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.

Starship’s Super Heavy booster, which forms the first stage of the world’s biggest rocket, was rolled out less than two weeks after SpaceX’s last successful test flight that saw the rocket caught by the launch tower’s “chopsticks” for the first time.