Dropping hypergolic rockets errantly over populated landmasses is wrong on so many levels. That's a forest, for crying out loud, and those are human beings.



Edit: I'm pretty certain that wasn't a first stage recovery attempt, personally.



Next time I might need to add a sarcastic tag to such posts.....As for dropping hypergolic rockets on populated terrain.....well I don't know where else in China can you launch rockets, except for the eastern seaboard. But in the days of Chairman Mao attempting to launch such things from the east would lead to Western/Soviet bomber attacks instantly.Hence the Chinese are switching to kerolox/hydrolox/solid for the next generation rockets, build a new launch center on Hainan Island for most future launches, and is researching on fly-back boosters for use on the existing launch sites.