Project Description

There is no doubt that China has become a major space power, with its launch technologies, many satellites in orbit, manned space flight program, and its lunar exploration program. China considers the aerospace industry as “a significant symbol of the nation’s strength,” as remarked by President HU Jintao on the 50th Anniversary of Aerospace Industry (XNA, 2006). Over the last 50 years, China’s space program has improved rapidly and advanced through innovation initiated in China and through international cooperation.

This paper traces the current status and future development in China’s space program, with particular focus on studying China’s international space cooperation, and reforms on organization structure and policy-making process to promote stability of future development for the space program.

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This paper was first published as part of International Cooperation for the Development of Space, published by the Aerospace Technology Working Group (ATWG) and included on this site through the courtesy of ATWG, ISU and the individual authors.For reference, we are also providing the front cover and table of contents.

Other extracts from this publication can be found here.