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China Jiangnan Space Industry Corporation

Other Name: 中国江南航天工业集团公司
Subordinate To: China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC)
Size: Employs 30,000 people
Facility Status: Active

The China Jiangnan Space Industry Corporation is under the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) and was formerly known as the Guizhou Space Industry Corporation. It is located in Zunyi and Kaishan, Guizhou Province, and oversees 35 research institutes, factories, and companies, employing 30,000 personnel.

The Jiangnan Space Corporation develops surface-to-air missiles, global positioning systems, and conducts jamming research.

Institutes under the Jiangnan Space Industry Corporation include:

  • "38th Research Institute"
  • "303rd Research Institute"
  • Chaohui Electromechanical Factory
  • General Institute of Military Products, "302nd Research Institute"
  • Guizhou Gaoyuan Machinery Factory
    SAM launchers.
  • Honggang Electromechanical Factory
  • Jiangnan Electromechanical Design Institute
  • Meiling Factory
  • Nanfeng Factory
  • Qunjian Machinery Factory
  • Wujiang Machinery Factory
  • Xinfeng Instrument Manufacturing Organization
    Tracking and control systems.

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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