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Development Strategy of China's Space Industry

National Development and Reform Commission, Beijing 100824, China

Received: 2006-09-19 Available online: 2006-11-20

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Abstract

China ´s space industry has witnessed a series of remarkable achievements in the past 50 years. Promoting the development of space industry is the objective request of building an innovation-oriented country and realizing the strategic objective for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. The future development of China ´s space industry should be aimed at serving the national economy and social development. It should adhere to the principles of “taking application as the leading factor, and innovation as the motive force; combining spacecraft with ground equipments; sharing infrastructure and data resources; coordinating military and civil applications and developing in an open manner.Through the combination of government´s lead with market orientation, 4 major projects, namely manned spaceflight, lunar probe program, Big Dipper navigation program and high-resolution earth observation,should be carried out preferentially.Priority should be given to such application areas as satellite communications, satellite TV broadcasting, satellite navigation and positioning and satellite remote-sensing, etc. Efforts should be made to form a space industrial system, which has a certain economic scale and a complete industrial train and develops harmoniously with related industries.

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