From the Legend of Chang'e to Grasping the Moon in the Ninth Heaven: Behind the Romance Lies the Confidence of Domestic Equipment
Publishdate：2026-09-25 Source：微信公众号 Views：87
“Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir of immortality, her heart aching night after night beneath the vast blue sky and emerald sea.” For thousands of years, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been accompanied by the moving legend of Chang'e flying to the moon. The ancient people's endless reverie about the bright moon embodied the Chinese nation's primal longing for the vast universe. Today, mythology has become reality, and “flying to the moon” is no longer an unattainable luxury. From the successive successes of the “Chang'e” lunar exploration program to the operation of the Chinese Space Station in the heavens, modern aerospace professionals are steadily transforming ancient legends into magnificent epics.
However, behind every rocket launch and every spacecraft entering orbit lies not instant romance, but a complex systematic engineering effort involving “ten thousand people acting as one.” Tens of thousands of researchers and hundreds of sets of equipment work in coordination, where no link can afford any error. Within the ground gas supply system at the launch site, there exists a group of “invisible backbones”—the Diaphragm Compressors.They shoulder the critical task of pressurizing and supplying key gases such as helium and nitrogen, providing reliable gas source guarantees for rocket refueling, rocket body purging, and system sweeping. Hidden deep within the facilities, unknown to the public, they determine whether a rocket can take off steadily. From the maiden flight of Long March 8 at the Hainan Commercial Aerospace Launch Site to the world's first offshore networked recovery achieved by Long March 10B, Zhongding Hengsheng has never been absent.From the ancients worshipping the moon for blessings to modern humans reaching for the moon in the high heavens, what spans a millennium is not just dreams, but the confidence of major-power manufacturing. On this journey to the moon, alongside the romance of the stars and the sea, there are “behind-the-scenes heroes” like Zhongding Hengsheng, who have built the most fundamental support for China's aerospace industry with independently controlled, high-end domestic equipment.
As the moon shines full during the Mid-Autumn Festival, we pay tribute to everyone who lifts up dreams, and also to those forces hidden deep within the launch sites, providing the backbone support for “flying to the moon.”
“Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir of immortality, her heart aching night after night beneath the vast blue sky and emerald sea.” For thousands of years, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been accompanied by the moving legend of Chang'e flying to the moon. The ancient people's endless reverie about the bright moon embodied the Chinese nation's primal longing for the vast universe. Today, mythology has become reality, and “flying to the moon” is no longer an unattainable luxury. From the successive successes of the “Chang'e” lunar exploration program to the operation of the Chinese Space Station in the heavens, modern aerospace professionals are steadily transforming ancient legends into magnificent epics.
However, behind every rocket launch and every spacecraft entering orbit lies not instant romance, but a complex systematic engineering effort involving “ten thousand people acting as one.” Tens of thousands of researchers and hundreds of sets of equipment work in coordination, where no link can afford any error. Within the ground gas supply system at the launch site, there exists a group of “invisible backbones”—the Diaphragm Compressors.They shoulder the critical task of pressurizing and supplying key gases such as helium and nitrogen, providing reliable gas source guarantees for rocket refueling, rocket body purging, and system sweeping. Hidden deep within the facilities, unknown to the public, they determine whether a rocket can take off steadily. From the maiden flight of Long March 8 at the Hainan Commercial Aerospace Launch Site to the world's first offshore networked recovery achieved by Long March 10B, Zhongding Hengsheng has never been absent.From the ancients worshipping the moon for blessings to modern humans reaching for the moon in the high heavens, what spans a millennium is not just dreams, but the confidence of major-power manufacturing. On this journey to the moon, alongside the romance of the stars and the sea, there are “behind-the-scenes heroes” like Zhongding Hengsheng, who have built the most fundamental support for China's aerospace industry with independently controlled, high-end domestic equipment.
As the moon shines full during the Mid-Autumn Festival, we pay tribute to everyone who lifts up dreams, and also to those forces hidden deep within the launch sites, providing the backbone support for “flying to the moon.”
