The Central Propaganda Department issued a | Next year China will enter the stage of space station orbit construction

On the afternoon of December 17, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting of Chinese and foreign journalists on "flying in the sky and writing loyalty in dreams", and the upstream news (weChat: [email protected]) reporter learned from the meeting that next year China will enter the orbit construction stage of the space station, carry out 6 launches, and complete the docking and transposition assembly of the two experimental modules and the core module of the space station, which is a major challenge in the construction of the space station and the key point for decisive victory.

▲Dong Neng, director of the General Technical Bureau of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and assistant to the chief designer of China's manned space engineering. Image source/Guoxin.com

Dong Neng, director of the General Technology Bureau of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and assistant to the chief designer of China's manned space project, introduced at the meeting that manned spaceflight is a pearl in the space industry. The final step in the "three-step" development goal of manned spaceflight approved in 1992 is to build China's space station. The space station can be inhabited for a long time, and it can be built into a national space laboratory in orbit for a long time, in which people can carry out space science experiments and technological experiments with human participation, greatly promote the development of space science, space applications and new technologies, and promote technological progress in related fields. At the same time, this platform is also a platform with rich comprehensive benefits. By next year, China will enter the orbital construction stage of the space station, carry out 6 launches, and complete the rendezvous and docking and transposition assembly of the two experimental modules and the core module of the space station, which is a major challenge in the construction of the space station and the key point of decisive victory.

Dong Neng pointed out that China advocates the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and China's space station and China's manned spaceflight have always adhered to the development concept of peaceful use of space and win-win cooperation, and will build the space station into an open platform for scientific and technological cooperation with the international community in the future. In the future, it is expected to carry out extensive cooperation in the operation and application of space stations, astronaut selection and joint flights, space science and space technology experiments, and the transformation of technological achievements. It is expected that in the next decade or so, the space station will become one of the most important space laboratories in the world, providing a platform and an opportunity for scientists around the world and peace-loving people around the world.

Upstream journalist Li Hongpeng