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Brrr! It’s chilly out there, and for these frigid winter weeks, you are going to want to invest in a few items and use some tricks to keep your apartment above freezing.  For those of you not lucky enough to get central heating, here are the easiest and best ways…

The Explainer is where we explain an aspect of Chinese life. Simple. So now you know. Pollution season is here — that time of the year when China’s major cities become shrouded in a blanket of thick smog.  If you’ve ever lived in China or followed news reports from around the…

home Articles By Bridget O'Donnell, July 8, 2021 1 Typhoon season is in full swing. Could your city be next for nature’s blustery wrecking ball? You can track typhoons in real-time with a third-party plugin on WeChat. Simply scan the QR code below or search ‘台风路径’ in the WeChat search bar.…

China plans to launch the Chang'e-2, the country's second lunar probe, in October this year, an expert said Thursday. The satellite would be launched on a Long March 3-C carrier rocket, said Liang Xiaohong, Party chief of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, and a member of the National…

China is to put an unmanned space module into space in 2010, a space expert said in Beijing Wednesday. Weighing about 8.5 tonnes, Tiangong-1 is able to perform long-term unattended operation, which will be an essential step toward building a space station. &$&$Source:Xinhua&$&$ ...Read More

China will launch the "Tiangong I" space station and the "Shenzhou VIII" spaceship in the first and second half of 2011 respectively, conducting China's first rendezvous and docking test, said Niu Hongguang Wednesday, deputy commander-in-chief of the China Manned Space Program. China will also launch the "Shenzhou IX" spaceship and…

China will launch an unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, in the first half of 2011, and the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in the second half of the year, to carry out the nation's first-ever space docking, an expert said here Wednesday. The Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spaceships, which are also expected to dock with…

China plans to set up the country's orbital space station by around 2020, said Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut sent into space in 2003, when visiting China's space base in Xi'an Saturday. Yang revealed that China plans to launch the unmanned space station Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8 in middle and the…

A project to construct China's first manned space station has been officially launched and it is expected to be completed by around 2020, when a large scale national space laboratory will be also set up, according to a spokesman from the China Manned Space Engineering Project on Oct...Read More

China will launch Tiangong 1 target spacecraft and Shenzhou VIII unmanned spacecraft in the coming five years and the two spacecrafts will undertake China's first docking mission with each other. After this, China's space industry will achieve leap-forward development from a manned space program to building a space laboratory...Read More