1. Related news report about the Shenzhou V

 BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua net) -- The secret "cargo" on China's first manned spacecraft was revealed at an opening ceremony of the spacecraft's re-entry vehicle Saturday in Beijing. The items aboard the Shenzhou V included China's national flag, a flag of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the United Nations flag, a Renminbi note, memorial stamps for China's first manned spaceflight, memorial envelopes of the manned space flight project and crop seeds from China's Taiwan Island. The cargo had traveled with China's first astronaut in space, Lt. Col. Yang Liwei, for over 20 hours and were returned to their owners at Saturday's ceremony.

The re-entry vehicle of Shenzhou V was taken to Beijing Friday afternoon after the successful landing in central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China.

 BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua net)-- The re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-5,which carried China's first astronaut Lt. Col. Yang Liwei to and returned from the space between Oct. 15-16, was handed to the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology here Friday. The capsule, which landed safely in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 6:23 a.m. Thursday, just 4.8 kilometers off the pre-set target, arrived in Beijing Friday afternoon on a special train. After a primary inspection, experts concluded that the buffer engines of the capsule operated normally before the landing and the entire capsule remained intact. Shenzhou-5, measuring 9.2 meters in length and weighing 7,790 kilograms, consists of the orbit, re-entry and propulsion modules. The capsule will soon be opened and the data collected by the scientific apparatus on board will be studied.

2. Background information about the manned space flight of China