"In this context much activity including further detailed pre-construction engineering work will continue ahead of the later construction phase, " it said in a statement.
Their successful completion of the docking mission at 12:47 pm local time on Sunday means China is fully capable of transferring humans and cargo to an orbiter in space much like the Americans, only the Americans have abandoned furtherwork in this area beyond the current International Space Station expedition which ends next month.
Ms Dengel says that much more work needs to be done to investigate the effect further, and their results have received a mixed reaction from other scientists.
Furtherwork is being carried out to establish exactly how much horsemeat these products contain and to test for the presence of the veterinary medicine phenylbutazone, or bute.