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World Space Week 2001 Plans In accordance with the proposals by the UN COPUOS concerning the activities of the World Space Week, and the World Space Week Association's decision, China will conduct a series of activities to distribute popular science knowledge to the public, especially to the students in primary, secondary schools and universities. This will spur their participation in the space related activities and their support to the space industry. On June 22, 2001, China National Space Administration donated 20,000 books of popular science to middle schools nation wide, setting the prelude for the world space week activities. June 25, a space knowledge competition with 100 questions has been published for answering. The medias for the publication include: China Youth Daily, Science Daily, Guangming Daily, Education Daily, Aerospace Daily, China National Space Administration Web Site etc. Up to now, 100,000 answers have been filed, and now 30 winners of the Fist prize, 500 Second and 5,000 Third Prize had been selected. Each of the 30 first prize winners will get Pentium 4 PC, and others will get the books related to the space. As part of the World Space Week celebration, a summer campus has been organized with the participation of youngsters to visit HongKong and Macao during August 10-20. CNSA sent experts to give a session for those students to participate in the knowledge contest. China National Space Administration will organize an exhibition on the space technology and applications in Beijing during September 18-21, more than 70 companies and space institutes for China, France, Germany, UK, Ukraine, USA, Italy, Russia participated. The China Organizing Committee will hold the Celebration Ceremony for the 2001 WSW and the space knowledge contest in Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics on Oct.10,2001, with the high rank governmental officials and more than 3,000 university students attendance. Two astronauts from Russia and USA are invited to this event and will give a speech. The Committee shall also request the relevant space museums and space ground stations to be open for free during the World Space Week. China Organizing Committee for the World Space Week shall actively support the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and its initiatives, with its commitment to cooperation. Throughout World Space Week, the Space Museum and the Remote Sensing Ground Station in Beijing were opened freely to students and teachers. See the following Space Daily article on China's plans for World Space Week 2001: |
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