Yang Liwei (Paperback)

Yang Liw i is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space program, and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made the PRC the third country to independently send people into space.Born in Suizhong County of Huludao City in the Liaoning Province, an industrial area in Northeast China. Yang's mother was a teacher, his father an accountant at a state agricultural firm. Yang Liwei's wife is also a People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer, with whom he has a son.