On December 4, 2022 at 12:09 UTC the Chinese "Shenzhou-14” landing capsule landed safely at the designated area of the Dongfeng landing site in the Gobi Desertin, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 Chinese cosmonauts – Chen Dong (陈冬), Liu Yang (刘洋), Cai Xuzhe (蔡旭哲).

The cosmonauts spent in space 182 days, 9 hours and 25 minutes. The “Shenzhou-14” mission was the 9^th crewed spaceflight in China’s space program, and the 3^rd crew mission to China’s new “Tiangong” space station. Three other crew members of the “Tiangong” space station – Chinese cosmonauts Fei Junlong (费俊龙), Deng Qingming (邓清明), Zhang Lu (张鹭), remained in orbit aboard the “Tiangong”.