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中国工程物理研究院
DIRECTOR: Zhu Zulang (former Vice President of CAEP in charge of nuclear weapon design); former head of CAEP was Hu Side.
OTHER NAMES: Ninth Academy, Science City; Zitong Facility; Mianyang Facility
Located near Mianyang in the mountains northwest of Chengdu, Sichuan Province (104.46E/31.28N). CAEP was established in the 1960s. It conducts work related to the research, development, and testing of nuclear weapons. CAEP duplicates, and has taken over most of the responsibilities of the Haiyan facility.
The CAEP also conducts a wide variety of arms control work through its Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) in Beijing which has a core number of experts conducting technical analysis of on arms control issues such as nuclear test bans and theater missile defenses.
The CAEP includes about 12 institutes spread throughout Mianyang, Sichuan Province, designated with 900 numbers. Institute 907 is located in Jiangsu, north of Shanghai.
Prior to March 1998, the CAEP reported to the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). It now reports to the General Armaments Department (GAD).
CAEP employs 20,000 employees and 8,000 technical staff (2,000 senior; 2,600 middle; 3,400 other). CAEP oversees over 100 research institutes and 30 workshops.
CAEP conducts research work in: theoretical physics, plasma physics, nuclear physics, explosives/organic chemistry, machine design, computer applications, nuclear equipment/vacuum technology.
CAEP and a number of its subsidiary organizations were listed on the US Department of Commerce's June 1997 "entity list."
CAEP includes the following institutes and departments:
- INSTITUTE 905: Known as the "Chinese Sandia." Site of ordnance engineering laboratory where the non-nuclear parts of nuclear weapons are designed.
- DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AND EXCHANGE
- DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ELECTRONICS (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL MATERIALS (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF EXPLOSIVES AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF FLUID PHYSICS (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF GENERAL DESIGNING AND ASSEMBLY (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF MACHINING TECHNOLOGY (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- (SOUTHWEST) INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL MECHANICS (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS OF SPECIAL MATERIALS FACTORY (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- SOUTHWEST COMPUTING CENTER (Mianyang, Sichuan Province) (listed on the "entity list")
- INSTITUTE OF SYSTEM ENGINEERING
- INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS (IAPCM) (Beijing) (listed on the "entity list")
- HIGH POWER LASER LABORATORY (Shanghai) (listed on the "entity list")
Updated 12/1/2003
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