Maolin (Shijie)

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Maolin ( Chinese  茆 林村 , Pinyin Mǎolín Cūn ) is an administrative village in the south of the large municipality of Shijie , independent city of Guangde , the Chinese province of Anhui . It was created during the municipal reform in 2003 on the instructions of the then county government of Guangde through the merger of the natural villages Xianfeng, Linchang and Maolin. Today the village has an area of ​​21.9 km² and 3480 registered inhabitants (as of 2012). Then there are the personnel from Base 603 in the south of the village, where the Shanghai Academy of Space Technology , a division of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation , operates a test facility for space purposes.

history

Zhu Yuanzhang

Finds of stone tools such as knives and chisels show that the Maolin area had been around since around 1000 BC. Settled by tribes who practiced agriculture. The history of the village, recorded in writing in the “Annals of the Guangde Prefecture” (广 德州 志), only dates back to 1354, when Zhu Yuanzhang , a subordinate of the northern wing of the Red Turbans , who operated in southeast China, called the peasants to resist Mongolian occupation regime called. Local farmers decided to murder the officials sent by the Imperial Court in Beijing during the 4th double hour (卯, Pinyin mǎo , 05: 00–07: 00), which succeeded. In 1356 Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Nanjing and proclaimed the Ming Dynasty there in 1368 . Since numerous men had died in the fighting against the Mongols, the new emperor of the entire Guangde Prefecture exempted the grain deliveries for seven years, and in commemoration of the peasant uprising of 1354 he named the village "Maolin" or 茆 林, where the second syllable and the plant radical about Mao were supposed to remind us that the resistance fighters had gathered in a forest to forge their plans.

Even today the area of ​​the administrative village is heavily forested; 60 hectares of arable land stand opposite 1530 hectares of mountain forest, where Moso bamboo , Chinese chestnuts and tea are grown. In 1960, the Institute of Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the then Engineering Office for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Shanghai set up a launch site for sounding rockets on a plateau surrounded by mountains south of the natural village of Xianfeng , from where two dogs left on July 15 and 28, 1966 were sent on a suborbital flight at an altitude of 70 km. Then the so-called "Guangde rocket launch site" (广 德 火箭 发射场, Pinyin Guǎngdé Huǒjiàn Fāshèchǎng ) was mothballed. The 52 m high launch tower was retained as a landmark. At the beginning of 2010, the Shanghai Academy for Space Technology , manufacturer of satellites and launch vehicles, decided to invest there in addition to its production and development centers in Huzhou and Hohhot and to build a complete test facility. The demolition work on the old launch site and the construction of the residential and administrative buildings in the “New Maolin Space Village” (茆 林 航天 新村) on the northern edge of the site was carried out by the village administration, the rest of the work was done by the company.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 安徽省 宣 城市 广 德 市 誓 节 镇 茆 林村. In: tcmap.com.cn. Retrieved September 30, 2019 (Chinese).
  2. ↑ 洛米 粒: 走遍 广 德 ： 探寻 中国 航天 第一 村 茆 林村 之 源. In: sohu.com. August 27, 2018, accessed September 30, 2019 (Chinese).
  3. ↑ 解密 603 ： 中国 探空 火箭 发祥地. In: news.sina.com.cn. June 13, 2012, Retrieved September 30, 2019 (Chinese).
  4. ↑ 中国 航天 第一 村: 空间 科学 探测 第一步 从 安徽 这里 迈出. In: mzfxw.com. July 20, 2019, accessed September 30, 2019 (Chinese).
  5. ↑ 八 院 简介. In: sast.spacechina.com. Retrieved September 30, 2019 (Chinese).
  6. ↑ 安徽省 宣 城市 广 德 市 誓 节 镇 茆 林村. In: tcmap.com.cn. Retrieved September 30, 2019 (Chinese).

Coordinates: 30 ° 54 '  N , 119 ° 13'  E