According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, at 23:49 Beijing time on April 24, 2025, the Shenzhou 20 manned spacecraft successfully connected to the radial port of the space station Tianhe core module. The launch window of Shenzhou 20 coincides with the tenth “China Space Day”.
China’s Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship successfully docked with the space station combination late on April 24, 2025, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The spaceship docked with the radial port of the space station’s core module Tianhe at 11:49 pm (Beijing Time). The launch day coincided with China’s 10th Space Day.
The 2025 “China Space Day” science popularization exhibition scene, filmed at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Hall on April 23, 2025. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
【Knowledge Points】
With the approval of the State Council, since 2016, April 24 will be set as “China Space Day”. “China Space Day” was established to commemorate China’s aerospace industry achievements and carry forward the Chinese aerospace spirit. Since its establishment, “China Space Day” has successfully held online and offline home events in Beijing, Xi’an, Harbin, Changsha, Fuzhou, Nanjing, Haikou, Hefei, Wuhan and other places. Its footprints are spread all over the country and has won wide recognition and attention from all walks of life. It has become an important platform and window for “promoting the spirit of aerospace, spreading aerospace culture, popularizing scientific knowledge, and gathering aerospace power.”
April 24, 2025 is the tenth “China Space Day”, with the theme of “Biography of the Moon on the Sea, Enveloping the Galaxy in Nine Skyscrapers”. The home event is held in Shanghai, with Thailand serving as the guest of honor this year. According to reports, the 2025 “China Space Day” activities are rich, including more than 40 activities in the home event launch ceremony, the International Conference on Climate Change Response, the China Space Conference, aerospace science and cultural activities, and technical exchange activities.
【Congratulations by letter】
I hope that the vast number of young aerospace people will carry forward the spirit of “two bombs and one satellite” and the spirit of manned space flight, be brave in innovation and breakthroughs, and send out the dazzling brilliance of youth on the journey of pursuing dreams in space, and make new contributions to my country’s aerospace science and technology to achieve high-level self-reliance and self-improvement.
I hope youth in the aerospace sector could carry forward the spirit of “Two Bombs, One Satellite” (Two Bombs refer to the atomic bomb and the intercontinental ballistic missile, while One Satellite refer to the artistic satellite) and the spirit of China’s manned space program, and contribute more on the country’s journey to explore space and to its realization of high-level self-reliance in aerospace science and technology through innovation.
——On May 2, 2022, Xi Jinping’s reply to the youth team for the construction of the space station of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
【Important Instructions】
Exploring the vast universe, developing the aerospace industry, and building a strong aerospace country are our unremitting space dreams.
To explore the vast cosmos, develop the space industry and build China into a space power is our eternal dream.
——On April 24, 2016, Xi Jinping made important instructions on the first “China Space Day”
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