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To Search for Alien Life, China Plans to Relocate 9,000 People From Guizhou Province

Feb 16, 2016 03:15 PM EST

In order to make the world's largest radio telescope operational, China will be relocating nearly 9,000 people from Guizhou's Pingtang and Luodian counties. With this gigantic telescope, China wants to boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life in our universe.

China Builds Largest Telescope in the World

Eana Maniebo |

Oct 12, 2015 07:57 AM EDT

China joins the race to build the largest optical instrument known to man. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is being built that will allow scientists to capture radio signals from space billions of light years away.