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China broadcast greetings and two Taiwanese songs from its first moon probe on Sunday

The Chinese space program is slowly developing. Finally China sent a probe to the moon in order to find new resources like aluminum. Do they want to mine it there?

You might conclude that when listening to the Chinese government...

BEIJING (AFP) - Asia's space race heated up on Wednesday as China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed by the world's most populous nation as a milestone event in its global rise.

China's year-long expedition, costing 1.4 billion yuan (184 million dollars), kicks off a programme that aims to land an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and put a man on the moon by about 2020.

China set two more ambitious goals for its space program this week, announcing it will launch an unmanned lunar orbiter in the second half of 2007 and a probe to Mars by 2009, according to reports from the Xinhua news agency.

The lunar orbiter, scheduled to launch later this year, will take 3-D images of the moon's surface. If successful, it will pave the way for a lunar landing mission, Xinhua quoted National Space Administration director Sun Laiyan as saying Sunday in a speech at Beijing Jiaotong University.

Steve at Steve's China Blog has done up a nice little summary of China's coming Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival. A bit of history and a nice big picture of everyone's favourite holiday treat.

With the annual Moon Festival almost here, here's a blog post about how to stay in touch.

When you’re just after the moon cakes, I suggest buy them without the box, otherwise you’ll just be paying the extra 95% cost for the elegantly-designed boxes.

Can a country building high-end jet fighters and talking of a mission to mine the moon still call itself a developing country? China can, or at least, it does.

Dali (Yunnan Province), one of the most attractive cities in China, has been drawing millions of visitors from around the world for many years. It is famous for four scenes- the wind in Xiàguān, the flowers in Shàngguān, the snow on Mt. Cāngshān, and the moon over the Ĕrhăi Lake, which is also known as “dà lĭ sì jué”.