This Day, That Year

Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.

On Nov 20, 1999, China's first unmanned test flight of the spacecraft, Shenzhou I, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province, as seen in the item from China Daily.

After completing a 12-hour flight and carrying out all the planned scientific experiments, the spaceship landed successfully in the central Inner Mongolia autonomous region.