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Good question.
They goals have already been set very seriously.

It's all about money and national security.

Their primary goal is technological break through in medical,
agriculture, military information warfare, material engineering and long
term establishment in outer space to conduct experiments no possible on
earth. These researchs are crucial for the areas of high technologies
which will contribute immersely to economic competitiveness. Economic is
all about transfering technology into products you can sell on the
market.

Their primary goal for next century is the Moon and Mars landing. Manned
or unmanned is not sure at this stage. Given the economic might China
will posses, overtaking US in GDP (ppp) by 2008, there is no reason to
doubt China cannot do what Americans have done.



Michael P. Walsh wrote:

> I will just post that I have been very skeptical of the
> Chinese claims at being close to a manned flight and
> it appears that once  more I have been wrong.
>
> Of course, one of the reasons for my skepticism was
> the lack of a test flight of this sort.  However, another
> reason was wondering just what kind of goal they
> had in mind.
>
> Perhaps all will become clearer in the future.  If I read
> the newspapers correctly they intend at least one more
> unmanned test flight.  If that is successfully there seems
> no reason why they can't orbit and recover one or
> more humans.  ( I am not sure if they have female pilots ).
>
> Mike Walsh