Yes, China has successfully landed and operated a rover, Zhurong, on Mars as part of its ambitious Tianwen-1 mission, making it the second nation after the U.S. to successfully soft-land a spacecraft and deploy a rover on the Red Planet, demonstrating significant capability in deep space exploration. The mission also includes an orbiter, and China plans future sample return missions to Mars.
In addition, China is the second nation to orbit and the first one to carry out landing and rovering mission on Mars successfully on its maiden attempt. Tianwen-1 is also the second mission to capture audio recordings on the Martian surface, after United States' Perseverance rover.
It operates a satellite fleet consisting of a large number of communications, navigation, remote sensing and scientific research satellites. The scope of its activities has expanded from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.
One of the destinations to be visited is Venus: China is planning a mission to the planet's atmosphere between 2028 and 2035. Samples are to be taken there, which will then be brought back to Earth.
"Měi" (měi) in Chinese primarily refers to the character 美, meaning beautiful, good, or satisfactory, and is also used for America (美国 - Měiguó). Another common "měi" is 每, meaning every or each (like in "every day" - 每天 měi tiān).
Chinese astronauts are already excluded from the International Space Station (ISS) because Washington has barred Nasa from sharing its data with China. The latest restriction from Nasa only adds to the decline in scientific collaboration between the two sides because of national security concerns.
China's "0.1% rule" refers to its October 2025 export controls, requiring licenses for foreign products containing ≥0.1% by value of certain Chinese-origin rare earths or made with controlled Chinese rare earth tech, extending China's jurisdiction extraterritorially to high-tech supply chains like EV magnets and AI chips, impacting global industries by giving Beijing leverage over critical materials. This "de minimis" rule creates significant compliance burdens for foreign firms, potentially halting supply of advanced tech.
China and 6G
In Asia, China leads the development of 6G and aims to start commercializing the technology by 2030. It expects to establish 6G standards by 2025.
No nation could declare any region of Mars land to be its own sovereign territory or property.
As for the “Second Century”, its long-term goal extends to the centenary of the People's Republic of China in 2049. The objective is for China to become a “modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, and harmonious.”, including other political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions.
China has moved from its first astronaut mission to launching a pair of astronauts, followed by a three-person mission, which featured the first spacewalk for a Chinese astronaut. The country has since built a space station, Tiangong, in low-Earth orbit.
The Martian environment poses special challenges to prospective Red Planet parents and their offspring. The effects of solar and cosmic ray radiation, reduced gravity, exposure to environmental toxins, even disrupted circadian rhythm can potentially impact parents and progeny alike.
Scientists have discovered a 3-billion-year-old beach buried on Mars. In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question of whether water ever rippled over the red planet.
First missions
Musk has stated that Starship's earliest possible Mars landing could have been 2022, and that a crewed mission to Mars would take place no earlier than 2029. It is intended that SpaceX's early missions to Mars will involve small fleets of Starship spacecraft, funded by public–private partnerships.
Google has a difficult history in China. The company pulled its search engine out of China in 2010 because of government censorship and what the company said was a cyberattack from Chinese hackers trying to gain access to human rights activists' email accounts.
China's "3-hour rule" for minors restricts children under 18 to playing online video games for only three hours per week, specifically from 8 PM to 9 PM on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays, to combat gaming addiction and improve health. Implemented by the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) in 2021, the rule mandates gaming companies use real-name verification and facial recognition to enforce limits, though some children bypass it using adult accounts.
In China, the situation is even more pressing. Its one-child policy left it with over 30 million more men than women. These men confront a smaller dating pool, and it's even harder for working-class and rural men to find a partner.
Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece together the Solar System's history.
In 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatened to terminate Russian involvement in the ISS, but as of 2025 there has been no disruption, and all crewed launches continue to have American and Russian members, as well as other nationalities.
Stranded Chinese astronauts finally have a way home following launch of unmanned 'lifeboat' China has launched an unmanned "lifeboat" to the Tiangong space station, ending a month-long fiasco.
Mei (Chinese: 梅; pinyin: Méi) is a romanized spelling of a Chinese surname, transcribed in the Mandarin dialect. In Hong Kong and other Cantonese-speaking regions, the name may be transliterated as Mui or Moy. In Vietnam, this surname is written as Mai.
Popular Chinese girl names
7 - Mandarin Chinese: in mainland China they use the numbers 23333 to write laughter. In the Mandarin alphabet, the transcription of “haha” is 哈哈. It's written “haha” when it's transcribed into the Latin alphabet due to the influence of PR.