A Long March-2F Y15 rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft and three astronauts on a mission to complete China's first space station, is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's northwestern Gansu Province on Nov. 29, 2022. (Kyodo)

TOKYO - The annual number of Chinese space rocket launches more than quadrupled over a decade to a record-high 62 last year, as President Xi Jinping aims to make the country a space power, according to a survey by Japan's Cabinet Office.