Who was China’s first astronaut?

The first Chinese astronaut to display the five-star red flag in space: Yang Liwei

Yang Liwei is the first Chinese astronaut to display the five-star red flag in space. He was born in Suizhong County, Liaoning Province on June 21, 1965. He has participated in astronaut selection since 1996 and officially became my country's first batch of astronauts in January 1998. After more than five years of training, he successfully completed the training mission, passed the comprehensive astronaut professional and technical assessment with excellent results, and was honorably selected as a member of the first echelon of my country's first manned space flight. On October 15, 2003, Yang Liwei traveled into space on the "Shenzhou" 5 and displayed the United Nations flag and the five-star red flag during the flight.

The first Chinese astronaut to enter space: Wang Ganjun

From April 29 to May 6, 1985, the American spacecraft "Challenger" carried 7 scientists Conducted flight experiments with two squirrel monkeys and 24 white rats. As one of the physicists, Wang Gan was responsible for presiding over the "Fluid Mechanics in Weightless State" experiment, becoming the first Chinese to enter space, and also the first scientist to conduct scientific experiments of his own design in space. Wang Ganjun was born in Gan County, Jiangxi Province on June 16, 1940. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1963.

The first Chinese-American professional astronaut: Zhang Fulin

The first Chinese-American professional astronaut - Zhang Fulin, was born in Costa Rica in 1950. His ancestral home is Bao'an, Guangdong. On January 12, 1980, he entered space on the space shuttle Columbia and conducted scientific experiments for five days. He is NASA's first Chinese-American professional astronaut.