China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group

China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group Co., Ltd. is a central enterprise under China Railway Construction Corporation, which ranked 43rd in the 2024 Fortune Global 500. Its predecessor was the Third Division of the Railway Corps. In January 1984, it was converted from military to civilian as the Thirteenth Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Railways. In April 2001, it was restructured into China Railway Thirteenth Bureau Group Co., Ltd. In March 2014, it was reorganized into China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group Co., Ltd. The Group holds 205 qualifications across 5 industries and 49 categories (including various licenses), among which the general contracting qualifications for railway, highway, municipal, and building engineering construction are "Five Special and Five First-Class" qualifications (including 1 highway special-class qualification of a subsidiary), and the specialized qualifications for water conservancy and hydropower, electromechanical, mining, communication, bridge, tunnel, highway pavement, highway subgrade, etc. are first-class qualifications, totaling 59 items. The registered capital is 3.2 billion yuan, and the annual construction production capacity exceeds 50 billion yuan. The Group has a National Recognized Enterprise Technology Center, an Academician Expert Workstation, a Postdoctoral Scientific Research Workstation, a Tianjin Key Laboratory of Bridges, a Bridge Technology Industrial Park, as well as 7 provincial-level enterprise technology centers and 6 high-tech enterprises. The Group has 20 wholly-owned subsidiaries, 1 joint venture, 19 functional subsidiaries, 53 branches, 4 special member units, 9 regional business command centers, 1 special business organization, and 30 provincial and municipal branches. The Group has more than 15,000 employees, including more than 160 professor-level senior engineers, more than 2,200 senior professional and technical personnel, more than 200 senior technicians, 1,507 first-class constructors, 48 registered engineers in survey and design, 6 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 3 winners of the Mao Yisheng Science and Technology Award, 12 winners of the Zhan Tianyou Science and Technology Awards, 6 national technical experts, 1 China Railway Construction expert, and 2 China Railway Construction special-class technicians. The Group is a strong force in the domestic bridge construction field, with strong technical strength and rich management experience, and has made outstanding contributions to the development of China's bridge industry. To date, it has built a large number of high-quality and renowned bridge projects, creating 19 world "firsts" and 39 China "firsts," achieving "twenty crossings of the Yellow River," "fifteen crossings of the Yangtze River," "eighteen crossings of bays"... erecting one bridge monument after another. It has built the world's longest and China's first cross-strait road-rail dual-purpose bridge—the Pingtan Strait Road-Rail Dual-Purpose Bridge, the world's largest-span three-tower steel box girder cable-stayed bridge—the Qinglongmen Grand Bridge, the world's largest-span single-span suspension steel box girder suspension bridge and China's largest-span sea-crossing bridge—the Shuangyumen Grand Bridge, the world's largest-span self-anchored suspension bridge—the Guangzhou Nansha Wanlong Bridge, the world's largest-span road-rail dual-purpose double-deck cable-stayed-suspension cooperative system bridge—the Jingzhou Libu Yangtze River Road-Rail Bridge, the world's second largest-span cable-stayed bridge—the Guanyinsi Yangtze River Bridge, and the Qipanzhou, Shishou, Wuxue, Lijiatuo, Huangjiatuo, Zhangjinggao and other Yangtze River bridges whose spans rank among the top in China and the world. The Group comprehensively builds an integrated investment, construction, and operation industrial system featuring bridge-water connectivity, bridge-city integration, and bridge-innovation mutual promotion. It has participated in the construction of more than 80 railways including the Beijing-Kowloon, Qinghai-Tibet, Neikun, and Lanyu railways, and more than 30 high-speed railways including the Harbin-Dalian, Hefei-Fuzhou, Shanghai-Kunming, Chongqing-Wanzhou, and Shenzhen-Jiangmen high-speed railways; nearly 200 expressways including the Shenyang-Dalian, Beijing-Fuzhou, Beijing-Shanghai, and Datong-Sanmenxia expressways; more than 200 rail transit engineering projects in 35 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, and Chengdu; more than 80 water conservancy and hydropower projects including the South-to-North Water Diversion, Jinping II Hydropower Station, and the Yangtze-to-Huaihe Water Diversion; it has opened up emerging fields, building the Pingxiang Sponge City Construction Project, underground comprehensive utility tunnel projects in Jilin Siping, Tianjin, and other cities, and has advanced into new energy markets such as photovoltaic power generation; the prefabricated building industrialization research and development production base has been put into operation, with the capacity to produce various concrete precast components and commercial concrete. The Group has entered the infrastructure markets of nearly 20 countries including Nigeria, Angola, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, and Guyana. At present, the Group has won 17 Luban Prizes, 22 Zhan Tianyou Awards, 46 National Quality Engineering Awards, 6 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 1 National Technological Invention Second Prize, 2 Arthur Hayden Awards from the International Bridge Conference (IBC), 1 Annual Technical Innovation Award from the International Tunnelling Association (ITA), 23 national-level construction methods, more than 1,250 national patent authorizations, including more than 260 invention patents, and more than 70 technologies at the international advanced level or above. It has also won many honors such as National Excellent Construction Enterprise, National Customer Satisfied Enterprise, National Model Workers' Home, National Integrity Grade "AAA" Enterprise, and National Contract-Abiding and Credit-Reliable Enterprise. Weaving the earth's warp and weft, achieving a better future. China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group Co., Ltd. will inherit the spirit of the Railway Corps, commit to comprehensively building a sentiment-rich, valuable, and dignified management-platform-type construction industry group, fully build the China Railway Construction bridge brand, and continue to contribute central enterprise strength to China's bridge industry and China's infrastructure construction.