Located at the bank of the Xiangjiang River, Hunan Province, China, CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CRRC ZELC) covers an area of 2.25 km2 and is adjacent to Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and Shanghai-Kunming Railway. CRRC ZELC is a key subsidiary of the CRRC Corporation Limited, and the leading enterprise among Hunan rail transportation industry cluster with investment of hundreds of billions of RMB. Since its establishment in 1936, CRRC ZELC has maintained rapid and sustainable development and created many records in the field of rail transit equipment in China. CRRC ZELC's business focuses on electric locomotives, urban rail vehicles, EMUs/DMUs, battery electric locomotives, maglev trains, new technology of public transport vehicles, such as energy storage trams, important parts, extension products of know-how, MRO and electromechanical general contracting service services, etc. At present, CRRC ZELC has total assets of 29.1 billion RMB and 21 subsidiaries at home and abroad.
CRRC ZELC is committed to innovation-driven development and promotes the construction of an innovation system of platformization, modularization, simplification and standardization. Among more than 10,000 employees of CRRC ZELC, over 25% are engaged in research and development, including one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering who worked in the enterprise and 13 industry experts who enjoy special subsidies from the State Council. CRRC ZELC has built national enterprise R&D centers and it is the only enterprise in Chinese industry that has three National level laboratories - State key laboratory for integration of high-power AC drive electric locomotive systems, State engineering laboratory for integration of rail transit vehicle systems, and the national industrial design center for rail transit vehicles. It has set up R&D institutions in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Turkey, South Africa, Austria and other places. It has many cutting-edge technologies, including system integration, AC drive, heavy-duty transportation, magnetic levitation, vehicle energy storage, super capacitor, low floor, fault prediction and health management, and has always been in the forefront of rail transit equipment industry.
Open and innovative CRRC ZELC is committed to becoming the world's leading provider of rail transit system solutions. It is willing to work with domestic and foreign customers and partners to shoulder the social responsibility of developing a low-carbon economy and jointly promote the progress of the global rail transit industry.
Source: Official Website of CRRC ZELC