China held Friday a rally to celebrate the success of the country's first mission of space docking between the target orbiter Tiangong-1 and the Shenzhou 8 spacecraft.[Photo/CRI]

China held Friday a rally to celebrate the success of the country's first mission of space docking between the target orbiter Tiangong-1 and the Shenzhou 8 spacecraft.

President Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau attended the meeting.

China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 landed in north China on the evening of Nov. 17, after completing the country's first-ever space docking mission with target orbiter Tiangong-1.