China's manned lunar landing this time is worthy of being recorded in history.

At this moment, 1.4 billion Chinese people are incredibly excited and cannot help but feel a strong sense of pride!

This prosperous era is just as you see!

Our Chinese nation has achieved its great rejuvenation!

Throughout history, the Chinese nation has long stood at the pinnacle of the world's nations!

A century of humiliation is gone forever!

Modern China is powerful, wealthy, prosperous, and among the world's best!

Modern China can reach for the moon in the heavens and capture turtles in the five oceans!

China's influence has surpassed that of the United States and the European Union, making it a country that the world cannot help but pay attention to and learn from!

The Chinese miracle continues to unfold: manned lunar landing, the Red Flag Red Project, the Bohai Dam, desert transformation, the new energy revolution, AI, quantum computing, genetic engineering... China has already far surpassed other countries in many fields.

Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing has become very popular in China.

New energy vehicles have become popular throughout China and are rapidly expanding globally.

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"Since the reform and opening up more than 30 years ago, China has gone through many hardships and made great strides, but the achievements our country has made are undoubtedly great! If miracles have a color, I believe it must be Chinese red!"

"Throughout history, diligence has always been rewarded. It is through the hard work and invaluable wisdom of the Chinese people that we have the China we have today!"

During the interview, an elderly professor in the aerospace field became emotional and tearful as he spoke.

Manned lunar landing carries the dream of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and behind it is the long-term dedication of tens of thousands of unsung aerospace workers!

They seek neither fame nor fortune, but only that China's aerospace technology will not lag behind others.

Diligent and conscientious, until death do us part.

The old professor felt a pang of regret when he thought about how many of his former colleagues had never even had the chance to witness China's own spacecraft landing on the moon.

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A week later, the Shenzhou spacecraft successfully returned to Earth.

Zhou Qingshan and three other astronauts became space heroes and are admired by thousands.

The impact of manned lunar landings has not diminished over time, but has expanded at an astonishing pace.

At this juncture, Zhao Ye, Chu Peng, and others decided to accelerate the development of Galaxy Technology's space program.

"Chairman Zhao, according to our statistical analysis of online and telephone inquiries, there are a huge number of people around the world who yearn to go to the moon! We can start the lunar base construction plan ahead of schedule, and then recoup some of the costs through lunar tourism!"

Chu Peng paused for a moment, then said, "Of course, landing on the moon is indeed a bit more difficult, but at least we can get them to the Heavenly Court Space Station, which is much easier! With our current technological capabilities and cost control, the cost of sending one person to the Heavenly Court Space Station is only about five million RMB, which is quite cheap compared to foreign aerospace companies!"

After a moment of contemplation, Zhao Ye said, "If we want to build a lunar base, we need to launch many Shenzhou starships to transport a large amount of machinery, equipment and materials. We can take tourists to the Heavenly Court Space Station at the same time to recoup some of the costs."

In Zhao Ye's view, traveling to the moon is too costly and risky, but traveling to the space station is much simpler, taking only a few hours, which is about the same time it takes for many people to take a plane trip.

In the past, many people thought that flying was something special, but now it's commonplace.

People today find it hard to imagine traveling to space in a spaceship, but Galaxy Technologies will make the unimaginable a very ordinary thing.

After a long discussion and a week of preparation, Zhao Ye and Chu Peng devised an amazing plan.

Explore the moon and build a lunar base!

Space tourism is just a side project, something done incidentally.

Furthermore, for Galaxy Technologies, the large-scale construction of the Shenzhou starship and the launch of manned spacecraft can reduce costs, improve technology, and allow them to be the first to apply many cutting-edge technologies. Through practice and exploration, they can accumulate experience and thus gain a significant lead over other countries.

For example, when it comes to building a lunar base, you can't just send people up there to build the lunar base.

Labor costs are too high.

The risks are also quite high.

If something unexpected happens and an astronaut dies on the moon, that wouldn't be a good thing.

Therefore, Galaxy Technologies plans to send AI robots to the moon and build a lunar base by remotely operating the robots.

Once the lunar base is completed, space crops will be planted on the base, thereby establishing a space ecological cycle system suitable for human life.

The Tianting Space Station has such a space ecological cycle system, and many researchers working on the space station can be self-sufficient. Space fruits, space rice, space wheat, space potatoes... it's simply amazing. Some researchers are so happy that they don't want to go back to Earth. They feel that staying on the space station is great, and if they have the opportunity, they would like to go to the moon and Mars.

Currently, according to scientists' analysis, Mars is most likely the most suitable planet for human habitation.

Even within Galaxy Technologies, there have been serious discussions about Mars environmental terraforming plans, including directly bombing Mars with nuclear weapons to warm it up.

Some executives even proposed that all countries on Earth that possess nuclear weapons should voluntarily donate them to terraform Mars, thus achieving a "nuclear-free" world on Earth.

Of course, while the idea may be somewhat unrealistic, powerful nations like the United States and Russia might very well be willing to support a batch of nuclear weapons in order to gain benefits from Mars.

Moreover, the space technology of the United States and Russia is already very advanced. It would be incredibly satisfying for these big players to share the pie together!

Perhaps a new nuclear non-proliferation agreement will emerge, with several bigwigs donating their nuclear weapons. Those small countries should stop developing nuclear weapons; those that have already succeeded should donate all their nuclear weapons, and you'll get a share of the benefits for Mars.

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Right now, China has a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to develop interstellar navigation.

Even if the United States wanted to restart its lunar landing program, it wouldn't be so easy.

Other countries don't even have the capability to land on the moon.

With such a great opportunity, wouldn't China just go on a land grabbing spree on the moon, and then seize resources from other planets in the future?

On Earth, China's land area is already fixed and difficult to expand unless war is waged. However, war is not a good option, as it involves too many uncertainties. The United States, Japan, South Korea, and even Southeast Asian countries, including some allies, are unlikely to want to see China expand.

However, according to international conventions on space, in places outside Earth, whoever seizes them first owns them. China could very well take the most land on the moon...

(End of this chapter)