Science

On 15 October 2003 China launched its first manned spaceflight. The taikonauts Yang Liwei flew 21 hours and landed on 16 October intact. China was following the former Soviet Union and the United States the third country, which has a manned space flight could carry.

From 12 to 16 October 2005 completed the "Shenzhou 6" after the start of the space center in the Gobi desert to the second manned spaceflight. In the most recent space mission of China was signed by the two taikonauts, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, including their reactions in weightlessness tested. There should be the technical foundation for further Chinese space programs will be.

The Chinese news agency Xinhua announced that the government was considering building a base for further space missions on the island of Hainan in the South China Sea. This could be the starting place for a new generation of rockets are the rockets Xinhua quoted Liu Zhusheng Bauer. On 11 January 2007, a disused weather satellite for testing purposes by a ground-based missile destroyed. On the one thousand pieces of debris were blown into orbit problematic.

Culture

The Chinese culture was determined by the three major intellectual currents of Confucianism, Daoism, and the influence of Buddhism. In the four years of its existence it has in numerous areas produced significant benefits. To include more than 30 buildings on the Chinese World. The most important include the Great Wall, the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuangdis with more than 7000 life-size figures of the Terracotta Army and the Imperial Palace in Beijing as part of the Forbidden City.

In the course of history the Chinese culture has mostly proved a surprising continuity of the appearance in the Cultural Revolution was shocked sustainably. In addition, she was the first since the arrival of European traders and missionaries in the 16th Century repeatedly in varying degrees, Western influences, which since the beginning of the eighties in the wake of globalization reinforce. Lu Jianhua of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences called the young generation fly generation: a generation that stands out as a pilot and barely know what their parents during their own youth in the Cultural Revolution had to learn.