As a core enterprise of CRCC, which is one of the Fortune Global 500, China Railway 18th Bureau Group Co. Ltd., whose predecessor was the 8th Division of Railway Corps of PLA, was founded in October 1958.

The group has qualified itself as a general contractor for engineering construction and also for foreign contract projects and foreign management rights, according to the company’s spokesman, Hou Zhigang, who is also its commercial manager

Spelling out the factors behind the company’s success, he said they are in line with its objective to build itself as a leading domestic and world famous modernized enterprise group.

The other sources of its strength lie in their corporate values like sincerity and innovation, manufacturing competitive products while maintaining with high moral standards.

The company is imbued with corporate spirit based on its ability to cope with any danger, scaling new heights, working as the industry leader and maintaining its prestige at home and abroad.

These policies have helped the group to receive several awards, said the commercial manager. They include 10 Zhan Tianyou Civil Engineering Awards, 15 Luban Prizes, 4 National Excellent Gold Awards, 32 National Excellent Project Silver Awards, 7 National User’s Satisfied Engineering, 9 National Municipal Gold Cup Demonstration Project, 8 National Awards for Science and Technology Progress, 12 State Level Construction Methods, the Second Prize of National Management Innovation, Honorable Mention of National Construction Enterprise Management, Advanced Enterprise for Technical Progress, etc.

In recent three years, the group has transferred 21 technical achievements into projects and gained 20 patents, which show it unique advantages in the industry.

Speaking further, he said the group has the premium qualification of general contractor for railway engineering construction, the first-class qualification of general contractor for highway, water conservancy and power, municipal and public works, building engineering construction, the first-class qualification of specialized contractor of tunnel, bridge, urban rail transit, airport road, highway engineering, and grade A qualification for geological disaster prevention project.

According to Hou Zhigang, the group administers twelve wholly-owned subsidiaries (including International Engineering Co., Ltd., 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Engineering Co., Ltd., Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd., Rail Transit Engineering Co., Ltd., and Real Estate Development Co., Ltd.) , three specialized companies (including Road & Bridge Engineering Company, Scientific Research & Design Institute, and Property Management Corporation), and several engineering headquarters.

At present, the group employs about 18,000 staff, including over 8,000 technicians and about 3,000 intermediate and senior engineers, besides more than 600 project managers (constructors).

With a registered capital of RMB 2.32 billion of the whole group (among them, the group corporation owns registered capital of RMB 1.13 billion) and total assets of over RMB 20 million.

For years, the group has been awarded AAA Credit Enterprise and Honest Taxpayer.

Among the domestic building construction enterprises, the group owns several large-scale projects.

Currently, the group is equipped with 10 sets of TBMs and shield machines and 6,000 sets of 900T bridge girder erection machines, with total power of about 700,000kw.

They have a huge capacity of mechanization up to 90 percent and annual construction capability of RMB 28 billion.

In the past 50 years, the group has undertaken the construction of over 100 national railway engineering including Beijing-Tianjin High Speed Inter-city Railway, Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway, Wuhan-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, Shijiazhueng-Wuhan High-speed Railway, Chengdu-Kunming Railway, Xiangfan-Chongqing Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, etc.

They are in addition to the construction of over 200 expressway engineering projects, more than 40 water conservancy and hydropower engineering and over 500 public works including.

The group has also constructed over 40 urban rail transit engineering over 500 industrial and civil buildings, thermal power and wind power engineering.

So far, they have implemented more than 100 overseas projects including Mashaaer Mugaddassah Metro in KSA, Bangkok Airport Light Rail in Thailand, several highways construction in Oman, Iraq and Nigeria, North-South Railway in KSA, Railway Renovation in Nigeria, Dubai Luxury Apartment Building in the UAE, Dubai International City Project in UAE, and Upper Swat Tunnel and Diversion Project in Pakistan, etc.

The group has created more than ten tops in the construction:

The group and its subsidiaries have all passed certification of ISO9001:2000 Quality Management System, OHSMI18001-2001 Occupational Health Safety Management System, and ISO14001-1996 Environment Management System. Besides, the group has been awarded “Tianjin Enterprise of Integrity”, “National Enterprise for Outstanding Construction”, “National Contract-observing & Promise-keeping Enterprise”, “National May-First Labor Award”, “Special Award of Luban Prize”, “China Contracting Foreign Engineering Enterprise Gold Award for Social Responsibility”, “National Enterprise for Outstanding Equipment Management”, “National Pioneer Banner of Workers in 2008 Earthquake Relief”, etc.

The group has won 10 Civil Engineering Zhan Tianyou Prizes, 15 Luban Prizes, four National Excellent Project Golden Awards, 32 National Excellent Project Silver Awards, 7 National User’s Satisfied Projects, 9 National Municipal Gold Cup Demonstration Projects, 8 National Awards for Science and Technology Progress, 12 State Level Construction Methods, the Second Prize of National Management Innovation, Honorable Mention of National Construction Enterprise Management, Advanced Enterprise for Technical Progress, etc. In 2010, the group was awarded Hi-tech Enterprise.

Adhering to the idea of “Face the nation, develop global market, highlight major business, and make full use of advantages to realize diversified operation” and corporate spirit of “Fearless of danger, bold in scaling heights, leading the industry, generating prestige home and abroad”, the group implements five strategies-the strategies of large market, famous brand, science and technology enterprise, talent development and management innovation.

Besides, the group strengthens its management and technological development to be an enterprise with intensive knowledge, technology and management and realize its goal to be a large-scale trans-regional, multi-industry and multinational enterprise group.