A contract has recently been signed with Russian armaments companies to set up a maintenance and repair centre for S-400 ground-to-air defence systems in China.
The Chinese army continues to receive the S-400 Triumph missiles (the equivalent of SA-21 Growler, in NATO’s naming), ordered from Russia in 2015. In addition, Beijing is still operating the previous generation of these missiles, the S-300 (SA-10 Grumble in NATO’s naming), which will also be maintained and renovated in this future repair centre.