KIEV, April 11 - Ukraine and China have approved a long-term program of cooperation in the space sector for the period of 2016-2020.

According to the State Space Agency of Ukraine, the document was approved at a meeting of the subcommittee on cooperation in the space sector of the Ukrainian-Chinese intergovernmental commission in Kiev on April 7-8.

The new long-term program of bilateral cooperation provides for the joint implementation of more than 70 projects. Most of them envisage the creation of rocket and space technologies, taking into account China's implementing the Lunar Exploration Program and a mission to study the planets of the solar system, as well as cooperation in the field of creating new materials and Earth remote sensing.