China has unveiled its plan to build a world-class comprehensive space industry by 2015 under a blueprint of the country's Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC).
The blueprint released by the state-owned CASTC plans four more scientific research and production bases, including in Tianjin, Inner Mongolia and Hainan, in a move that would enable China to have eight space industry bases.
Presently, China has four bases in Beijing, Shanghai, Shanxi and Sichuan. "By 2015, the CASTC would take up 10 per cent of the international commercial satellite market, and 15 per cent of the world commercial space launch service market," the blueprint said.
China sent a Nigerian communication satellite into space in 2007. The country would also launch services in fields such as satellite management, capital investment related to the space industry, and aerospace information software, the blueprint said.
The CASTC, a leading research and production group building the country's aerospace and missile systems, carried out 50 successful spacecraft launches on board its Long March series of rocket carriers, sending 43 domestically-developed satellites, six spaceships and its first lunar probe.
China had also launched two manned space trips in 2003 and 2005, with the next one, the Shenzhou VII, expected in October in 2008, when the country's astronauts would attempt China's first spacewalk.
China with an ambitious space programme launched its first lunar orbiter in October 2007. It also plans to produce a new generation of more powerful rockets to inject heavier satellites into space.
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