Serves as the import-export corporation of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC); established 1980; exports uranium and lithium isotopes and nuclear equipment and instruments; sold ring magnets for uranium gas centrifuges to Pakistan's secret nuclear facility at Kahuta; imports nuclear equipment, machinery and instruments, computers, electronic elements and components, chemical and metallurgical materials for nuclear purposes, cascade accelerators, aviation equipment for uranium exploration and reactor in-service inspection devices; reportedly proposed to sell hundreds of tons of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (AHF or hydrofluoric acid), used as feeder material for refining uranium yellowcake into gaseous form, to Iran's Isfahan Nuclear Research Center of Technology, but delivery was blocked by United States diplomatic efforts; affiliated with the New Era (Xinshidai) Group.
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