NEW CONSTRUCTION AT THE YUNG-TING MACHINERY PLANT (618 FACTORY) CHANG-HSIN-TIEN, CHINA

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• Publication Date: April 1, 1965
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April 1965
NEW CONSTRUCTION AT THE
YUNG-TING MACHINERY PLANT (618 FACTORY)
CHANG-HSIN-TIEN, CHINA
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NEW CONSTRUCTION AT THE YUNG-TING MACHINERY PLANT (618 FACTORY)
CHANG-HSIN-TIEN, CHINA
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A previously observed but hitherto uniden-
tified installation located 1 nautical mile west-
southwest of Chang-hsin-tien, China, and ad-
jacent to the Peiping 1st Armored School, is
identified as the Yung-ting Machinery Plant.
This plant, which has the code designation 618
Factory, probably produces and/or repairs
tracked armored vehicles and farm tractors;
however, its proximity to the Peiping Rocket
Engine Test Facility and the presence of anew-
ly constructed section of the plant containing a
large fabrication/assembly-type building sug-
gest that the plant may be associated with the
Chinese missile program.
The Yung-ting Machinery Plant is located
at 39-49N 116-10E (Figure 1), approximately
1 nautical mile (nm) southwest of the town of
Chang-hsin-tien, China, and approximately 1.5
nm east of the Peiping Rocket Engine Test Fa-
cility, Chang-hsin-tien I
The city of Peiping is approximately 9 nm Mort -
east of the plant. Nearby installations (I igure
2) include the Peiping 1st Armored School,
Chang-hsin-tien
Petroleum Product Storage, Kang Wa
the Chang-hsin-tien Locomotive
and Rolling Stock Plant
the Military Barracks Area, Nan-ying; t i -
itary Barracks and Depot, Chang-hsin-lien; a
probable armored school; and 2 driver-training
and vehicle test tracks. Also in the ar(?a is a
reservoir which occupies a portion of the site
of the abandoned Chang-hsin-tien Ammunition
Depoti
An analysis of numerous collateral reports
shows that the Yung-ting Machinery Plant is al-
so known by the Chinese under the code designa-
tion 618 Factory and is located south of Chang-
hsin-tien near an armored school and tank train-
ing area. The plant was formerly associat.~d with
the Chang-hsin-tien Locomotive and lolling
Stock Plant which continues to manufactur_~ loco-
motives. The Yung-ting Machinery Plant is re-
ported to repair armored vehicles and tanks, in-
cluding the Soviet T-34, and to produce farm
tractors.
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The Yung-ting Machinery Plant is .livided
into 2 separately secured adjacent sections. The 25X1
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older of the sections is adjacent to the northwest
side of the Peiping 1st Armored School, Chang-
hsin-tien (Figures 2, 3, and 4), and the newer
section is immediately north-northwest of the
older section. A narrow strip between the sec-
tions contains a diverted stream or ditch and
also a road which connects a separately secured
section of the 1st Armored School west of the
the plant with a driver-training and vehicle
test track east of the plant (Figure 4). The
Chang-hsin-tien Locomotive and Rolling Stock
Plant is immediately east of the test track,
and on the western side of this plant (adjacent
to the test track) is located an area of recent
plant expansion (Figure 4).
The site occupied by the older section of the
Yung-ting Machinery Plant was a barracks and
storage area when observed~ubsequent-
ly, the barracks and storage facilities were re-
moved, and the older section of the machinery
plant which was built on the site has shown al-
most no change since first observedi
One small support building was constructs
I and another was still under con-
struction he layout of the area
and dimensions of the major buildings are shown
on Figure 4. The main production and/or repair
facilities probably consist of 6 monitor-roofed
shop buildings in the northern end of the section
(Figure 3). Two of these buildings (items 7 and
8, Figure 4) are near a rail spur serving 4 on/
off loading and storage buildings. Arail-served
steamplant is in the northernmost corner of the
older section, and an apparently older heat and
powerplant is in the western part of the section.
Small support and storage buildings and ahous-
ing and support area occupy the remainder of
this older section.
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the site of the newer section of the Yurg-ting
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only ground scarring and 1 building item 3,
Figure 4) in an early stage of construction were
seen. The only previous photography w is ob-
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poor quality, the 3 main buildings of thc_? plant
(items 2, 3, and 4) appeared complete, but con-
tinued ground scarring indicated that the newer
section of the plant was not operational it that
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1 large multi ay, monitor-roofed fabrication/
assembly building (item 2) with an adjacent
smokestack, 1 support building composed of
2 adjoining gable-roofed structures (item 3),
1 shop building having a single roof monitor
(item 4), and 1 small 2-level structure (item
6). The probable transformer house (item 1)
at the site of the future substation in the torth-
west extremity of the newer section appeared
to be in the early stages of construction. No
security was visible, and temporary , ccess
roads converged from several directions.
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ditches for steamlines extending from a nearby
steamplant in the older section of the plant to
the new plant buildings. These ditches were later
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the substation had been separately se-uredc5X1 D
and a powerline was visible leading from Y he di-
rection of the large thermal powerplant at the
Peiping Rocket Engine Test Facility. Portions
of a security wall had been erected around the
plant, an interior road network was forming, and
a small building appeared just east of thi, shop
building.
Photography
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Railroad, double track
Railroad, single track
Road
Track
Wall
Powerl ine
Built up area
Stack
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(618 FACTORY)
ITEM
LENGTH WIDTH
(FT) (FT)
COVERAGE
(SQ FT)
1
100 x
70*
5,500
2
575 x
465 x 30h
267,375
3
215 x
95
20,425
4
340 x
155 x 20h
52,700
5
100 x
80
8,000
6
120 x
45*
5,000
7
440 x
140
61,600
8
180 x
70 x 30h
12,600
9
385 x
220*x 30h
60?000
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pletion of 1 small support building (item 5) on
the east side of the 2-level structure (item 6),
and a small support building on the west side of
the 2-level structure.
plete I and is probably an indi-
cation of full operational capability. An area of
continuing activity was observed just east oft[ e
support building (item 3).
The newly constructed section of the Yung-
ting Machinery Plant appears to be directly as-
sociated with the older section of the plant; how-
ever, the fact that it is separately secured could
be an indication of a function different from that
of the older plant.
the security wa.11 was
completed, the newer plant section appeared to
be generally in a more finished state and was
observed to be approximately 1,600 feet long and
1,100 feet wide. Photography
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track activity in t e open area within the security
wall and 2 rows of vehicles parked near the
fabrication/ assembly building. The bridge for
the main access road was observed to be com-
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FIGURE 5. VIEW OF THE VEHICLE SHEDS AT THE SEPA-
RATELY SECURED SECTION OF THE PEIPING 1ST ARMORED
SCHOOL, CHANG-HSIN-TIEN, CHINA,
The main section of the 1st Armored School
contains a large administration building, nume
ous classrooms, barracks, support, and mes-
ing buildings, and a firing range. A separately
secured section approximately 1,500 feet to the
northwest (immediately west of the Yung-tiiig
Machinery Plant) contains 6 vehicle sheds, a
small heat plant, a messhall, and other person-
nel and vehicle support buildings
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ures 5 and 6 are ground views of these
sane areas showing t 4e vehicle sheds with the
doors open and 1 T-34 tank, 1 JS-1/2 tank,
and 3 SP guns parked near the test track. Since
photography l track activity
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FIGURE 6. VIEW OF ARMORED VEHICLES AT THE PEIPING
1ST ARMORED SCHOOL, CHANG-HSIN-TIEN, CHINA,
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has been continuously observed leading from the
separately secured section of the 1st Armored
School to the nearby driver-training and vehicle
test track and within the test track itself.
CHANG-HSIN-TIEN
LOCOMOTIVE AND ROLLING STOCK PLANT
The Locomotive and Rolling Stock Plant has
shown little change
xcept for an area
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of expansion on its southeast corner where a
large probable rolling stock production or repair
building (item 9, Figure 4) and a steamplant were
under construction IThe area
immediately surrounding these buildings ap-
peared scarred and probably contained con-
struction materials Iwhen
photography reveale an extension of the secu-
rity wall enclosing the area of expansion and
also showed well-defined service roads.
The Yung-ting Machinery Plant has received
an addition of more than 350,000 square feet of
roof cover in the separately secured newer sec-
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p eted earlier. A possible tank/SP gun and rows
of vehicles have been observed within the plant
which is adjacent to an armored school and a
vehicle test track. This evidence, togetherwith
collateral reports indicating that the plane pro-
duces farm tractors and repairs tanks and ar-
mored vehicles, supports the conclusion that the
Yung-ting Machinery Plant probably produces
and/or repairs tracked armored vehicles and
farm tractors.
The Peiping Rocket Engine Test Facility
is located 1.5 nm west of the Yung-tint. Ma-
chinery Plant. The test facility contains stands
and support buildings for testing large rocket
engines; however, an extensive related mis-
sile production installation has not been posi-
tively identified. The construction of a large
fabrication/assembly building in the newer sec-
tion of the Yung-ting Machinery Plant during
the same time span as the construction of the
Peiping Rocket Engine Test Facility suggests
a possible association of the Yung-ting Ma-
chinery Plant with the Chinese missile pro,,,rram.
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