On 30th May, 2023, China's Shenzhou-16 manned spacecraft was successfully launched. Three Chinese astronauts (Taikonauts), Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, have started their space life at the Tiangong Space Station for half a year. One of their important tasks in space is to display 10 First-Prize works in the “My Dream” Painting Competition for African Youth launched in March this year.

The “African Dream Goes to Space, TALKS WITH TAIKONAUTS” event and “My Dream” Painting Competition Award Ceremony will be held around September this year, and show the exhibition of African youth’s paintings in the Tiangong Space Station. A Taikonauts who has returned to Earth after a previous space trip will attend the event in Beijing, and take questions from African youths via video connection. Following the "TALKS WITH TAIKONAUTS" event in 2022, we sincerely invite Kenyan youths to raise questions to the Taikonaut, and the Chinese Embassy in Kenya will convey your questions to the  Taikonaut. We look forward to your participation!

If you are interested, please send your questions along with your name, age, school name, location and contact information to the Chinese Embassy in Kenya via email: chinaembassykenya@gmail.com. You are kindly required to send email before 30th June, 2023, and be sure to use “African Dream Goes to Space” in the subject.

Secretariat of the Chinese Follow-up Committee of FOCAC    

China Manned Space Engineering Office           

Chinese Embassy in Kenya