China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC; ) is a Chinese

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established in 2002. Its fields include communications equipment, computers, electronic equipment, IT infrastructure, networks, software development, research services, investment and asset management for civilian and military applications. It was founded with the stated goal of leveraging civilian electronics for the benefit of the

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. In 2021, CETC became the third largest electronics and IT company in China after absorbing Potevio, with a combined revenue of $53 billion in 2019, behind only Huawei and Lenovo. The company also handles electronic parts and systems for radars, missiles, key components for satellites in the

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network, semiconductors, antennas for wireless infrastructure as well as equipment for autonomous-driving technology.

History

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation was founded in March 2002 by the Minister of Information Industry. The company is located in

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and 18 other provinces. CETC has been the intended recipient of several prosecuted acts of

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in the U.S. In 2012, CETC celebrated their tenth anniversary and had 80,000 employees at the time. In March 2016, the government tasked the company with developing software to identify potential terrorists; using data on jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and other behaviors. From 2016 to 2019, CETC built radar platforms for the

in the northern part of the

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between the

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and

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. In June 2017, CETC successfully launched the world's largest fixed-wing drone swarm to date. The drones in the swarm were a commercial fixed-wing model produced by Skywalker Technology, a

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-based company. In December 2017, CETC was reported to be soliciting government contracts to deploy facial recognition systems in

Hotan Prefecture Hotan PrefectureThe official spelling is "Hotan" according to (see also #Etymology, § Etymology) is located in the Tarim Basin region of southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to t ...

. In September 2020, a CETC subsidiary named Zhenhua Data was implicated in a leak of

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information on individuals worldwide. In 2021, it was reported that Potevio had been absorbed into China Electronics Technology Group (CETC). CETC partners with

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and is the most important shareholder of

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U.S. sanctions

In August 2020, the

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placed four CETC subsidiaries on its

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for their work to militarize artificial islands in the

. In November 2020,

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issued an

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prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the

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has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army, which included CETC. In August 2022, CETC's 43 and 58 Research Institutes were added to the

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. In December 2022, CETC's 28 Research Institute and other CETC subsidiaries were added to the Entity List. Following the 2023 Chinese balloon incident, the U.S. Commerce Department added CETC's 48 Research Institute to the Entity List for supporting "China's military modernization efforts, specifically the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) aerospace programs including airships and balloons." In May 2024, the U.S. Commerce Department added further units of CETC to the Entity List.

Subsidiaries

* CET HIK Group (100%) **

(41.87%)

References

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* {{authority control Electronics companies established in 2002 Defence companies of the People's Republic of China Government-owned companies of China Electronics companies of China Chinese companies established in 2002 Software companies established in 2002 Companies based in Beijing

History

U.S. sanctions

Subsidiaries

See also

References

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