The Nuclear Power Institute of China (NPIC), set up in 1958, is the largest comprehensive base in China for nuclear reactor engineering research, design, testing and operation. Its main task is to study and design the nuclear power installation as well as the R&D and application of other types of reactors. It is the cradle for nuclear power engineering in China. NPIC is now a large nuclear power research institute integrating both scientific research and engineering design.

NPIC has 3,700 staff workers and more than 2,200 research fellows, including over 600 researchers and senior engineers, 850 technicians with intermediate titles. NPIC covers more than 50 specialties and disciplines, under which there are four research institutes, four centers, over 90 labs and one equipment manufacturing company.

Up till now, the Nuclear Power Institute of China has designed and built the Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR), the High Flux Engineering Test Reactor (HFETR), and the Pulsed Reactor (PR) with U-ZrH as fuel. It also accomplished some important experimental research projects such as Qinshan Phase I and so on. Nuclear Power Institute of China also beefs up application of scientific and technological achievements and has developed some key medical apparatuses, industrial facilities, new materials and so on. It has been certified by GB/T19001-1994 and GJB/Z9001-1996. Its four research institutes and one equipment manufacturing company have been certified by quality systems of military goods and civilian goods respectively.