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Pan Jianwei was part of the team that first demonstrated quantum teleportation experimentally in 1997 while working in Anton Zeilinger's lab.

The White House has tweeted about quantum supremacy in recent months.

By 2016, Pan Jianwei was the mastermind behind the Micius satellite, which enables long-distance quantum communication.

You Shou was a Harbin scholar in a group called the “eight weirdos” who were targeted for torment by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.

Yinxu’s largest industry, besides bronze, was the production of bone tools.

Ancient Chinese ethicists such as Confucius and Laozi did not live in Yinxu.

During the Shang dynasty, hundreds of humans were executed for events like a king's death or a palace foundation, with prisoners' heads being buried in rows.

In a single workshop site in Yinxu, archaeologists found millions of discarded animal bones from cattle, pigs, and deer that were carved into tools.

Pan Jianwei's adviser, Anton Zeilinger, won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Peasants during the Shang dynasty lived in pits dug into the earth with timber and thatch roofs.

In industrial quarters like Xiaomintun, Shang craftsmen operated large, coordinated bronze foundries.

Some say the ancient city of Yinxu had a population of around 150,000, no physical walls, and was sharply divided by class.

Shang craftsmen held a privileged, middle-tier status and were protected by the state.

During the Shang dynasty, elephants, rhinoceroses, and tigers roamed the Henan plains.

Fact: Shang Dynasty scribes routinely posed questions for divination in both positive and negative forms.

Fact: Auspicious answers, dates, and consequences from oracle bone divination were recorded on the bones.

The Chinese character for alliance (盟), used to describe the EU and ASEAN, is composed of the characters for vessel (皿) and bright/clear (明).

In ancient China, lords sealed political pacts by slaughtering a sacrificial animal, catching its blood in a vessel, smearing the blood on their lips, and swearing an oath.

Fact: The Shang people performed divination rituals before major activities like going to war or planting crops.

Fact: During the Shang Dynasty, diviners posed questions to a high god or ancestors and then applied heat to ox shoulder blades or turtle shells.