China reports progress in ultra-secure quantum satellite transmission
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a press conference Tuesday to introduce the latest progress in the research of the world's first quantum scientific experiment satellite, Micius. The team led by Academician Pan Jianwei of the University of Science and Technology of China, together with other teams of international scientists, has achieved the world's first entangled quantum key distribution at the level of 1,000 kilometers, making an important breakthrough in the practical application of quantum communication.