SHANGHAI GUIDED MISSILE PRODUCTION PLANT MINHANG
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Shanghai Guided Missile Production Plant Minhang
MAP REFERENCE
DMA. USATC, Series 200, Sheets 0492-2 and 0492-7, scale 1:200,000 (UNCLASSIFIED)
DMA. Series ONC, Sheet H-12, ed 5, scale 1:1,000,000 (UNCLASSIFIED)
ABSTRACT
1. (S/WN) This report provides a detailed analysis of the Shanghai Guided Missile Production Plant
Minhang in China, the primary final assembly plant for Chinese space launch vehicles. The report
includes a description of the facility and an overview. of the lant's function and association with other
facilities in the area. Information is current as of This report, which is the first NPIC basic 25X1
imagery interpretation report on this facility, includes a location map, two photographs, and a table of
mensural data.
INTRODUCTION
2. Shanghai Guided Missile Production Plant Minhang is the final assembly plant 25X1
for Chinese space launch vehicles (SLVs). The Chinese refer to this plant as the Xinzhonghua Machinery
Factory and have openly acknowledged its function. The CSL-2 is produced at this plant; the Long March
3 will probably be produced here in the future. The CSL-2 is the SLV version of the two-stage CSS-4
ICBM. The Long March 3 will be a three-stage SLV consisting of the CSL-2 with an additional cryogen-
propelled, high-energy third stage.z Only final assembly is performed at the Xinzhonghua plant; the
other phases of production are performed at other plants in the Shanghai area.
3. (S/WN) The Shanghai area is the center of the Chinese space industry. All of the major plants
involved in the production of SLVs are in this area. The other known space program-related facilities in
the Shanghai area (Figure 1) are as follows: Shanghai Satellite Test and Production Facility Minhang (BE
Songjiang Guided Missile Production Plant Wuxing Missile Propulsion
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Research and Development (R&D) Center and the Xinxin Machinery Factory, which has
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not been confirmed on imagery.3
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1960s.
The Shanghai area has been associated with SLV production since the late
BASIC DESCRIPTION
5. (S/WN) The Xinzhonghua factory is in the
Shanghai suburb of Minhang, 11 nautical miles
(nm) south-southwest of Shanghai City (Figure 1).
The plant is wall secured and contains one high-
bay, rail-served final assembly building; two multi-
bay fabrication buildings; one rail siding with a
railcar shelter; and over 30 other support buildings
(Figure 2 and Table 1). The total production
floorspace is 28,303 square meters. The final as-
sembly building is air conditioned. A photograph
of a CSL-2 released by the Chinese in 1980 was
probably taken inside this final assembly building
(Figure 3).
6. (S/WN) The Xinzhonghua factory was for-
merly reported3 as having four areas, designated
areas A, B, C, and D. The plant described herein as
the Xinzhonghua factory was formerly reported as
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area C. Area A is now targeted as Shanghai
Satellite Test and Production Facility Minhang. The
Chinese name for that facility is the Huayin Ma-
chinery Factory, and the Chinese have openly
acknowledged its function.3 Area B is an industrial
area immediately north of the Xinzhonghua fac-
tory. Area D is a part of Shanghai Steam Turbine
Plant Minhang. There is no imagery-derived evi-
dence that either areas B or D are involved in SLV
production. However, the Xinzhonghua factory
may not be the only plant in Minhang involved in
SLV production. It is likely that components or
subsystems for the CSL-2 are produced at other
plants in the area, even if such production is not
their primary function.
7. The Xinzhonghua fac- 25X1
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checkout facility. Other functions in the produc-
tion process are performed at other plants in the
Shanghai area. These functions are probably dis-
tributed as follows.
a. Songjiang Guided Missile Production
Plant is probably where airframe compo-
nents are produced. There are two rea-
Transporters of this type have been ob-
served at both plants.
b. Xinxin Machinery Factory is the Chinese
name for a plant in Shanghai City where
the rocket engines for the CSL-2 are
produced. The engines are reportedly
taken to the Xinzhonghua factory in
crates.z The Chinese have taken foreign
visitors to this factory and have openly
acknowledged its function. According to a
Japanese delegation which was taken to
the plant, the Xinxin factory was formerly
a British tobacco plant.3
c. Wuxing Propulsion Research and Devel-
opment Center is where product accep-
tance testing may be performed for rocket
engines produced at the Xinxin factory.
The Wuxing center contains one vertical
rocket engine test stand suitable for test-
ing liquid propellant engines up to ICBM
and space booster size. It is the only
ICBM-/space booster-sized rocket engine
test facility in the Shanghai area.b
8. (TSR) After assembly at the Xinzhonghua
factory, SLVs are shipped to the launch point in
special trains consisting of two type C missile
railcars (one for each of the two stages of the CSL-
2) and one type B missile transfer flatcar (Figure 2).
The departure of a missile train from the plant has
served as a reliable indication of upcoming space
launches. It has not yet been determined to what
extent the recently constructed rail shelter will
prevent observation of missile railcar arrivals and
departures.
Although the rail shelter provides concealment, it
may have been constructed simply for environ-
mental protection.
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FIGURE 1. LOCATIONS OF SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE PRODUCTION FACILITIES IN THE SHANGHAI AREA, CHINA
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Shanghai Satellite
Test and Production
Facility Minhang_
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Table 1,
Shanghai Guided Missile Peoductian Plant Minhang
(Items keyed to Figure 2)
Dimensions
(m)
W
Support bldg
Admin bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Sect
Sect
Support bldg
Support bldg
Puss heat plant
Support bldg
Shop
Sect
Seot
Sect
Guard shack
Guard shack
Support bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Sect
Sect
Suppcrt bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Support bldg
Sect
Sect
Sect
Support bldg
Shop
Support bldg
Support bldg
Fabrication bldg
Sect
Sect
Sect
Sect
Poss furnace
Forge; foundry
Support bldg
Support bldg
Sect
Sect
Shop
Sect
Sect
Fabrcation bldg
Sect
Sect
Sect
Support 61dg
Support bldg
Sect
Sect
S.,pport bldg
S,ppo~t bldg
Snop
Sect
Sect
Support bldg
Support b'dg
Support b~dg
Support bldg
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Sect
Support bldg
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Sect
Final assenbly bldg
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Railcar shelter
Type C missile railcars !21
Type B missile transfer
flatcar
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FIGURE 3. CSL-2 SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE. Photograph derived from JIEFANGJUN HUABAO, (Liberation Army
Pictorial), Beijing, No 1, 1980 (UNCLASSIFIED).
IMAGERY
(S/WN) All available satellite imagery acquired through was used in the preparation of this report.
MAPS OR CHARTS
DMA. US Air Target Chart; Series 200, Sheets 0492-2 and 0492-7, scale 1:200,000 (UNCLASSIFIED)
DMA. Series ONC, Sheet H-12, ed 5, scale 1:1,000,000 (UNCLASSIFIED) .
1. CIA. Long March 111 Booster, 16 Oct 80 (CONFIDENTIAy
2. CIA. Xinxin Rocket Engine Factory; Booster Assembly Facility, 20 Aug 79 (CONFIDEN-
TIAL)
3. DoD. 2 722 0045 80, Department of Defense Intelligence Information Report -Visit to CH Aerospace-related
Institutions by JA Delegation, 13 Mar 80 (CONFIDENTIAL)
4. CIA. FIR-311/00367-76,' Intelligence Information Report -Description of Rocket Stage Construction Activities
in the Shanghai Boiler Plant and the Shanghai Steam Turbine Plant, 18 Mar 76 (SECRET)
5. DMA. Cit Plan - Peo les Re ublic of China, Shang-hai, Sheet 4, Series L907, edition 1, scale 1:25,000
(SECRET
6. NPIC.~
~ RCA-09/0029/79, Wuxing (Wu-hsing) Missile Propulsion R&D Center (S), Dec 79 (TOP
*Extracted material is classified SECRET
RELATED DOCUMENT
NPIC.O PIR-042/78, Probable Space-Launch Association of Shang-hai Missile Production Complex,
PRC (S), Oct 78 (TOP SECRET
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