[In Photos] Big Steps in Space, on Land Mark the Week of the CPC’s Centenary
Yicai Global
DATE:  Jul 05 2021
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
[In Photos] Big Steps in Space, on Land Mark the Week of the CPC’s Centenary [In Photos] Big Steps in Space, on Land Mark the Week of the CPC’s Centenary

(Yicai Global) July 5 -- Astronauts’ first steps outside China’s space station and the opening of the Beijing-Urumqi highway were just some of the big events that marked the week of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China last week.

Tourists take photos in Tian’anmen Square in front of decorations erected in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China.

Chinese astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo left the space station for the first time yesterday to conduct work on the exterior of the capsule.

Five high-resolution satellites were launched into orbit on a Long March 2 rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province on July 3.

The final link of the 2,822 kilometer-long Beijing-Urumqi Expressway opened to traffic on June 30, reducing the overland travel distance between the Chinese capital and the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by over 1,300 km.

An unmanned rice planter steered by the BeiDou satellite navigation system planted rice in the rice paddies near Nantong, southeastern Jiangsu province, close to the mouth of the Yangtze River, on July 2.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Kim Taylor

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Keywords:   Centennial Celebration,Space Walk,Satellite Launch,New Highway,Driverless Rice Planter