China To Transmit Pop Music From Lunar-Probing Satellite

Beijing, China (AFP) Jul 10, 2006

China will transmit 30 pieces of Chinese music to Earth next year aboard its first lunar-probing satellite, state media said. The Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, which is in charge of the lunar project, is seeking recommendations from the public on which tunes to play, Xinhua news agency reported.

The public will be able to choose from a list of 150 songs put forward by the commission, including music from the country's 56 ethnic groups, pop songs from the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong as well as opera soundtracks.

Unlike the single transmission of the popular patriotic hymn "The East is Red" in 1970 from the country's first man-made terrestrial satellite, the music from space next year will be "very different," Xinhua said without elaborating.

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