The Chang'e-5 returner carrying lunar samples safely landed in the three-step plan of China's lunar exploration project "circumnavigation, landing, and return" as scheduled
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 17th. At 1:59 on December 17, the Chang'e-5 returner carried a lunar sample and landed safely in the planned area of Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia. The mission of the lunar exploration project Chang'e-5 was a complete success.
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a congratulatory message, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, to extend warm congratulations and sincere greetings to all the comrades of the mission headquarters of the lunar exploration project and participating in the Chang'e 5 mission .
Xi Jinping pointed out in the congratulatory message that the Chang'e-5 mission, as my country's most complex aerospace system project with the largest technological span, has realized the return of the sampling of extraterrestrial objects in my country for the first time.
This is another major achievement made by leveraging the advantages of the new nationwide system to overcome difficulties. It marks a major step forward for China's aerospace industry and will contribute to the deepening of mankind's scientific understanding of the origin of the moon and the evolution of the solar system.
The motherland and people will always remember your outstanding contributions.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the pace of human exploration of space is endless.
I hope you will vigorously promote the spirit of chasing dreams, exploring courageously, coordinating fortifications, cooperation and win-win lunar exploration, start a new journey of interstellar exploration one step at a time, make new contributions to building a space power, realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and contribute to the peaceful use of space for mankind. Promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and make greater pioneering contributions.
State Councilor Wang Yong read Xi Jinping’s congratulatory message at the flight control site of the Chang'e-5 mission of the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center.
The Chang'e-5 mission achieved many major breakthroughs in my country’s first lunar surface sampling and packaging, lunar take-off, lunar orbital rendezvous and docking, and re-entry and return with samples. Its successful implementation marked the "circumnavigation, landing, and return" of my country’s lunar exploration project. The three-step plan was completed as scheduled.