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Academics in asia.

Academics in Asia (AIA) is the exclusive recruiting branch of a large private University in East Asia who employs the most foreign faculty of any school in country. We do refer teachers to sending organizations but do not require teachers to fundraise. The host schools provide flights and salary for ESL and Business teachers. Contracts […]

Bethel Training Center for the Blind

(Beijing, China)  We care for and educate blind orphans, ranging in age from infants to young adults. We need a volunteer nurse or other health care professional to oversee their health care. We also need teachers for special ed, music, physical ed, plus counselors, OT/PT and speech therapist, etc. We care for and educate blind […]

Bethany Hong Kong

Bethany Hong Kong offers a place of rest, encouragement and restoration for Christian cross-cultural workers and their families serving in Asia and beyond as well as for pastors or Christian workers in Hong Kong. We are committed to provide Member Care. Bethany is located on a beautiful island called Cheung Chau, just a short ferry […]

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Serve asia: short-term mission.

Serve Asia is OMF’s short-term missions programme for those who want to serve East Asia’s peoples for up to 12 months.

With a focus on mission discipleship, it is designed to equip and encourage you, and your sending community, to find your place in all that God is doing in East Asia and beyond.

Over the past decade, we have seen more than 5000 people sent out from 25 different countries to participate in Serve Asia, serving in many different roles across 17 East Asian countries.

Our Mission

To mobilise, disciple, and equip Serve Asia workers and their communities for sharing the good news to East Asia’s peoples.

We will see purposeful involvement in the lives of Serve Asia participants contributing to the global Kingdom of God.

Preparing to go

Prepare your heart for short-term missions, preparing for spiritual warfare, keeping a missions journal, raising support for a mission trip, returning from short-term mission, explore opportunities.

Children's Work

Use your gifts in children’s ministry at community outreach clubs or to join in and support OMF families at conferences.

English Teaching

Contribute to existing community and relationship development projects on an English teaching mission trip.

Internships

Missionary internships allow you to develop transferable skills for your future career and experience mission life.

Media & Technology

Advance God’s Kingdom by using your gifts and abilities in media and technology to serve God’s people in mission.

Medical Work

Build relationships and serve the community while providing healthcare on a Christian medical mission trip.

Prayer Journeys

Be part of a prayer team interceding for the people of East Asia. You will get to learn more about the region’s people and culture.

Serving TCKs (Missionary Kids)

Help missionary families thrive by teaching their kids, running children’s programs for conferences, working at an international school or serving at a Boarding Home.

Sports Ministry

Bring your coaching or playing skills to join a team and use sports projects to serve and reach the community.

Student Outreach

Shape future leaders by getting involved with campus work, sharing Christ and helping to disciple students.

Frequently asked questions

You can do a wide range of things, from student outreach and prayer journeys to medical work and English teaching. We work in diverse locations across East Asia, from huge cities like Tokyo to the villages of Thailand. Each placement contributes to our long-term work to share the good news of Jesus.

If you’re looking for a team experience, we regularly partner with churches, Bible colleges, seminaries and schools to send short-term teams.

Serve Asia placements are available in 17 different East Asian countries where OMF has long-term workers. You can browse current Serve Asia opportunities by location on the OMF Opportunities website.

The Serve Asia programme runs all year around. You can serve for anything from one week to 12 months alongside OMF’s long-term workers in East Asia. Some of the Serve Asia opportunities listed online have set dates, while others are more flexible and can be arranged to suit both you and the host country.

One or two week mission trips are popular with those who are already in close proximity to the ministry location. Although only in the field for a short time, Serve Asia workers can be involved in many ways that work towards growing God’s church in Asia.

For those looking to go on a more long-term mission trip we have lots of opportunities available. We will do our best to find a place where you can serve in a ministry using your specific skills and gifts to meet a need in the field. By going for 6 weeks to 12 months it gives you an opportunity to be immersed in, and learn about, culture and language. You will also receive spiritual and personal support and mentoring from an OMF missionary.

If you are unsure which placement is right for you the Serve Asia Coordinator in your home country can help you to prayerfully consider how your gifts and skills could be used on the mission field and help to match this to current short-term mission opportunities in East Asia.

You can get in touch with your nearest OMF centre using the contact form.

Serve Asia regularly partners with churches, bible colleges, seminaries and schools to send teams to East Asia. We want to support and serve churches and other sending communities as they find ways to be more strategically involved in reaching East Asia’s peoples, and as they spur their members into deeper areas of discipleship.

To find out more about group mission trips please get in touch with your nearest OMF centre using the contact form.

The cost of a Serve Asia trip will vary depending on your home country and host country. Most trips will cost (USD) between $1000-3000 per month not including airfare and other one-time departure expenses (insurance, vaccinations, etc). However more detailed costs will be provided by the Serve Asia Coordinator in your home country.

Find out more about raising support, including fundraising for mission trips.

If you are interested in applying for one of the Serve Asia mission trips listed online, please register with the OMF Opportunities website. Answering these few quick questions helps us to connect you with your local OMF team. Once you have created an account it enables you to submit an inquiry about the opportunity which interests you.

After you submit an inquiry the Serve Asia Coordinator in your home country will contact you and ask you to complete a set of application forms. Once these have been reviewed you will meet a local OMF representative for an interview. After the interview your coordinator will let you know whether you have been accepted into the Serve Asia programme.

In some cases, people may not be able to participate in an on-the-ground Serve Asia placement because of medical or personal issues. The wellbeing of both the applicant and the long-term ministry are paramount to us as we thoroughly screen each application.

Once your application has been accepted you will be invited to attend a training day or weekend in your home country to help you to prepare for your mission trip.

To help you prepare spiritually and practically for your Serve Asia trip we recommend the Prepare Your Heart devotional found here.

You’ll benefit from our help and support in learning the language and culture, pastoral care and medical care.

Our support doesn’t stop when your placement ends. We hope your time with Serve Asia will be part of your life-long growth as a disciple of Jesus playing a part in his global plan. We provide mentoring, ways to stay involved in God’s work in the world and advice to help you and your church make the most of your experience with us.

By mission discipleship we mean that we hope to walk alongside each Serve Asia worker as they try to discern where and how they fit into God’s mission.

Before the great commission (Matthew 8:28), Jesus simply asked his disciples to “Follow me.” For three years the disciples walked, talked, ate, slept, witnessed miracles, cast out demons, and more as they followed Jesus. Through their following they learned. Through their following they were equipped. Through their following their commitment grew – so much so that when Jesus gave the great commission, their hearts were fully engaged, and their lives shaped for the long-term journey.

Serve Asia is not just about the “doing”.

In Serve Asia we don’t just focus on going to the mission field and “doing” something. It’s all about learning and finding out more about what is at the centre of God’s heart. It’s about learning more about what it means to follow God, even if this is to hard places. Serve Asia is not just about the short-term, it’s about gaining long-term vision and commitment.

Upon returning home, we help each Serve Asia worker to integrate and process their experiences. We walk with them as God leads, exploring further involvement in mission through praying, going, sending, learning, mobilising, or welcoming East Asians.

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OMF is a global fellowship of Christians with a heart for East Asia. Our network of websites will connect you to local teams, resources and information. If your country/region is not listed, please select our International website.

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The Pray For China Project

Pray for China

“The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” – Jesus Christ, Lord of the Harvest

“I believe it will only be known on the last day how much has been accomplished in overseas missions by the prayers of earnest believers at home.” – James O. Fraser, Missionary to China

Going Forward on Our Knees

Thank you for your interest in praying for China! We believe that nothing can be accomplished for the Lord in China apart from the prayers of His people.

How should someone pray for a country of 1.4 billion people? We believe it’s best to pray for China province by province and region by region. Thus, we have compiled Praying For China: A Guide to assist and guide believers as they pray for this vast mission field.

For even more detailed information about praying for each region of China as outlined in our prayer guide, click the “Pray for China: Expanded Guide” link below.

Praying For China: A Guide

We would love to send you a copy of Praying For China: A Guide . Please simply contact us to request one!

Pray for China: Online Expanded Guide

Praying For China: A Guide was designed to provide simple “snapshots” of each province and region of China to aid in guiding prayer. For more detailed information about each province and region and their specific needs, please click the link below.

Pray on the Go: Join Our Prayer Line

Joining the Vision For China Prayer Line is a unique way for you to get personally involved in praying for China and our team by receiving regular reminders and prompts via SMS text messages sent directly to your phone.

TAKE A MISSION TRIP

Come and see what Christ is doing in the birthplace of voodoo and what is known as the devils stronghold. Come and meet lives that have been radically transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

• Dates: Flexible
• Cost: $1000-$2000
• Contact: [email protected]

South Africa

You will travel from Atlanta to Port Elizabeth, South Africa to work with a team of church planting missionaries and also be able to participate in the ministries of Camp Rhino. We look forward to serving you.

• Dates: June 24th-July 8th
• Cost: $1000 + airfare
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Vision For China is hosting a short-term missions trip, the “Goforth China Tour”, in the summer of 2024!

• Dates: July 2024 (approx. 2 weeks)
• Cost: $600 + airfare
• Contact: [email protected]
• Website: visionforchina.org

Come see the largest Muslim country in the world! You will travel to the island of Java, the heart of Indonesia. On this trip, you will help in the outreach of a new church plant while seeing the condition of the world’s largest Muslim country.

• Cost: $800 + airfare
• Contact: Josh Ewing | [email protected]

God is working in Asia! Come and see what He is doing on the island of Taiwan. We have many summer outreaches for you to serve in! Use your English and help us reach out to the community.

• Dates: Summer 2024 (approx. 10 days)
• Contact: [email protected]

Taiwan – Taichung City

Come help out a baby church plant just getting started. Walk through the city, and see temple after temple filled with idols and souls that are blinded by a lie. You will learn what the Christians in Taiwan are doing to obey Christ’s command to make disciples and how you can too.

• Dates: Contact leader
• Cost: $2,200 + airfare
• Contact: Adam Walz | [email protected]

The United Kingdom

On the UK Trip, not only will you see the need in Europe, but you will also be able to get directly involved in gospel ministry.

Dates: June 10-19, 2024

Cost: $1500 + airfare

Contact: Travis Snode and Sam Quinn | [email protected]

Relighting the Candles Vision Tour

Would you like to walk where Paul once walked and visit the Seven churches of Revelation? How about helping out in church plants in a majority Muslim country? Join us next summer on the Relighting the Candles Vision Tour.

• Dates: June/July 2024
• Cost: $2500
• Contact: [email protected] | truthtoturkey.com/missionstrip

NORTH AMERICA

New york city.

Come minister in the largest, most diverse city in America! See the sights and get a heart for the need in this great city. Get involved in helping two new church plants as they evangelize in multi-ethnic communities in NYC.

• Cost: $1,395 + airfare
• Contact: Jon Canavan | [email protected]

World’s Cheapest Missions Trip

If you don’t have a passport and can’t afford a trip overseas, consider the World’s Cheapest Missions Trip. This week will change your life!

• Dates: June 11-14, 2024; July 23-26, 2024
• Contact: [email protected]
• Register: www.visionmissions.org/wcmt

LATIN AMERICA

Buenos Aire

See the opportunity of the gospel to be declared in Argentina, as well as a vision of what God can do through the lives of families surrendering to serve Jesus!

• Leaders:  Patrick Henry
• Contact at [email protected] for more information or questions!
• Dates: June 10-20, 2024
• Cost: $2800

Come visit one of South America’s most diverse countries that is rich in culture and steeped in religion. On this trip you will be able to help in a new church plant, evangelism and other opportunities.

• Leaders: Kevin White, Andrew Wilder
• Contact:  [email protected]
• Cost: $2000
• Dates: July 8-15, 2024

In Chile, you’ll be able to pray over the city from the tallest building in Latin America, take part in several outreach ministries with both children and adults, and get a great taste of Latin American culture every moment you’re here. We’ll also have fun activities such as snow tubing in the Andes and visiting port cities Valparaíso and Viña Del Mar. Come see what great things God is doing in Chile, and how you can be a part!

• Dates: July 17-22, 2024; one month missions internship available in June 2024
• Team Leaders: Kyle Shreve and Stephen Carrier
• Contact: Kyle Shreve: [email protected] ; Stephen Carrier: [email protected] ; Tracy Paver: [email protected]  

The beautiful mountains and valleys of Colombia are filled with more than 50 million people, most still without hope. Come help us get the Gospel to them.

• Date: June 24 – July 1, 2024
• Cost: $1300 + Airfare
• Leaders: Chestley Howell | Blake Young | Miguel Sanabria  
• Contact: www.ComeSeeColombia.com

Plan your next missions trip and see the great need in places like Mexico City, Toluca, where we are currently working and continue to start new churches! Contact us today! Don’t forget the yummy tacos as well!  

• Date: June – September, 2024
• Cost: $1,500
• Leader: Jonathan Anderson  
• Contact: [email protected]
• Website: projectwinmexico.com

Join us this summer to have your life changed by experiencing the great need for the Gospel in the city of Arequipa! You will have the opportunity to visit a thriving ministry where God has done great things. You will be directly involved in the ministry and receive hands-on training. We are flexible with dates for your visit! For more info, please reach out to the Peru Ministry team!

• Cost – $1,200 plus airfare  
• Leaders: Mitch McCormick, Lauren Grant, Josh Miller 
• Contact: [email protected] ,  [email protected], [email protected]

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Volunteer in Asia

Considering a volunteer trip to Asia? International Volunteer HQ has 16 years experience in providing the world’s most trusted and affordable Asia volunteer programs. From environmental conservation and volunteering with animals to community development, medical, childcare and teaching English in Asia - there’s something to suit all ages and interests.

IVHQ offers a huge range of impact-led volunteer programs in Southeast Asia and Central Asia, including Thailand , Bali , Cambodia , India , Nepal , Laos , Sri Lanka , the Philippines , China and Vietnam .

By volunteering in Asia, you’ll play a hands-on role in supporting important community projects, be immersed in the unique and vibrant cultures and gain insight into ancient cultures, inspiring traditions and unmatched hospitality.

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Why volunteer abroad in Asia with IVHQ?

Whether you want to volunteer in Southeast Asia as part of your gap year or find short-term humanitarian work in Asia, IVHQ’s programs are available year-round and you can volunteer for 1 - 24 weeks. With flexible booking and unlimited free changes , program orientation, 24/7 support, safe accommodation, meaningful volunteer work and everything in-country organized for you, IVHQ offers the best volunteer opportunities in Asia.

Program fees from only $275 for 1 week

Aligns with un sustainable development goals, fully hosted, including accommodation, meals & more, flexible booking, 24/7 support & unrivalled safety, best asia volunteer programs abroad in 2024 & 2025.

Discover the top places to volunteer in Asia right now and explore our full range of Asia volunteer opportunities below.

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”The 4 weeks I volunteered with IVHQ in Nepal was absolutely amazing. Being able to observe and learn from a medical system that is very different to the one I am used to was extremely surreal but interesting. Besides, the mountainous views wherever we went and the lovely people in Nepal always made us feel very welcome. I would definitely recommend!”

Maathusha, French, 22

Common questions about volunteering in Asia

What volunteer work in asia does ivhq offer.

Volunteering in Asia in 2024 or 2025 is an opportunity to make a significant impact during a time of need.

IVHQ offers a huge range of volunteer projects in Asia, which have been set up to tackle the most pressing issues in each region. Whether you want to teach English, support construction projects, medical programs, care for children, contribute to conservation initiatives or volunteer with animals in Asia, IVHQ’s programs are suitable for volunteers with a range of skills and experience.

What are the most popular volunteer opportunities in Asia?

• Sea Turtle Conservation in Bali
• Special Needs Care in Vietnam
• Medical in India
• Teaching English in Cambodia
• Women’s Education in Nepal
• Hill Tribe Support in Thailand
• Environmental in the Philippines
• Teaching English in China
• Construction & Renovation in Laos
• Childcare in Bali

How much does it cost to volunteer in Asia?

IVHQ makes it super easy and affordable to book volunteer trips to Asia. Our fully hosted Asia volunteer programs start from only $250 for 1 week and include accommodation, meals, airport pickup, orientation and comprehensive support services that you won’t find elsewhere.

How to volunteer in Asia

Applying to volunteer in Asia is simple! Once you’ve decided which country you want to travel to and which volunteer project in Asia you would like to join, you can apply . It’s free, only takes a few minutes and there is no commitment needed at this stage. Our team of Volunteer Travel Specialists will then guide you through the next steps to secure your spot and start preparing for your trip.

You can learn more about how to get started here .

What are the best Asia mission trips for 2024 & 2025?

IVHQ offers a diverse range of mission trips to Asia. Whether you want to volunteer in Southeast Asia or Central Asia, choose from 10 of the most sought after countries where you can complete your humanitarian work in Asia:

• Bali - Ubud, Lovina & Nusa Penida
• Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Siem Reap & Battambang
• China - Xi’an & surrounding suburbs
• India - Delhi & Kerala
• Laos - Honkau Village and Vientiane region
• Nepal - Kathmandu, Chitwan, Chitland & Pokhara
• Philippines - Aborlan District in the island of Palawan
• Sri Lanka - Kandy, Ambalangoda, Hanguranketha, Dambulla & Randeniya
• Thailand - Hua Hin & Chiang Rai
• Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City & surrounding suburbs

Is it safe to volunteer in Asia?

Thousands of IVHQ volunteers travel to Asia every year without encountering any issues. We have a comprehensive approach to managing safety and reducing risks across all of our programs, which gives volunteers the knowledge and confidence they need to stay safe, secure and healthy. This includes:

• All local teams are trained in volunteer management, are required to undertake first aid training and ensure that programs adhere to IVHQ’s Risk Management Policy .
• All IVHQ volunteers receive pre-departure and 24/7 in-country support, are required to have travel insurance and are strongly encouraged to take our online pre-departure training which can be accessed for free.

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Envision a china mission trip.

God’s Hand is sweeping over Asia. Over 30,000 people are coming to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ daily in China, and there is a great need for you to place Bibles and study materials in their hands .

Although you may hear that there is religious freedom in this country, the underground church still faces persecution, especially in rural locations. Many pastors are new Christians trying to lead congregations of 500-700 people with very little training or access to study materials in their language.

Your team will be bringing the light of Christ through covert endeavors, delivering Bibles and study books to mainland China, teaching or visiting Chinese believers, visiting orphanages, encouraging pastors and church members, interacting with street kids, and participating in English Corners (a place for Asians to practice their English-speaking skills). You can bring spiritual aid to our Asian brothers and sisters! China is not for the faint of heart. It is for those passionate about pursuing and spreading God’s love. Take the challenge and equip these precious new believers with a China mission trip.

Ready for your short term mission trip to China? Spread His Word in your Christian mission trips to China and create one of your life’s most defining moments.

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Not ready to go to China? There is still an opportunity for you to impact the church in China beyond just a mission trip.

You can donate to give Bibles to Chinese believers through our contacts in the region. We have a goal of $30,000 and have gotten $1,100+ already!

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Short term mission trips for youth groups, high school students, college students and adults to the us and international sites., covid payment protection.

In order to best serve you and empower you to serve others, we’re offering no-hassle refunds for all our groups for the next year. We’ll work directly with you to make sure you are well taken care of.   Details on this policy here .

SERVE GOD BY SERVING OTHERS ON A MISSION TRIP!

A mission trip will not only have a profound impact on the ministry partner and community that are being served, but also on you and your group as you discover that your stories are part of the bigger story of what God is doing. You will experience God in a new and powerful way as you serve others in a new context.

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Listening Prayer

We want you to have a new experience with Jesus that dramatically encourages your relationship with Him. God has things to say to you! During our mission trips, we intentionally spend time to listen.

Relationship-driven process

More than just setting up a trip, we want to become your partners in ministry.

Customized ministry

The Holy Spirit is already doing a great work in your group; it’s our role to understand your needs and come alongside what God is already doing in a unique way.

Trusted local partners

All of our ministry partners, both overseas and domestic, have a history of excellence in hosting short-term mission teams.

Quality leadership

All of our Mission Leaders have been well trained and are specifically prepared to lead each group.

Sustainable missions

More than just designing an experience for your group, we work with ministry partners that have a long-term plan for sustainability. Your team will come alongside these efforts and can be confident that your service is actually helping.

It’s important to us that your group has an opportunity to connect with Jesus and what He’s doing, both around the world and here in the United States. It’s just as important to us that your experience happens in the context of a plan for sustainability. Our long-term missionaries and ministry partners are doing fantastic work every day. Your short-term mission trip will be specifically designed to support that effort while inspiring your group’s relationship with Jesus.

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Our goal is to work alongside you to achieve your mission trip goals while providing a sustainable impact wherever you serve. In an effort to better serve you, we have developed this payment protection policy for group Short Term Mission trips.

• In the case that Adventures cancels a trip, a group’s funds are refundable up to the $75 per person deposit. This deposit is able to be applied toward a future trip with Adventures.
• Adventures will make cancelations 60 days before a trip, except for the case of unpredictable or extenuating circumstances.
• In the case that a group decides to cancel, their payments can be applied toward a future trip with Adventures but are not refundable.
• Groups must notify Adventures of a decision to cancel 60 days before the trip. After this point we cannot guarantee any re-application of funds.

COVID-19 Trip Guidelines

Adventures encourages all participants to follow CDC guidelines and local regulations at all times. These guidelines will likely change between now and the time of your trip. We will discuss these changes with you as part of your preparation leading up to your trip. It’s important that your group familiarize themselves with these guidelines and make the appropriate preparation before the trip begins.

Having said that, we have also established these basic guidelines for all Adventures Short Term Mission trips.

• Trip participants are required to fill out a health safety questionnaire before traveling to their destination.
• Trip participants are required to fill out a health safety questionnaire each morning before breakfast.
• Trip participants should maintain social distancing, including in ministry. When not socially distanced, wear a mask.
• Each participant should bring at least three masks to wear throughout the week.
• All participants will be required to have their temperature checked by the Project Leader each morning. The Project Leader will be equipped with a temporal thermometer.
• No large group gatherings. We will coordinate with our ministry partners to try to ensure that there are no large group gatherings. In the case that there are, this is done at the discretion of the ministry partner and participants should not feel obligated to attend. It’s our objective to have plenty of smaller service opportunities, such as serving at food pantries, doing work projects at churches or ministries and ministering to people in smaller groups and in a safe, responsible manner.

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They will be quarantined and taken to a facility to have a COVID test taken. They will remain quarantined for 10 days, per CDC guidelines.

They will be quarantined from the rest of the group and everyone will follow CDC recommendations.

Exposure means 15 minute of close interaction. In this case, the participant will enter the quarantine protocol.

The participant should notify their Project Leader or group leader and remove herself/himself from the situation.

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• Xinhua Headlines: "Bridge" in place, China ready to sample on moon's far side

BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhua) -- As China is determined to drive economic growth via sci-tech innovations, it also casts its wisdom and courage in exploring Earth's closest neighbor -- the moon. This year, it plans to retrieve lunar samples from the far side of the moon for the first time in human history.

To carry out this unprecedented mission, it first launched Queqiao-2, a new relay satellite, on March 20 to provide Earth-Moon communications services. The satellite has recently entered its target elliptical orbit around the moon and completed in-orbit communication tests, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

Queqiao, meaning magpie bridge, derives its name from a Chinese folktale, in which magpies formed a bridge across the Milky Way with their wings to help a separated couple reunite. In reality, Queqiao-2 is expected to serve as a vital communication link between Earth-based controllers and the Chang'e-6 probe, which will be launched in the first half of this year to collect samples from the mysterious far side of the moon.

As the moon's revolution cycle is the same as its rotation cycle, the same side always faces Earth. The other face, most of which cannot be seen from Earth, is called the far side or "dark side" of the moon. This term doesn't refer to darkness but rather to the mystery shrouding the moon's largely unexplored terrain.

In order to unravel the mystery, China launched the Chang'e-4 probe, which realized the first-ever soft landing and roving on the far side of the moon at the beginning of 2019. Before that, all relevant knowledge came from speculation based on remote-sensing images.

China launched its first Queqiao satellite in 2018 to support communications and data transmission between Chang'e-4 and Earth. But the first relay satellite has exceeded its designed lifespan. Now, the more powerful Queqiao-2 satellite will take over its communications relay services.

As a backup of the Chang'e-5 probe, Chang'e-6 is set to collect approximately 2 kilograms of lunar samples by shoveling and drilling. The probe will also conduct scientific investigations within the designated landing zone situated in the South Pole-Aitken Basin.

The mission will demand a series of breakthroughs in key technologies, such as automatic sample collection, take-off and ascent from the far side of the moon.

Scientists believe that samples from the far side of the moon have greater research value. Unlike the relatively low-lying and flat terrains found on the near side, the far side has higher elevations and is more densely covered with craters. It suggests that the far side has been subjected to a longer history of impacts, indicating an older geological age for in-depth exploration.

Li Ting and her research team from the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, a subsidiary of the China National Nuclear Corporation, discovered from the Chang'e-5 samples a new mineral, Changesite-(Y). She is much looking forward to samples from the moon's "fresh and unfamiliar" far side.

"If Chang'e-6 can get some older lunar samples exposed after impacts or residues of meteorites and asteroids, it may bring us more deep space information," said Li.

Humans have been curious and imaginative about the moon since ancient times. Li Bai, a renowned poet from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), once wrote a poem to ask when the moon appeared in the blue sky. In fact, the origin of the moon has not only inspired romantic sentiments among literati and scholars throughout history, but also remained a focus of research in the field of lunar science.

In the 16th century, people started using telescopes to observe the moon. In January 1959, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 1 probe, the world's first lunar exploration satellite. In October 2007, China achieved a milestone with the successful launch of the Chang'e-1 satellite, marking the country's inaugural lunar exploration mission.

From the United States' Apollo 11 mission in 1969 to China's Chang'e-5 mission in 2020, humans have accomplished a total of 10 lunar sampling missions. The initial nine samplings all took place during the 1960s and 1970s. Following a 44-year hiatus, Chang'e-5 retrieved 1.731 kilograms of lunar samples, opening a new chapter in cutting-edge lunar research.

The lunar rocks and soil encapsulate the key to decoding the mysteries of billions of years of transformations on the moon. Nearly all our understanding of the moon's inception and development stems from the study of lunar samples, said Yang Wei, researcher with the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A widely accepted theory in the scientific community believes that approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized celestial body known as Theia collided with nascent Earth. The collision caused debris to be ejected into space, which eventually coalesced around Earth to form the moon. This hypothesis owes much to the analysis of lunar samples collected during the United States and Soviet Union lunar missions, Yang said.

Different from previous nine missions which focus on low-latitude areas, Chang'e-5 targeted mid-latitude regions of the moon. With advanced microanalysis technologies, scientists have made groundbreaking discoveries from the study of lunar soil retrieved by Chang'e-5.

According to the CNSA, one of the most notable research results dated the youngest rock on the moon at around 2 billion years in age, extending the "life" of lunar volcanism 800-900 million years longer than previously known.

In the following studies, Chinese scientists further revealed a new mechanism for how young volcanoes took shape on the moon and new clues about the moon's water resources.

The new lunar mineral Changesite-(Y), the first discovered by China and the sixth by humankind, makes China the third country in the world to have discovered a new mineral on the moon.

Li Ting and her team made this great discovery on a single-crystal particle with a radius of about 10 microns, which was only one 200th to 300th the size of a sesame seed. It was isolated from 140,000 tiny lunar particles of about 15-milligram Chang'e-5 samples.

Through the meticulous analysis by Li's team, this imperceptible particle became an essential piece of the moon's geological puzzle. "Planets are composed of interconnected puzzle pieces. Each new mineral we uncover adds a fresh dimension to their intricate pattern, bearing historical imprints of their formative environments," Li said.

For example, Changesite-(Y) is rich in rare earth elements and its magnesium to iron ratio is different from previously identified same subgroup minerals, reflecting the unique characteristics of the Chang'e-5 landing site, Li said.

However, the "puzzle pieces" obtained by human missions remain notably restricted. So far, all 10 sampling missions have been focused on the near side of the moon. If the first nine sampling sites were to be connected to form a polygon, it would merely account for 4.4 percent of the lunar surface. Even with the Chang'e-5 samples, their representativeness is still far from sufficient, Yang said.

"In our geological research on Earth, we will strive to gather the most fundamental data whenever exploring a new location. However, in the case of the moon, humanity has only obtained samples from a handful of sites, with none from high-latitude regions or the far side. Therefore, from a geological perspective, the moon remains a vastly uncharted territory," Li said.

Aside from Chang'e-6, China also plans to launch Chang'e-7 in 2026 and Chang'e-8 in 2028. Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8 will form the basic model of a lunar research station to carry out lunar environment exploration.

The landing and sampling sites of China's moon missions in the coming years are mainly in the lunar south pole region or on the far side of the moon, the CNSA said.

"Building a research station on the moon, and exploring deeper space using the moon as a base, was once an imagination in science fictions. Now, it may become a reality in my lifetime," Li said. Enditem

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