The Sixth Research Institute has more than 8,000 employees, including more than 3,000 professional and technical personnel, nearly 800 people with senior titles and more than 1,000 people with intermediate titles. It has one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, five experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 54 experts with outstanding contributions at the provincial and ministerial levels, and 166 experts enjoying special governmental allowances; it has four master's degree-granting sites and two doctoral degree-granting sites, and in December 2001, it was approved as a post-doctoral research station by the Ministry of Personnel of the People's Republic of China.
The Sixth Academy has four research institutes, one production plant and five auxiliary units, forming a scientific research and production system with a specialized division of labor and an integrated layout for the research, design, production and testing of liquid rocket motors, and establishing a complete supporting infrastructure for power supply, medical and health care, logistic services, communications, culture and education. The hospital has complete scientific research strength, strong technical force, with advanced research, production and testing facilities, in the combustion, special pumps and valves, aerodynamics, heat transfer, special seals, testing, automatic control, precision machining, special welding and other areas of the domestic leading level.
The Sixth Academy has formed a complete set of supporting research and production system and quality assurance system. It has developed more than 50 types of liquid rocket engines for China's large-scale carrier rockets, and the developed engines have been awarded gold and silver prizes for national high-quality products, and have been honored with the titles of "high-quality conventional liquid rocket engines" and "aerospace symbol products" by the former National Aerospace Corporation, and have taken part in the development of the first artificial satellite, the first spacecraft, the second spacecraft and the third spacecraft. The company has participated in more than 100 major launches, including the first artificial satellite and Shenzhou spacecraft, and the success rate has been maintained at 100%. The company has won more than 500 scientific and technological awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, including three special awards for national scientific and technological progress.
In recent years, the Sixth Academy has also made full use of its high-tech advantages and achieved remarkable results in the field of civil industry, setting up a number of high-tech companies represented by Shaanxi Aerospace Power Hi-Tech Company Limited, and developing a series of high-tech products such as special pumps and valves, thermal engineering and large-scale complete sets of equipments, pressure vessel series products, key parts of automobiles and construction machinery, intelligent instruments and meters and new-type water-saving equipments. Water-saving equipment as a representative of a series of high-tech products, won the favor of the market and customers, creating a better economic and social benefits.
After more than 40 years of unremitting efforts, especially the rapid development in recent years, the overall strength of the Sixth Academy has been increasing. Under the current new situation and new task requirements of China's aerospace industry, the Sixth Academy will continue to carry forward the "Three Great Spirits" of aerospace industry, seize the opportunities, seek development, and strive to complete the scientific research and production tasks for the construction of the national economy, and to realize the casting of the international first-class aerospace company and make unremitting efforts!