Exhibition celebrates China's space achievements

Hong Kong residents are expected to have a deep-space feast as an exhibition on the achievements of China's scientists over the past one hundred years and some lunar soil brought back to Earth by Chang'e 5 spacecraft in December 2020 will open to the public on Sunday.

The opening ceremony for the free exhibition, which will run until July 9, was held on Saturday.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and Tan Tieniu, deputy chief of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the HKSAR and several China's top aerospace scientists visiting the city, including Qi Faren, chief designer of the first Shenzhen spacecraft, and Hu Hao, chief designer of China's third-phase lunar exploration program, and others officiated the ceremony.