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January 14, 2009
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Chinese taikonauts receive cash awards for space contribution

BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Three taikonauts, a Chinese term for astronaut", were awarded 800,000 yuan (117,000 U.S. dollars) each on Wednesday by the Tsang Hin Chi Manned Space Foundation in Hong Kong.

The foundation issued the Special Contribution Awards to taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng.

In 2003, Tsang, a business leader in Hong Kong, donated 100 million HK dollars (13 million U.S. dollars) to set up the foundation to honor people who made outstanding contributions to China's manned space program.

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