the tiangong space station is china's first long—term space station.ace superpower within 20 years. 0ur correspondent martin yip in hong kong says chinese state media's giving the story prominence. this piece of news at least, is being published on page two, in page two of today's people's daily, the national flagship newspaper. of course, it's the key propaganda mouthpiece, if you like, of the communist party, so it's definitely a big thing that they are celebrating. it's precisely 50 minutes that they've managed to stay outside in the space for this spacewalk, longer than the record that the united states have kept since 2001. remember, back injune this year, china sent an unmanned space mission, the change 6 mission, to the dark side of the moon to collect rock samples. that was already a big breakthrough because nobody has ever done that, not even the us. now, the next thing would be whether they can finish sending people onto the moon itself, and they are planning to do it by 2030. if they succeed, china would become the second country on earth ev