China's Guangdong makes great strides in high-quality development

All-around progress shines light on city's bright future

Visitors watch a model of manned rocket produced by CAS Space Industrial Base on Feb 19, 2023. [Photo by Song Jingyi/chinadaily.com.cn]

China's first commercial aerospace industrial base, namely "CAS Space Industrial Base", has started operation in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, with a targeted annual output capacity of 30 carrier rockets.

The base, which is mainly used for the production, testing and assembly of solid and liquid-fuel carrier rockets, covers an area of about 400,000 hectares in the Nansha district of Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province.

At present, the final assembly and testing processes of Lijian-1 Y-2 carrier rocket are being carried out at the aerospace base, with the launch scheduled for May 2023 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

Meanwhile, the base is planned to open the space commercial travel market in 2025, with 7 people expected to be carried at a time.

Visitors take a photo of urban flying electronic car produced by Xpeng Aeroht on Feb 18, 2023. [Proto provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

In addition to the CAS Space Industrial Base, an increasing number of enterprises in Guangzhou have taken on leading roles globally in various sectors. Specialized in CCM and MEA technology for the cost-reduction of fuel cell products, Guangzhou-based SinoHyKey, which was founded in 2017, has developed double-sided patch coating technology that allows for precise ink application and accelerated manufacturing times. It provides high-efficiency, cost-friendly hydrogen solutions for all modes of transportation. The same can be said of electric vehicle maker Xpeng's flying car unit Xpeng Aeroht in low-altitude air mobility and Vector Builder in gene delivery.