China has the world's most ambitious space programme, and 2014 will see the nation take some important steps forward.
A new space launch facility at Hainan Island should be completed by the end of the year, allowing the
country to launch the new generation of Long March 5 heavy-lift rockets.
That's what the country needs to follow a roadmap recently laid out by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which would include establishing a manned lunar base and launching astronauts to Mars by 2050.
就目前而言,中国玉兔子探测器着陆on the Moon in December, is busily exploring its new home. And plans are taking shape for a second orbiting space lab, Tiangong-2, in 2015.
By 2020, they may have a full space station in orbit - just in time to take over from the International Space Station.
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