China has planned to carry out more than 1,000 scientific experiments in the China Space Station in the next 10 to 15 years, according to the country's leading research facility in space utilization.

The China Space Station has been successfully assembled, with facilities for scientific experiments deployed and calibrated.

For the next decade, the space station will enter the phase of application and development, serving as a research platform for scientists and engineers to explore the secrets of space.

More than 60 research projects are already underway on the space station, according to a press release from the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The head of the center, Zhang Wei, told China Media Group (CMG) that they are planning to look for more advanced material for the blades of rocket engines.

"We will also look for better biomaterial and many other materials to satisfy the people's need," Zhang said.

The application system for space science projects in the space station has opened to scientists and engineers, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

The CMSA will solicit projects covering space science and human research, physics in microgravity, space astronomy and Earth science, as well as new space technologies and applications.

The space station also has exposure experiment platforms, standard payload interfaces and large payload hanging points outside the modules to support scientific research, technological experiments and applications in various fields.

"In the past, one giant facility could only do one type of experiments," said Wang Ke, deputy chief engineer of space utilization at the CMSA. "Now we have built a set of universal equipment in space."

"In this way, we only need to keep rotating the samples to carry out all the experiments we want to do," Wang added.

The application details are available at www.cmse.gov.cn. Applications must be submitted before the end of August 10 to be reviewed.

(With input from Xinhua.)