BEIJING, Aug. 1 (China Space News) --  China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) attended the third China International Commercial Aerospace Forum 2017, which opened Wednesday in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province.

China will test the key technologies for launching the Long March series of rockets from the sea this year and will start providing commercial launch service by 2018, according to CASC.

China has up to the present launched 250 times the Long March series rockets and provided 60 commercial launch services for a dozen countries.