Progress of Space Medicine Research in China

With the approaching of the Chinese Space Station (CSS) era,the focus of space medicine applications and related research has shifted to addressing the astronauts' health support in long-duration spaceflights,including nutrition,countermeasure against the physiological effects of weightlessness,medical monitoring and support,psychology status,etc.,and accordingly the human experiments to simulate long-duration weightlessness have been carried out.Increasingly,basic research has been put forward in the key areas,such as space bone loss,cardiovascular dysfunction and the molecular mechanisms underlying radiobiological effects.Moreover,specific novel research fields,such as hypometabolism technology,were explored.The research projects in the field of space medicine experiment,as an important aspect of the Chinese Space Station's application,have been officially approved and launched.