China just had successful 3rd manned mission, and this was first
spacewalk. China is planning big push into space and onto the moon.
Article ->
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080930-china-success.html
...With each new mission, China is taking steps toward its ultimate
goals of establishing a more permanent presence in space through
building a space laboratory, and perhaps even landing on the moon. The
latter goal has been stated more explicitly after the recent success
of Shenzhou 7.