The China Life insurance company announced in Beijing on Wednesday it provided unique policies to the two astronauts aboard the manned spaceship Shenzhou VI.
   
This was the second time China Life provided policies to astronauts after the first astronaut Yang Liwei aboard the manned spacecraft Shenzhou V two years ago.
   
As China's biggest life insurance company, China Life tried to support domestic research in outer space area and hoped to set an example and provide experience for the whole insurance industry, which is still new in this aspect.

(Xinhua News Agency October 13, 2005)