Blog： Renmin Ribao
Some dissenting voices are in evidence however on the bulletin board of the People’s Daily, where one poster suggests the money should have been spent on Chinese workers.
Below are quotes from the main papers:
After 11 years of strenuous efforts of tackling difficult problems, the Chinese have finally fulfilled their dream of flying to the Ninth Heaven, or the highest of heavens on the basis of four unmanned test flights. This effort made China become the third country, after Russia and the United States, which independently develops manned space technology. At the same time, manned space-engineering has also made China become an important member of the international space club, providing China with the motive force for sustainable development in the impending implementation of the project of probing into the moon and deep space.
This was a hero’s expedition. This was a great expedition for the Chinese nation historically… The Chinese have longed for this day for so long. The Chinese nation has waited for this moment for a millennium… ‘The five-starred red flag flutters in the wind, the victorious sounds of singing are resounding, singing of our great motherland’
