China's state-owned CGTN TV quoted (May 6) Wu Weiren, Chief Designer of China's lunar exploration program as telling China Space News that Chinese scientists are evaluating the feasibility of a project to send spacecraft to the edge of the solar system He said the Chinese spacecraft will cover a distance about 100 times than that between the sun and the Earth by 2049, when China celebrates its 100th founding anniversary. Saying that the project aims to carry out scientific exploration and experiments at the edge of the solar system, a region about 15 billion km from Earth, Wu Weiren added "If the project can be implemented, it will be China's contribution to the world and mankind. China's space industry has the strength to achieve this goal."

(Comment: The distance between the sun and the Earth is called an astronomical unit, which is about 150 million kilometers.)