Worries in America are likely to grow if China's space programme keeps up its steady pace of development.
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But the Jinghua Times says Wang Xianmin, an official with China's space programme, has insisted that there is no requirement that female astronauts must already be mothers.
Part of the United Nations Environment Programme's China Rural Energy Enterprises Development (CREED) initiative, the program has successful precedents in five African nations -- Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania -- and northeast Brazil.
Demand may be restrained if growing traffic congestion outpaces even China's vigorous road-building programme.
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The Security Council (permanent members: America, Britain, China, France and Russia) created the programme, in what was a thoroughly political decision.
China is investing billions of dollars in its space programme.
China, says the Pentagon, has the biggest missile programme of any country in the world.
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Meanwhile, the firm said it was suffering from "very substantial disruption to supplies caused by a major rationalisation programme being implemented by one of our largest suppliers in China".
Part II looks at both China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that is being coordinated by the World Bank, the Regional Banks and Economic Commissions.
South Korea wants to develop an advanced space programme to compete with other Asian space-faring nations - China, Japan and India.
Communication is an important advocacy element of the Millennium Development Goals Fund (MDG-F) Programme on Improving Nutrition, Food Safety and Food Security for China's Most Vulnerable Women and Children.
No one thinks China is going to make drastic changes to what is a signature national programme. (And one from which it hopes to spin off lucrative contracts building railways in Algeria, Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan and elsewhere.) But it might postpone some of the dizzier schemes, such as one to build a freight line across mountainous northern Colombia to rival the Panama canal.
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The research from China, which followed couples for up to nine years, was the first programme to really test this out in the real world.
Six-party talks involving the US, China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear programme have been stalled since April 2009.
Once the programme has been rolled out in the first two places, it will be extended to China, Nepal, Peru, parts of Central Asia and Senegal.
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