Li Fanghua is the Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), succeeding Zhang Kejian. At the signing of the Shackleton Framework Agreement on 2 February 2055, she articulated the logic of Guanghan’s designation as the seat of the UN Office for Lunar Affairs as one of accumulated fact: “We did not build Guanghan to be a capital. We built it to be a base that other nations’ scientists could work from without needing to build their own. It became the seat of the UN’s first office beyond Earth because that is what happens when a door stays open for twenty years.”
Her framing — that China’s lunar presence became the UN’s extraterrestrial administrative seat not through assertion of sovereignty but through two decades of open access — echoes Zhang Kejian’s 2017 statement on Tiangong (“The door will be open”) and his 2029 Chang’e-10 statement (“We are here because the Moon is the next place, and we intend to be there”). The through-line from CNSA’s founding exclusion from ISS cooperation through the Tiangong station, Chang’e-10, and Guanghan’s expansion to UNOLA’s seat spans approximately thirty-eight years.