23 August 2019
Namibia's President Hage Geingob hailed the Chinese astronauts' visit to share their aerospace experience and inspire the youth in the country. The two taikonauts, Liu Yang and Chen Dong, made a courtesy visit to the statehouse on 22 August, where the President welcomed them with open arms. According to Liu, it is China's aim to peacefully utilise outer space and make it benefit mankind. Liu Yang said: "Win-win cooperation and mutual benefit is the goal and in 2022 China will build our own space station which will be a platform for all the nations to use. We look forward to Namibia's participation and hope to fly together with Namibia to space." Meanwhile, Chen Dong said that China attaches great importance to their bilateral relations and hopes next time he hovers over Namibia with a local astronaut on-board. The visit was concluded with an invitation to the President to visit China and witness a launch of a manned space mission with two astronauts taking-off.
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