1 Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology
Institute in Nanjing (Jiangsu province) specialising in the research and development of astronomical technology, professional astronomical telescopes and instruments
Astronomy
2 National Astronomical Observatories
Organisation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); founded by bringing together four CAS observatories, three CAS observing stations, and one CAS research centre; headquartered in Beijing; has info on laboratories, telescopes, astronomy data
Astronomy
Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences; also known as Zijin Shan Observatory; situated on the eastern outskirts of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province; research groups: molecular clouds and star formation, high-energy solar physics etc
Research Institutes Astronomy
4 Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; research activities: astro-geodynamics, astrophysics, very-long-baseline interferometry; has three laboratories researching hydrogen atomic clocks, VLBI techniques & optical astronomy
Research Institutes Astronomy
Astronomical observatory in Urumqi (Xinjiang province)
Astronomy
6 Yunnan Astronomical Observatory
Highest of four professional astronomical observatories in China; located in the eastern suburb of Kunming in Yunnan province; areas of interest include solar physics, stellar physics, stellar population, extragalactic physics, astrodynamics etc
Astronomy