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Hunan Space Agency

Other Name: 068 Base
Location: Changsha, Hunan Province
Subordinate To: China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC)
Size: Unknown
Facility Status: Active

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