China launched Venezuela's second remote-sensing satellite, VRSS-2, into space on Monday. A Long March 2D carrier rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 12:13 pm to place the satellite into orbit, according to a news release from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the major contractor for China's space programs. It was the 252nd mission for the Long March rocket family. Also known as Antonio Jose de Sucre, named after a Venezuelan independence leader, the satellite is the Latin American nation's third satellite. The previous two were also developed and launched by China. Designed by China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing, a subsidiary of CASC, the VRSS-2 carries a panchromatic/multi-spectral high-resolution imager and an infrared camera, the release said. The satellite will be used for land resources inspection, environmental protection, disaster monitoring and relief, crop yield estimation and urban planning. It will help boost the nation's economy and improve the Venezuelan people's livelihood, the company said. The project was launched in October 2014 after a contract was signed between the Venezuelan government and China Great Wall Industry Corp, a CASC branch that provides space collaboration service to foreign nations.   In October 2008, China used a Long March 3B to lift Venezuela's first satellite - the Venesat-1 communications satellite - into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China. That satellite was the first Chinese satellite used by a Latin American nation. In September 2012, a Long March 2D rocket sent Venezuela's first remote-sensing satellite, the VRSS-1, into space from the Jiuquan center - the first time China had exported a remote-sensing satellite. A statement from China Academy of Space Technology said VRSS-2 was designed based on its CAST2000 small satellite bus, which functions as a platform for holding other satellites, and has a life span of five years. It said compared with VRSS-1, the new one can take larger and clearer images of Earth. The academy said about 30 Venezuelan satellite engineers took part in VRSS-2's development and production. China has exported 14 satellites to 11 countries, including Bolivia, Nigeria and Laos. Next year, Great Wall will launch Pakistan's first remote-sensing satellite, also developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, according to company managers. youth wristbands
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Five years ago, Hai Guobao's life was difficult, but not because his family did not work hard. Generations of the family had farmed mountainous land in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. There, summer is arid, yet rainfall is excessive during autumn harvests. Yields were decided virtually by fate, locals say, after they had invested a whole year's worth of labor. "We felt satisfied when we had enough to eat, but drought frequently drew us back to poverty," said Hai, who is in his 60s. Hai's grandchildren did not go to primary school until age 8 because the 8-kilometer round trip to school was too long for younger ones. "We could never change our lives without the Party's migration policies," he said. In May 2012, all eight members of Hai's family moved to Minning township in northern Ningxia as part of the region's plan to relocate 350,000 people out of mountains and valleys in Guyuan. Hai, along with 67 others in his village, spent only 12,800 yuan ($1,925) to build a new house of 54 square meters, excluding a courtyard, thanks to a government subsidy. Soldiers based nearby also helped to move the family's belongings under the Party's command. "I felt so happy to find that my new home is connected to electricity and tap water," Hai said. "The school is only minutes walk away. I'm illiterate, my son is half-literate, but I hope one day my grandchildren can go to college." In the past two decades, more than 60,000 immigrants settled in Minning, which did not exist 20 years ago. President Xi Jinping proposed moving people in villages to the new settlement in 1997 when he made a survey trip to Ningxia as deputy Party chief of Fujian province. He was deeply concerned with the way people were living in Guyuan, and the United Nations also defined the situation as unfit. Minning township is located between the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains, which fend off cold air from Inner Mongolia, and the Yellow River, which is used for irrigation. In July 2016, Xi revisited Ningxia and called for no one to be left behind regardless of geography or ethnic group as the nation strives to comprehensively build a moderately prosperous society by 2020. Xi also visited Hai's home. Hai recalled that Xi went into his kitchen to check his access to water and to lift a pot lid to see what they were having for dinner. Xi also checked whether Hai's kang, a traditional brick bed that can be heated from the bottom, worked well. "I was speechless when seeing him. It was like seeing one of my family members returning after a long period of time," he said. "It was just like a dream." Hai's eldest son now drives agricultural machines for a vineyard nearby and his other son is a construction worker in the town. The family of eight people earns about 80,000 yuan a year. "We don't farm now but we eat better than we used to as farmers," Hai said. According to Minning's government, locals' per capita annual income rose from 500 yuan in 1997 to 10,732 yuan in 2016, surpassing the average for rural residents in the region. The local economy has also benefitted in recent years from investments from Fujian province and other regions to boost industries and promote modern farming techniques. Taking the advantage of abundant sunshine, many rooftops are covered with solar panels and locals are helping to grow high-priced raspberries and wine grapes with the help of the dry climate. A major auto company has also set up a car parts factory to offer more jobs to the migrants. "We will have better development and a better life," Hai said.
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