[9] On the Chinese Lantern Festival (24 February 2024), a traditional holiday that celebrates family reunions and ancestral worship, China unveiled the official names of its new vehicles for its future crewed lunar exploration missions.

[12] The new crew module is partially reusable with its detachable heat shields, while the spacecraft as a whole features a modular design that allows it to be constructed to meet different mission demands.

It weighs around 21600 kg fully loaded with equipment and propellant, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

[1] The capsule returned and landed successfully in the desert in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on 26 June 2016 07:41 UTC.

The test of the next-generation spacecraft included the evaluation of avionics, orbit performance, new heat shielding, parachute deployment and a cushioned airbag landing and recovery system.

[25] The primary payload, the unpiloted prototype for the country's next-generation crewed spacecraft, continuously raised its orbit before its landing on 8 May 2020.

[26] During the preparation of re-entry, the uncrewed spacecraft performed seven orbit-raising maneuvers to reach a final apogee of around 8,000 km (5,000 mi).