Soon it's the Year of the Dog. Best of luck to all my Chinese brothers and sister in the new year. I hope it will be a year of peace and prosperity to all. 恭喜发财.

Now the Shenzhou-8 news: With a lot of modifications and improvements in the series of Shenzhou spacecraft capsules, Shenzhou-8 is expected to become a relatively fixed version of China-made space vessels, said Zhang Bainan, chief designer of China's spacecraft system.

According to Zhang, China has been making improvements from Shenzhou-1 to Shenzhou-6 spaceships. Every capsule has new technological features, to make the spacecraft perfect.

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