Chinese Aerospace Venture Opens Rocket Factory as Beijing Accelerates Reusable Space Race

Chinese commercial rocket builder LandSpace Technology Corp. officially commenced operations at its new mass-production facility in Wuxi, signaling a heavily subsidized push by domestic aerospace players to scale launch capacities. The state-backed manufacturing hub is engineered to provide assembly and testing infrastructure for the company’s Zhuque-3 reusable liquid-propellant rocket. The industrial site spans roughly 112 mu—a traditional Chinese unit of land measurement equivalent to approximately 18 acres—and represents an initial state-aligned investment of 2.3 billion yuan, or about 318 million American dollars. LandSpace claims the facility is equipped with the production infrastructure necessary to support up to 20 rocket launches…