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Updated March 2006
Missile Facilities
China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation
China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation (CPMIEC)
中国精密机械进出口公司
President: Zhang Tong
Located in Beijing, CPMIEC is under the China Aerospace Corporation (CASC). It was established in 1980. CPMIEC is also a member of the New Era (Xinshidai) Group.
CPMIEC is involved in missile and missile technology production, imports and exports, and is the prime contractor and marketer for China's M-series of missiles which includes the M-9/DF-15 and the M-11/DF-11. CPMIEC is reported to have the power to negotiate sales of nearly all missiles and technologies produced by CASC, except strategic systems. CPMIEC also markets liquid and solid rocket engines. CPMIEC imports and exports high technology equipment, including defensive weapon systems, space equipment, satellite technologies and products, precision machinery, optical instruments, and electronic products.
The types of missiles CPMIEC offers for export include:
- Surface-to-surface missiles (SSMs): M-9/DF-15, M-11/DF-11;
- Cruise missiles: SY-1 (CSS-N-1), C-101(CSS-X-5), HY-1 (CSS-N-2/CSSC-2), HY-2/C-201 (CSSC-3), HY-4/C-201 (CSSC-7), C-201W, HY-3/C-301, C-601 (CAS-1), YJ-1/C-801, YJ-2/C-802 ;
- Surface-to-air missiles (SAMs): HQ-2 (B, J), CSA-N-2, FM-80, LY-60, KS-1, Vanguard (shoulder-launched), HN-5A,B (shoulder launched);
- Free rocket systems: WS-1
According to a classified 2 March 2000 National Security Agency (NSA) report, CPMIEC has been selling missile technology to Libya since March 1999. CPMIEC was sanctioned by the United States in May 1991 and August 1993 (as a subsidiary of CASC) for its involvement in Chinese missile-related sales to Pakistan, and again in July 2003 for allegedly transferring to Iran technology "having the potential to make a material contribution to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or missiles." New Era (Xinshidai) manages CPMIEC's import and export activities.
According to a company brochure, CPMIEC is:
- "a nationwide foreign trade organization which combines trade with industry and technology. As a subsidiary of China Aerospace Corporation, CPMIEC has the status of a legal person and independently carries out import and export business."
- "Backed by the immense economic and technology base and the strong production capability of the space industry in China, supported by ample funds, advanced facilities and a large number of well experienced experts from the research and development institutes and plants, CPMIEC has adequate capacity for research, design and manufacture of various high-precision equipment and products of high technology."
- "CPMIEC deals with import and export business in high technology, including defensive weapon system, space equipment, satellite techniques and products, special equipment, precision machinery, optical instruments, electronic products, etc. CPMIEC accepts orders for processing with customer's drawings, materials, and samples, engages in joint research and development, co-production, joint venture, technology transfer and compensation trade, contracts for the design and construction of industrial and civil project, consultations of technical and foreign trade business information and other forms of trade activities."
- "Since CPMIEC was set up in 1980, it has established a wide range of business relations with dozens of countries and regions throughout the world. In business activities, CPMIEC has always been honoring its contractual obligations, keeping the commitments, and seeking high efficiencies. It has also been exporting various products with reasonable prices, superior quality and reliable performance, together with good after-sales services and long-term supply of spare parts."
- "CPMIEC sincerely wishes to further develop friendly and cooperative relationship with customers and friends in the industrial, economic and trade circles in countries and regions all around the world on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and progress, and create prosperity for the future."
CPMIEC's scope of services includes:
- Export of weapon systems;
- Design and construction of test range, technical, and firing sites; modification, upgrading, and maintenance of foreign weapon systems; and
- Export of civilian products and technologies converted from military production; and joint venture, co-production, and manufacture with supplied materials, designs, or samples.
CPMIEC's engineering design and construction services include:
- Delivery of technical and firing sites;
- Air and sea defense missile test ranges;
- Special facilities for research and design, simulation, CAD and CAM, microwave testing, motor testing, antenna testing, non-destructive testing, static and dynamic strength testing, full-scale testing, information, telemetry, meteorology, computer, and material science;
- Special production facilities, including micro and precision machinery, composite materials, chemical milling, chemical deposition, heat isostatic pressing, quality control, environment control, microelectronics, autoclave, and vacuum deposition;
- Military and civilian buildings for general purposes.
[Sources: Company brochure of CPMIEC, Military Division; Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems, various issues; Hua Di, in Potter and Jencks, p. 165; Robert Shuey and Shirley A. Kan, "Chinese Missile And Nuclear Proliferation: Issues For Congress," CRS Issue Brief, 29 September 1995, p. 4; "Testimony Of Timothy V. McCarthy, Senior Research Associate, Program For Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute Of International Studies," House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee On International Security, International Organizations, And Human Rights, 28 April 1993, p. 170; Risk Report, May 1995, pp. 6-7; "China Helping Iranian Missile Developments," Jane's Defence Weekly, 17 July 1996, p. 13; John W. Lewis and Hua Di, "China's Ballistic Missile Programs: Technologies, Strategies, Goals," International Security, Fall 1992, pp. 5-40; Bill Gertz, "Beijing Delivered Missile Technology To Libya, US Says," Washington Times, 13 April 2000.]
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