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The touchdown makes China the second country in history to deposit a rover on the surface of Mars. After months in orbit around the red planet, the Tianwen-1 spacecraft released the Zhurong rover for a landing in Utopia Planitia, a vast plain that may once have been covered by an ancient Martian ocean. Source 1t.
The Chinese are usually a decade or two behind the US but when they do get to where we are they really excel. There are pros and cons to having them on Mars as well but let's see how it turns out.