A worker makes a lantern in a lantern factory in Zhoucun district of Zibo, East China's Shandong province, Jan 14, 2013. As traditional Chinese Spring Festival is coming, lantern factories here have come to a busy production season. [Photo/Xinhua]
China launched its second space laboratory, the Tiangong II, on Thursday night, which space officials said will become the country’s largest scientific platform in space.