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In a move to play increasingly role in global efforts to safeguard Planet Earth, China has recently begun constructing a new high-definition deep-space active observation facility in the country’s southwest Chongqing municipality, with goals including boosting its defense capability against near-Earth asteroid as well as sensing capability for the Earth-Moon system.
China on Sunday successfully conducted an antiballistic missile test in a move experts said on Monday is a crucial part of the country s national defense development that is defensive in nature, demonstrating the reliability of China s antiballistic missile umbrella amid US attempts to blackmail China with modern, nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles and deploying intermediate-range ballistic missiles in the Asia-Pacific region on the doorsteps of China.
The crew of the Shenzhou XIV mission, China s ninth manned spaceflight, arrived at the Tiangong space station on Sunday evening, several hours after their spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gobi Desert.
The AC313A heavy-lift helicopter can perform a wide range of functions, such as personnel and cargo transport, fire extinguishing, disaster relief, medical aid and maritime patrol.