This year, a state-owned company responsible for space development in China launched around 100 rockets this year, the most ever, and announced plans to collect samples from around the moon's south pole and bring them back.
On the 26th, the state-run China Central Television reported on the one-year plan for space development compiled by the state-owned company China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
As a result, they plan to launch around 100 rockets this year, the most ever.
In the first half of this year, we plan to launch an unmanned lunar surface probe, Chang'e 6, which will explore the far side of the moon that cannot be seen from Earth.
They also plan to collect and bring back the world's first samples around the moon's south pole, where it has been pointed out that water may exist in the form of ice.
China also plans to launch a manned spacecraft to replace the astronauts staying at China's own space station, which it says will "accelerate space development."
Competition among countries in lunar exploration is becoming even more intense, as last week an unmanned lander developed by an American private company became the first private company in the world to successfully land on the moon.