(Yicai Global) Nov. 26 -- China's plan to  build the world's biggest particle smasher has raised interest from  overseas governments, according to the mastermind behind the project.

"They [international investors] are all  interested, but they need to get endorsement from their funding  agencies," science publication Nature reported on Nov. 23, citing Wang  Yifang, the director of Beijing's Institute of High Energy Physics. 

If the necessary CNY30 billion (USD4.3  billion) funding is secured, the Circular Electron–Positron Collider  will be ready in 2030 and it may help answer so-far unanswered physics  questions. The  100-kilometer facility would become more than three times as big as the  Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, and cost about half of the price. 

The Chinese government has helped to fund  the research and development, but the design team wishes to garner  overseas support to raise some of the funds to build the particle  accelerator. 

Editor: Emmi Laine