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New Era (Xinshidai) Corporation

中国新时代公司

PRESIDENT: Qin Zhong Xing

OTHER NAMES: New Era (Xinshidai) Group

Located in Beijing. Established in 1980. Under the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). Formerly the Foreign Affairs Bureau of COSTIND. Jointly administrated by the General Staff Department of the PLA and COSTIND.

New Era is one of China's two primary organizations involved in the arms trade (the other is Poly Technologies). New Era conducts trade for COSTIND, and plans and coordinates the import and export activities of the China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation (CNEIC) and the China Nuclear Instrumentation and Equipment Corporation (CNIEC). New Era is an intermediate level supervisory body for missile sales. It has jurisdiction over six major Chinese defense industry trading companies, and plans and coordinates import/export by members.

New Era also conducts scientific cooperation and exchanges, exhibitions, and cooperation in advanced technology.

The following corporations are affiliated with the New Era Corporation:

[Sources: Wendy Frieman, Nonproliferation Review, Spring-Summer 1996, p. 17; Yan Kong, "China's Arms Trade Bureaucracy," Jane's Intelligence Review, February 1994, p. 80; China Today: Defense Science and Technology, vol. 2 (Beijing: National Defense University Press, 1993).]


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