In (Ding August fourth day), August 28, 1957, the Department of Defense approved the establishment of a missile test. In in 1957, the Department of Defense approved the establishment of a missile test

in August 1957, the Ministry of Defence fifth dean of Qian Xuesen, the State Council and the CPC Central Military Commission proposed building a missile test range recommendations.
The scientific community and the military are efforts to promote home-made atomic bomb, missile research. The Qian Xuesen recommendations on the establishment of a missile test site was quickly approved by the Department of Defense. January,
1958 to Range reconnaissance team the Xilian will be headed by the preliminary views of the building shooting range in the northeast of Jiuquan, Gansu Province the Ruoshui riverside area and agree the CPC Central Committee.