Should China develop manned space program? How to advance this program? What are the strategies and technical approaches of the manned space program? These are typical decision making issues in soft science area which involve a lot of factors including political, economic, military, social, scientific and technical factors. This paper introduces the research on these significant issues. The research was guided by the systematic methodology “meta-syntheses from qualitative hypotheses to quantitative validation” promoted by the famous scientist Qian Xuesen. The research tried to answer the question that as a developing country why China needs to develop manned space program. And further more, it put forward suggestions on the developing strategies and the technical approaches of Chinese manned space program, of which the main point was to use the spacecraft program.