The Launch Site on the East Coast
Wenchang’s launch complex couples heavy spacecraft operations with a setting of coconut groves and coastal wetlands.
Wenchang.
A northeast-coast city where coconut groves, family archives, a launch site and a protected mountain tell different stories about land and memory.
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The Home That Became a Family Archive
At Wenchang’s Soong residence, a birthplace meets a modern memorial hall where visitors pause before a wall of family photographs.
Under the Coconut Canopy: Groves, Soil and Geese
A field story about Wenchang’s working coconut landscape, from the scale of its groves to the measured life beneath young palms.
The Mountain Inside the Boundary
Tongguling’s reserve record joins coral, dwarf forest and wildlife to a documented dispute over how protected land was used.
Photo credits and rights
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The Long March 5 Y2 rocket transferred to launch pad 101 on 26 June 2017; this is a transfer, not a launch.篁竹水声 · CC BY 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full original was not downloaded. WebP derivatives were not enlarged.
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Courtyard inside the Song family ancestral home, photographed December 2007.Shizhao · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full original was not downloaded. WebP derivatives were not enlarged.
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Dongjiao Coconut Forest, Wenchang.Zhangmoon618 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Downloaded original image file is retained; WebP display and thumbnail derivatives are resized as needed, without enlargement.
