A China manned space program spokesperson said in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, on Monday that China is going to conduct another manned space mission by 2012.

Spokeswoman Wu Ping said at a press briefing Monday morning that China plans to launch in 2012 spaceships Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10, which are expected to dock with China's first space lab module, Tiangong-1.

"At least one mission of the two will be manned," Wu said.

(Xinhua News Agency October 31, 2011)