BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — China’s space industry will develop quickly over the next 10 years as the country pushes ahead with its space programs after its first space docking on Thursday.

Lab modules, a space station and 10 to 20 spaceships will be launched into space over the next 10 years, the Shanghai Securities News said Friday, but did not reveal its source. Continue Reading

BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) — China will establish a manned space station around 2020, the country’s manned space program spokeswoman said Thursday.

Spokeswoman Wu Ping said at a press conference that China’s spacecraft will conduct two more space docking missions in 2012. After that, the nation will begin to build a space lab and space station.

China’s unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 and its space lab module Tiangong-1 rendezvoused early Thursday, successfully completing the country’s first-ever space docking.

BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) — Two Chinese spacecraft accomplished the country’s first space docking procedure early Thursday, silently coupling in space more than 343 km above Earth’s surface.

Nearly two days after it was launched, the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 docked with space lab module Tiangong-1 at 1:36 a.m., marking another great leap for China’s space program.

The success of the docking procedure makes China the third country in the world, after the United States and Russia, to master the technique, moving the country one step closer to establishing its own space station. Continue Reading

BEIJING, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) — Shenzhou-8 spacecraft is ready to dock with Tiangong-1 space lab module after five swing-bys after its launch in early Tuesday morning, a command and control center said Wednesday.

The unmanned spacecraft, controlled and guided by the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center, arrived, at 5:05 p.m., at somewhere in space 52 km down behind the target modular orbiter, preparing for China’s first space docking mission on a low earth orbit.

By Xinhua writer Shi Shouhe

JIUQUAN, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) — Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, who supervised the Shenzhou-8 blastoff on site, said here Tuesday morning the successful launch signals one key step closer to a victory of China’s first space docking.

A modified Long March-2F rocket carried, starting from 5:58 a.m. Tuesday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the unmanned spacecraft into the orbit, which was live broadcast nationwide.

Shenzhou-8 is expected to dock, after a two-day flight, with Tiangong-1 or “the Heavenly Palace,” the Continue Reading

JIUQUAN, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — China will launch its unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 early Tuesday for the country’s first space docking, a major step closer to the goal of building a permanent space station around 2020.

Shenzhou-8 will take off at 5:58 a.m. Tuesday, carried by a modified model of the Long March CZ-2F rocket at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, said Wu Ping, spokeswoman of China’s manned space program. Continue Reading

SHANGHAI, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — Although China concept stocks in the U.S. stock market have presented sluggish performance recently, most foreign venture capital institutions in China are still showing confidence in the investment opportunities in the country’s huge market.

China concept stocks have experienced a drastic downward adjustment over the past several months amid sharp retreat on the US stock market and uncertainties in global economic prospects. Most planned initial public offerings by Chinese companies have been halted. Since the beginning of the third quarter, only one Chinese firm — Tudou Holdings Ltd., China’s second-largest online video service, launched IPO in the U.S. stock market. Continue Reading

JIUQUAN, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — China is considering sending female astronauts into space during its space docking missions next year, a chief designer for the astronaut program said Monday.

Two female astronauts have been selected for possible flights when spacecraft Shenzhou-9 and -10 are scheduled to dock with space lab module Tiangong-1 in 2012, said Chen Shanguang, director of the Astronaut Center of China (ACC). Continue Reading

JIUQUAN, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) — China will have launched 20 rockets and 25 satellites into space by the end of 2011, indicating that the country’s space exploration is “highly intensive,” an aerospace expert said Sunday.

“This year, we are supposed to launch 20 rockets and 25 satellites, a number that would put China in Continue Reading

BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — China had 952.31 million mobile phone users by the end of September, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Thursday.

In a statement posted on its website, the MIIT said 12.22 million new mobile phone users signed up in September alone.

China’s 3G mobile phone users reached 102.46 million by the end of September, the statement said. Continue Reading

WUXI, Oct. 20, 2011 (Xinhua) — The 2011 China International Internet of Things Exposition (IOT Expo 2011) is held in Wuxi of east China’s Jiangsu Province, Oct. 20, 2011. The IOT Expo 2011 attracted more than 600 companies from at home and abroad. (Xinhua/Shen Peng)

by Xinhua writers Ji Shaoting and Mou Xu

BEIJING/CHONGQING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — A team of Chinese and American scientists have discovered the world’s only evidence of co-existing human beings and dinosaur tracks in a remote county in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, according to a paper published Saturday in the Geological Bulletin of China, a Chinese core academic journal.

Qijiang County’s Lianhua Baozhai, which means “Lotus Mountain Fortress” in Chinese, has a large number of dinosaur tracks as well as a well-preserved fortress and historical epigraph, forming a direct line of evidence that ancient Chinese people built a residence and lived there for a long time, said Xing Lida, one of three researchers with the project as Continue Reading