Long March-5, China's most powerful carrier rocket in commission, thundered into the sky from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in South China's Hainan Province at around 19:30 pm, successfully sending the communication technology experiment-11 satellite into preset orbit. This marks China’s first space launch in the Year of the Dragon.

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