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On a quest to boost innovation and make China a global technological power, Beijing for years has trumpeted homegrown technologies in everything from mobile communications to trains to microprocessors. The latest project getting pumped? A locally-developed body scanner. \u201cUnlike those produced in the U.S., this scanner can detect prohibited objects while also guarding people\u2019s privacy,\u201d the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported late Thursday, citing an executive at the product\u2019s manufacturer.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

The scanner can automatically delete personal information when it completes its task, the report said, citing Jia Zhong, general manager of Tianjin Chongfang Science & Technology Company. Full-body scanners deployed in airports have proven a lightning rod with certain sections of the traveling public in the U.S. since the machines can see through people\u2019s clothes. The devices have also come under fire over concerns about radiation exposure. The Chinese scanner has also solved the radiation issue, according to Xinhua. The X-ray radiation the device emits is \u201cnegligible,\u201d the news agency said, equal to one-thirty-sixth of the radiation a airline passenger is exposed to when flying from Beijing to Shanghai. <\/p>\n

The Chinese body scanner \u201cuses an anti-scattering X-ray mechanism to detect nonmetal objects such as ceramic knives, explosives, drugs, plastic weapons and liquid bombs,\u201d Xinhua said. The report didn\u2019t say whether China\u2019s government is explicitly backing the project, but it said the body scanner has \u201cindependent intellectual property rights\u201d and its maker plans to deploy 1,000 units each year in a variety of venues including airports, railway stations and customs crossings. Xinhua said a group made mostly of experts from Beijing\u2019s elite Tsinghua University developed the body scanner, which was exhibited at a seminar in southern China\u2019s Guangdong province this week.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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