The coming years will see closer space cooperation between China and European countries. China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, set to be launched in December this year and expected to become the first probe to soft-land on the far side of the moon, will carry detectors from Germany and Sweden. A Sino-European joint mission, the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, will be launched in 2021.

China is also inviting all member states of the United Nations to cooperate in and jointly utilize its future space station, which is expected to be built around 2022.

The Long March-2C rocket also sent into space seven miniaturized satellites, including a science and education satellite developed by Belarus and six home-made scientific experiment satellites. Monday's launch was the 289th of the Long March rocket series.

(Zhang Quan & Hu Zhe also contributed to this story.)

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