China Electronics Technology Group


China Electronics Technology Group Corporation '', established in 2002, is a Chinese state-owned company. Its fields include communications equipment, computers, electronic equipment, software development, research services, investment and asset management for civil and military applications.

History

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation was founded in March 2002 by the Minister of Information Industry. It is one of the twenty six wholly state-owned high-tech enterprises. The company is located in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangdong, Sichuan, Shaanxi and 18 other provinces.
In 2012, CETC celebrated their tenth anniversary and had 80,000 employees.
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.
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 Wuhan-based company.
In December 2017, CETC was reported to be soliciting government contracts to deploy facial recognition systems in Hotan Prefecture.

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