China is building the world’s largest radio telescope with a 500m aperture, in a project that demonstrates the country’s growing scientific ambitions.
Decades of high-powered growth have given China the means to invest in “prestige” sciences such as astronomy that are normally out of the reach of all but the richest nations.
China hopes to land a man on the moon by around 2025, matching a feat achieved by the US what will be nearly 60 years earlier.
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