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China National Space Administration rover "Zhurong" successfully lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, making China the third nation on Earth to achieve a soft landing on the planet.
2021-05-15

The China National Space Administration space probe Tianwen-1 enters into planetary orbit around Mars. It is the first Chinese spacecraft to reach Mars. A rover will be deployed to explore the Martian surface sometime in May.
2021-02-10

The China National Space Administration successfully launches Tianwen-1, China's first independent interplanetary mission to Mars, from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Wenchang, Hainan. The mission includes an orbiter, lander and rover, which will search for evidence of both current and past life on the planet.
2020-07-23

China jails a Tibetan writer for editing a banned magazine regarding unrest in 2008.
2011-07-2

A Chinese fishing boat capsizes during a scuffle with a South Korean coastguard ship, leaving one dead and two missing.
2010-12-18

A convoy carrying Chinese mine workers is attacked in Cabinda Province, Angola, killing two soldiers.
2010-11-12

20 people are reported arrested in China over imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo's 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award. Liu's wife's whereabouts remain unknown after she was taken away by police with human rights group Freedom Now claiming she is in de facto house arrest.
2010-10-10

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku calls for the People's Republic of China to compensate for Japanese patrol boats damaged in a confrontation with a Chinese fishing boat in the East China Sea.
2010-09-27

Wang Huayuan, a top anti-corruption official in China's Shandong province, is sentenced to death for accepting $1 million in bribes.
2010-09-9

New traces of melamine in milk products are discovered in China, more than a year after thousands of children became ill from a previous incident.
2010-01-25