China National Space Agency
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| Acronym | CNSA |
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| Owner | China |
| Established | 22 April 1993 |
| Headquarters | Haidian District, Beijing |
| Primary spaceport | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center |
| Administrator | Xu Dazhe |
| Budget | US$500 million (official); US$1.3 billion (Euroconsult) |
| Website | www |
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| Literal meaning | National Astronautics Bureau | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Guójiā Hángtiān Jú |
| Wade–Giles | Kuo-chia hang-t'ien chü |
| IPA | [kwǒtɕjá xǎŋtʰjɛ́n tɕy̌] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Gwok-gāa hòhng-tin guhk |
| IPA | [kʷɔ̄ːk.káːhɔ̏ːŋtʰīnkùːk] |
| Jyutping | Gwok3 Gaa1 Hong4 Tin1 Guk6 |
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is the national space agency of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for the national space program and for planning and development of space activities. CNSA and China Aerospace Corporation (CASC) assumed the authority over space development efforts previously held by the Ministry of Aerospace Industry. It is a subordinate agency of the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND), itself a subordinate agency of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The headquarters are in Haidian District, Beijing.
CNSA is a new agency created in 1993 when the Ministry of Aerospace Industry was split into CNSA and the China Aerospace Corporation (CASC). The former was to be responsible for policy, while the latter was to be responsible for execution. This arrangement proved somewhat unsatisfactory, as these two agencies were, in effect, one large agency, sharing both personnel and management.
As part of a massive restructuring in 1998, CASC was split into a number of smaller state-owned companies. The intention appeared to have been to create a system similar to that characteristic of Western defense procurement in which entities which are government agencies, setting operational policy, would then contract out their operational requirements to entities which were government-owned, but not government-managed.
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