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Wu Weiren, chief designer of Chinese lunar exploration and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, mentioned in an interview with the People's Daily that many countries have formulated ambitious plans for lunar exploration or moon landing, but in the end, some of them ended in failure, and some did not start, which shows that the plans formulated by the Chinese must be done as they say.

Talking about how to explore the moon in the future, Academician Wu Weiren said, "Our current situation will definitely not only stay on the moon, but will definitely go to a further starry sky in the future, such as going to Mars, to a planet farther than Mars."

Is there a timetable to get soil from Mars? "There is a timetable," Wu Weiren added with a smile, "and it will not be too far away, within a few years."