{{Short description|Chinese electronical equipment manufacturers}} {{Infobox company | name = China XD Group | logo = | logo_alt = | type = Power transmission and distribution electrical equipment manufacturer | industry = Power engineering, electrical equipment manufacturing | predecessor = | founded = {{Start date and age|1959|7}} in [[China]]<ref name="about_us">{{Cite web |date=January 12, 2025 |title=About us - China XD Electric Co., Ltd. |url=https://en.xdect.com.cn/About_us1/About_us1.htm |access-date=January 11, 2025 |website=China XD Electric Co., Ltd.}}</ref> | founder = | defunct = | fate = | successor = | hq_location_city = [[Xi'an]], [[Shaanxi]], Post Code 710075<ref name="about_us" /> | hq_location_country = [[China]] | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = | products = | owner = | num_employees = | num_employees_year = | parent = | website = {{URL|http://www.xd.com.cn/}} }} [[File:China PVOUT Photovoltaic-power-potential-map GlobalSolarAtlas World-Bank-Esmap-Solargis.png|thumb|China PVOUT Photovoltaic power potential map (2021)]] '''China XD Group''' is a Chinese [[State ownership|state-owned]] central enterprise responsible for manufacturing high-voltage and super grid [[electric power transmission]] and [[Electric power distribution|distribution]] equipment.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official website |url=https://en.xd.com.cn/About_us1.htm}}</ref>
China XD Group's products include [[Electricity generation|power generation]] and [[power transmission|power transmission equipment]], [[Electric power distribution|distribution systems]], [[transformer]]s, and related electrical equipment.<ref name="ft">{{Cite web |title=China XD Electric Co Ltd, 601179:SHH profile - FT.com |url=https://markets.ft.com/data/equities/tearsheet/profile?s=601179:SHH |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=markets.ft.com}}</ref>
==Business overview== China XD Group is involved in the research, development, design, production, sale, testing, distribution of control equipment for [[High voltage|high-voltage]] energy transmission and [[Electric power distribution|distribution systems]].<ref name ="ft"/>
According to the company, China XD Group operates approximately 60 subsidiaries, including 10 medium-sized production enterprises and three research institutions. The company employs about 18,000 people, including around 3,000 engineers and technicians.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brief Introduction of China XD Group Co., Ltd.-中国西电集团有限公司 |url=https://en.xd.com.cn/info/1003/2461.htm |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=en.xd.com.cn}}</ref>
The company asserts that it exports its products and technologies to nearly 40 countries and regions, including Germany, the United States of America, Singapore, and Hong Kong.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}
China XD Group's research institutions conduct experiments on high-voltage, high-current, and large-capacity AC/DC electricity. The group is a member of the [[International Electrotechnical Commission|International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)]] and the International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric Systems ([[International Council on Large Electric Systems|CIGRE]]), serving as the ICE's designated administrative body in China. China XD Group claims to have developed approximately 1300 products.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}} Additionally, the company holds 260 [[Patent law of China|patents]], including two related to computer [[software]] copyright.<ref>{{Cite web |title=China XD Electric Co., Ltd.(601179.SH) - ResearchInChina |url=http://www.researchinchina.com/Htmls/Company/862.html |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=www.researchinchina.com}}</ref>
==Products== China XD Group specializes in electrical equipment and systems. Key product categories include:
* Transformers: Up to 750 kV for power and converter applications. * High-voltage reactors: Smoothing and shunt reactors. * [[Switchgear]]: Gas-insulated (GIS) systems up to 800 kV. * [[Lightning arrester]]s and capacitor voltage transformers.
These products serve high-voltage power networks, supporting national and international infrastructure projects.
== Projects == XD Group supplies power transmission and distribution equipment in China and components for national engineering projects, including the first infrastructure in China for 330kV and 550kV DC, 750kV AC, ±100kV DC, ±500 kV DC, and ±800 kV DC transmission. Additionally, they have contributed to China's first DC power supply network from the northwest to the north, participated in the [[Three Gorges Dam|Three Gorges Project]], and supported the west-to-east electricity transmission project. According to the Belt and Road Energy Cooperation website, components like transformers of 750kV, reactors, lightning arresters, [[Voltage transformer|capacitor voltage transformers]] and isolating switches of 800kV have successfully operated in 750kV model projects in northwest China. China's first 800 kV double cut-off pot-style breakers have been operated at [[Yinchuan]] East [[Substation|Transformer Substation]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=Jan 5, 2018 |title=China XD Group |url=https://obor.nea.gov.cn/v_country/getData.html?id=1105&webSiteId=2#:~:text=Among%20them%2C%20the%20products%2C%20like%20transformers%20of,has%20been%20put%20into%20operation%20at%20Yinchuan}}</ref>
XD Group has developed technology for AC 1100kV and DC ±800kV components in China, providing equipment such as 1000kV GIS, reactors, capacitor voltage transformers, lightning arresters, ground switches, and insulators for the Mega-Volt (MV) model line “Southeast Shanxi—Nanyang—Jingmen Model Project.” Additionally, the company supplied transformers, valves, capacitors, and lightning arresters for the “Yunnan—Guangzhou” ±800kV High Voltage DC Transmission Project.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}
===Participation in the Belt and Road Initiative=== Since the [[Belt and Road Initiative]] was proposed in 2013, China XD Group has exported its products and technologies to around 100 countries and regions, supplying equipment for international infrastructure projects.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Across Mountains and Seas, Building Prosperity Together: A Decade of the Belt and Road Initiative, XD Lights Up the World! |url=https://www.xd.com.cn/info/1015/8214.htm}}</ref> Major projects include:
====Southeast Asia==== * [[Indonesia]]: Joint venture to produce 500 kV power transformers. * [[Philippines]]: Construction of the MVIP HVDC transmission project. * [[Laos]]: Completion of the Hongsa power transmission and transformation turn-key project. * [[Malaysia]]: Transmission line project undertakings.
====South Asia==== * [[Pakistan]]: Construction of the first ±660kV HVDC transmission line.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Feature: China-Pakistan power project facilitates economic growth, cements friendship |url=https://english.news.cn/20230728/1badb1a468a04f3b9895ebdd240783ee/c.html |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=english.news.cn |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-31 |title=China continues power transmission project in Pakistan despite Covid-19 |url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/708023/china-continues-power-transmission-project-in-pakistan-despite-covid-19/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Daily Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
====Middle East==== * [[Saudi Arabia]]: Equipment supply for the NEOM water electrolysis hydrogen production project.
====Central Asia==== * [[Uzbekistan]]: Signed EPC contract for the 500kV ring transmission line project.
===Wind Power Projects=== In 2013, XD planned to assist [[Uzbekistan]] in constructing [[wind farm]]s as its first major [[wind power]] project. A [[Memorandum of understanding|Memorandum of Understanding]] (MoU) was signed with Uzbekenergo, the country's governing body for energy, to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of wind farms.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chinese Xian Electric to Build Wind Farms in Uzbekistan |url=http://gca.satrapia.com/+chinese-xian-electric-to-build-wind-farms-in-uzbekistan+ |newspaper=The Gazette of Central Asia |date=14 March 2013 |publisher=Satrapia |access-date=2025-03-07}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{official website|http://en.xd.com.cn/}} {{in lang|en}} * {{official website|http://www.xd.com.cn}} {{in lang|zh}}
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