1On April 24th, 970, China successfully launched its first artificial satellite. The rocket carrying the satellite was Long March 1. The development of Long March 1 was also a Long March. It was successfully launched from 1958 to 1970, and it took 12 years.
1957 In June, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite. 1958 in may, Mao Zedong proposed at the second plenary session of the eighth central Committee in the Communist Party of China (CPC) that "we should also make artificial earth satellites". In order to launch China's first artificial earth satellite, Dongfanghong-1, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology was born in the southern suburbs of Beijing, with Qian Xuesen as its president.
At the beginning of the rocket design, everyone was wondering what name to give the rocket. Comrades in the General Design Office of the First General Design Department of China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology were impressed by Chairman Mao's famous "Seven Laws Long March", which showed the Red Army's indomitable fighting spirit and fearless spirit in order to achieve the revolutionary goals, and put forward suggestions, which were approved by the superior leaders, and named the rocket "Long March", implying that China rocket industry will surely overcome any difficulties and obstacles and reach the other side of victory like the Red Army's Long March.