President Jiang Hails Return of Unmanned Spaceship

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President Jiang Hails Return of Unmanned Spaceship

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President Jiang Zemin, who is now on an inspection tour out of Beijing, sent a message of congratulations on the successful return of China's third unmanned spaceship "Shenzhou III" Monday afternoon.

Jiang sent the message in a telephone call to Cao Gangchuan, head of the General Armaments Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a member of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and chief director of the national manned spacecraft program.

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Jiang expressed congratulations on the successful launch, normal operation and safe return of the space vehicle.

Jiang, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the CMC, encouraged all those who participated in the program to work even harder, in order to ensure the success of the forthcoming launching of the fourth spaceship and other follow-up space activities.

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President Jiang Zemin watched the successful launch of China's 'Shenzhou III' unmanned spacecraft Monday night at the Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center.

Jiang Zemin extended his congratulations to scientists and technicians taking part in the space program, and encouraged them to further upgrade China's scientific and technological levels and improve national strength.

After watching the lift-off, Jiang said the successful launch showed the Chinese people's spirit of constantly striving to become stronger, "the CPC Central Committee decided to carry out the manned space programme a decade ago."

He pointed out that organizing the astronautical project is an important strategic arrangement by CPC Central Committee taking into consideration the overall situation of world science and technology development and the demand to put China on a higher science technology plane and speed up the country's modernization construction.

Jiang said that over the past ten years all working personnel who have taken part in the research, development and tests of the spaceship have made most of their effort in line with the spirit of past "two bombs and satellite" in building the country's nuclear force. They have united as one, working on their own and fighting tenaciously to have made a series of breakthroughs in pushing China's astronautical technology industry. This is particularly so as shown by the successful launch of "Shenzhou I", "Shenzhou II" and "Shenzhou III" in bringing the country's manned astronautical technology to a new level.

Jiang said that those efforts made are of utmost importance for China to scale the world's new hi-tech heights and make new advances in economic, science and technology and defense construction. Full story

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