Philippe Baptiste, president of France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), interacts with schoolchildren as Li Guoping (left), chief engineer of the international cooperation department in the China National Space Administration (CNSA), looks on during an educational event in Xichang, Sichuan Province on June 23, 2024. The first astronomical satellite jointly developed by China and France, the SVOM, was launched on June 22, 2024. Photo: VCG