Nuclear China : Nuclear weapons have the highest priority and very little about Chinese nuclear capability are known. Peking has created a system of tunnels with a capacity of sheltering 10, 000 people in the event of a nuclear strike. Civil defence measures have been taken in all major population centres. It has taken measures to protect it's nuclear forces against counter force strikes using steel and concrete silos for nuclear arsenal, missiles are located in deep and narrow valleys to reduce efficacy of a counter force strike. China has declared no first use policy.

Nuclear weapons production and assembly plants are at Lanzhou, Baotou and Haiyen. First enriched Uranium heavy water research reactor become critical in June 1958.

China's continuos efforts of nuclear modernization and expansion of naval assets are primarily to allow for meaningful deployment of her nuclear deterrence to neutralise the threat she perceives from the superpowers.

Space programme : First successful satellite launch was on 24 April 1970. On 2 Sept 1981, three satellites launched from a single carrier rocket indicating a potential for deployment of MIRVs (Multiple Independently targetable Re-entry Vehicle).