Creative names for aerospace include: "Chang'e", "Jade Rabbit", "Beidou", "Tiangong", "Shenzhou", "Wukong", "Hongyan", "Long March" and so on. It can be seen that the naming of aerospace achievements is very particular and meaningful. It is a manifestation of cultural soft power and can enhance cultural soft power.
China's aerospace industry has many romantic names with profound meanings, such as "Chang'e", "Beidou", "Tiangong", etc. How are these major projects named? Pei Zhaoyu, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center of the China National Space Administration and spokesperson for the Chang'e-5 mission, revealed the details behind China's aerospace naming in an exclusive interview with China News Service's "China Focus Face to Face".
The significance of the creative naming of aerospace:
First, the Chinese nation has a 5,000-year history of civilization and has created a splendid culture, which provides us with an inexhaustible source of naming. The Chinese nation is a nation that pursues dreams, and aerospace is actually a career that pursues dreams. There is a good match here. This is the spark that Chinese culture brings to our minds.
Second, naming is also a very serious matter. When naming a task, we should consider the match between the name and the task, the match with the mythology, and the acceptability and recognition of the people. Of course, there is a strict procedure for choosing a name. The general approach is to collect information online or from the public first, and then ask experts to screen it, leaving only a few names with relatively high recognition, and then make the final decision.