China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing back rocks from the moon.

China unveiled on Tuesday its first-ever national-level development program for medium- to long-term space science, which will guide the country's planning of space science missions and space research from 2024 to 2050,

China has made significant strides in the space exploration department recently—such big strides that NASA declared a space race with the country last year. But while testing planetary defense systems,

China has unveiled a national space development program outlining key missions and research goals from 2024 to 2050. The program focuses on five major scientific themes, including solar system exploration and space biology.

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Plan sets out 17 priority areas for development including searching for habitable planets and exploring quantum mechanics.