In fact, China's space sector has independently accomplished development from scratch to the world's most advanced level by totally relying on its own scientific forces.

事实上，中国航天事业从起步到成长，到跻身世界先进行列，都完全是依靠自己的科技力量独立自主、自力更生地完成的。

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Space Florida, the agency responsible for developing the state's aerospace sector, says it is trying to attract new industries that use space-based technologies.

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No wonder other industries are trying to capture the same magic, and the space sector is no exception.

BBC: Thinking outside the box in space

The burgeoning commercial space sector is also casting its gaze towards Earth's only natural satellite with companies considering everything from mining the lunar surface to building extraterrestrial resorts on it.

CNN: Who owns the moon? It's 'complicated,' say experts

As I've written before, government and industry in the UK now have a joint plan to push the space sector forward, and Science Minster David Willetts has been steadily working through a checklist that broadly follows the recommendations in the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (S-IGS) published in 2010.

BBC: Space ticks the boxes for UK plc