The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has published a series of reports in Beijing under the heading, “Innovation 2050: Scientific Revolution and the Future of China”, presenting the technological development outline for China by 2050. According to the outline, a scientific and industrial revolution with environmentally-friendly, intelligent and sustainable features will take place in China in the next decade or two.

Economic power: China to top the world by 2050

The outline predicts that by 2050, China’s economic aggregate will be the top of the world.

Currently, China’s economic aggregate ranks third, after the US and Japan.

The outline reports China as a medium-developed country with an advanced political system, resources, society, ideology, and ecology.

Aerospace technology: have man land on the Moon by 2030

The published outline plans for China to send a manned spacecraft to the Moon by 2030 and set up space work stations on the Moon. Manned spacecrafts are expected to travel to more distant planets like Mars by around 2050.

In terms of deep space equipment, space modules will be able to reach Mars around 2020; deep space modules will be able to reach high-efficient space cruise speeds and accurate auto-pilot navigation, and explore Jupiter and other planets beyond by 2030; the deep space module will be able to fly out of the solar system and into outer space around 2050. In terms of spacecraft habitation, sustainable surviving systems will be set up near the earth orbital space station, and space stations with long-term postings will be set up.