China Aviation Museum

China Aviation Museum is the first large-scale aviation museum open to the outside world in China and the largest gathering place of aviation treasures in Asia. It is located at the foot of Datang mountain in Changping, Beijing. The preparatory work began in October 1986. After three years of collection and decoration, it was officially opened to the public on November 11, 1989. At present, there are 163 aircraft of 91 kinds, and more than 600 kinds of missiles, radars, anti-aircraft guns and other weapons and equipment. On August 20, 2007, China Aviation Museum was rated as a national 4A tourist attraction by the national tourist attraction quality rating committee. 　　

As a window for the cultural construction of the air force, the museum fully and accurately records the struggle history of the birth, growth and expansion of the air force of new China, and shows the history, reality and future of national defense science and technology. Over the past 20 years, China Aviation Museum has played a unique and positive role in strengthening patriotism education, carrying forward fine traditions, enhancing national defense awareness, popularizing scientific and technological knowledge, promoting foreign exchanges, and promoting tourism. Up to now, it has received more than 13 million visitors from all walks of life. 　　　　

Covering an area of more than 50 hectares, the Aviation Museum has two magnificent exhibition halls - the cavern exhibition hall and the open-air apron exhibition hall, which hold the "exhibition of aviation equipment inside the cavern and in the open air". The exhibition hall of dongku is a magnificent and open exhibition hall with a total area of 20000 square meters, which is reconstructed by using the air storage hangar excavated in the 1970s. It mainly displays the representative precious airplanes of various periods in China: chujiao-5, which ended the history that China could not build airplanes; jian-12, which is a new type of fighter (Li Xiangyang in the air) designed by China itself; yun-5, which once scattered the ashes of the prime minister to the motherland The earth. 　　　　

The exhibition hall mainly displays all kinds of airplanes made in the world, such as the first British "Viscount" transport plane using turboprop power plant in the world, as well as other kinds of exquisite airplanes. In addition, there are "engine series exhibition", "Treasures Exhibition", "aerial photography equipment exhibition", "life saving and protective equipment exhibition", "Chairman Mao's plane Exhibition" and other exhibitions in the museum. There are more than 200 aircrafts of more than 100 models and more than 600 aviation exhibits, including ground to air and radar. Such a large-scale aviation museum is rare in the world. China Aviation Museum is the epitome of China's aviation history and the exhibition of aircraft.

China Aviation Museum

China Aviation Museum is the first large-scale aviation museum open to the outside world in China. It is located at the foot of Datang mountain, Changping District, Beijing. After years of Closing Hillsides for afforestation, the natural vegetation is dense. In the 720000 square meters of the museum area, the green coverage area reaches 450000 square meters.

China Aviation Museum is one of the first batch of national first-class museums, patriotism education bases, national defense education demonstration bases and popular science education bases, and national AAAA tourist attractions. It is a large aviation professional museum integrating knowledge, education, science and technology, research, garden and tourism, ranking the top five in the world and the first in Asia

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Historical evolution

The China Aviation Museum began to be built in October 1986 and officially opened to the public on November 11, 1989

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On August 20, 2007, China Aviation Museum was rated as a national 4A tourist attraction by the national tourist attraction quality rating committee

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In May 2008, the State Administration of cultural relics awarded the China Aviation Museum as a national first-class Museum.

On May 25, 2009, AVIC and the Chinese Air Force signed an agreement on the co construction of China Aviation Museum. The museum was expanded. After the expansion, more than 800 existing aviation equipment prototypes were collected, such as the Xiaolong fighter independently developed by AVIC. At the same time, the permanent sculpture group landscape shows the glorious course of China's aviation and air force from history to future through the combination of "sword" main sculpture, hero Avenue and hero memorial wall

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The development process from 1986 to 2010 can be roughly divided into four stages: the first stage is the preparation stage. The "Air Force Weapons and equipment exhibition hall" was established by using the cavern. More than 100 Chinese and foreign famous aircraft and 4000 aviation cultural relics were collected and rescued in China. The second stage is the infrastructure construction stage. The outdoor exhibition area has been expanded and planned, and the "military training simulator material exhibition" and "air force science and technology training exhibition" have been carried out successively. The third stage is the initial stage of development, which changes from cultural relics display to comprehensive exhibition, improves the supporting infrastructure, and successively undertakes the activities of "aviation Centennial retrospective exhibition" and "exhibition commemorating the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War". The fourth stage is the rapid development stage. In order to meet the new requirements of the museum function in the new era, we have carried out in-depth excavation of collection resources, research and expansion of science and education functions, and development of high-tech exhibition forms, and gradually developed into the first batch of national first-class museums, National patriotism, national defense education and popular science education bases

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On April 24, 2017, the remains of Long March 2F rocket were collected in the museum. At the same time, the space museum and the space post office of the space city jointly held the launching ceremony of the "sky mailbox entering the museum"

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In November 8, 2019, Xi Jinping attended the 70th Anniversary Theme of the air force's establishment, and went to the China Aviation Museum to present a flower basket to the people's air force heroes.

Exhibition Profile

The first phase of China Aviation Museum covers an area of about 200000 square meters, which is composed of cave exhibition hall, treasure hall exhibition hall and open exhibition area. After the completion of the second phase project, its overall area will reach 530000 square meters

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Cavern exhibition hall

The exhibition hall of the cave covers an area of 20000 square meters, with 265 round lights inlaid on the arched roof, forming a starry landscape. Two light belts on both sides make the exhibition hall more spacious and bright. The exhibits in the cave exhibition hall are displayed on both sides of the large exhibition hall according to the historical sequence, from the ancient Chinese aviation invention and discovery to the high-altitude high-speed fighter used in modern times, from foreign aircraft introduced in modern times to various types of domestic aircraft. The eagle, mig-15bis, which Wang Hai, commander of the air force, drove in the war of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, was parked here. On the right side of the exhibition hall are the famous airplanes in China's aviation history - fengru-2, lexman-1 and Lenin. There are also various types of aircraft manufactured by the Soviet Union, the United States, France, Japan, Canada, the Czech Republic and other countries. Among them, the Type 99 advanced trainer made in Japan, the bo-2, la-9, La-11, Tu-2 and jacques-12 made in the Soviet Union, and the P-51 and L-5 made in the United States are all world aviation treasures, with high cultural relics collection and ornamental value. On the left side of the exhibition hall is a series of aircraft produced by new China, from the first self-made beginner aircraft and the first fighter to the light fighter J-12 with unique design pattern, which completely records the development history of new China's aviation industry and the people's air force. At the back of the exhibition hall are radar, missiles, anti-aircraft guns and other weapons and equipment

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Gold and Jade Exhibition Hall

The exhibition area of treasure hall is 600 square meters, divided into three exhibition rooms. In the first exhibition room, there are various models of remote-controlled aircraft and real like aircraft made by the Aviation Museum; in the second exhibition room, there are precious gifts given by foreign heads of government to Chinese party and government leaders; in the third exhibition room, there are exquisite military insignia, army insignia and other gifts given to the people's air force by foreign military delegation, aviation friends and other friendly people

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Open air exhibition hall

The open-air exhibition area is 40000 square meters. The open-air exhibition hall mainly displays various kinds of airplanes made by various countries in the world, such as the airplanes that Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De took in in the 1950s and 1960s, the tu-4 heavy bomber, a birthday gift given to Mao Zedong by Stalin, and the c-46 large transport plane, which has made many achievements in the "Hump air transport", the construction of Tibet and the border counterattack war, and participated in the "two airlines" ”The uprising comville-240, C47 and the British Viscount, tu-124, Trident and other large airliners

And the first round the world flight plane super white (private donation) of China's domestic Yun 12 II

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Mao Zedong's landline

A silver il-14 plane on the open-air exhibition hall is one of Mao Zedong's planes. From 1957 to 1958, Mao Zedong took this plane 23 times to fly all over the country. Now the cabin is restored to the original state of Chairman Mao's ride. On the bulkhead is a color photo of Mao Zedong working in the plane.

Red star shining "meritorious fighter"

At hangbo, there are a number of meritorious aircraft on display in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea. For example, the MiG-15 aircraft with one solid, three virtual and four red stars is the aircraft of Li Han, the combat hero who first wounded and shot down enemy aircraft in the history of the air war to resist US aggression and aid Korea. On December 12, 1951, commander Liu Yalou called the Party committee of the air force from the front line: "in order to encourage the pilots and mechanics who shot down the enemy plane, I think we can follow the Soviet Union's method and paint a red five-star on the plane that shot down the enemy plane for each one.". After the Party committee of the air force agreed, it soon sent out the instruction telegram to the troops, and made it clear that the shot down and the injury were represented by solid and hollow red stars respectively. Since then, the "meritorious" plane has a shining red star.

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