Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,

As a Taokonaut, I feel very honoured and pleased to attend this 52nd session of COPUOS in Vienna today and please allow me to express my sincere greetings to Mr. Chairman and all the distinquished delegates present here and my best wishes for a complete success of this session.

In the past few decades, the world areospace industry, especially the manned space flights have been developing rapidly with constant breakthroughs and tremendous achievements. There has never been an industry like the areospace industry which has managed to pool together almost the entire human wisdom and creativity in developing, reserching and perfecting a technology. Though the road ahead is still arduous and difficult, the exploration by mankind into outer space and the unknown world has demonstrated an unprecedented grandious prospect and the space activities have produced an ever-greater impact on the human civilization and social progress.   

In the history of human development, the Chinese nation had once contribulted a splendid ancient civilization to the world. Since its founding, the new China, by relying on its own strength, has embarked on a new journey of space development. In 1992, China relaunched its manned space flight project with clearly defined goals and directions. Taking solid and steady steps one by one, the project has overseen the successful launches of spaceships "Shenzhou 1" to "Shenzhou 4", which conducted unmanned space flight tests, "Shenzhou 5" with the first manned flight, "Shenzhou 6" with two Taikonauts on board for multiple days mission and last year's "Shenzhou 7", which carried out successful spacewalk by Taikonaut.   

Peace is the common noble ideal of mankind and harmony is the shared wonderful aspiration of mankind. Both of them are contained in the traditional genes of the Chinese blood and culture. From the very outset, China has always taken peace and harmony as its purpose in its space activities. The Chinese government has always maintained that the outer space is the shared wealth of all mankind and has consistently advocated for the peaceful exploration and use of outer space for the common good and benefit of all human beings.  As a next step, China will start building space stations, conducting moon landings, exploring Mars and further promote the development of its space industry in line with its national needs and real situations. Every spaceships sent off into space by China is for peace and harmony just as one would wish when he sends off the doves of peace into sky.

We fully recognize the importance of international cooperation in the field of space exploration. While I was flying in outer space on board "Shenzhou 5", I displayed the UN flag and made the declaration for the peaceful use of outer space for the benefit of all mankind. Since the first visit to the United Nations by the delegation of Chinese manned space flight project on May 19, 2004 at the invitation of the United Nations, we have always maintained a close and friendly relationship with the UN and conducted extensive exchanges and mutual learning with astronauts and space agencies of many other countries. Our cooperation with them have also been developing effectively. We believe that the international space cooperation should follow the basic principles as set out in the Declaration on International Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space adopted by the UN General Assembly at its 51st session in 1996 and that the space resources should be explored and used peacefully on the basis of equality and mutual benefits, mutual complementarity and mutual learning for the benefit of all mankind. We sincerely wish for a lasting friendship and a deeper and wider cooperation with other countries and a more beautiful prospect for peace and development of all mankind.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and all the delegates.