Who believes what comes out of a Communist country? Might as well believe the propaganda that North Korea gives its own citizens.
Wasn’t there controversy about China sending people into space because someone saw an air bubble? Was there a trajectory to track from the rocket? Were there satellites watching what was going on?
Yes. They know. Please follow the link - there are other links there and more information out there. I don’t expect you to know the minutiae but please don’t assume and then circulate the notion that Elon Musk is going to begin mining in space, or have extablished a colony on Mars (as he has stated) in 10 years. Repeating that he is ahead of everyone (and dismissing China’s huge space strides and ability) won’t make it so. (Presently he barely makes his scheduled “truck run” to the ISS in LEO.)
extablished = established