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Saudi Arabia Establishes Association to Preserve Industrial Heritage

Ministers Majid Al-Qasabi, Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan and Khaled Al-Falih during the ceremony to announce the establishment of the Association for the Preservation of the Industrial Heritage. (SPA)
Ministers Majid Al-Qasabi, Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan and Khaled Al-Falih during the ceremony to announce the establishment of the Association for the Preservation of the Industrial Heritage. (SPA)
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Saudi Arabia Establishes Association to Preserve Industrial Heritage

Ministers Majid Al-Qasabi, Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan and Khaled Al-Falih during the ceremony to announce the establishment of the Association for the Preservation of the Industrial Heritage. (SPA)
Ministers Majid Al-Qasabi, Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan and Khaled Al-Falih during the ceremony to announce the establishment of the Association for the Preservation of the Industrial Heritage. (SPA)

Saudi Arabia announced the establishment of the Saudi Society for the Preservation of Industrial Heritage, chaired by Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan, the Minister of Culture.

The association aims to raise awareness on the value of cultural landmarks, including old desalination plants, oil refining, mining and cement mines and the remnants of the Tapline pipeline.

Prince Badr bin Farhan underlined his ministry’s keenness to support the Saudi cultural sector, highlighting the importance of industrial heritage in expressing the level of industrial and civil development of countries.

In this regard, he noted that Saudi Arabia has a rich history in the field of industry that should be preserved and maintained.

The minister also announced the launch of a program on industrial heritage under the umbrella of the Ministry of Culture.

The new program will feature workshops and awareness campaigns, in cooperation with industrial bodies, in addition to projects aimed at maintaining and documenting industrial landmarks and the rehabilitation of national cadres interested in industrial cultural heritage in cooperation with international universities.

Industrial heritage is one of the patterns associated with industrial development in the world. It refers to the social and engineering achievements made by man after the Industrial Revolution. This includes the remnants of ancient industrial culture, whether technological, social, architectural or scientific, and consists of buildings, machinery, factories, mines, refining sites and warehouses.

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China Says its Astronauts Complete Record-breaking Spacewalk

File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
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China Says its Astronauts Complete Record-breaking Spacewalk

File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
File Photo: Astronaut Liu Yang waves as she is out of a return capsule of the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft, following a six-month mission on China's space station, at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China December 4, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS

Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China's Manned Space Agency, marking another milestone for Beijing's rapidly expanding space program.

The spacewalk, carried out by Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong outside the Tiangong space station in low-Earth orbit on Tuesday, was at least four minutes longer than the last record set by NASA astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms in 2001, according to Reuters.

The two astronauts of China's Shenzhou-19 mission donned their Feitian spacesuits to carry out an array of tasks on the station's exterior, including the installation of space-debris protection devices, China's space agency said.

"They successfully completed all the planned tasks and felt very excited about it," Wu Hao, a staffer from the China Astronaut Research and Training Center, told China Central Television, a state broadcaster.

The former Soviet Union in 1965 became the first nation to carry out a spacewalk. Since then, Russia and the United States have conducted hundreds of such missions, primarily outside the International Space Station for tasks ranging from solar panel installations to materials research.

The first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut occurred in 2008.

China's spacewalking milestone this week comes amid a flurry of other recent cosmic achievements that have boosted Beijing's competitive footing with the United States.

China landed its first rover on Mars in 2021 and earlier this year became the first country to retrieve rock samples from the moon's treacherous far side in its Chang'e-6 mission.

Beijing is targeting 2030 to land its first astronauts on the moon to become the second country after the US to put humans there. Beijing has courted roughly a dozen countries for its International Lunar Research Station program, an effort to build a moon base on the moon's south pole.

That program rivals NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return US astronauts to the moon for the first time since the final Apollo mission of 1972.