Visiting Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Tabachnik
expressed congratulations on China's successful launch of its first
manned spacecraft, the Shenzhou V, in
Beijing Wednesday.
The spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch
Center in the northwestern province of Gansu at 9 am Wednesday.
"This marks a great success of the Chinese scientific and
technological expertise and today should be a grand event for all
Chinese people," said Tabachnik.
He believed the successful launch of the Shenzhou V would
usher in broad prospects for bilateral cooperation in the
spaceflight sector, expressing the hope such cooperation would be
reinforced in the future.
Tabachnik has just attended the eighth meeting of the
Sino-Ukraine economic and trade cooperation committee in Beijing
and will fly to Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong, to attend
a Ukraine scientific and technological week.
(Xinhua News Agency October 15, 2003)
