China National Space Administration
| 中国国家航天局 | |
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| Abbreviation | CNSA |
| Formed | 22 April 1993 |
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| Type | Space agency |
| Jurisdiction | State Council of the People's Republic of China |
| Headquarters | Haidian, Beijing |
Administrator | Zhang Kejian |
| Vice Administrator | Xu Zhanbin |
| Chief Engineer | Li Guoping |
| Secretary-General | Xu Hongliang |
| Annual budget | US$18.15 billion (2023) 28.54% increase |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 国家航天局 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 國家航天局 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | National Astronautics Administration | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is a government agency of the People's Republic of China headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, responsible for civil space administration and international space cooperation. These responsibilities include organizing or leading foreign exchanges and cooperation in the aerospace field. The CNSA is an administrative agency under the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
Founded in 1993, CNSA has pioneered a number of achievements in space for China despite its relatively short history, including becoming the first space agency to land on the far side of the Moon with Chang'e 4, bringing material back from the Moon with Chang'e 5 and 6, and being the second agency who successfully landed a rover on Mars with Tianwen-1. Tianwen-2 is enroute to explore the co-orbital near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and the active asteroid 311P/PanSTARRS and collecting samples of the regolith of Kamo'oalewa.
As the governing body of civil space activities, China National Space Administration does not execute any space program. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation executes China's state space programs instead. The China Manned Space Program is operated by China Manned Space Agency, instead of the CNSA.