 In 1974 the plan for human spaceflight was scrapped when policy makers decided that applications satellites were more important and competing with the US and USSR wasn't as important.In late 1986, the 863 Project was started which had a focus on military applications, but also had a goal for human spaceflight.Despite possessing less funding than ESA or NASA, the People's Republic of China has achieved crewed space flight and operates a commercial satellite launch service.