Women play a woodwind instrument to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival of Chinese Lunar New Year in Pu Miao town of Yongning district in Nanning city, capital of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Jan 19, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]
China launched its second space laboratory, the Tiangong II, on Thursday night, which space officials said will become the country’s largest scientific platform in space.