China’s Reverse Engineering

By SN Bennett

What is Reverse Engineering?

• Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It often involves taking something (e.g. a mechanical device, electronic component, or software program) apart and analyzing its workings in detail, used in maintenance or to try to make a new device or program that does the same thing without copying anything from the original.

So why does it matter?

• Interoperability

• Creation of unlicensed/unapproved duplicates

• Removal of copy protection, and access restrictions

• Product analysis

• Lost documentation

• Security auditing

• Academic/learning purposes

So how does China fit into this?

• Great leap

• Sino-Soviet Split

• The Chinese economic reform

1984 Chinese “Products”

• First-generation ICBM R-7 (DF (Dongfeng)-5) • First-generation satellite• First-generation nuclear strategic submarine (Xia class)• First-generation nuclear attack submarine (Han class) • Second-generation diesel-electric submarine (Ming

class) • First- and second-generation destroyers, frigates and

patrol craft • Second-generation fighter MiG-21 (J-7) and first-

generation bomber TU-28 (H-6) • First-generation air-defense missile system S-75 (HQ

(Hongqi)-2)

2001

• J-11

• J-10 FC-1

• FBC-1

• Hongniao (HN)-series long range land-attack cruise missiles

• The "093" class nuclear attack submarine and "094" class strategic submarine

Great Leap Forward

• Started in 1958 by Mao Zedong

• Lasted for 5 years

• Left China economically weak

• 23-40 million people died to famine

• This was “Great Leap Back”

So how does China fit into this?

• Great leap

• Sino-Soviet Split

• The Chinese economic reform

Sino Soviet Split

• Started in 1950

• 1968 - 69 – unofficially ended

• 1979 – officially ended

• The Treaty gave China access to Russia’s military, strategy and equipment, they were also subjected to communistic ideal’s and allowed Russia to use a Chinese port.

So how does China fit into this?

• Great leap

• Sino-Soviet Split

• The Chinese economic reform

The Chinese economic reform

• Started in 1979

• The Chinese economic reform was the “fix” to the disastrous Great Leap. It was a set of laws set in place to give immediate aid to the people.

China’s Reverse Engineering

By SN Bennett

1984 Chinese “Products”

• First-generation ICBM R-7 (DF (Dongfeng)-5) • First-generation satellite• First-generation nuclear strategic submarine (Xia class)• First-generation nuclear attack submarine (Han class) • Second-generation diesel-electric submarine (Ming

class) • First- and second-generation destroyers, frigates and

patrol craft • Second-generation fighter MiG-21 (J-7) and first-

generation bomber TU-28 (H-6) • First-generation air-defense missile system S-75 (HQ

(Hongqi)-2)

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China wiki/Great_Leap_Forward wiki/Sino-Soviet_split wiki/Chinese_economic_reform

• http://www.country-studies.com/china/sino-soviet-relations.html

• http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/6/13/24549.shtml

• Google images