Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Company workers Institute

Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation (CAC), formerly known as "State 132 factory", was founded in 1958, and is engaged in design, development and production of aeronautical systems and non-aeronautical products. Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Company Limited was formed as a group in 1998. In the aviation industry it is important for design, development and mass production of modern fighter aircraft. Chengdu Aircraft Industry Company, based in Sichuan Province, is China's second-largest fighter production base. Its output share is about 1/3 of the total output of China Aviation Industry Corporation I. It has total assets of more than 5 billion Yuan. Located in the western suburbs of Chengdu, transportation is very convenient in this unique geographical location. It has a comprehensive complex of airport facilities and private roads, railway freight line, adjacent to the Chengdu transportation West train station. The company covers almost 5 million square meters, with more than 15,000 employees [as of 2008], including one Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and about one-thir who are engineering and management, form high quality, capable, specialized aviation personnel. The Chengdu Airframe Plant is located 6nm NW of Chengdu in the beautiful "Land of the heaven" Chengdu plain. As of early 1963 the fenced area was approximately 3,800 x 1,800 feet, and contained seven large fabrication-type buildings and approximately twenty-five other large buildings.