On April 24, 1970, China became the fifth nation to independently launch a satellite into orbit. Dong Fang Hong I was the first of a series of satellites China launched under the Dong Fang Hong space ...

Probably the best-known Red Song. In 1943, a farmer in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province composed a song to express his admiration of Mao Zedong. The song soon became a hit among locals. Composers in ...

That China has plans for a space station is not much of a surprise–the nation’s space tech has been steadily advancing since its first satellite Dong Fang Hong 1 launched in 1970. But the fact that it ...