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== Overview == The [[Chinese Lunar Exploration Program]] is designed to be conducted in four <ref name='Jan 2019 press conference'>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7FiaHwv-BI Chang'e 4 press conference]. CNSA, broadcast on 14 January 2019.</ref> phases of incremental technological advancement: The first is simply reaching lunar orbit, a task completed by Chang'e 1 in 2007 and [[Chang'e 2]] in 2010. The second is landing and roving on the Moon, as [[Chang'e 3]] did in 2013 and [[Chang'e 4]] did in 2019. The third is collecting lunar samples from the near-side and sending them to Earth, a task for the [[Chang'e 5]] and [[Chang'e 6]] missions. The fourth phase consists of development of a robotic research station near the Moon's south pole.<ref name='Jan 2019 press conference'/><ref name='Planning by 2018'>[http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/inostr-yazyki/Chinese_Journal_of_Space_Science/2018/5/Xu_et_al_China's_Planning_---_before_2030_Chin_J_Space_Sci_38_(2018).pdf China's Planning for Deep Space Exploration and Lunar Exploration before 2030]. (PDF) XU Lin, ZOU Yongliao, JIA Yingzhuo. ''Space Sci''., 2018, 38(5): 591-592. {{doi|10.11728/cjss2018.05.591}}</ref><ref>[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018cosp...42E3886Z A Tentative Plan of China to Establish a Lunar Research Station in the Next Ten Years]. Zou, Yongliao; Xu, Lin; Jia, Yingzhuo. 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 14β22 July 2018, in Pasadena, California, USA, Abstract id. B3.1-34-18.</ref> The program aims to facilitate a crewed lunar landing in the 2030s and to possibly build an outpost near the south pole.<ref>[https://qz.com/1262581/china-lays-out-its-ambitions-to-colonize-the-moon-and-build-a-lunar-palace/ China lays out its ambitions to colonize the moon and build a "lunar palace"]. Echo Huang, ''Quartz''. 26 April 2018.</ref>
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