Thirty secondary students selected for the Young Astronaut Training Camp 2025 will visit Beijing, Jiuquan and Xi'an during a nine-day training programme from July 25 to August 2.

Addressing the send-off ceremony, Deputy Chief Secretary Cheuk Wing-hing encouraged the young astronauts to seize this precious training opportunity to immerse themselves in the country's remarkable aerospace endeavours, look up to aerospace heroes as their role models, and become a valuable new force in promoting the nation's space development.

A total of 30 students from Secondary 2 to 6 were selected out of 120 applicants from more than 80 secondary schools.

During the nine-day training camp, they will visit various key astronomy and aerospace facilities, including Beijing Aerospace City and the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

This year's programme also marks the first visit to the Wuqing Station of the National Astronomical Observatories where the students will learn about data reception and deep space communication systems of the Tianwen-1 Mars exploration mission.

At the China Astronaut Research & Training Center, they will experience the aerospace medicine project and astronaut training activities, including the donning and doffing of spacesuits and savouring space food.

The training camp is one of the programmes under the Chinese Culture Promotion Series.