Haiyang Aims for More of China’s Space Launches as a Tech Supply Chain Grows

Along the sun-drenched golden shores of Haiyang in eastern China’s Shandong province near the Yellow Sea, China is aiming for the home of the Dongfang Spaceport to be China’s premier commercial aerospace sea-launch hub. The synergy defining Haiyang’s industrial rise was underscored on September 10, 2026, when China successfully launched a Long March 4B carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center far away in the Gobi Desert. Blasting off at 5:00 p.m. Beijing time, the rocket cleanly delivered six new payloads, including the Remote Sensing 53-01 through 03 satellites and the Remote Sensing 56-01 through 03 satellites, into their…