(WANG JIANMIN)

(WANG JIANMIN)

Astronauts Jing Haipeng (front center), Liu Wang (front left) and Liu Yang wave to a welcoming crowd after emerging from the return capsule of Shenzhou-9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on June 29.

During their nearly two-week flight, the three astronauts completed the country's first manual rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, which will pave the way for the country's establishment of a permanent manned space station around 2020.