Chinese Defense Industries

FriedRiceNSpice

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I know that NORINCO and the various aircraft corporations (Shenyang, Chengdu, Xian) are a prominent ones, but what other defense industry corporations have contributed to the PLA arsenal in recent years? What percentage of these are owned/run by the government, private interests, or a combination of both? What role has private corporations played on PLA weapon development?
 
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weiwei

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as far as i know , most denfense industries in china is owned by the goverment or army itself( some research centers). I think it is because the private economy was allowed to exist only 20 years ago. So the most companies has no high technique and research team for defense industry. Most engineer in the denfense industries are not easy to change thier job because of secrecy.
 
MIGleader

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for the majority of china's military growth spurt, defence companies were either state-owned or russian. Thne in 2005 the government lossened up the state-control .Starting in june 2005, private and foreign funded companies could recieve liscences to develop weapons for the PLA, as long as they met certain standards. As far as this policy goes, main equipment production and development stays state run, buy auxillary and sub-systems are fair game for anyone.

Small Arms are usually developed by NOTINCO(China North Industries Group Co)

China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) is china's premier ship building and design company, for both civilian and military ships. China State Shipbuilding Corp is another big one. Both coorperations have yards in various cities from shanghai to wuhan.
In other cases, individual shipyard companies such as Wuhan Shipbuilding Industry Company and Shanghai-based Jiangnan Shipyard Group Corporation will do the construction and design.

Two companies, China North Vehicle Research Institute (NEVORI, also known as 201 Institute) and Inner-Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., Ltd (FIRMACO) are responsible for the type 99 MBT.

Trucks are made by Dongfeng Motors, and SUV type vehicles are made by Beijing Jeep Coorperation.

Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Company supplies most of the PLA's helicopters, such as the wz-9 and ec-120.

the development of subsystems such as radar and controls fall under the responsibility of academies and institutes, such as the well known Nanjing institute of technology, or the Southwest polytechnic institute.

the Academy of Rocket Motor Technology and China Changfeng Mechanics and Electronics Technology Academy developed to df-31 and df-21 respectively. These two represent only a small amount of china's missle designing academies.
China Air-to-Air Missile Research Academy developed the pl-12.

I havnt covered everything, but i hope this goes to give a good perspective of the huge amounts of contractors the PLA can fall back to when it wants new toys.:D
 
tphuang

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i will mention a few:
the different shipyards, so many of them but Jiangnan, Huangpu, Hudong, Dalian and so forth
for engine, lab 606 - WS-10A
radar and related:
nriet (lab 14) - AESA radar on numerous surveillence platforms, 052C and possibly new generation of fighter AESA radar, mechanical scanned radar on J-8F, J-7G, J-10, J-11B and FC-1
lab 38 - AESA radar on numerous survellience platforms and possibly new generation of fighter AESA radar
lab 607 - seeker for SD-10 and PL-12, jl-10a
changhong - IRST package
 
MIGleader

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China Unveils Plan For Developing Defence Tech by 2020
Chinese Central Government
Mon, 29 May 2006, 09:19


The Chinese government plans to enhance its capability to innovate, develop and rapidly supply new-generation weaponry over the next 15 years under a new national development program.

The outline of the development program of science and technology for national defense for 2006 to 2020 was passed by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense at a meeting on Thursday in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province.

The outline states that national defense industry will focus on development of:

- new and high-tech weaponry;
- high-tech industries for both military and civilian purposes;
- manufacturing technologies for military industries;
- basic and frontier technologies for national defense;
- and guaranteeing technological innovation for national defense.

The outline stresses that the country will develope high and new tech weaponry to reinforce a mechanized and information-based army.

The coming 15 years will also see improvements in new technologies and their industrialization for both military and civilian use.

The program will include new and high-technologies for the space industry, aviation, ship and marine engineering, nuclear energy and fuel, and information technology for both military and civilian purposes.

The outline says that China will upgrade its defense industry with digital technology.

The program will include new and high-technologies for the space industry, aviation, ship and marine engineering, nuclear energy and fuel, and information technology for both military and civilian purposes.

Special projects to be carried out include large aircraft, pressurized water reactor and high-temperature gas-cooled reactor nuclear power stations, manned space missions and lunar probe programs

According to the outline, the program will form a team of world-class experts in the research of key basic and frontier technologies, and a guaranteeing system will be created to support the work.

The outline says that efforts should be exerted to rev up upgrading and application of industrial technologies, improve the system integration of frontier technologies, and effectively smash bottlenecks in basic technologies, which hinder the development and production of new- and high-tech weaponry.

Between 2006 and 2020, overall planning will be conducted for construction of key scientific and technological laboratories, state laboratories and major-discipline laboratories for national defense. Several centers for research and application of industrial technologies will be set up, together with basic experiment bases and large, comprehensive scientific research facilities and bases.

Meanwhile, international cooperation will be intensified on scientific and technological researches for national defense and related resources will be shared by military and civilian institutions and businesses.

Endeavors will be also centered on protection of intellectual property rights and industrialization and commercialization of research results, the outline says.

Over the past five years, China made impressive achievements in scientific and technological development for national defense, with a modern defense technology regime having taken shape.

The defense industry is a strategic sector of the state and the material and technological base for the development and production of weaponry.

China's defence budget stood at 211.7 billion yuan (26.5 billion U.S. dollars) in 2004, or 5.77 percent of that of the United States. This year China has set the annual defence budget at 283.8 billion yuan (35.1 billion U.S.dollars), up 14.5 percent over the 2005 level.

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Nothing terribly new, Just that the Chinese governemtn has outlined a plan for the next 15 years of military development. This follows current trends, so dont expect to see anything outrageously new.
 
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