- Headquarters
- Beijing, China · East Asia
- Value chain
- Systems integration(Systems & services); also Hardware & devices
- What that means
- Joins products into systems and delivers programmes: defence and aerospace primes, system integrators, EPC contractors.
- Founded
- 1956
- Ownership
- State-owned
- Website
- casic.com.cn
- Relevance
- High at its strongest, in Advanced Propulsion & Hypersonic Systems
Beijing, ChinaIn 8 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
Space Technologies · Design · listed #10 of 50
State missile maker whose academies develop ramjet and scramjet cruise missiles, hypersonic systems and solid rocket propulsion for China.
Relevance: Develops Chinese hypersonic cruise missiles and ramjets
Energy Technologies · Integration · listed #11 of 50
State aerospace group whose institutes developed the LW-30 vehicle-mounted laser air defence system and other Chinese high-energy laser programmes.
Relevance: Develops China's leading laser air-defence systems.
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #12 of 50
Through its subsidiary ExPace it builds the Kuaizhou solid-fuel rapid-response launch vehicles.
Relevance: Kuaizhou solid rapid-response launchers at growing cadence
- Precision Timing & Atomic ClocksModerate
Sensing, Timing & Navigation · Research · listed #9 of 50
Its 203 Institute (Beijing Institute of Radio Metrology and Measurement) developed the super-thin rubidium clocks central to BeiDou timing and runs national time-frequency metrology.
Relevance: Its 203 Institute developed BeiDou rubidium clocks and national metrology
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #13 of 50
Chinese state defence-space group that develops small-satellite constellations, including the Hongyun LEO broadband and Xingyun IoT programmes, and makes satellite components.
Relevance: Chinese defence-space smallsat constellations
Sensing, Timing & Navigation · Manufacture · listed #16 of 50
Its missile and inertial-technology institutes, including the 33rd Institute, develop and produce inertial and integrated navigation systems for Chinese tactical and strategic missiles.
Relevance: Chinese missile and inertial navigation institutes; domestic focus
- Energetic MaterialsModerate
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Manufacture · listed #23 of 50
Its 6th Academy and subsidiary Hubei Hangpeng Chemical Power Technology develop solid propellants, rocket motors and gas generants and appear among top patent applicants.
Relevance: Chinese solid propulsion and energetics producer
- Radar & Radiofrequency SensingModerate
Sensing, Timing & Navigation · Design · listed #28 of 50
Its Second Academy (including the 23rd Institute) develops the fire-control and engagement radars for the HQ-9 and other Chinese air- and missile-defence systems.
Relevance: Chinese missile and air-defence radar institutes