A depressingly common pattern is that you can get funding for building things but not for running and maintaining things. In the case of the Tian Ma they seem

A depressingly common pattern is that you can get funding for building things but not for running and maintaining things. In the case of the Tian Ma they seem to still have money for work on it, I found a 2017 proceeding[1] about adding a new system optimised for pulsar searches. I'm guessing they simply aren't getting very exciting results, which is normal for a non-american dish, you don't hear about Effelsberg every day either. [1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8105313/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8105313/