Sci-tech progress a defining feature of past decade
China Daily Editorial On June 16, 2012, China’s Shenzhou IX spacecraft blasted off on a mission to dock with the orbiting Tiangong-1 experimental space lab. This was China’s first manned rendezvous and docking mission. A decade later, on June 5, China successfully launched Shenzhou XIV, the first manned mission during the construction phase of China’s first space station.Astronautics is only one of the technological sectors in which China has made tremendous