Urgent: China welcomes all UN member states to jointly utilize its space station

VIENNA, May 28 (Xinhua) -- China announced Monday that all member states of the United Nations are welcome to cooperate with China to jointly utilize its future China Space Station (CSS).

"CSS belongs not only to China, but also to the world," said Shi Zhongjun, China's Ambassador to UN and other international organizations in Vienna.

"All countries, regardless of their size and level of development, can participate in the cooperation on an equal footing," he said in a statement.

CSS is expected to be launched by 2019, and complete and brought into operation by 2022. Enditem