The successful launch of China's first manned spaceship Wednesday morning (15th Nov. ) represents a pride of the whole Chinese nation noted for its industriousness and independent development.
The vast land of China was in the grip of excitement as people learned about the success of launch from TV, Internet websites and radio Wednesday.

There are so many either domestic or international responses listing the point of views respectively:

• Political aspect

  China is the 3rd country to embark on manned spaceship, which presents the great progress of the nation during the 4 decades period. China will make a positive effort to discover the universe of the human beings. Taking this opportunity of successful launch, China will gain more chances to participate the communication and cooperation of international aeronau-tics on the level of manned spaceflight technology.
  

Getting known from the statistics published, the billions of immense expenditure of launching only takes a fraction of Chinese GDP, which means it won’t be so obvious in affecting the GDP. It will be a certain period after it takes into action to Chinese economy.

Space technology will continuously constitute an occupa-tion that will enhance the competitiveness in the global circumstances.

Statistically, 8 out of 10 of the newly-found materials have been researched by the space technology, with a number of 1100. Still, as many as 1800 achievements have been utilized into the civil economy of the same field.

The key to the affect of the technology to the GDP is whether it could reach the right level of the civil utilization, which is the root of the stimulation of the Chinese economy.

• Economic aspect

  Demonstrating the technology of Chinese aeronautics by the successful launch, it also impulses the development of bunches of the hi-tech enterprises, and even influences dra-matically to the entire economy of Chinese society, specifically speaking, the way it adopts will be gradual and saturating.