Chinese taikonauts receive cash awards for space contribution

Tsang, who was born in 1934, is the founder and board chairman of the Goldlion Holdings Ltd. business group in Hong Kong.

Three taikonauts were awarded 800,000 yuan (117,000 U.S.  dollars) each on Wednesday by the Tsang Hin Chi Manned Space  Foundation in Hong Kong.

He has donated more than 580 million HK dollars to fund various projects in the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.

In 1993, the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered an asteroid. The star, numbered 3388, was named "Tsang Hin Chi".

Editor:Zhang Ning