Established in 1952, in 1998 the company became a subsidiary of China General Technology Group (Genertec) owned by State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC).

[3] 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.

[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.

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.

[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.