World Space Week 2003 Report

The opening ceremony for "the Forth World Space Week" was held in Xidan Culture Plaza, Beijing on 4 October 2003. The purpose of this activity was to publicise the close relationship between space technology and daily life. The subject was "Space: Horizon beyond the Earth".

The Forth World Space Week was sponsored by the China National Space Administration, supported by China Aerospace Science and Industry Cooperation and undertaken by the Chinese Society of Astronautics. A popular space science workshop was held in Xidan Culture Plaza on the opening day, when Mr. Lian Sili and other academicians and advisers from China Academy of Science, China Aerospace Science and Technology Cooperation and China Aerospace Science and Industry Cooperation were present to answer questions. The exhibition of World Space Week 2003 on its related activities, China's Shenzhou Spaceship and space life was also on show. The short video program about popular space science was played through a large screen on the plaza.

A lot of people, including the students from middle schools and primary schools, were attracted by The Forth World Space Week, which aroused teenagers' interest in space exploration and popularized space science. Since the 54^th Meeting of United Nation General Assembly in 1999 named 4 – 10 October as World Space Week, China has held series of activities to popularize space science for four years in succession since 2000, which greatly benefit the society.

At the opening ceremony, Wang Shuquan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, described the good prospects of China's plan for future space exploration to participants in the activities. He said that in future, China would conduct tests on lunar-landing flight. In his speech, Wang Shuquan said that there have been many important milestone events in the course of space exploration by mankind. China has become the world's third country to carry out manned space flight. Prior to this, China's "Shenzhou" spaceship successfully flew four times round the earth in space. China will continue to carry out its space exploration plan.

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