According to this article, the flight is scheduled for some time next year. It will carry a crew of two for 5 days. Slow progress, but progress just the same.

China's second manned space flight will orbit the Earth for five days with two astronauts onboard in a mission scheduled for next year, state press said Monday.

"For the first time, astronauts will enter and live in the orbital module of the spacecraft to do scientific experiments," the China Aerospace Science and Technology (CAST) group said in the first official statement regarding the mission, the China Daily reported.

China's first-ever manned spaceflight, Shenzhou V, orbited the Earth for 21 hours last October with astronaut Yang Liwei remaining in his seat in the return capsule of the three module craft for the entire mission.

It made China only the third country to send a man into orbit, after the United States and the former Soviet Union.

Shenzhou VI will be a fundamentally different mission from the early flights of the Russian and US manned space programs where solo flights were tested for years before multiple astronauts were blasted into space.