The main commercial purpose of the satellite launch center is to launch low earth orbiting (LEO) and solar synchronous orbiting (SSO) satellites. The launch site is also for CZ-4 SLV satellite boosters to polar orbits. TSLC first launched a CZ-4 SLV in September 1988.

Also known as the Wuzhai Space and Missile Test Center, a launch site for land-based ballistic missiles and overland SLBM tests. Contains a silo and surface launch pad. Has tested such missiles as the DF-5 and the DF-31. Possibly site for war reserve launch for DF-5 and/or DF-4 missiles.

Solid Fuel Plant

There reportedly is a solid fuel plant at the Taiyuan site which dates back to the mid-1960s

Sources:

Tong Lianjie, "Xichang Satellite Launch Center," Aerospace China, Summer 1992, pp. 17-20; Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume 5, pp. 340, 341, 362; Richard W. Fieldhouse, Chinese Nuclear Weapons, p. 58; Risk Report, May 1995, p. 7; Air and Cosmos/Aviation International (Paris), 25 October 1996, in FBIS-CST-96-020, 25 October 1996.]