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China to develop deep space exploration in 5 years
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-19 13:58

A senior space official said on Wednesday that in the coming five years,
China will actively formulate its deep space exploration planning with
lunar exploration and Martian exploration as the principal line and
participate in international cooperation in the field.

Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China National Space Administration,
said at the 36th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research,
China is going to conduct research on the distribution and utilization of
the lunar resources, and terrestrial planetary science, particularly the
earth-moon system science, as well as to provide scientific basis and
countermeasures for supporting mankind's sustainable survival and
development on earth.

The key space scientific subjects for Chinese scientists in the coming
five years also include space astronomy and solar physics, space physics
and solar system exploration, micro-gravity sciences and space life
science.

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