"To explore the vast cosmos， develop the space industry and build China into a space power is our eternal dream，" stated President Xi Jinping. The space industry is a critical element of the overall national strategy and China upholds the principle of exploration and utilization of outer space for peaceful purposes.
　　Since 2016， China's space industry has made rapid and innovative progress， manifested by a steady improvement in space infrastructure， the completion and operation of the Bei Dou Navigation Satellite System， the completion of the high-resolution earth observation system， steady improvement of the service ability of satellite communications and broad-casting， the conclusion of the last step of the three-step lunar exploration program （"orbit， land， and return"）， the first stages in building the space station， and a smooth interplanetary voyage and landing beyond the earth-moon system by Tianwen-l， followed by the exploration of Mars. These achievements have attracted worldwide attention.
　　In the next five years， China will integrate space science， technology and applications while pursuing the new development philosophy， building a new development model and meeting the requirements for high-quality development. It will start a new journey towards a space power. The space industry will contribute more to China's growth as a whole， to global consensus and common effort with regard to outer space exploration and utilization， and to human progress.
　　We are publishing this white paper to offer a brief introduction to China's major achievements in this field since 2016 and its main tasks in the next five years， in order to help the international community better understand China's space industry.

　　《2021中国的航天》：
　　To serve the economy and society, China has promoted public and commercial application ofits satellites and space technology, growing the industry towards greater efficiency.
　　1. Boosting Public Services with Satellites
　　The service capacity of satellite applications has markedly improved. The significant role of satellites is seen in the protection of resources and the eco-environment, disaster prevention and mitigation, management of emergencies, weather forecasting and climate change response, and also felt in social management and public services, urbanization, coordinated regional development, and poverty eradication. The space industry helps to improve people's lives.
　　The satellite remote-sensing system has been used by almost all departments at national and provincial levels to conduct emergency monitoring of over 100 major and catastrophic natural disasters around the country. It provides services to tens of thousands of domestic users and over 100 countries, having distributed over 100 million scenes of data.
　　The communications and broadcasting satellite network has made direct services available to over 140 million households in China's rural and remote areas, provided returned data for over 500 mobile phone base stations, and ensured efficient emergency communications during the responses to the forest fire in Liangshan, Sichuan Province, to the heavy rainstorm in Zhengzhou, Henan Province and to other major disaster relief work.
　　The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has guaranteed the safety of over seven million operating vehicles, provided positioning and short message communication services to over 40,000 seagoing fishing vessels, and offered precise positioning services for the freighting of supplies and tracking of individual movement for Covid-19 control, and for hospital construction.
　　In the next five years, under the overarching goal of building a safe, healthy, beautiful and digital China, we will intensify the integration of satellite application with the development of industries and regions, and space information with new-generation information technology such as big data and Internet of Things. We will also extend the integrated application of remote-sensing satellite data on land, ocean and meteorology, advance the construction of infrastructure for integrated application of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, satellite communications, and the ground communications network, and improve our capacity to tailor and refine professional services. All these efforts will help to achieve the goals of peaking carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutralit）r, to revitalize rural areas, and to realize new-type urbanization, coordinated development between regions and eco-environmental progress.
　　2. Space Application Industry
　　The commercial use of satellite technology is thriving, which expands the applications market for governments, enterprises and individuals. A group of competitive commercial space enterprises are emerging and realizing industrialized large-scale operation. A variety of products and services such as high-accuracy maps using remote-sensing data, full dimensional images, data processing, and application software are improving the service to users in transport, e-commerce, trading of agricultural products, assessment of disaster losses and insurance claims, and the registration of real estate.
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Preamble
I． A New Journey Towards a Strong Space Presence
II． Development of Space Technology and Systems
III． Developing and Expanding Space Application Industry
IV． Research on Space Science
V． Modernizing Space Governance
VI． International Cooperation
Conclusion