Today China produces more scientists than any other country. And many of them are leading their fields; pushing advances in medicine, food production, robotics, radio astronomy, high energy physics, deep sea research, quantum computing and cosmology.

Their work is not only shaping the future of China, but the future for all of us.

We follow the challenges of constructing the world’s most sensitive neutrino detector, meet an aquanaut and marine engineer who’s creating a new type of submarine for regular trips to the largely unexplored deep seafloor, and discover new developments in farming that will rise to to the challenge of feeding a global population set to reach ten billion by 2050.