CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CNR CRC) which is under China CNR Corporation Limited was established in March 2002. Its capital stock and registered capital both are 1.11 billion. CNR CRC, formerly known as Changchun Car Company was founded in 1954 as one of the national key construction projects of China during the “First Five Year Plan” period. With continuous construction and development for over half a century, CNR CRC has grown into China’s largest and strongest R&D, manufacturing and exportation base of mainline passenger vehicles and urban mass transit vehicles.
¡¡¡¡CNR CRC has more than 10 thousand staff, and factory area of 3.10 million ©O (1.50 million©O for the old and 1.60 million©O for the new). In May 2010, the Stage 1 Project of the High-speed EMU Manufacturing Base of CNR CRC was completed. By far it is a professional high-speed EMU manufacturing base with the largest scale and most advanced facilities in the world.
¡¡¡¡CNR CRC has a state-level enterprise technology center, a postdoctoral scientific research workstation, as well as a group of experienced skilled workers, having formed a scientific research team which has complete specialties and reasonable echelonment structure. Every year CNR CRC researches and develops more than 30 types of railway vehicles, EMUs and urban mass transit vehicles, making leading status in China.
¡¡¡¡At present, CNR CRC owns more than 4000 sets of equipments for various uses, including over 300 sets of imported equipments. Particularly the equipments for key working sequences have come to the internationally advanced level. CNR CRC has many world-class special manufacturing facilities, such as the highest-level production line for aluminum alloy car, most powerful production line for stainless steel car, maximum automatized production line for bogie welding and machining, most advanced painting line, and dynamic commissioning line with all types of power supply.
¡¡¡¡From the establishment of company, CNR CRC has accumulatively manufactured more than 30 thousand various railway vehicles (including EMUs), approximately taking up 44% of entire operating vehicles; accumulatively manufactured more than 4100 various urban mass transit vehicles (including CNR Bombardier), taking up about 55% of domestically operating vehicles. The products of CNR CRC have been exported to North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bengal, etc.. In recent years, the products even step into high level markets such as Hong Kong, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, etc.. From 1995 until now, CNR CRC has accumulatively obtained more than 3 billion dollars’ export orders.
¡¡¡¡Among the domestic railway industry, CNR CRC first passed the Qualification of ISO9001 Quality System, ISO1002-1 Measurement and Inspection System, ISO14001 Environmental Management System, OHSMS Occupational Health and Safety Management System, and German DIN6700 Quality System. CNR CRC also has taken in and implemented SAP management system which is abroad adopted by the top 500 enterprises in the world. CNR CRC was recognized as national innovative enterprise by Ministry of Science and Technology, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and All-China Federation of Labor in July, 2008, and in November of the same year as the high-technology enterprise of Changchun City and Jilin Province.
¡¡¡¡Based on the new market demand and development strategy, CNR CRC is now implementing and building three major business sectors for high-speed EMUs, urban mass transit vehicles and bogies, and establishing four professional manufacturing bases of high-speed EMUs, urban mass transit vehicles, railway passenger vehicles and bogies. CNR CRC is trying to realize “three top-one” on the aspects of production scale, product level and R&D capability, and to make the company having strong international competitiveness.