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Updated March 2006
Missile Facilities
Xinshidai (New Era Corporation)
New Era (Xinshidai) Corporation
中国新时代公司
President: Qin Zhong Xing
Other Names: New Era (Xinshidai) Group
Located in Beijing, Xinshidai was established in 1980 under the auspices of the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). Formerly, it was the Foreign Affairs Bureau of COSTIND. It is 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:
- China Aero-Technology Import-Export Corporation (CATIC);
- China Electronics Import-Export Corporation (CEIEC);
- China Great Wall Industrial Corporation (CGWIC);
- China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO);
- China Nuclear Energy Industrial Corporation (CNEIC);
- China Precision Machinery Import Export Corporation (CPMIEC);
- China Satellite Launch Agents, LTD.;
- China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC);
- Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology (NINT);
- Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research;
- Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics;
- Southwest Institutes.
[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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