BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China.

SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER

China will construct a new National Supercomputer Center in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province. It will be China's seventh national supercomputer center.

The construction of the new supercomputing center is scheduled to be finished in 2020. It will be capable of performing 100 petaflops per second.

SATELLITE NAVIGATION INDUSTRY

China's satellite navigation and location services industry achieved a total output value of 301.6 billion yuan (about 43.93 billion US dollars) in 2018, up 18.3 percent than the previous year, according to an annual industry report.

The industry's core sectors, which are directly related to the development and application of the satellite navigation technology, include chip, device, algorithm, software, navigation data, terminal equipment and infrastructure. These sectors reported 106.9 billion yuan in output value, accounting for 35.44 percent of the industry's total.

IPR PROTECTION

China has improved its business environment by enhancing its protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), a senior official with China's National Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) said Wednesday.

China had refined its laws and regulations on IPR and improved its punitive damages system, greatly increasing the cost of IPR infringement. Enditem