The three astronauts on board the nation's space station Tiangong held a video chat with youths in Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau this afternoon, New Year's Day.
The crew had the live space-Earth talk with around 500 young students at the three venues, in the national capital Beijing and the special administrative regions (SARs) of Hong Kong and Macau, sharing the space dream and aspirations.
A total of 150 students in a conference hall on the University of Macau (UM) campus took part in the video chat.
The activity, co-hosted by the Hong Kong SAR government, the Macau SAR government, the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the HK SAR, the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macau SAR, the China Manned Space Agency, and the China Media Group, was broadcast live.
Astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu went into space onboard the Shenzhou-13 spaceship and entered the space station on October 16, embarking on the country's longest crewed mission for space station construction.
It was the second time that students from Macau joined a video chat with the space trio. – Xinhua, MPD
Students in a conference hall on the University of Macau (UM) campus wave national and regional flags during yesterday afternoon's Earth-space video talk with the nation's three astronauts on board space station Tiangong. - Xinhua
