When Mao Zedong, the main founder of the People\'s Republic of China, wrote in May 1965 about his ambition to “rise high to the sky and pick the Moon”in a poem during a visit to the Jinggang Mountain in south China\'s Jiangxi Province,the first rural revolutionary base established by the Communist Party of China in 1927,China had barely made any marks in space exploration. The country had to wait five more years before sending its first indigenous satellite to the space atop the Long March 1 rocket.