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On behalf of the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping congratulated the lunar exploration project on the complete success of the Chang'e -5 mission.

Release date:

2020-12-18

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 17th. At 1:59 on December 17, the Chang'e -5 returnee carried a lunar sample and landed safely in the predetermined area of Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia. The lunar exploration project Chang'e -5 mission was a complete success. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission sent a congratulatory message, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, to extend warm congratulations and sincere greetings to all comrades who participated in the mission of the lunar exploration project and participated in the Chang'e 5 mission.

Chang'e -5 returnee carries lunar samples for safe landing

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On behalf of the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping congratulated the lunar exploration project on the complete success of the Chang'e -5 mission.

Xi Jinping pointed out in his congratulatory message that the Chang'e -5 mission, as my country's most complex and technically spanning aerospace system project, realized the sampling and return of my country's extraterrestrial objects for the first time. This is another major achievement made by taking advantage of the new national system to overcome difficulties. It marks a big step forward for China's aerospace industry and will contribute to deepening human scientific understanding of the cause of the moon and the evolution history of the solar system. For your outstanding contributions, the motherland and the people will always remember.

Xi Jinping stressed that the pace of human exploration of space is endless. I hope that you will vigorously carry forward the lunar exploration spirit of pursuing dreams, brave exploration, collaborative efforts, and win-win cooperation, start a new journey of interstellar exploration step by step, and make new contributions to building a space power and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. to make greater pioneering contributions to the peaceful use of space for mankind and promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.

State Councilor Wang Yong read Xi Jinping's congratulatory message at the Chang'e 5 mission flight control site of the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center.

The Chang'e -5 mission has achieved many major breakthroughs in my country's first lunar surface sampling and packaging, lunar surface take-off, lunar orbit rendezvous and docking, and sample re-entry and return. Its successful implementation marks my country's lunar exploration project. The three-step plan was completed as scheduled.

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