China’s cabinet and Central Military

China’s cabinet and Central Military Commission have approved long-standing plans to develop a space-launch site at Wenchang on Hainan Island. The facility will handle “synchronous satellites, heavy satellites, large space stations and deep-space probe satellites,” state media report.

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