Shanghai Optical Instrument No. 5 Factory Co., Ltd. (formerly Shanghai Optical Instrument Factory, founded in 1953) is one of China’s well-known opto-mechanical factories of its early industrial era. The company specializes in the production of precision optical instruments and optical component processing.
The main product range includes: measuring and testing instruments, microscopes, and optical devices for physics, analytics, medicine, education, and other fields.
Main Achievements
- In scientific research and education: since its establishment, the factory has achieved 107 scientific research results, 35 of which are at the national level. The company has also manufactured educational equipment and training materials.
- In the defense industry: the company designed and produced periscopes for military submarines, variable-magnification command sights for anti-aircraft guns, and made a significant contribution to national defense development.
- In aerospace technology: the factory developed wide-angle lenses for high-altitude aerial photography, special aviation gratings, filters for satellite observation, and instruments for analyzing satellite and missile trajectories.
- In the cultural and media industry: the company developed underwater cameras, molds for photosensitive films, wide-angle lenses for large-format cinema, dichroic prisms for color televisions, and multilayer optical coating technologies.
- In the field of innovation: among the company’s breakthroughs are China’s first fluorescent cervical cancer detector, the first universal tool microscope, and an electron microscope with 100,000-times magnification.
Contribution to the Optical Industry
The factory actively contributed to the development of China’s optical industry by supporting the establishment of specialized optical enterprises such as Guiyang Xintian, Chitian, and Anhui Xianfeng.
At different stages, the company cooperated with leading global and Chinese organizations, including Leica and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, greatly advancing the development of the national optical industry.
To accelerate modernization and regain leadership in the production of optical measuring instruments, as well as contribute to national and regional economic development, the company plans to leverage shareholder resources and investment opportunities. This will help accelerate enterprise growth and offer customers advanced optical technologies.
