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China Eyes ISS Role
 Beijing - January 17 2000 - China's Ministry of Science and Technology is currently drawing up plans to participate in the international space station project reported People's Daily Online Friday.

Wang Shaoqi, the head of the Ministry of Science and Technology's international scientific cooperation division, was quoted as saying his technology department was currently discussing increasing China's cooperation with Germany, the US, England, France, Canada, Japan and especially Russia.

Earlier this year, the Minister of Science and Technology, Lu Yongxiang announced that the Ministry would put the focus of international joint ventures on major international projects.

The People's Daily Online report said the Ministry of Science and Technology would increase investments in international technological joint ventures and make sure that China would not pay less than 10% of the expenses to international joint ventures. The Ministry of Science and Technology has already built joint laboratories with France, Germany and England.

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 China Prepares To Test New ICBM
 AFP PhotoBeijing (AFP) December 7, 1999 - China will imminently test the Julang 2, an intercontinental sea-to-surface ballistic missile with an estimated range at least 9,000 kilometres (5580 miles) that will boost its nuclear deterent capability, foreign military experts in Beijing said Tuesday. "The test is imminent," said an expert who asked to not be named, but added the missile, capable of hitting any city in the United States and Europe, could be equipped with a small nuclear warhead.

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