[dengnan]

We, Chinese, do not know too much details either. It is hard for us to know details about the spending.

I tried to google it with key words like "Chang'e budget", but found nothing useful. However, I did found an article about the history[0]. Here is some fact: Back to 90s, there were Chinese scientists suggesting for lunar exploration. But the projects requires a budget around 1.5B, which was declined by the prime minister LI Peng (Family name first.)

0. http://www.baike.com/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%8E%A2%E6%9C%...

[SEJeff]

I wish the Chinese space program the best. Every success pushes mankind (all nationalities) forward in our understanding of the universe.

[TrainedMonkey]

That. Hopefully we can get another space race this time against China. Sending people to Mars or establishing moon colony for example.

[SEJeff]

I suspect Elon Musk will win that one and as a result America :)

SpaceX is doing quite well thusfar.

[df41]

I spent 2 minutes with google and it seems the closest I could get is this: http://news.qq.com/a/20120625/000134.htm Basically it says the total spending on manned space missions is less than RMB 40B from 1992 to 2013. That translates to about 6.7B in current ratio.

2 NEST to send man to space. Not too bad IMO.