President Xi Jinping stressed on Wednesday the importance of efforts to continue to pay attention to and support Project Hope as the public welfare program marks its 30th anniversary.
The new carrier rocket will fill a void in the Chinese space landscape in terms of sending payloads weighing between 3 and 4.5 tons to the Sun's synchronous orbit.
While China is often blamed by South Korea as being the main cause of smog that affects it, a joint study released on Wednesday revealed that the haze is actually "Made in South Korea."