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PLA Rocket Force 68 Base - Engineering Force

The 308 headquarters in Hanzhong is responsible for the civil engineering of rocket engineering, the Luoyang Technical Corps is responsible for the installation of rocket engineering. The two merged to establish 68 base, headquartered in Luoyang, and in charge of the engineering command of the rocket army.

The Engineering Force has a glorious history. Its predecessors successively built a series of strategic projects, core projects, and summit projects to complete the installation of China's first atomic bomb, first hydrogen bomb, and first artificial earth satellite launch tower. It has built China ’s first missile test base, first-generation nuclear arsenal, and first batch of missile positions with high standards, and participated in the construction of national projects such as the Great Hall of the People, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, and Beijing Capital Airport.

In peacetime, the troops are the main force of the underground engineering construction of the whole army. They are scattered in more than 20 provinces and dozens of construction sites in the country. They are responsible for the construction of all missile positions of the Rocket Force and some underground military command committees and theaters. To protect the safety of the motherland and people. In the event of a major disaster, they appear at the rescue site to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

Missile positions are usually divided into launching positions and storage positions. In peacetime, missiles are generally stored in highly resistant underground tunnels. The temperature, humidity, air pressure, medium, and radiation intensity in the tunnel are directly related to the length of the missile's storage period. In order to prolong the life of the missile and maintain good performance, a large number of ventilation, shock absorption, explosion-proof, radiation protection and other facilities must be installed in the tunnel. Generally speaking, the composition of the facilities in the cavern depends on the type, model, quantity, storage method, launching method of the stored missiles, and the requirements on the storage environmental conditions. Each missile position must be equipped with a series of complex facilities, and the installation of troops at the missile position is thus generated.

On October 18, 1962, General Luo Ruiqing, then Vice Premier of the State Council and Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, made a solemn decision on a paper order-the formation of the People's Liberation Army Engineering Corps Engineering Technology Team, shouldering the task of "there is no ancient man" China's first nuclear test installs iron towers and detonators. However, two years ago, in February 1960, a civil engineering force had already secretly traveled to the Gobi in the northwest. The battle for the construction of the "two bombs and one star" test site had already begun.

In 1966, the Second Artillery Corps was formed. This special unit, born on the battlefield of "two bombs and one star", is included in the battle sequence of the youngest service in the Republic and has a brand new name: the Second Artillery Engineering Unit. Since then, they embarked on a long march of the same "unprecedented"-building nests for missiles, building positions for missile launches, without a sample, without a piece of drawings, with no one ever experienced, and nothing to learn from. They start from scratch again.

The Engineering Design and Research Institute of the Second Artillery Corps is the "engineering designer" of the Strategic Missile Force. It is responsible for national defense engineering survey, design, and research tasks. It started from the first few old tables and chairs, and a drawing board, and today it has a high-tech talent gathering and dozens of professional categories. The leading group of design and scientific research. Over the past half century, there have been countless projects to complete the survey and design. The area of ??the completed design drawings can cover Beijing City. It won 6 military excellent design awards, 5 military high-quality engineering awards, and 19 military scientific and technological progress awards. The conversion rate of scientific research achievements reached 100%.

The Engineering Headquarters of the Second Artillery Corps participated in the construction of Beijing ’s Great Hall of the People, Mao Zedong Memorial Hall, Beijing Subway and other famous capital projects, as well as the construction of China ’s first satellite launch base and the first missile position. Architectural history. The textbooks of the architecture department of the university turn to their masterpieces from time to time. It's just that there is no name for them. They are named after the code name of the first major national defense project they were ordered to build. With the growth of the army, this code name has become a slogan, and it has never changed since it was transferred. This is probably very rare in the whole army. The reason is, some people say, because the quality of the project construction at that time was so deep in the minds of military leaders at all levels, that it is still indelible after all the baptisms.

Engineering Corps of the Second Artillery Corps, from China's first atomic bomb test tower to the first artificial earth satellite launch tower, has been in close cooperation with the groundbreaking "two bombs and one star" cause. To this day, the launch tower still in use in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center is also a masterpiece of the officers and soldiers of the Corps. In the battlebook of the strategic missile force, this force started the installation of the first missile position and completed the position installation tasks of different types of missiles.

The Second Artillery Engineering Force, which integrates all the elements of survey design, civil engineering installation, etc., has accelerated the historical transformation of labor-intensive to scientific and technological efficiency during the period of precious historical opportunities, and the pace of strong scientific and technological work is intensified.

In response to the fact that the construction of missile positions has been completed independently from the requirements to the design and construction, they compiled more than 7 million words of "Military Engineering Technology Installation Standards" and created a new engineering construction management model that adapts to the development of the second artillery situation and tasks, and the quality of engineering construction. The benefits have been multiplied, and the comprehensive protection capability, performance and information level of the project have been fully promoted.

Entering the civil construction stage, a project headquarters not only has a series of detailed rules such as the “Administrative Measures for the Construction of National Defense Projects”, but also established a quality tracking control system, established three levels of quality inspection agencies at the ministry, regiment and battalion level, established a central laboratory for the headquarters and 7 The comprehensive laboratories in each work area implement quantitative detection and control of the main links such as excavation and recovery.

Entering the stage of engineering installation, the advanced "Defense Engineering Virtual Installation System" visually reflects the actual effect after installation, and the construction procedures can be completely searched according to the drawings at a glance. They organized and compiled the construction specifications and operating procedures, systematically summarized the construction plan, quality, safety, camouflage and other aspects, and formed a quality, technical and on-site management assessment standard system covering more than 30 majors and more than 100 types of work.