Maybe you dont know, but the DF-21 series is based on the JL-1(JuLang-1, not the airborne JL-1 shown in the 9/3 parade), the latter is China's first SLBM, although the range is only ~2000km. aka "巨浪上岸/ashore JuLang". You are driving a U-turn car in reverse.
The DF-21D is a 2000s technology, its China's first generation anti-ship ballistic missile, which is obsolete and retiring nowadays. It's not a hypersonic missile and can't do much manoeuvre at terminal phase. China already has many more capable and advanced missiles to be loaded into the VLS cells.
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