The China Manned Space Agency released its annual report on Thursday detailing the progress of China's space station scientific research and applications, offering a comprehensive overview of the advancements made in its space station.

The report highlights China's impressive developments in space science, technologies and applications, focusing on key areas including space life sciences and human research, microgravity physics, and new space technologies and applications.

It showcases 33 representative scientific research and application achievements selected from a variety of completed in-orbit experiments, scientific samples returned to Earth, and groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs.

Since the space station's application and development phase, China's manned space program has successfully carried out six crewed flights, four cargo resupply missions, and five spacecraft return missions. Notably, China conducted its first emergency launch, sending the Shenzhou-22 unmanned spacecraft to the space station to serve as a return vessel for the Shenzhou-21 crew in orbit.

Six astronaut crews, comprising 18 members, have conducted long-term stays in space. They completed 13 spacewalks, involving maintenance of the space station's exterior, and set a new world record for the longest single spacewalk. China also completed its fourth round of astronaut candidate selection, including payload experts from the Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions.

The space science, application experiments, and technological test projects carried out aboard the space station are progressing smoothly and yielding fruitful results. As of December 2025, a total of 265 scientific and application projects had been deployed and implemented in orbit across three major research areas – space life and human studies, microgravity physics, and new space technologies and applications.

In 2025 alone, 86 new scientific and application projects were added aboard the station, with 1,179 kg of scientific materials sent into space and around 105 kg of space science samples returned to Earth. The data collected from these projects exceeded 150 TB.

Among major accomplishments, China conducted its first-ever mouse space science experiment aboard the space station. In a world-first, China completed a composite space environment biological study combining microgravity and submagnetic conditions. Furthermore, the space station introduced a groundbreaking, non-invasive technique to monitor intracranial pressure by using orbital ultrasound to measure the optic nerve's subarachnoid space. It also successfully completed the world's first in-orbit trial of a pipeline detection robot, yielding pioneering results.

Scientific teams across various fields have conducted in-depth research based on the space station's studies, contributing to a series of original, cutting-edge results. In 2025, more than 230 high-level papers were published in SCI journals and over 70 patents were granted