China National Technical Import and Export Corporation

Coordinates: 39°54′04″N 116°24′23″E / 39.9012°N 116.4065°E / 39.9012; 116.4065
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China National Technical Import and Export Corporation
Native name
中国技术进出口集团有限公司
Company typeState-owned enterprise
IndustryTechnology
FoundedSeptember 1952
Headquarters
Beijing
,
China
39°54′04″N 116°24′23″E / 39.9012°N 116.4065°E / 39.9012; 116.4065
Key people
Wang Yanming, President[1]
OwnerMinistry of State Security,
China General Technology Group
Websitewww.cntic.com.cn Edit this at Wikidata

China National Technical Import and Export Corporation (CNTIC; Chinese: 中国技术进出口集团有限公司) is a Chinese state-owned global trading company, engineering firm, and front company owned and operated by the Ministry of State Security (MSS), China's principal civilian foreign intelligence agency.[2] The company's stated current primary business is in providing services to projects of the Belt and Road Initiative. Established in 1952; in 1998 the company became a subsidiary of China General Technology Group (Genertec), though it remains owned and directed by the MSS. Headquartered in the Fengtai District of Beijing, CNTIC reports nine domestic subsidiaries and 23 institutions in 20 countries and regions throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Throughout the history of the People's Republic, CNTIC has served as a key enabler of equipment and technology transfer to China, and an important service provider in the export of complete equipment, international project contracting and project management. With its business covering 105 countries and regions worldwide, CNTIC has completed more than 7,500 projects with a total value of over $120 billion.[citation needed] The company is active in the fields of electricity generation, transportation, communications, petrochemicals, metallurgy, building materials, electronics, mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, forestry and education. As one of the world's largest factory and plant manufacturers, CNTIC offers expertise in project management.

The company moved into a new corporate office complex located one block southeast of Tiananmen Square in 2021.[3]

Corporate history[edit]

CNTIC was established in 1952 in the first five-year plan to build state industrial capacity. It officially spent the next four decades under the direct control of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (now the Ministry of Commerce). In 1998, it became a subsidiary of the state-owned national champion, China General Technology Group, as one of the founding members of the Global 500 ranked company. In 2022, CNTIC was reorganized into subsidiary Genertec International Holding Co., Ltd. According to some sources, the company was rechartered in 1983, the year the MSS was established.[4]

In 2008, CNTIC contracted with Indonesian state-owned power company Perusahaan Listrik Negara to construct a thermal power station with a capacity of 660 megawatts in Cilacap.[5]

In 2010, Jiang Xinsheng, former president of CNTIC, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for accepting bribes and leaking state secrets to French company Ariva (later Framatome) while administering a government bid for new nuclear reactors at several Chinese power plants. Ariva was competing against American conglomerate Westinghouse for the construction of additional reactors at the Sanmen Nuclear Power Station in Zhejiang, and Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station in Guangdong. Despite Westinghouse winning the bid, during negotiations, Ariva was unexpectedly given the contract for construction of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong.[6]

Influence operations[edit]

CNTIC owns nearly 54% of the Sanya Nanshan Pumen Tourism Development organization.[2] Nanshan temple in Sanya, Hainan is an MSS front administered by the Shanghai State Security Bureau for the purposes of influencing the religious practices within the South Asian Buddhist community, countering Indian government influence, and promoting Chinese Communist Party-approved practices.[7]

Investments[edit]

Equity investments[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Leadership". CNTIC. Archived from the original on November 29, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b Joske, Alex (2022). Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World. Hardie Grant Books. ISBN 9781743797990. Shanghai Shangke Enterprises (上海上科实业总公司) was originally a branch of China National Sci-Tech Information Import and Export Corporation (中国科技资料进出口总公司), which is still covertly owned by the MSS. The company ultimately owns nearly 54% of Sanya Nanshan Pumen Tourism Development (三亚南山普门旅游发展有限公司). In the late 1990s, Wu Feifei (吴菲菲) was the chairwoman of China National Sci-Tech Information Import and Export Corporation, which was registered to an address in Shanghai at the time. For unclear reasons, its address has moved between cities, including Tianjin, several times.
  3. ^ Phước, Diễm (August 30, 2021). "PACIFIC GROUP RECEIVED THE LETTER OF INTENT ON INVESTMENT FROM CHINA NATIONAL INDUSTRY IMPORT-EXPORT CORPORATION". Saigonizers. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  4. ^ "China National Technical Import & Export 中国技术进出口集团". The China Project. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  5. ^ "中国技术进出口总公司将承建印尼火电厂-北极星电力新闻网" [China National Technology Import and Export Corporation will undertake the construction of Indonesian thermal power plant]. Reuters (in Chinese). December 22, 2008. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  6. ^ Mei, Yang (September 28, 2010). "法国阿海珐集团认为北京法院对蒋新生控罪无任何根据" [France's AREVA Group believes that the Beijing court's charges against Jiang Xinsheng have no basis]. Radio France Internationale (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  7. ^ Joske, Alex (2022). "The Goddess of Mercy: Buddhism as a tool of influence". Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World. Hardie Grant Books. pp. 171–185. ISBN 978-1-74358-900-7. OCLC 1347020692. Shanghai State Security Bureau business figures like Ji Sufu joined the project in its early days. Their front companies could foot the bill the Hainan government struggled to pay on its own. Accountants from the Shanghai bureau were brought over, their experience at managing complex and costly operations coming in handy. Today, the company that owns and runs the temple complex is filled with an odd assortment of Shanghainese men and women. Xu Yuesheng, general manager and Communist Party secretary of the company, also sits on the board of the SSSB charity that's funded by Nanshan Temple. Government records show he's attended charity meetings held inside the agency's headquarters building. Another document claims that he works for a technology company, Shanghai Tianhua Information Development Co., which has also used the bureau's Ruining Road headquarters as its address. If someone turns up behind an intelligence agency's closely guarded walls and works for one of its front companies, they're probably an intelligence officer. Four other suspected SSSB agents sit among the company's leaders in Hainan. Feng Fumin is one of them. He once headed the agency's Political Department, a senior leadership role overseeing the smooth operation of the SSSB Party committee as well as domestic propaganda to improve the agency's image. As one of the bureau's most senior Communist Party officials, Feng would be trusted to maintain discipline while covertly dealing with religious organisations and companies. Despite the bureau's leading role in the Nanshan Guanyin company, business records make it look as if it only owns a meagre 0.7 per cent stake through one of its front companies. The rest is owned by two investment firms from Shanghai and Hong Kong. Both trace back to Wu Feifei, who started her business career as an executive in what remains one of the MSS's main front companies, China National Sci-Tech Information Import and Export Corporation. Wu owns the corporation's Shanghai branch and controls more than two dozen subsidiaries that specialise in property development, investment and Buddhist tourism. As for the Hong Kong company, Wu and SSSB officers such as Xu Yuesheng own most of it. All roads, it seems, lead to the SSSB, which reaps income from Guanyin and the Nanshan Temple. While the Nanshan Temple makes regular donations to the bureau through its charity, those are dwarfed by the large payments it makes to the agency's front companies. According to the Nanshan foundation's financial reports, it paid out ¥174 million (A$37 million) to SSSB-controlled companies in 2019. About ¥3 million (A$600,000), in contrast, went to the temple itself.

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