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Hunan Space Agency, "068 Base"

DIRECTOR: Zhao Yonghai

The Hunan Space Agency is under the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC). It is located in Changsha, Hunan Province, and oversees 1 research institute and 5 factories.

The Hunan Space Agency produces aerospace electromechanical equipment associated with surface-to-air missiles, and conducts research and development of special materials.

Institutes under the Hunan Space Agency include:

• "7803 Factory"

Produces superhard materials; Director: Huang Yaoyue.
 
• "7804 Factory"

• "7861 Factory"

• "7801 Research Institute"

Located in Changsha, Hunan Province; Director: Yan Hailiang.
 

[Sources: Major Mark A. Stokes, China's Strategic Modernization: Implications for US National Security, October 1997, Appendix One; Air and Cosmos (Paris), 25 October 1996, in FBIS-CST-96-020, 25 October 1996; Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume 5, p. 340.]

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Last Updated June 1998

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