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(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-24 10:14 Mars mission
Chinese scientists will conduct an exploration of Mars
along with the ongoing lunar mission.
"In the coming five years, China
will, on the basis of its moon probes, plan deep-space exploration, focusing on
lunar and Martian exploration," says Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National
Space Administration.
Sun's remarks at the 36th Scientific Assembly of
Committee on Space Research in Beijing appeared to be the first time a Chinese
official has announced that the nation's space programme would include Martian
probes.
Sun did not elaborate on that part of the mission
plan.
Income gap reduction
The Chinese Government is pushing a
reform in the "interest of the broadest masses" to reduce income gaps and
redress social inequity.
In its latest effort to ensure that the
country's pay and distribution system work in a "scientific, rational, fair and
just" fashion, the government has vowed to increase the income of low earners,
expand the moderate-income population and readjust the earnings of the top
bracket.
The pay and distribution reform is important to building a
harmonious society, agree officials from the ministries of personnel, finance,
civil affairs, and labour and security.
The reform has aroused widespread
attention since the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of China discussed it in May.
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