Next year, the Chinese plan to launch a small space laboratory to practice docking of spacecraft in orbit.
VOA: special.2010.04.28
When it arrives at Tiangong, the Shenzhou-9 craft is expected to make a fully automated docking, but there is a plan to try a manual docking later in the mission.
On June 16, China sent three astronauts into space on its first manned docking mission, a significant step towards its plan to build a Chinese space station in 2020.