Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group (WS), commonly called Wuchang Shipyard or Wuhan Shipyard, is a major state-owned in-land shipyard in

Wuchang, Wuhan Wuchang is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right (southeastern) bank of the Yangtz ...

, China. It was founded in 1934. It is part of the

China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation The China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) was one of the two largest shipbuilding conglomerates in the People's Republic of China, the other was the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). In 2019, CSIC was merged into CSSC. ...

. The shipyard designs, builds, and repairs civil and military vessels and constructs other structures such as a satellite launching pad, a heavy oil catalytic cracking unit, shiplifters, hydropower stations, and bridges. It is authorized to import and export products. Located on an area of about 6 million square meters adjacent to the

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, WS has about 11,000 employees. Its six product divisions are military industry and trade, civil vessels, bridge equipment, oceanographic engineering equipment, and complete plant and steel structures. WS is an important factory producing

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s for the

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. In July 2024, satellite pictures showed floating cranes at the location where WS had been docking a submarine under construction of the new nuclear-powered Zhou-class leading to speculation that the submarine had sunk.

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* {{Official website, http://www.wuchuan.com.cn/English/Home/ Shipbuilding companies of China Manufacturing companies based in Wuhan