Wang Jiacun, 2010 American Astronautical Society Goddard Memorial Symposium

2. China's manned space flight team was rewarded 2009 Space Achievement Award from US Space Foundation A delegation from China led by Dr. Zhou Jianping, chief designer of the China Manned Space Program, and Taikonaut Zhai Zhigang accepted the award at the opening ceremony of the 25th National Space Symposium, a Space Foundation-sponsored annual gathering of the global space community, in Colorado Springs

3. It has been over 50 splendid years since China embarked on the road to develop its space industry, starting in 1956. For more than half a century, China has worked independently in this field. China is unflinching in taking the road of peaceful development, and always maintains that outer space is the common wealth of mankind. While supporting all activities that utilize outer space for peaceful purposes, China actively explores and uses outer space and continuously makes new contributions to the development of man's space programs.

8. 2. Progress in Launching Vehicles Since the first success launch in 1970 until April 2009, "Long March" rockets independently developed by China have made 117 successful flights, which includes 33 international business flight. Since Oct, 1996, "Long March" rockets made 75 consecutive successful flights.

10. 3. Progress in Launching sites. The construction of three launching sites at Jiuquan, Xichang and Taiyuan, has made new progress, and their comprehensive test and launch capabilities have been enhanced. Various launching vehicles, man-made satellites, unmanned experimental spacecraft and manned spacecraft have been successfully launched from the three launching sites many times

11. 4. Progress in Telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C). Now, China has build three control centers in Beijign, Xi’an and Dongfeng, 11 ground stations, 4 of which are located in other countries such as Karachi, Namibia, Chile and Kenya.

13. From Sep.25 to 28, 2008, China successfully launched "Shenzhou VII" with three astronauts on board and made the first space walk, released a small companion satellite .

15. Chang’e 1 Satellite was launched in Oct.24 2007 and hit the moon after over a year’s orbiting around the moon on Mar. 2009. During the orbiting, Chang’e 1 collected and delivered 1.37 TB data back to the earth .

20. 4. Adhering to the policy of opening up to the outside world, and actively engaging in international space exchanges and cooperation. China supports all activities that utilize outer space for peaceful purposes. It will strengthen exchanges and cooperation in this field with other countries on the basis of the principles of equality, mutual benefit, peaceful utilization of outer space and common development.

21. 三 . International Exchanges and Cooperation The Chinese government holds that outer space is the common wealth of all mankind, and each and every country in the world enjoys equal rights to freely explore, develop and utilize outer space and celestial bodies; and that all countries' outer space activities should be beneficial to the economic development, social progress of nations, to security, subsistence and development of mankind, and to friendly cooperation between people of different countries.

22. 1. Bilateral cooperation: China has signed cooperation agreements on the peaceful use of outer space and space project cooperation agreements with Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, the ESA and the European Commission, and has established space cooperation subcommittee or joint commission mechanisms with Brazil, France, Russia and Ukraine. It has signed space cooperation memorandums with space organizations of India and Britain, and has conducted exchanges with space-related bodies of Algeria, Chile, Germany, Italy, Japan, Peru and the United States

26. China-Russia Space Cooperation Project Outline, 2010-2012’ were discussed and signed during China-Russia Premiers Regular Meeting Committee held in Beijing this year