China National Space Administration
| 国家航天局 | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Abbreviation | CNSA |
| Formed | 22 April 1993 |
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| Type | Space agency |
| Jurisdiction | State Council of the People's Republic of China |
| Headquarters | Haidian, Beijing |
Administrator | Zhang Kejian |
| Vice Administrator | Xu Zhanbin |
| Chief Engineer | Li Guoping |
| Secretary-General | Xu Hongliang |
| Primary spaceport | |
| Annual budget | US$18.15 billion (2023) 28.54% increase |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 国家航天局 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 國家航天局 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | National Astronautics Administration | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is the national space agency of China. Headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, it is responsible for China's civil space programs and international space cooperation. The CNSA is a national bureau under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Founded in 1993, the CNSA has pioneered a number of achievements in space for China despite its relatively short history, including becoming the first space agency to land on the far side of the Moon with Chang'e 4, bringing material back from the Moon with Chang'e 5 and 6, and being the second agency who successfully landed a rover on Mars with Tianwen-1. Tianwen-2 is en route to explore the co-orbital near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and the active asteroid 311P/PanSTARRS and collecting samples of the regolith of Kamo'oalewa.
As the governing body of civil space activities, China National Space Administration does not execute any space program. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation executes China's state space programs instead. The China Manned Space Program is operated by China Manned Space Agency, instead of the CNSA.