Current Status and Future Development in China’s Space Program: International Space Cooperation
Le Wang
Shaanxi Normal University,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Excerpt
There is no doubt that China has become a major space power, with its launch technologies, many satellites in orbit, manned space flight program, and its lunar exploration program. China considers the aerospace industry as “a significant symbol of the nation’s strength,” as remarked by President HU Jintao on the 50th Anniversary of Aerospace Industry (XNA, 2006). Over the last 50 years, China’s space program has improved rapidly and advanced through innovation initiated in China and through international cooperation.
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