China Satellite Communications Corporation was formed sometime in 2000 by the merger of several satellite companies of the . In 2009, China Satellite Communications Corporation, a
state-owned enterprise that was supervised by the
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council directly, was dismantled and distributed to
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and
China Telecommunications Corporation respectively. However, it also acquired
Sino Satellite Communications from CASC as a subsidiary. In 2017, China Satellite Communications was re-incorporated again as a "company limited by shares", a function analog to
public limited company. ==Subsidiaries==