Let’s get this out of the way straight up: Benny Lam is a fan of rice cookers. In particular Panasonic ... but clay pots have been used in China to cook rice for thousands of years.

The production line in Qiaojia County, in the city of Zhaotong, Yunnan Province, is the latest achievement of polymer physical chemist Wu Qi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He and ...