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According to the Xinhua news agency, the southern Chinese city of Wenchang is pushing ahead with the development of an aerospace industrial cluster. The stated goal of the local authorities is to create a closed value chain: satellites should be manufactured in Wenchang and launched from there – an approach summed up in Chinese as “made in Wenchang, launched from Wenchang.”
Wenchang hosts the Wenchang launch site (WSLC), China’s main facility for heavy-lift rockets such as the Long March 5, which are used for lunar and deep-space missions. Alongside it, the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site is taking shape as a new, independent complex built specifically for commercial providers and private launch vehicles – the first of its kind in the country.
The move is part of China’s broader strategy to build commercial spaceflight into a standalone industry. Instead of producing most satellites elsewhere and only launching from Hainan, the region wants to bring manufacturing, integration and testing on site. That is expected to create jobs and tie the region more closely into the country’s fast-growing space economy.
The Xinhua report does not give concrete figures for planned investment or production capacity. It is clearly a policy announcement on regional development, underscoring the ambitious expansion of the space economy in Hainan Province.
Details of such plans can change quickly, but the report makes clear that the Wenchang site is meant to become more than just a launch pad in the future.