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中国航天科技集团公司
(In July 1999, the China Aerospace Corporation (CASC) was divided into two organizations: the China Aerospace Machinery and Electronics Corporation (CAMEC) and the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.)
General Manager: Zhang Qingwei
Founded on July 1, 1999, CASC is one of the two organizations formerly part of the China Aerospace Corporation (CASC). It was broken off from the former CASC as part of the government's effort to reform China's defense industry by loosening state control over enterprise operation and by trying to inject some degree of competition by breaking up the large defense corporations. According to former General Manager Wang Lihang, the old management system was not responsive to the market economy. CASC was "crippled by a cumbersome structure, scattered resources, overlapping construction, overstaffing and financial inefficiency." In addition, the company was not a genuine business entity, as political and business responsibilities were not clearly divided. The goal of the restructuring was to rectify these problems by defining the duties and responsibilities of both the corporation and workers. [Wen Yangyang, "Interview with the General Manager of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation," Zhongguo Hangtian (China Aerospace), August 1999, p. 5-6.]
CASC is comprised of over 140 units (subsidiary research centers, factories, share-holding companies and stock-holding companies); CASC also employs over 103,000 workers, 41,000 specialists and technicians, and 1,300 researchers. Its involved in the development, production and sales of tactical and strategic missiles, satellites, space launch vehicles, space vehicles, and other aerospace goods. According to an advertisement in the July 1999 issue of Zhongguo Hangtian (China Aerospace),
- "CASC is capable of developing and launching launch vehicles of low-orbit,
earth synchronous rotating orbit and sun synchronous orbit. Its technologies
in high-energy fuels, strap-on launch vehicles and multiple satellite
launching by one launching vehicle, among others, have reached world
standard. It also dominates the expertise for producing communications
satellites, meteorological satellites, resources satellites, scientific
experimental satellites, and other space vehicles, as it dominates advanced
technologies in satellite recovering, orbit control and attitude control. In
addition, the new enterprise enjoys very strong technological advantages in
satellite application system and computerization application technologies,
information technology, automation technology, and system integration."
Given these responsibilities, the new CASC inherited seven major research institutes from CASC, including:
- The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, CALT (former CASC 1st Academy)
- The China Academy of Space Technology, CAST (former CASC 5th Academy)
- The Shanghai Academy of Space Flight Technology, SAST (former CASC 8th Academy)
- The China Academy of Basic Technologies of Aerospace and Electronics (former CASC 9th Academy)
- Academy of Aerospace Solid Propulsion Technology
- Academy of Aerospace Liquid Propulsion Technology
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China Aerospace Times Electronics Corporation
CASC also inherited responsibility for two of China Aerospace Corporation's former R&D production bases:
- Sichuan Aerospace Industry Corporation
- Xi'an Aerospace Science and Technology Industry Company
CASC is also involved in developing, producing and selling civilian products such as: mechanics, electronics, chemicals, communications, transportation, medical products, and eco-technology.
[Sources: "China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation Founded,"
Zhongguo Hangtian (China Aerospace), July 1999;Wen Yangyang, "Interview
with the General Manager of the China Aerospace Science and Technology
Corporation,"
Zhongguo Hangtian (China Aerospace), August 1999, p. 5-6; "Young Space
Elite Emerges from Manned Space Program: Experts," Space Daily, 27
October, 2003. ]
Updated 10/31/2003
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