This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-04-08 07:50
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
China successfully sent its first satellite, Dongfanghong 1, into orbit in 1970.
On April 8, 1984, the country's first communications satellite was launched, and it sent pictures back for television viewers, as seen in an item on April 19, 1984, in China Daily.
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