14 March 2018
Representatives from the space sector said that there was a "super plan" for China's space missions in the next couple of decades including Moon landings, a Mars probe and a space shuttle.
Yang Mengfei，the Academician of the China Academy of Space Technology told the reporter of Science and Technology Daily that China was planning to launch a Mars probe that would be able to orbit, land on and roam the red planet around 2020 and a second mission would have the probe bring back samples from Mars.
Apart from that, the academy has also initiated research on a new manned spacecraft that can serve multi purposes including sending people to the Moon.
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