The No. 53 Research Institute of CETC is based in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province. It has a national key laboratory, several modern scientific research laboratories and numerical control machining workshops. The institute has strong engineering technology strengths, and has been equipped with outstanding R&D and production facilities.

Its main fields: electronic engineering, applied physics, materials, chemistry, initiating explosive devices, rocketry, cybernation, information handling and so on.