China Moon

The race to the Moon is heating up (Forbes - A New Space Race?):

China has plans to expand its lunar program, with the goal of putting an unmanned vehicle on the Moon by 2012 and sending people there by 2020. At the moment, China does not have plans to send people to Mars. [...] For the moment, China’s space program seems to be an effort to get a technological leg up on nations like Japan, which launched a lunar space probe last year, and India, which plans to do the same thing soon.