Silber, you need to stop reading the communist training manual as your source and try something a little more accurate, like google. Of course ancient Chinese text have them flying something as far back as 2000BC, probably from smoking opium, a bit like the ancient text that has a bloke walking on water.
As far as manned space flight, you are once again taking the urine ? The Chinese put a man into orbit over 40 years after the Yanks put a chap on the moon