Nuclear Industry 711 Merit Uranium Mine Site is located in Huaxiang Community, Xujiadong Town, Suxian District of Chenzhou City. It’s the earliest large uranium mine discovered and explored in China and one of the largest uranium mines in the country.

 

 

The first phase of 711 Mine, the first uranium mine in China, was completed on September 1, 1960, which provided qualified raw materials for China’s first atomic bomb, and was praised as the first merit uranium mine in China’s nuclear industry by Liu Jie, the former minister of the Second Machinery Industry Department.