AI expert Jordan Nguyen gets behind the usually locked doors of China’s leading science labs, to see how the country is moving from its maker past – into a cutting edge new world driven by science.

He meets the scientists and engineers behind world changing ideas, from a potential discovery of Dark Matter to world leading experts in CRISPR crop-breeding and quantum teleportation, to cutting-edge green tech and the world’s largest telescope.

Travelling the length and breadth of the country, from the Gobi desert to the freezing Siberian wilderness, Jordan investigates how China is building not only the equipment, but also the science that could help us understand the biggest mysteries in the universe.