On October 13, 2000, Xinhua News Agency reported a timetable for a lunar base:
- Chinese astronauts would begin landings on the moon in 2005. An initial lunar station would be built up with pressurized modules, electrical generators, and roving vehicles.
- The station would be completed by 2010, allowing stays of several weeks for extended science experiments.
by Aeromarine_eng
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This statement is generally unreliable, or at least should be considered as “hearsay/unverified” content rather than an official, rigorously confirmed timeline.
I have tried my best to search for the original article “Xinhua News Agency report on October 13, 2000: Chinese astronauts landed on the moon in 2005 and built a lunar station in 2010” in public online archives. I have found several second-hand/cited sources (with excerpts or quotes from this timetable on the website), but I was unable to find the original article clearly labeled as “Xinhua News Agency 2000-10-13” and containing the specific timetable you provided in Xinhua News Agency’s searchable public archives and other mainstream Chinese news databases. Therefore, it is currently uncertain whether the original text of that report exists or has been quoted out of context.