At 11:23 on April 29th, the Tianhe core module of China Space Station has been successfully launched and has entered the intended orbit. Xi Jinping, President of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, sends warm congratulations and sincere regards to general headquarters of space missions of manned space project as well as staff and all departments participating researches and experiments, on behalf of CPC Central Committee, State Council and the Central Military Commission.
In the message, Xi Jinping says that building space station and national space laboratory is an important goal of the “three step” strategic targets of country’s manned space program and an important leading project of powerful nation of science and technology and a major power in space. The successful launching of Tianhe core module marks that the construction of China’s space station enters a comprehensive implementation stage and that it lied a solid foundation for following tasks. I hope you can carry forward the Spirit of the Two Bombs and One Man-made Satellite and the spirit of human spaceflight. And I wish you are independent, to improve yourself continuously, to be innovative and to make new breakthrough, so you can realize the goal to build a space station and make new and better contribution to construct a socialist modern country comprehensively!
The launching is watched by Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Premier of the State Council, as well as Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, in Beijing Aerospace Control Center.
Zhang Youxia, member of Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, reads the message of congratulation in Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site.
Liu He, Xu Qiliang, Xiao Jie, Li Zuocheng, Miao Hua, and Zhang Shengmin watch the launching in Beijing Aerospace Control Center. The latter three are members of Central Military Commission.
China Space Station is a manned space station built and operated independently by China. It’s composed by Tianhe core module, Wentian experiment module and Mengtian experiment module. Tianhe core module is a management and control center and the first module launched into orbit. According to task arrangement, the space station is planned to be constructed in orbit in 2022, then it will enable people to do science experiments, do technological experiments as well as develop and exploit space resource comprehensively in terrestrial space and the whole program will be in a stage of application and development.