At this point, China's launch industry is basically hanging out in the SpaceX waiting room to see which ideas ... It's the first country that develops a fully reusable super heavy-lift rocket and funds a program that takes advantage of this revolutionary ...

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, with three stages and solid motors strapped onto its sides.