PLA Daily 2004-07-27

The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, which had just successfully launched Probe No.2, the second satellite of a Sino-European joint space probe program, has ushered in another day of jubilation—a meeting to celebrate the awarding of the first-class merit citation by the Central Military Commission to the launching test station of the center was held here yesterday. At the meeting, a merit citation order signed by Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Commission, was read out and Li Jinai, member of the Central Military Commission and director of the General Armaments Department of the PLA gave out awards to the launching test station and delivered a speech. 　　Since its establishment in 1968, the launching test station of the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center has successfully completed more than 100 rocket or satellite launching missions. In recent years, the station has made efforts in a pioneering and enterprising spirit focusing on enhancing space flight launching capability. The station adopted advanced means such as integrated networking test launching technology and remote control test launching technology to ensure the smooth accomplishment of space flight launching mission and made important contributions to the space flight program and weaponry and military equipment modernization of the country. 　　By Zhao Bo and Liu Cheng 　　(July 27, PLA Daily)