BEIJING: China is inarguably working to achieve so many things right now. Aside from racing to have cleaner and improved air quality by 2017, it only has set its sights to launch its own space station by 2023.
Announced at the 64th International Astronautical Congress earlier this week, officials said the country’s first orbiting space station will study and develop “space medicine.”
“Space medicine is not only good for the health of astronauts, but also has great potential for improving the health of people on Earth,” Chen Shanguang, director of the Astronaut Center of China, said at the congress.
 This particular space station project, according to Li Yinghui, director at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center, aims to look into the effects of radiation on astronauts, the long-term weight loss in space, in-orbit medical monitoring as well as the application of traditional Chinese medicine in space.–IBT