Hunan Vanguard Group Co., Ltd. is a large state-owned enterprise under the China South Industries Corporation. Vanguard Group is founded in 1890; its headquarters is located in Chenxi County, Hunan Province, with a long history of more than 120 years. It is divided in to two areas: Headquarters and Changsha new area, with existing assets of USD100 million, with a total floor area of 8.13 million square meters. We have more than 3,000 personnel, among whom, 420 personnel are engineers and technicians, and there are 40 personnel with decades of experience in hydro power equipments research and development.

Hunan Vanguard Group has a long history of producing hydropower equipments. Since 1959, we produced various kinds of large and middle type equipments according to the requirement of nation-building. Thereinto, P0-40 automatic governor etc. multiitem research results filled the national blank space in hydropower equipments. At present, we mainly produce about 200 sorts of middle and small scale hydraulic turbines in 5 series, which are Tubular type, Propeller/Kaplan type, Francis type, Turgo type, and Pelton type for high, middle and low head, and also vertical, horizontal and bulb generators of more than 100 sorts in 8 series. Besides, we also provide matched excitation boards, control boards, gate valves, governors, and pen stocks, as well as package services of equipment transmission, installation, debugging and generating. Our products are sold well throughout our country and are exported to Vietnam, Iran, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Laos, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, North Korea, Pakistan and other countries, favored by users, Vanguard brand became the first choice for domestic small and middle stations.

We have been devoted to the research and development of the products and reserve of talents since establishment, and have established long-term technological cooperation with more than ten institutions of higher learning such as National Defense University, Tsinghua University, Hunan University and Nanjing Hehai University. In 2007, we invested over RMB one billion to build a new production base in Changsha, after it is completed, the unit production capacity can be 100MW.

We have set up a rigorous and perfect quality management system and passed the evaluation of ISO9001 international quality assurance system in 1996, and also passed the authentication of version changing and upgrading. We have advanced testing and analyzing means and have been awarded the certificates of "national first-class metering institution" and "national second-class physical-chemic institution" by relevant ministries. Since 2006, we have achieved five national patents in hydropower equipments technology.