China Ordnance Society

     Founded in April, 1964 and affiliated with the China Association for Science and Technology, the China Ordnance Society is an academic social group composed of science and technology workers for China Ordnance.     

    The purpose of the China Ordnance Society is to serve the defense construction and economic development by organizing science and technology workers and to promote and develop scientific ideas and disciplines. Its main task is to organize academic exchange, publish academic periodicals, promote the development of science and technology, propagate scientific information and popularize scientific knowledge.

    The Society has general members, senior members and fellows and so on. It has all together 60,000 members, among which more than 400 are senior members and 26 are fellows. Currently, the Society has 40 specialized committees which includes ballistics, ammunition, fire explosives, artillery, rocket missiles, small arms, fuses, explosive initiator and pyrotechnics, measuring and testing techniques, automatic control, techniques of explosion and safety and tank armored vehicles.

    The Society sponsors and publishes dozens of scientific and technical periodicals or popular science journals such as 《Journal of China Ordnance》、《Journal of Ballistics》、《Journal of Gun Lunch & Control》、《Journal of Explosives & Propellants》、《Industrial Explosive Materials》、《Optics Technology》、《Vehicle Engineering》、《Journal of Detection & Control》、《Ordnance Knowledge》and《Small Arms》. The Society also publishes a certain amount of conference proceedings every year. It has successfully held domestic or international academic conferences in the fields of tank armored vehicles, artillery, small arms, explosives & pyrotechnics, reliability, measurement & testing, optics and combustion inhibiting.