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This Central Intelligence Agency release is a Scientific Intelligence Study, TCS No. 4425/65. The Scientific Intelligence Committee prepared it with other intelligence community committees and approved it on 3 June 1965. It assesses Communist China's capabilities in science and technology through 1970, with particular attention to military and industrial programs. The study concludes that China will lag far behind advanced nations. The exceptions are a few priority areas such as nuclear weapons, missiles and air defense. It contains no discussion of UFOs.
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331. At present, China’s military electronics in-
dustry produces components for and assembles
complex electronic systems similar to those em-
ployed in the Soviet air defense systems during the
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late 1950's.
With the decline in 1960 of the sizable amounts
of electronic materials being shipped from the So-
viet Union, new military needs began to be met
chiefly by China’s own adaptations of foreign-
designed equipment.
332. Almost all of the Chinese effort that is de-
voted to military electronics today is concerned
with adapting Western, japanese, and Soviet Bloc
devices, systems, and equipment to the manufac-
turing conditions of China. Work on military
electronics is so intennixed with work on civilian
electronics that progress in one sector is tanta-
mount to progress in the other.
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333. nAnAn—Basic radar research and develop-
ment are probably conducted at various institutes
and plants throughout the Chinese economy. f//
334. coMMUmcA'r1oNs—China places heavy reli-
ance on imports from the more advanced countries
for its military communication equipment, espe--
cially for the more sophisticated equipment operat-
ing above the HF band. Some of this equipment,
however, is probably adapted by the Chinese.
335. The Chinese continue to express consider-
able interest in the use of microwave links. How-
ever, their attempts to duplicate andl or design
microwave equipment have apparently not been
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