China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO)

China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) is the major role in the international operations of the nation’s arms industry, the pioneer in high-quality joint development of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and an important team for implementing the Chinese national "going global" strategy. 

Since it was founded 40 years ago, NORINCO has always been guided by serving national defense and security as well as economic and social development. By cultivating both international and domestic markets and utilizing both international and domestic resources, the company has built an overseas business network and created an international operation pattern featuring with coordinated development of defense product, petroleum, minerals, international engineering and specialized civilian products, investment and asset management. Thus it is transformed from an import & export trading company to a large-scale multinational enterprise integrating trade, industrial and modern financial operations.

NORINCO actively carries out exploration, development, production and trade of overseas petroleum and mineral resources. It has constructed and operated flagship projects in countries along the Belt and Road such as the East Baghdad Oil Field in Iraq, and the Copper-Cobalt Ore Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thus forming an industrialized management and development mode of petroleum and mineral resources with distinct NORINCO’s characteristics.

China North Industries Corporation is the main supplier of Chinese Army weaponry and equipment, the pioneer and leader of international cooperation in China's defense industry, and the world's first-class large-scale transnational defense company.

Around the world's new military transformation and the diversified development of combat modes, Northern Company actively promotes the "three transformations and three upgrades" of international defense cooperation business, and constructs a full-spectrum equipment system with international competitiveness and complete system, so as to realize the full network coverage of sea, land and air.