It's time for CGTN special series Go Getters. At China's BeiHang University, two groups of volunteers have broken a world record by working rotations in a bio-regenerative life support system for a combined 370 days. CGTN's Zhao Yunfei introduces us to one member whose team lived in the lab for 200 days.

A big home-coming welcome right outside China's Lunar Base experiment cabin, Yuegong-1. Yi Zhihao and his team-mates reached an ambitious goal, to work in an isolated lab for more than six months. Looking back on what he has experienced, Zhihao says he sometimes gets emotional.

It's incredible, I really did not expect to be able to make it for two hundred days.

Yuegong-1 is a simulated space lab, designed to observe how animals, plants and micro-organisms can co-exist in a lunar environment. The volunteers planted crops and managed waste according to a recycling system. Only two percent of the supplies came from outside. For Zhihao and his team, everything takes place here in this 150-square meter lab, from making moon cakes to hosting a birthday party.

Yi: This area in the middle is our lounge. We play and cook here. 

Reporter: Which is your bedroom? 

Yi: This is my room, right across from the plant cabin. Here is our toilet, it's close to the plants, too. 

Reporter: Because you have to fertilize them? 

Yi: That's right. We have a waste processing system here.

Zhihao specializes in agriculture. His education background qualifies him for this interdisciplinary project.

YI ZHIHAO PARTICIPANT, YUEGONG-1 "I never thought that my major somehow correlated with a space program. I wanted to do something for my country, that's why I was strongly motivated."

China plans to send astronauts to the moon by 2036. The drills in Yuegong-1 provide the scientific support needed for such a mission.

WANG JUN CHINESE ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING "This project gives us a better understanding of what it's like to live and conduct explorations on the moon over a longer period of time. We'll also need this kind of system if we go to Mars."

So far, 30 student researchers are committed to the self-contained cabin project, as more and more young people are interested in the nation's space industry.

LIU HONG CHIEF DESIGNER, YUEGONG-1 "Young people dream big, and they are ambitious. They are not afraid of making mistakes. I have confidence in China's space exploration career."

YI ZHIHAO PARTICIPANT, YUEGONG-1 "If we want to reach the top globally, we must have a global vision. We should conduct more international projects to broaden our horizons."

Zhihao says more has to be done, as the space lab program should anticipate many more of the conditions that outer space has to offer. Zhao Yunfei, CGTN, Beijing.