June 12, 2023
In September 1992, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a decision to implement the manned space program and determined the "three-step" development strategy of China's manned space program. The first step is to launch manned spacecraft, build a preliminary supporting pilot manned spacecraft project, and carry out space application experiments; The second step is to make breakthroughs in extravehicular activities of astronauts, rendezvous and docking technologies of space vehicles, launch space laboratories, and solve space application problems of a certain scale and short-term manned care; The third step is to build a space station to solve the problem of space applications with larger scale and long-term human care