The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission

eXTP is a mission of the China National Space Admninistration and Chinese Academy of Sciences, with an important participation by a consoritium of European institutions. The mission is aimed at addressing forefront science questions concerning the behavior of matter under extreme conditions of gravity, density and magnetism. The scientific payload composed of four experiments: the Spectroscopy Focusing Array (SFA, 0.5-10 keV), a set of 9 X-ray telescopes, for a total effective area of about 0.6 m2 at 6 keV, the Large Area Detector (LAD, 2-30 keV), a set of collimated detectors for an effective area of 3.4 m2 at 6 keV, the Polarimetry Focusing Array (PFA, 2-10 keV), a set of 4 X-ray telescopes equipped with an imaging X-ray polarimeter, and the Wide Field Monitor (WFM,2-50 keV), imaging 4 sr simultaneously, with arcmin resolution. The launch is foreseen before 2025. I will report about the status and progress in the mission design and study.