BEIJING, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday talked with the two astronauts in the space lab Tiangong-2 at the command center of China's manned space program in Beijing.

The two astronauts, Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, embarked on the space trip aboard the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft on Oct. 17. They entered Tiangong-2 on Oct. 19.