Local residents of Xiaoying Alley lay white chrisanthemum to mourn for China's keystone space scientist Qian Xuesen, in front of his portrait in his hometown of Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province, on October 31. Qian Xuesen, widely acclaimed as the country's "father of space technology" and "king of rocketry", died of illness in Beijing on October 31 at the age of 98 (XINHUA) |