This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-07-18 07:26
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
On July 18, 1998, a Long March 3B rocket carried a French-made telecommunications satellite into orbit from Xichang, Sichuan province, as seen in the item in China Daily.
The SinoSat-1 satellite was designed to boost China's radio and TV broadcasts and communication services in the Asia-Pacific Region.
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