History of Hitachi in China

• "Hainan Hitachi Elevator Co., Ltd." established, engaged in the manufacture, sale, installation and maintenance of elevators
• "HEMW-Hitachi Electric Power Equipment Advanced Technology Development Co., Ltd." jointly established with Harbin Electric Machinery Co. Ltd., engaged in equipment engineering control system of hydraulic power plant

• "Shanghai Hitachi Household Appliance Co., Ltd." established, engaged in the manufacture and sale of indoor air conditioners and washing machines (was merged with Shanghai Hitachi Electric Home Appliances Co., Ltd. in April 2002)

• "Shanghai Hitachi Wire Co., Ltd." established, sepcializing in the manufacture and sale special wires for coil and electronic equipment

• "Hitachi Maxell Beijing Agency" established

• Works for manufacturing scroll compressor used in air conditioning system jointly established with Guangzhou Wanbao Refrigerator Works

• "Hitachi China Ltd." established
• "Nissei Sangyo (Shanghai) Co., Ltd" established (now Hitachi High-Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.)

• Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. established "Hefei Hitachi Excavators Co., Ltd. "(became Hitachi Construction Machinery (China) Co., Ltd. in April 2005)

• "Xi'an Hitachi Northwest Power Generation Advanced Technology Development Co., Ltd." established and carried out engineering plan for a complete set of equipment relating to the construction of thermal generation

• Hitachi Transport System established a Shanghai office

• "Hitachi Elevator (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd." jointly established with Guangzhou Elevator Industry Company, engaged in the manufacture, installation and maintenance of elevators
• "Hitachi Escalator (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd." jointly established with Guangzhou Elevator Industry Company, specializing in the manufacture of escalators
• Nissei Sangyo Co., Ltd. established works for producing printer ribbon in Shenzhen
• Hitachi Chemical established Xinyi Rihong Plastic Chemical Co., Ltd. for the manufacture and sale of rosin modified colophony in Guangzhou
• Joint-venture "Changsha Hitachi Automobile Products Ltd." jointly established With CACE for the manufacture and sale of automobile components such as motors and alternating generators

• Japan Servo Co., Ltd. and Changzhou BMW Group established joint venture "Changzhou Servo Motors Co., Ltd."
• "Shanghai Hitachi Electric Appliances Co.,Ltd."established

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• "Guangzhou Guangri Elevator Industry Co., Ltd." jointly established with Guangzhou Elevator Industry Company for the manufacture, installation and maintenance of elevators *2

• "Wuxi Hitachi Maxell Co., Ltd." established to manufacture lithium batteries, alkaline cells and computer disks
• "Babcock-Hitachi Dongfang Boiler Co. Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of current boilers and auto-circulate boilers

• "Hunan Wire & Cable Services Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of specialized wire for electronic equipment and rubber roller used in OA equipment

• "Shenyang Northeast Electrical-Hitachi Power System Ltd." established, engaged in equipment engineering for transmission and transformation power

• "Wuxi Nikkyo Food Service Co., Ltd." established, engaged in Japanese and Chinese food services

• "Dalian Hitachi Baoyuan Machinery & Equipment Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of complete set of equipment for a nuclear power plant

• Hitachi-Maxell, Ltd. established sales company "Maxell (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd."
• "Hitachi Instrument (Suzhou) Co., Ltd." established

• Hitachi Chemical established "Hitachi Chemical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd." for the processing and sale of sensitive films of printing circuit board in Guangdong province
• "Hitachi Construction Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd." established

• "Hitachi Air-conditioning & Refrigerating Products (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of refrigeration equipment

• TOKICO Ltd. and China FAW Grounp Corporation jointly established "FAW-Tokico Shock Absorber Co., Ltd." for the manufacture and sale of automobile shock absorbers

• By absorption and merger, "Hitachi Elevator (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd." successfully merged with "Hitachi Escalator (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd." and "Guangzhou Guangri Elevator Industry Co., Ltd." and became "Guangzhou Hitachi Elevator Co., Ltd."

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• "Hitachi Customer Consultant Service Center" established as a customer service center of household appliances *3

• Hitachi Transport System (Hong Kong) Ltd. established Shenzhen office

• "Xuji Hitachi Electric Co., Ltd." jointly established with Xuji Electric Co., Ltd. for the manufacture and sale of control equipment for power protection.

• Completed construction of steamed turbine equipment (No.1) in China Qingshan No.3 Nuclear Power Plant (No. 2 was completed in October 2000)

• Hitachi Transport System established "Hitachi Transport System (Shanghai) Ltd."

• "Hitachi Display Device (Suzhou) Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of flat displays

• "Research and Development Center" of Hitachi China Ltd. established

• Accepted an order for escalators from Guangzhou No. 2 Subway Line

• "Zhongtian Hitachi Fiber Optic Cable Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of OPGW and its appendix
• "Shanghai Sunshine Copper Products Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of copper tubes with trough used in air conditioner

• Nisshin Transportation Co., Ltd., the subsidiary company of Hitachi Transport System established "Nisshin Transportation Qingdao Co., Ltd."

• "Nikkyo Create (Suzhou) Food, Ltd." established, engaged in group catering business

• "Shenzhen SEG Hitachi Color Display Devices Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of kinescopes of projection television

• "Hitachi Fujian Digital Media Co., Ltd." established for the design, manufacture and sale of projection televisions
• Hitachi Metals established manufacturing base "Hitachi Metals (Suzhou) Electronics, Ltd." for the manufacture of spare components of mobile phones

• "Hitachi Household Appliances (Wuhu) Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of indoor air conditioners
• Hitachi Metals established "Huishen Science and Technology Co., Ltd." processing base of jointing cathode vacuum film-plating

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• Hitachi Maxell established "Maxell Asia, Co., Ltd." Guangzhou office
• "Tsinghua-Hitachi Joint Laboratory" established together with Tsinghua University *4
• "China CyberGovernment Square" established on Beijing University of Technology campus

• Changzhou Servo Motors Co., Ltd." wholly invested by Japan Servo started its business

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• Together with Sumitomo Corporation, accepted an order for electric components of Beijing No.13 Subway trains*5
• Together with Nanjing Panda Electronics Co., Ltd. established "Nanjing Panda Hitachi Techno Co., Ltd." for the manufacture and sale of reaming printer
• "Nissei Sangyo Trading (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd." (Hitachi High-technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.) established

• "Hitachi Information System (Shanghai) Co., Ltd." established with the aim of carrying out SI business in the fields of manufacturing and finance

• "Shanghai Hiatchi Cable Trading Co., Ltd." established, engaged in the export and sale of products of Hitachi Cable Group into China and also export and sales from China to other countries

• Hitachi Medical established "Hitachi Medical System (Suzhou) Corporation."
• Shanghai Hitachi Household Appliance Co.,Ltd. and Shanghai Hitachi Electric Appliance Co.,Ltd. merged as "Shanghai Hitachi Household Appliance Co.,Ltd."

• Hitachi Transport System established offices in Dalian, Qingdao and Suzhou
• "Hitachi Cable Asia Ltd." established specially for the sale of the products of Hitachi Cable Group to the Asian market including China
• Hitachi Metals established manufacturing base "Hitachi Metals (Dongguan) Ltd." to manufacture cylinders of injection shaping machine

• The Group Company of Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. "Asian-pacific International Electric Power Co., Ltd." established Yike Electric Power (Shanghai) Trade Co., Ltd."
• Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. provided the Ministry of Railways of China with the wireless communication system for the Qing-shen railway

• Accepted an order for escalators and automatic conveyer from Guangzhou New Baiyun Airport (New Guangzhou Baiyun International Co., Ltd.)
• In order to strengthen logistic networks, Hitachi Transport System began to cooperate with Shanghai Airlines Co., Ltd.
• Hitachi Chemical Industry established "Hitachi Chemical (Dongguan) Co., Ltd." for the manufacture and sale of sensitive films of printing circuit board

• Hitachi Unisia Automotive, Ltd. established "Guangzhou Hitachi Unisia Automotive, Ltd." at Huadu District, Guangzhou Province, engaged in the manufacture and sale of power transfer systems and water pumps

• Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Jiao Tong University signed the agreement on joint establishment of a research and development center

• Sales commission agreement signed with Beijing Internet Institute, which symbolized its formal entity into China Ipv6 network business
• Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Jiaotong University jointly established "Hitachi Chemical-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Research and Development Center"
• "Hisco Shanghai Co., Ltd." established
• "Hitachi Electronic Devices (Wujiang) Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and assembly of spare components of back signal lamps
• Hitachi Metals established technology and service center base "Hitachi Metals (Shanghai) Ltd." to provide components of information equipment and special steel products

• "Hitachi Automotive Products (Suzhou) Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of automobile components such as automobile electronic apparatus control systems
• "Hitachi Business Trade (Shanghai) Co., Ltd." established, engaged in international trade and inter-enterprise trade in bonded area
• Hitachi Medical established "Hitachi Medical Systems Service (Beijing) Corp."
• Participated in China's first trial operation project of information transmission with information communication terminal carried out by China Network Communication Co., Ltd.

• Hitachi Transport System invested in the subsidiary company of Shanghai Airlines, "Dahang International Transportation Co., Ltd." and began operations
• TOKICO and Hengtong International Co., Ltd. jointly established "Tokico Automotive (Suzhou) Co., Ltd." for the manufacture and sale of automobile arrester products

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• "Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Co., Ltd. " established *6
• "Qingdao Hisense Hitachi Air-Conditioning System Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of specialized air conditioning systems
• "CNMP Networks (Beijing) Inc." established for the manufacture and sale of information network equipments

• "Hitachi Cable Fine Tech (Suzhou) Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of specilized wiring components of computers and medical equipments

• "Hitachi (China) Investment Ltd." established which is responsible for investing in the Chinese market and gained approval to function as the local legal representative
• "Hitachi Industrial Equipment (Nanjing) Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of industrial converters
• Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd." established "Hitachi Storage Battery (Dongguan) Co., Ltd." in Guangdong Province for the manufacture and sale of lead storage battery (used in automobile and industry)

• Accepted an order for a circulating ATM systems from the Bank of Communications
• "Dalian Nake Instruments Co., Ltd. " established
• In order to provide China with assistance in fighting SARS, donated 10 sets of conversion wireless mobile X-line equipment to the Chinese government and awarded an honorary certificate by the Chinese government

• "Hitachi Cable (Suzhou) Co., Ltd." established for the manufacture and sale of specialized cable used in electronic equipment

• Accepted an order for a circulating ATM systems from China EverBright Bank
• Accepted an order for escalators of Guangzhou No.3 Subway

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• "Hitachi Yongji Electric Equipment (Xi'an) Co., Ltd." jointly established with Yongji Electric Equipment Works, engaged in the design, manufacture, sale and after-sales service of city railway traffic vehicles and electric equipment of vehicles *7
• Education training program carried out in Dalian, Liaoning Province to train Chinese software development technical staff targeting the Japanese market

• Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. established "Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction (Suzhou) Co., Ltd." engaged in constructing a complete set of equipment and engineering construction
• Hitachi Air Conditioning Systems Co., Ltd. established "Hitachi Compressor Products (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd." for the manufacture and sale of specialized air conditioning compressors

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• "Hitachi IT Resident District System" showroom established in Guangzhou *8
• Hitachi Chemical won the title of "excellent supplier" awarded by AU (Suzhou) for supplying circuit joint films specially used in LCD
• Hitachi Air-Conditioning Systems (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. established

• "Hitachi Beijing Tech Information System Co., Ltd." jointly established with Beijing University of Technology to carry out SI business in the field of Chinese government electric affairs
• Hitachi Air-Conditioning Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. established
• As a product of Hitachi, Broadhand server in support of IPv6 was authenticated by China for the first time

• "Hitachi Highly Automotive Products (Shanghai) Ltd." jointely established with Shanghai Highly (Group) Co., Ltd. for the manufacture and sale of automobile starter
• Hitachi Information Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was awarded "2003 China IT Rapidly Developed Enterprise" by CCW (China Computer World) and "2003 China IT Customer Satisfactory Brand" by CCID (China Center for Information Industry Development)