On April 22, the National Key Laboratory of Deep Space Exploration held its Unveiling ceremony in joint support unit of the University of Science and Technology of China.Wu Yanhua, chief designer of the major project of deep space exploration, Academician Wu Weiren, director of the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory and director of the National Key Laboratory of Deep Space Exploration, jointly unveiled the laboratory.

From March 29 to 31, the "Academic Seminar Series on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Traces" and the first academic seminar on the "Evolution of Venus and the Search for Life Information" were successfully held in Hefei.