology and the academy's Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.

Their research was published on Aug. 15, 2023, in a paper in Chinese Science Bulletin, a multidisciplinary academic journal.