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Updated March 2006
Missile Facilities
Sichuan Space Industry Corporation
Sichuan Space Industry Corporation (SSIC)
四川航天工業總公司
Director: Yu Ruihua
Other Names: Sichuan Aerospace Corporation, 062 Base
The Sichuan Space Industry Corporation is under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). It is located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and employs more than 6,000 personnel in 30 research and design institutes and production facilities.
SSIC develops systems associated with liquid-fueled ballistic missiles, launch vehicles, and anti-ship missiles, including the WS-1 and WS-1B long-distance multiple-rocket weapon systems.
Institutes under the SSIC include:
- Chongqing Aerospace Electromechanical Design Institute
800 personnel. - Chongqing Bashan Instrument Factory
Telemetry equipment. - Chuannan Machinery Factory
Missile system ignitors. - Fenghuo Machinery Factory
Servo-mechanical devices. - Liaoyuan Radio Factory
Located in Xuanhua, Sichuan province; space flight controls. - Mingjiang Machinery Factory
Located in Dachuan. - Pingjiang Machinery Factory
Located in Dachuan; control systems. - Sichuan Changzheng Mechanical Factory
Located in Wanyuan, in northern Sichuan; 5000 personnel. - Tongjiang Machinery Factory
Metals processing.
[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; "Overview of CASC and its Institutes," Beijing Zhongguo Hangtian in Chinese, 1 October 2002; Chinese Defence Today, 26 November 2003.]
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