China's top 10 scientific breakthroughs in 2021

China's 10 top scientific advances of 2021 were unveiled on Monday by the Ministry of Science and Technology's High Technology Research and Development Center. Let's take a look.

Tianwen 1, the unmanned probe for China's first independent Mars mission, landed on the Red Planet on May 2021, marking an important step in China's journey of interstellar exploration and a leap from the Earth-Moon system.

It was China's first landing on an extraterrestrial planet, becoming the second country to land on Mars, another milestone in the development of China's aerospace industry.