Same. This is just one of the many articles that state China has been building a moon base 'within the decade,' since 2003 (before China, it was USSR, then Russia):
https://science.slashdot.org/story/03/05/30/1227223/chinese-moon-base-by-2012---or-2006?sbsrc=thisday

I guess this is one way to get congress to spend money on space