Beijing: Gearing up to land a rover on moon and send manned spaceflights to built space station, China on Thursday said it will push forward its exploration of planets, asteroids and solar system in order to achieve self sufficiency.
China will launch lunar mission to land a rover on moon for carrying out a survey of its surface in the next five years and conduct studies for a human lunar landing, a white paper issued today by the Chinese government listing the country's space achievement in the last five years.
The lunar probe projects have achieved milestone breakthroughs since 2006, with the successful launching of two lunar probes, the Chang'e-1 in 2007 and Chang'e-2 on October 1, 2010 to orbit moon.
The third unmanned mission was to land with a rover to bring samples the moon's surface back to Earth, it said.
China though achieved major milestones in space technology has not yet caught up with US and Russian technologies which currently eyed far deeper space missions.
Chinese scientists say that they are reinventing the technologies to master them in order to achieve self sufficiency.
Besides the moon mission, the while paper said China will also push forward its exploration of planets, asteroids and solar system.
By using spacecraft, China will study the properties of black holes and physical laws under extreme conditions, explore properties of dark matter particles, and test basic theories of quantum mechanics, it said.
China will push forward human spaceflight projects and make new technological breakthroughs, creating a foundation for future human spaceflight, the white paper said.
After recently accomplishing its first space docking of two unmanned craft, it would send manned flights docking with the in-orbit Tiangong-1 vehicle, its proposed space station to rival Russia's Mir.
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