China and ESA are discussing a potential collaboration to build a lunar outpost or a moon village. Both countries have already expressed their intent to develop technologies.
Former Houston Rockets NBA player Yao Ming was appointed as "Chinese Ambassador to Mars." Part of Ming's duty is to gather support for China's mission to Mars in 2020.
In China, more than 9,000 individuals were forced to move to give way to the country's largest radio telescope designed to detect radio signals from 1,000 light-years away.
Conquering Mars, also known as the Red Planet, is the latest objective of international space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA) and China National Space Administration (CNSA).