China State Shipbuilding Corporation（CSSC）is an extra-large conglomerate and stateauthorized investment institution directly administered by the central government of China. It boasts its being the mainstay of the shipbuilding industry in China. Under its wing, there are totally 60 sole proprietorship enterprises and shareholding institutions, including a batch of most powerful and some renowned shipbuilding and shiprepairing yards, research and design institutes, marinerelated equipment manufacturers and trading firms in China. Its products cover from conventional ships, such as bulk carriers, oiltankers and containerships to high-tech, high value-added ships, such as LNG carriers, and offshore facilities.

At president, CSSC has already notched up in such 20-plus fields and sectors as shipping, aerospace, construction, power generation, petrochemicals, hydraulic engineering, environmental protction, metallurgy, railway and light industy and so on, Besides,CSSC has virtually secured a market niche for a number of its key products, such as, large-scale steel structures, metallurgical equipment, land-based power generating sets, pressure vessels and