Meteoric rise for space center
By Hu Yinan | China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-23 07:42
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Children play near the launch site of the Shenzhou VII space mission in Jiuquan, Gansu province, on Saturday. The mission's spacecraft, seen in the background, is set to take off between Thursday and next Tuesday. Jiang Shenglian |
JIUQUAN, Gansu: In October 1958, upon the orders of Chairman Mao Zedong, 100,000 PLA soldiers built China's first space center out on the edge of the Badain Jaran desert of this northwestern province.
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