All units ready for Shenzhou-19 launch

The Shenzhou-19 launch mission is gearing up for its final ascent after all units underwent thorough preparation, culminating in a successful joint drill on Monday morning.

Coordinated by the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC), various centers including the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and Xi'an Satellite Control Center conducted a comprehensive joint adjustment and control exercise. This drill meticulously simulated all technological and operational scenarios of pre-launch, in-launch, and post-launch.

This was the last all-factor rehearsal that mirrored the actual launch process. After this joint drill, the Shenzhou-19 is all ready for launch.

"Compared with previous types of spacecraft, the Shenzhou-19 manned spaceship features larger cargo capacity, which allows more space for astronauts and relevant payloads and will make their in-orbit life more comfortable, while improving the in-orbit experiment capacities. After the all-system rehearsal, all test results of the spaceship are normal. The spaceship is in good shape and up to the requests for launch," said Peng Huakang, an engineer of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

The facilities and equipment at the launch center are all posed for action. The rocket propellant will be loaded as planned.

The BACC has completed a space station orbit phasing task, with a final adjustment slated before the imminent launch.

All units ready for Shenzhou-19 launch

All units ready for Shenzhou-19 launch

All units ready for Shenzhou-19 launch

All units ready for Shenzhou-19 launch

All units ready for Shenzhou-19 launch

China is set to promote high-quality development of digital economy by making targeted efforts in key areas, said Liu Liehong, director of the National Data Administration, at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

Liu said that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), the share of the value added of core industries in the digital economy in GDP rose from 7.8 percent in 2020 to over 10.5 percent in 2025, with an average compound annual growth rate of 12.8 percent, far exceeding the GDP growth rate over the same period.

"We will foster digital industrial clusters in a phased manner, leverage the data chain to drive deep integration of innovation chains, industrial chains, capital chains and talent chains, and advance the development of three types of digital industrial clusters -- those that drive innovation, that have become regional pillars, and that have regional characteristics. In cultivating and boosting the development of innovative enterprises in digital economy, we'll work with the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments this year to choose a batch of enterprises that have strong innovation strength and great growth potential to cultivate them as the reserve force, offering them one-stop policy support in terms of computing power, data, scenarios and funding," said Liu.

Liu said that China will also promote city-wide digital transformation, accelerate digital empowerment to improve the quality and efficiency of manufacturing industry, and quicken up the fostering of high-value application scenarios in sectors of logistics, finance, healthcare, and elderly care.

China to promote high-quality development of digital economy