China launches core module of new space station to orbit

Independent, and fully owning the IP, is the guiding principle of the current 5-year national plan.

Precise year or date is guess work, though.

But it's clear that the trajectory of innovation is on China's side. Innovation is built on top of resources, intellectual integrity, and market. Resources and market wise, China already surpasses US (in purchase power, and size in quantity and capital). Intellectual integrity is catching up. But I am confident in CCP's engineering prowess in that category.

After all, CCP engineered the biggest and the most important human mind transformation project in the entire human history: reforming China, from a feudal nation with thousands of years of continued cultural and political linage, to a socialism super power that reflecting not only the proud drawn from the long history, but also the unquenchable desire to rise and rise.

That's why I am amused by a lot of people's recognition on China. China is far beyond anyone's perception. The deeds condemned by popular critics are not even scratching the surface of CCP's impact on China...