China has launched its first independent mission to Mars.
It will take seven months to reach the Red Planet, where it will attempt to land and release a rover that will explore the planet and conduct experiments.
This is just one of a number of ambitious space projects by China, but it has competition.
Al Jazeera's Laura Burdon-Manley reports.
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