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Jiuquan To Be Gateway For China's Taikonauts
 by Wei Long
 Beijing - April 12, 2000 - The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) has been chosen as the gateway for China's yuhangyuan (astronaut), to reach orbit in the coming years, the China News Service reported Tuesday.

Zhang Jianqi, Assistant Director of JSLC which is in the northwestern province of Gansu, told the news service that the centre would lead in launching yuhangyuan into space.

Zhang said that within ten years China would take the course to mount "unmanned spaceflights, manned missions, orbital docking and transfer, and [establish a] space station". The Chinese manned program mirrors the path that the former Soviet Union and United States took in the past thirty years.

Zhang's comment reflects the country's commitment to launch its own space station in a decade. Recent reports also support such as assertion. Last month Russia courted China to assist in training yuhangyuan and ground controllers, and to sell Russian space technologies and expertise to help build the Chinese space station.

In January two former Russian cosmonauts visited China in a technical exchange. Reportedly one of the cosmonauts had provided technical consultation to two yuhangyuan who were candidates to be the crew of the maiden manned flight.

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    DRAGON SPACE
     Copyright Mark Wade Russia Pitches Station Technology To China
     by Wei Long
     Beijing - March 22, 2000 - Russia is wooing China for further space cooperation, particularly in supporting Mir operation, according to a report published last week in New York.

    The China Press, a Chinese language newspaper published in New York, said last Thursday (16th) that as a result of the recent visit of Vice-premier Ilya Klebanov in Beijing, Russia offered to assist China in developing its own space station, while also welcoming Chinese financing to support Mir operation.




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