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IT Home reported on July 20 that with the first Chinese footprints left on Mars by Tianwen-1 and Zhurong, China's space exploration has successfully made the leap from the Earth-Moon system to interplanetary exploration. Subsequent deep space exploration in my country will be long-term and continuous.

Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration project, said in an interview with CGTN that in the future, space tourism and tourist buses are possible. Planetary exploration is currently mainly focused on Mars.

Our plan is to become the first country to return samples from Mars. In the next 20 years, the plan will focus on lunar exploration, planetary exploration and the development of heavy-lift launch vehicles.

He revealed that my country plans to launch Tianwen-2 around 2025 to carry out companion exploration and sample return of an asteroid 40 million kilometers from Earth. Tianwen-3 and Tianwen-4 will be launched around 2030 to carry out Mars sample return mission and Jupiter system exploration mission respectively.

It is said that my country has begun planning to build the world's first Mars sample laboratory, while deepening the demonstration of the Tianwen-4 exploration mission to achieve orbital exploration of Jupiter and its satellites, and then reach Uranus.

According to previous reports by IT Home, my country's Tianwen-1 probe was successfully launched on July 23, 2020, and after 202 days of flight to Mars, it successfully entered the orbit around Mars. On May 15, 2021, the lander landed at the target landing site, and the Zhurong Mars rover carried out patrol exploration.

For my country's lunar exploration project, based on the principle of "overall planning, step-by-step implementation, and construction and use at the same time", the construction of the International Lunar Research Station will be planned to be implemented in two phases. It is planned to complete the basic type before 2035, with the South Pole of the Moon as the core, to build a comprehensive scientific facility with basically complete functions and basically matching elements, to carry out normalized scientific experimental activities and a certain scale of resource development and utilization; to complete the expansion type before 2045, with the lunar orbital station as the hub, to build equipment and facilities with complete functions, considerable scale and stable operation, to carry out comprehensive lunar-based scientific research and in-depth resource development and utilization, and to carry out relevant technical verification and scientific experimental research for manned landing on Mars.

Wu Weiren said that as an important task in the basic construction phase of the international lunar research station, Chang'e-6 will be launched in the near future to carry out the mission of returning samples from the far side of the moon; Chang'e-7 will be launched around 2026 to conduct environmental and resource surveys at the lunar South Pole; Chang'e-8 will be launched around 2028 to conduct in-situ utilization experiments of lunar resources.

In the future, my country will build the "555 Project", welcoming 50 countries, 500 international scientific research institutions and 5,000 overseas researchers to join the International Lunar Research Station project, work together to build and implement the International Lunar Research Station, a major scientific project, jointly manage the research station facilities, and share scientific research results.