China says it welcomes international research on the lunar samples retrieved by last month’s Chang’e 5 mission, which scientists hope will shed new light on the history and evolution of the Earth as well as the moon.The China National Space Administration released a new regulation on Monday which said it “encourages international joint research work on space science based on the lunar samples. Foreign diplomats were given a tour of the storage and research facilities for the samples, set up…

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