ScienceWings Over the Mountains: A Boy and His Dream
Growing up in Sichuan’s Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Chen Ruiqing often watched rockets launch from a nearby site. The 18-year-old now studies at Chengdu Aeronautic Polytechnic University, founded in 1965 and upgraded in 2025 as China’s first aeronautical vocational university, training talent for the country’s booming commercial space industry.
Wings Over the Mountains: A Boy and His Dream
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