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China Haiying Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy

China Haiying Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy is the CASIC Third Academy, a Beijing-based state aerospace academy focused on cruise-missile design, development, and manufacturing. Open-source defense studies identify it as the principal CASIC organization behind Chinese Haiying and Yingji cruise-missile families, including export C-series anti-ship missiles.

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China Haiying Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy, also rendered as CHETA or HiWING, is the English-language identity commonly attached to the Third Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. U.S. defense research describes the Third Academy as a large CASIC design academy founded in 1961, with research institutes and factories supporting cruise-missile development and production.

The academy's public footprint is fragmented across CASIC, HiWING, export-control, and reference sources, but those sources consistently connect it to anti-ship and land-attack cruise missile work. Its missile lineage includes Haiying and Yingji families and export designations such as C-801, C-802, and C-802A, which makes the academy important context for cataloged Chinese anti-ship cruise missiles.

Cruise missilesAnti-ship missilesGuidance systemsAerospace manufacturing

Notable Systems

C-801 anti-ship missile

Anti-ship cruise missile

The C-801 is the export designation associated with the YJ-8 family, part of the academy's Yingji anti-ship missile lineage.

Sources: NDU Chinese cruise-missile study, YJ-8 reference profile

C-802 anti-ship missile

Anti-ship cruise missile

The C-802 export missile grew from the YJ-8 line and appears in open references as a Third Academy-linked anti-ship cruise missile family.

Sources: NDU Chinese cruise-missile study, YJ-8 reference profile

YJ-83 anti-ship cruise missile

Subsonic anti-ship cruise missile

NDU's cruise-missile study treats the YJ-83 as an evolutionary improvement over the YJ-8/C-802 line and identifies it as a widely deployed Chinese anti-ship cruise missile.

Sources: NDU Chinese cruise-missile study

Manufacturer History

1961
Third Academy established
Open-source reference material describes the CASIC Third Academy, also known as China Haiying Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy, as having been established in 1961.
Sources: CASI hypersonics landscape report, Craft company profile
2019-08-14
U.S. export-control listing updated
A Federal Register update to the Entity List normalized the CASIC Third Academy entry and listed aliases including CHETA, HiWING Mechanical & Electrical Technology Corporation, and Beijing HY Electronic Tech Co.
Sources: Federal Register entity-list entry
2022-12-05
CASI report restated the cruise-missile role
A China Aerospace Studies Institute report described the academy as part of the Chinese cruise-missile research, development, and manufacturing base and listed CHETA, HiWING, and CASIC Aerodynamic Missile Technology Research Academy as related names.
Sources: CASI hypersonics landscape report

Website links

Official website Federal Register entity-list entry CASI hypersonics landscape report NDU Chinese cruise-missile study Craft company profile

The academy appears in open sources under several English transliterations and regulatory aliases. It is state-owned and comparatively opaque, so manufacturer context relies on public regulatory notices, defense studies, and reference material rather than speculative corporate detail. The older HiWING International URL no longer resolved during the July 2026 review; the company-linked HiWING Technology URL is retained as the public website field.

Manufacturer Sources

Federal Register entity-list entryPublisher: U.S. Government Publishing Office | Note: Supports the CASIC Third Academy name, the CHETA/HiWING/Beijing HY aliases, and the Yungang Beili address variants associated with the academy. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
NDU Chinese cruise-missile studyPublisher: National Defense University Press | Note: Supports the Third Academy's role as CASIC's principal cruise-missile research, development, and manufacturing organization, and connects the academy to Haiying, Yingji, C-801, C-802, and YJ-83 missile families. | Accessed: 2026-07-04
CASI hypersonics landscape reportPublisher: China Aerospace Studies Institute | Note: Supports the academy's 1961 establishment and its cruise-missile research, development, and manufacturing role. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
YJ-8 reference profilePublisher: Deagel | Note: Supports the YJ-8 family description and identifies Haiying Electro-Mechanical Technology Academy as the developer of the YJ-8 family. | Accessed: 2026-07-04
Craft company profilePublisher: Craft.co | Note: Supports the active subsidiary status, Beijing headquarters, 1961 founding, website listing, and aerospace/manufacturing sector scope shown in the public company profile. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
C-802 Wikimedia Commons imagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports the rights-clear image of C-802 launchers used as visual context for the academy's connected export missile family. | Accessed: 2026-07-04

Produced weapons

C-601 / YJ-6, Air-launched anti-ship cruise missile, Munitions

1980 Iran-Iraq WarC-601 / YJ-6Air-launched anti-ship cruise missileBuilt in: ChinaThe C-601, known in Chinese service as the YJ-6 and to NATO as CAS-1 Kraken, is a Chinese air-launched anti-ship cruise missile adapted from the HY-2/Silkworm family for H-6D bomber carriage. It gave Iraqi H-6D bombers a heavy standoff maritime-strike weapon during the 1988 Tanker War phase of the 1980 Iran-Iraq War.

Al-Mandab-1 anti-ship cruise missile, Anti-ship cruise missile, Munitions

2014 Yemen Civil WarAl-Mandab-1 anti-ship cruise missileAnti-ship cruise missileBuilt in: ChinaAl-Mandab-1 is the Houthi designation for a Chinese C-801/YJ-8-family anti-ship cruise missile tied to pre-war Yemeni naval stocks. CSIS records Houthi C-801/802 use against ships near Yemen's coast and a November 2017 Houthi video using the al-Mandab-1 name, but the open-source record remains cautious about whether the displayed missile was a C-801 or visually similar C-802-family weapon.

C-801 anti-ship missile, Anti-ship cruise missile, Munitions

2014 Yemen Civil WarC-801 anti-ship missileAnti-ship cruise missileBuilt in: ChinaThe C-801 is the export designation of China's YJ-8 family, a solid-propellant, sea-skimming anti-ship missile built by CASIC's Third Academy. Open references place the surface-launched YJ-8/C-801 in 1987 service with a 42 km range and 165 kg warhead, while later YJ-81/C-801K and YJ-82 members carried the same short-range family into air- and submarine-launched roles. Yemen's pre-war C-801 stocks and the C-801/C-802 identification caveat make the missile relevant to Houthi anti-ship attacks in the 2014 Yemen Civil War.

C-802/Noor anti-ship cruise missile, Anti-ship cruise missile, Munitions

2014 Yemen Civil WarC-802/Noor anti-ship cruise missileAnti-ship cruise missileBuilt in: ChinaThe C-802/Noor is a Chinese-origin anti-ship cruise missile family built around the C-802 export design and Iran's Noor derivative. Open references also call it YJ-82, and the family spread into Chinese export, Iranian, and Pakistani service before reappearing in 2014 Yemen Civil War reporting against Red Sea shipping.

YJ-62 anti-ship cruise missile, Chinese subsonic anti-ship cruise missile, Munitions

South China Sea DisputesYJ-62 anti-ship cruise missileChinese subsonic anti-ship cruise missileBuilt in: ChinaThe YJ-62 is a Chinese subsonic anti-ship cruise missile family fielded with Type 052C destroyers and road-mobile coastal-defense units. Public defense studies describe inertial/GPS midcourse guidance, active terminal homing, sea-skimming terminal flight, a C-602 export designation, an extended-range YJ-62A variant, and a CM-602G land-attack derivative.

YJ-83 anti-ship cruise missile, Subsonic anti-ship cruise missile, Munitions

YJ-83 anti-ship cruise missileSubsonic anti-ship cruise missileBuilt in: ChinaThe YJ-83 is a Chinese subsonic anti-ship cruise missile in the YJ-8/C-802 lineage. U.S. Army ODIN and NDU Press references describe it as a CTJ-2 turbojet missile with active-radar terminal homing, a roughly 190 kg warhead, and shipboard or aircraft launch variants; the Type 022/Houbei missile boat carries it as its main strike battery.