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A blossoming of radio astronomy in China has already led to the construction of a huge 65 m diameter radio telescope and the construction of FAST, an enormous 500 m diameter dish built in a natural geological bowl in underway. Plans for a 110 m fully steerable dish are well in hand.
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Verschuur, G. (2015). China Rising. In: The Invisible Universe. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13422-2_16
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