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BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) --
Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged Wednesday that China would
adhere to the principle of peaceful development and use of outer
space in concerted efforts with other nations.
At a grand ceremony in the Great Hall of the People to celebrate the
success of China's first lunar probe Chang'e-1, Hu reiterated that
peaceful use of outer space was a shared cause of the mankind and
accords with the common interests of the mankind.
"China's deep space exploration aims solely for peaceful purposes,"
he said.
China will actively participate in international space cooperation,
continue to make breakthroughs in deep space exploration and try
hard to make more, new contributions to technical progress and to
the sublime cause of the peace and development of the mankind, Hu
added.
He said the success of the first stage of China's lunar probe
program indicated the nation had joined countries with capability of
deep space exploration.
Hu noted the lunar probe was another milestone in China's space
exploration, following the successes of man-made satellites and
manned space flights.
It was also another symbolic result of China's efforts to enhance
self-innovation and build an innovative nation and a historical
stride the nation made in its way toward world's peak of science and
technology, Hu said.
The development of the nation's scientific and technological
strength must be based on economic development, Hu said.
Only when development is regarded as the primary task of the Party
in its ruling efforts, will new achievements be made in the
development process and will the gap between China and world's
advanced standards be narrowed, he added.
Enhancing capability of self-innovation is the core of China's
national development strategy and the key to improving the overall
national strength, according to Hu.
Development of the real core technologies in crucial fields that are
related to the life line of the national economy and to the national
security must rely on self innovation, Hu stressed.
Chang'e-1, named after a mythical Chinese goddess who, according to
legend, flew to the moon, blasted off on a Long March 3A carrier
rocket on Oct. 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the
southwestern province of Sichuan.
The satellite traveled nearly two million kilometers in its 15-day
flight to the moon and reached its final working orbit with a fixed
altitude of 200 kilometers on Nov. 7. The China National Space
Administration released the first picture of the moon captured by
Chang'e-1 on Nov. 26, marking the full success of the first stage of
the country's lunar probe program.
Chang'e-1 was designed to stay on the orbit for one year, but
scientists estimated that precise maneuvers may have saved 200 kg of
the fuel and prolonged its lifespan.
The launch of Chang'e-1 kicks off the first step of China's
three-stage moon mission, which will lead to a moon landing and
launch of a moon rover at around 2012. In the third phase, another
rover will land on the moon and return to earth with lunar soil and
stone samples for scientific research at around 2017.
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