中国一重前身为第一重型机器厂，是“一五”期间建设的156项重点工程项目之一，始建于1954年，是中央管理的涉及国家安全和国民经济命脉的国有重要骨干企业之一，是国家创新型试点企业、国家高新技术企业，拥有国家级企业技术中心、重型技术装备国家工程研究中心、国家能源重大装备材料研发中心。

中国一重主要为钢铁、有色、电力、能源、汽车、矿山、石油、化工、交通运输等行业及国防军工提供重大成套技术装备、高新技术产品和服务，并开展相关的国际贸易。主要产品有核岛设备、重型容器、大型铸锻件、专项产品、冶金设备、重型锻压设备、矿山设备和工矿配件等。60多年来，为国民经济建设提供机械产品500多万吨，开发研制新产品421项，填补国内工业产品技术空白475项，创造了数百项“第一”。中国一重具备核岛一回路核电设备全覆盖制造能力，是中国核岛装备的领导者、国际先进的核岛设备供应商和服务商，是当今世界炼油用加氢反应器的最大供货商、冶金企业全流程设备供应商。

目前，中国一重正加快推动传统产品优化升级，大力发展装备制造及服务、新材料、军民融合、“一带一路”、地企融合五大业务，努力形成产业结构合理、质量效益领先、高端制造突出、军民深度融合、地企协同发展、“一带一路”共享的国际竞争力强的世界一流企业集团。

China First Heavy Industries, previously known as First Heavy Machinery Works, was founded since 1954 as one of the 156 key projects in the "First-Five-Years" period of China.CFHlis one of important state-owned enterprises relating to the national security and economy lifeline under the administration of central government and has been awarded with the titles of the National Innovative Pilot Enterprise,National High-Tech Enterprise, and having the National Technical Center, the National Heavy Machinery Engineering and Research Center and the National R&D Center of Energy Equipment and Material.

CFHlis mainly engaged in the supply of complete technicalequipment,high-tech  products and services to the steel, non-ferrous, power generation, energy,automobile,mining,oil and petroleum, chemical, transportation and national defense industries and carrying out relevant international trade. Main products include nuclear  island equipment, heavy- duty vessels,large steel castings and forgings,defense  equipment, metallurgical equipment, heavy-duty metal forming equipment, mining  equipment and the machinery spare parts. With more than 60 years of development,  CFHI has supplied nearly 5 million tons of machinery,over 421 new products for Chinese economical developments,developed more than 475industrial technologiesunprecedented in the Chinese industrial fields and created hundreds of "The First Unit"  in China. CFHI possesses the capacities of manufacturing the all primary loop components for nuclear island, has become the leader of Chinese nuclear island components, the supplier and service provider of international advanced nuclearisland components, the largest supplier of hydrogenenation reactors used for oil refineries as  well as the supplier of full process equipment for metallurgical industries in the world.

Nowadays CFHI will devote herself to accelerate the optimization and upgrade of traditional products and vigorously develop the five business sectors such as the equipment manufacturing and service,new materials, civil-military integration,"Beltand Road" and local government and enterprise integration. CFHIwill spare no efforts to construct into a first class enterprise group in the world featuring high internationalcompetitiveness for the purposes of the rational industrial structure,leading qualityand efficiency, particularly outstanding top manufacturing capacity,deep civil-military integration, and the coordinated development of local government and enterprise as well as sharing of "Belt and Road" achievements.