【Haichuan Chemical Industry Site】Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Technology included in the fifth batch of **Industrial Heritage List

The Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Technology has a long history; its origins date back to the Huanghai Chemical Industry Research Society, China’s first privately-funded chemical research institution, which was established in August 1922 in Tanggu, Tianjin, by the renowned patriotic industrialist Mr. Fan Xudong and the famous scientist Dr. Hou Debang. In 1948, the head office of the Yellow Sea Chemical Industry Research Society was moved to Beijing; it later became part of the Ministry of Heavy Industry’s Comprehensive Industrial Research Institute, which was divided into a Chemical Industry Research Institute, an Iron and Steel Industry Research Institute, and a Non-ferrous Metals Industry Research Institute.

In 1954, the Chemical Industry Bureau of the Ministry of Heavy Industry officially decided to merge the Chemical Industry Research Institute, the Zhejiang Province Chemical Research Institute in Hangzhou, and the research laboratory of the Northeast Chemical Industry Bureau in Shenyang to establish the Shenyang Comprehensive Chemical Industry Research Institute under the Chemical Industry Bureau of the Ministry of Heavy Industry. This marked an important milestone in the development of chemical industry research institutions after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In 1956, the Ministry of Chemical Industry was established, and the \"divide into four\" plan was put into effect; some research laboratories from the Shenyang Comprehensive Chemical Industry Research Institute were moved to Beijing to establish the Beijing Chemical Industry Research Institute. On June 1, 1958, the Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry was officially established. Its first director was Lin Hua, a first-class labor hero from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, one of the pioneers of China’s chemical industry, a renowned chemical engineering expert, and one of the first members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

In 1998, the North China Institute of Chemical Technology became part of Sinopec, becoming one of the eight directly affiliated research institutes of the group company

In 1969, most of the research laboratories in the field of synthetic materials at the North China Institute of Chemical Technology, as well as all or part of the staff in the associated testing workshops, along with the supporting auxiliary workshops, testing facilities, and logistical equipment, were transferred to Sichuan Chenguang Chemical Factory. This move laid a solid foundation for the development of the chemical industry in southwestern China in subsequent years. Another group of researchers and officials moved to Xining in Qinghai, where they established the Liming Chemical Research Institute (the predecessor of today’s Luoyang Liming Chemical Research Institute), Lanzhou Chemical Industry Company, Shaanxi Xingping Fertilizer Factory, Guizhou Organic Chemical Factory, Shandong Zibo Petrochemical Factory, and Nanjing Yangtze River Refinery. The total number of people who moved there exceeded a thousand; approximately 80% of the important equipment and fixed assets were used to support the development of the \"Third Front,\" playing a key role in strengthening the strategic rear area.

North China Institute of Chemical Technology Test Building: Construction start year: 1956–1957

Energy Building of Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology; Construction start year: 1958–1959