PICS:China's first moon rover mission

Chang'e-2 which was launched in 2010 orbited the moon to finish a more extensive probe than its predecessorChang'e-1. After finishing its objectives in June, 2011, Chang'e-2 left its lunarorbit for an extended mission to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrangian point, ccording to Chinese space officials.Besides continuing its lunar programme, China's space programme is focussing on building a permanent space station like Mir, the Russian space station being used by US. China has flown to manned missions to link up with an orbiting module to master the manual and automatic space docking technologies.