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Chinese astronauts send Dragon Boat festival greetings to compatriots.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)

Beijing, 23 June: Three astronauts who are performing China's space mission in orbiting Tiangong-1 module Saturday [23 June] sent Dragon Boat Festival greetings to all Chinese.

The Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 23 this year and it is the first time for Chinese astronauts to celebrate this traditional Chinese festival in space.

The astronauts, Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and Liu Yang, appeared in front of a camera in Tiangong-1 lab module at around 12 p.m. and had dialogues …

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