Exactly. It's a national prestige thing, as most manned space programs tend to be. But for China's case they are going very slowly. In ... something like 17 yea

Exactly. It's a national prestige thing, as most manned space programs tend to be. But for China's case they are going very slowly. In ... something like 17 years of operations they've only flown 5 total manned missions. They're not trying to conquer the galaxy, they're just slowly maintaining and building on their program.