Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Jiuquan is the closest major city to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Still, the space launch center is more than away from the city, and is actually located not in Gansu province, but in the neighboring Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It was built in 1958; the first Chinese human spaceflight, "Shenzhou 5" was launched there on 15 October 2003, making Yang Liwei China's first astronaut and a national hero. The second was in 2005.