China plans first manned space station around 2022

As announced during the Annual Meeting of the Association of Space Explorers, that after the launch of the Tiangong-2 space lab around 2016, the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft and Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft will be launched to dock with it. Around 2018, a core experimental...

China launches birth defects research

MOST announced a research program which will include a database on birth defects in China which will cover 79 major categories. At present, some 900.000 or 5 % of all babies in China are born with birth defects or genetic disorders. CAS news release, September 2,...