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China Sanjiang Space Group (CSSG)

Other Name: 中国三江航天集团; Base 066
Location: Xiaogan, Hubei Province
Subordinate To: China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC)
Size: Over 15,000 employees, including over 6,000 technical staff [1]
Facility Status: Active

China Sanjiang Space Group’s (CSSG)’s primarily engages in the research and development of solid-fuelled ballistic missiles and stealth/counterstealth technology. [2] Its capital assets are valued at approximately $2.2 billion. [3] CSSG was established as Base 066 in August 1969 as a Third Line production facility for 3rd Academy anti-ship missiles. CSSC developed the 300-kilometer DF-11 ballistic missile system (also known as M-11), which are thought by many to have been sold to Pakistan in the early 1990s. [4] In 1993 the group began work on a longer range variant, the DF-11A, which completed testing in 1998 and reportedly has twice the range of the DF-11. [5] DF-11 missiles are deployed in four brigades located at Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, Yungan and Xianyou, Fujian Province and Meizhou, Guangdong Province. [6]

The group has offices in Beijing and Shenzhen, as well as over 100 member enterprises and research and production bases, including the following: [7]

•    Sanjiang Space Group Design Institute
•    Hubei Redstar (Hongxing) Chemical Institute, 42nd Research Institute, Xiangfan, Hubei
•    Hubei Hongfeng Machinery Plant, Yuan'an - electromechanical integration
•    Wanshan Special Vehicle Machinery Factory, Yuan'an
•    Hubei Jianghe Chemical Factory, Yuan'an
•    Xianfeng Machinery Factory, Yuan'an
•    Wanli Radio Factory, Yuan'an
•    Honglin Machinery Factory, Xiaogan
•    Hubei Hongyang Machinery Factory, Yuan'an
•    Jiangbei Machinery Factory, Yuan'an
•    Wanfeng Factory, Yuan'an.

Sources:
[1] “Brief Company Introduction [企业简介],” China Sanjiang Space Group, www.cssg.com
[2] “China's Aerospace and Defence Industry: Appendix A – Industry Directory,” Jane’s Information Group, 5 December 2000.
[3] Mark Stokes, “China’s Evolving Conventional Strategic Strike Capability,” Project 2049, 14 September 2009, p. 56.
[4] Mark Stokes, “China’s Strategic Modernization: Implications for the United States,” Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1999, pp. 87, 102.
[5] Mark Stokes, “China’s Evolving Conventional Strategic Strike Capability,” Project 2049, 14 September 2009, p. 86.
[6] “Strategic Weapons Systems, China,” Jane’s Sentinel Security Assessment, 17 January 2011.
[7] “China's Aerospace and Defence Industry: Appendix A – Industry Directory,” Jane’s Information Group, 5 December 2000.

 

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