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Wikipedia as of 10/18/2019 but edited:

China's ballistic missile program began in the 1950’s in response to what China saw as American and, later, Soviet threats. China's sending an astronaut into space aboard the Shenzhou 5 in 2003 made China the third country to do that, and it is one of five countries so far to orbit a machine around the moon. Current plans are to send crews to the Moon, make permanent Chinese space station by 2020, and use Earth-Moon space for industry. Like provide solar power to earth from space by 2050. Since 1985, they launched over 30 satellites for European and Asian interests.

And China aims to explore Mars mechanically by 2033, then follow up with crewed missions by 2040.

There are several space cities, launch sites and tracking stations in China, and some tracking in other countries.

The state owns the space program, but the People’s Republic allows non-state management that’s like private western companies, I think because scientists seem to do more when they have a free hand.

Even so, whatever they do they must do without the U.S. because the U.S.discovered in 1998 that technical information American companies offered China for their commercial satellite program led to improved Chinese ballistic missile technology. Then, in 2007, China blew up a dead meteorological satellite in low Earth orbit to test a ground-based anti-satellite (ASAT) missile, and debris from that is still flying around the earth as space junk.

That’s why I can’t go see the Houston rock samples. The U.S. now bans Chinese from entering NASA facilities without a waiver, and NASA employees do not work with the Chinese anymore.