‍China is at the front of our Science & Technology news wrap-up for this week, as a stream of information coming from the country dominated the industry's headlines. We picked four nuggets to showcase China's progress in these sectors.

China's high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), currently under construction in east China's Shandong Province, is expected to go online in 2018. The fourth-generation nuclear power plant is also the world's first 200,000-kilowatt HTGR nuclear power plant demonstration project.

2016 saw China install 23.3 GW (gigawatt) of new wind capacity, representing 42.7 percent of the total global market share, according to the latest report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).

The National Energy Administration plans to source six percent of the country's total energy needs from wind farms by 2020.

The AG600, the world's largest amphibian aircraft, has successfully passed engine tests and is expected to make its maiden flight in the first half of 2017, according to China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co. Ltd. on Tuesday.

The 37-meter-long AG600 has a wingspan of 38.8 meters, about the size of a Boeing 737. It is destined to support emergency response efforts.

The aircraft has a maximum take-off weight of 53.5 tons and can collect 12 tons of water in 20 seconds.

Scientists from the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed new air filters using materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The breakthrough was recently picked up by international scientific journal Nature, sparking a great deal of attention. This innovation could potentially revolutionize air purifiers that are already a fixture in many Chinese homes.

This small piece of equipment reduced the amount of hazardous air by almost 100 percent within just a few minutes, in a close-room simulation test.