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Under 2024 ultra-long special treasury bond-financed central expenditure, resource exploration and industrial information spending was 33.862 billion yuan.
enacted
This is the 2024 central current-expenditure allocation from ultra-long special treasury bonds for the resource exploration and industrial information category; it is an official strategic-investment line that may overlap aerospace or space industry activity but is not specifically labeled as space.
single year budgetIndustrial and strategic-capability investment that may include aerospace-related projects
Under 2024 ultra-long special treasury bond-financed central expenditure, resource exploration and industrial information spending was 33.862 billion yuan.
This is the 2024 central current-expenditure allocation from ultra-long special treasury bonds for the resource exploration and industrial information category; it is an official strategic-investment line that may overlap aerospace or space industry activity but is not specifically labeled as space.
CN¥33,862,000,000Description of 2024 Central Government-managed Funds Final Accounts and Related Policies
2024 budget: 282.28 billion yuan for natural resources, oceanic and meteorological affairs spending; within this category the table separately lists a natural resources satellite line.
enacted
This is the 2024 central-budget appropriation for natural resources, oceanic and meteorological affairs, a category that directly includes the natural resources satellite line and therefore overlaps China’s civil space-related earth observation activity.
single year budgetEarth observation and meteorological satellite operations
2024 budget: 282.28 billion yuan for natural resources, oceanic and meteorological affairs spending; within this category the table separately lists a natural resources satellite line.
This is the 2024 central-budget appropriation for meteorological affairs, a directly budgeted organization/activity category that materially overlaps space-enabled meteorological operations but is not limited to space.
single year budgetMeteorological satellite application and weather space-data support
This is the 2024 central-budget appropriation for meteorological affairs, a directly budgeted organization/activity category that materially overlaps space-enabled meteorological operations but is not limited to space.
Science and technology spending under central capital construction expenditure: 2024 budget 107.03 hundred million yuan.
enacted
This is the 2024 central capital-construction budget for the science and technology category, which may include space-relevant research infrastructure but is not space-exclusive.
single year budgetScience and technology infrastructure including space-relevant research infrastructure
Science and technology spending under central capital construction expenditure: 2024 budget 107.03 hundred million yuan.
This is the 2024 central capital-construction budget for the science and technology category, which may include space-relevant research infrastructure but is not space-exclusive.
Natural resources satellite: 2024 budget 0.48 hundred million yuan.
enacted
This is the specific 2024 central-budget line for the natural resources satellite item under the natural resources, oceanic and meteorological affairs budget.
Ministry of Natural Resources systemsingle year budgetEarth observation satellite support for natural resources administration
Natural resources satellite: 2024 budget 0.48 hundred million yuan.
This is the specific 2024 central-budget line for the natural resources satellite item under the natural resources, oceanic and meteorological affairs budget.
2025 central government expenditure budget
requested
This is the 2025 central-level expenditure budget approved in the draft budget documents, included here as a broader government budget envelope reviewed for possible space-related lines, but it is not space-specific.
This is the 2025 central-level expenditure budget approved in the draft budget documents, included here as a broader government budget envelope reviewed for possible space-related lines, but it is not space-specific.
National defense expenditure
enacted
This is the 2023 central-budget appropriation for national defense, a broad portfolio that can include but is not limited to military space activities and therefore should not be treated as a space-only amount.
This is the 2023 central-budget appropriation for national defense, a broad portfolio that can include but is not limited to military space activities and therefore should not be treated as a space-only amount.
National defense expenditure
executed
This is the 2023 central-budget final-account outturn for national defense, a broad portfolio that may include some space-related activities but is not identified as space-only in the source.
This is the 2023 central-budget final-account outturn for national defense, a broad portfolio that may include some space-related activities but is not identified as space-only in the source.
Central budget investment expenditure
requested
This is the 2025 central budget investment expenditure envelope reviewed as a possible source family for infrastructure-linked space spending, but the published table does not identify a specific space row.
This is the 2025 central budget investment expenditure envelope reviewed as a possible source family for infrastructure-linked space spending, but the published table does not identify a specific space row.
2024 central capital construction expenditure: 7000亿元.
requested
This is the 2024 central capital construction budget envelope, a broad cross-sector investment pool that may include space-relevant scientific infrastructure but is not a dedicated space appropriation.
2024 central capital construction expenditure: 7000亿元.
This is the 2024 central capital construction budget envelope, a broad cross-sector investment pool that may include space-relevant scientific infrastructure but is not a dedicated space appropriation.
2023 central capital construction expenditure: 6800亿元.
requested
This is the 2023 central capital construction budget envelope, a broad national investment pool that can include space-relevant scientific infrastructure but is not a dedicated space appropriation.
2023 central capital construction expenditure: 6800亿元.
This is the 2023 central capital construction budget envelope, a broad national investment pool that can include space-relevant scientific infrastructure but is not a dedicated space appropriation.
2022 central capital construction expenditure budget: 6400亿元; central-level expenditure 1450亿元; transfers to localities 4950亿元.
requested
This is the 2022 central capital construction budget envelope, which included space-related scientific infrastructure projects but was not presented as a dedicated space budget.
2022 central capital construction expenditure budget: 6400亿元; central-level expenditure 1450亿元; transfers to localities 4950亿元.
This is the 2022 central capital construction budget envelope, which included space-related scientific infrastructure projects but was not presented as a dedicated space budget.
This means lunar exploration was not just a legacy program but an active state priority for follow-on missions, technology validation, and preparatory capability building toward sustained lunar activity.
This means lunar exploration was not just a legacy program but an active state priority for follow-on missions, technology validation, and preparatory capability building toward sustained lunar activity.
Phase IV of lunar exploration, three planetary exploration missions… China’s future space plans
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
strategy priority
This establishes nationwide space infrastructure as a core state priority and frames remote sensing, communications broadcasting, and navigation positioning as enduring strategic capabilities to be expanded and modernized through 2025.
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
This establishes nationwide space infrastructure as a core state priority and frames remote sensing, communications broadcasting, and navigation positioning as enduring strategic capabilities to be expanded and modernized through 2025.
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
strategy priority
This indicates that sovereign satellite communications capacity is a standing national priority, embedded alongside remote sensing and navigation as a foundational space-enabled public-service and strategic support capability.
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
This indicates that sovereign satellite communications capacity is a standing national priority, embedded alongside remote sensing and navigation as a foundational space-enabled public-service and strategic support capability.
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
strategy priority
This means Earth observation is not a peripheral application area but a nationally planned capability family intended to provide global, multi-resolution, operational remote-sensing services across civilian sectors.
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
This means Earth observation is not a peripheral application area but a nationally planned capability family intended to provide global, multi-resolution, operational remote-sensing services across civilian sectors.
navigation and PNT
strategy priority
This shows that PNT is both a sovereign infrastructure priority and an application-expansion priority, with policy emphasis shifting from basic system completion to economy-wide scale use and integrated spatiotemporal services.
This shows that PNT is both a sovereign infrastructure priority and an application-expansion priority, with policy emphasis shifting from basic system completion to economy-wide scale use and integrated spatiotemporal services.
Private and enterprise participation in space systems and applications
investment policy
China supports private capital investment in satellite development and system construction, and supports enterprises in value-added product development, operations services, and industrialized application promotion.
Private and enterprise participation in space systems and applications
China supports private capital investment in satellite development and system construction, and supports enterprises in value-added product development, operations services, and industrialized application promotion.
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
International development and export of space systems and services
international cooperation policy
China will encourage international development, participate in international rules and standards setting, expand international cooperation in R&D, satellite development, system construction, and data applications, and promote exports of satellites, data, and application services.
International development and export of space systems and services
China will encourage international development, participate in international rules and standards setting, expand international cooperation in R&D, satellite development, system construction, and data applications, and promote exports of satellites, data, and application services.
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
Satellite remote sensing data openness and government purchase policy
data policy
China will formulate national satellite remote sensing data policy, establish government purchasing policies for commercial satellite remote sensing data and services, and gradually open civil satellite remote sensing data better than 0.5-meter resolution.
Satellite remote sensing data openness and government purchase policy
China will formulate national satellite remote sensing data policy, establish government purchasing policies for commercial satellite remote sensing data and services, and gradually open civil satellite remote sensing data better than 0.5-meter resolution.
National Civil Space Infrastructure Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan (2015-2025)
This is the 2024 central-budget appropriation for natural resources, oceanic and meteorological affairs, a category that directly includes the natural resources satellite line and therefore overlaps China’s civil space-related earth observation activity.
CN¥28,228,000,0002024 Central Government Current Expenditure Budget Table