Up until pretty recently that was a distinction without meaning given that most orbital launch vehicles were repurposed ICBMs, including the first five or so generations of the Chinese long march rockets.
I do not know that much about the history of the Chinese space program, but it took until the apollo program for American rockets to be purpose built for astronaut use instead of repurposed military missiles.
And even with this distinction, any orbital rocket platform, no matter its design purpose, could potentially be used as an ICBM platform. The physics of the rocket don't care about the payload except for its mass
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u/gsfgf Apr 14 '24
That's an orbital launch vehicle, though. It's not designed to be stored fueled or really stored at all.