China has defined its space development targets for the next two decades as follows:
---- Commercial applications of space technologies. The development and exploitation of space resources will serve for the purpose of economic development, satisfying diverse needs of national security, S&T development, and social advancement, and further enhancing the nation?痵 comprehensive strength.
---- Establishing a multifunction and multi-orbit space infrastructure made up of diverse satellite systems, and making it part of the overall state planning; establishing a ground satellite application system supporting coordinated activities between earth and space, and developing an integrated earth-space network system for full-fledged, consecutive, and stable long-term space operations.
---- Establishing a national manned space system, and conducting manned space scientific and technical researches of some scale.
---- Working hard to harvest more space findings, occupying a relatively important position in international space research activities, and conducting deep space probes and researches tailored to China?痵 own needs.
The Chinese government has long advocated the exploitation and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, in an attempt to allow outer space to serve mankind. China believes that probing outer space and expanding man?痵 knowledge of cosmos and earth will help promote civilization and social development, and China will render its contributions to mankind, through peaceful uses of outer space.
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