
CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co., Ltd.
Corporate brand
UnclaimedA CRRC subsidiary specializing in the research, development and manufacture of rail passenger vehicles and urban rail transit equipment.
Last updated October 7, 2026
Overview
CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co., Ltd. is a rail-vehicle and rail-transit equipment company headquartered in Puzhen, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Its official company profile says the enterprise was established in 1908 and is a core subsidiary of CRRC Corporation Limited. Its roots are associated with the Puzhen factory, and the company’s history page records multiple changes in its factory name and administrative affiliation over more than a century. The company describes itself as a specialized research and manufacturing enterprise for multiple-unit and electric multiple-unit trains, railway passenger coaches, and urban rail transit vehicles. It also acts as a system integration supplier and provider of urban rail transit solutions. Its business includes rail vehicles and key components, as well as related operation, maintenance and repair services. Logistics and digital services are identified as emerging business areas. Its product range includes metro vehicles, modern trams, intercity trainsets, railway passenger coaches and specialized vehicles, along with bogies and braking systems. The company also reports capabilities in several less conventional rail-transit formats, including digital guided rubber-tyred low-floor trains, straddle monorail, automated people mover systems, and suspended trains. Its platforms include metro vehicles with stainless-steel, aluminium-alloy and carbon-steel bodies, and vehicles for different speed and operating requirements. The company reports markets in 16 countries and regions across Asia, South America, North Africa and the Middle East. Its profile also states that it has 10 subsidiaries and nearly 6,900 employees. As a CRRC group company, its identity and brand-building approach sit within the wider CRRC corporate brand system. The supplied company information presents it as an active manufacturer and systems provider spanning rail equipment, lifecycle services and digital or logistics-related activities.
History
The company traces its origins to a factory established at Puzhen in 1908. The official history page documents the institution through successive factory names and railway-administration affiliations. It lists the earliest period, from August 1908 to January 1912, under the South Section Engineering Bureau of the Tianjin–Pukou Railway, with the name Puzhen Machinery Factory. The page then records changes in railway administration and factory designation during the Republican period and the upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s. These entries include periods under railway authorities, the name Puzhen Workshop, and later the name Puzhen Machinery Factory again. Following 1949, the history records further reorganizations under railway and industrial authorities. Names used during the post-war and early People’s Republic period included Puzhen Railway Factory, Puzhen Factory, Puzhen Locomotive and Rolling Stock Repair Factory, Puzhen Carriage Repair Factory, Puzhen Rolling Stock Factory, Puzhen Locomotive and Rolling Stock Factory, and Puzhen Rolling Stock Plant. The long sequence reflects changes in institutional oversight and the factory’s role in railway vehicle production and repair; the supplied history page does not present these entries as a simple uninterrupted corporate identity under today’s legal name. In 1994, the history table places the enterprise under China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Industry Group and identifies the Puzhen operation as Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Factory. From December 2002, the page records affiliation with China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Industry Group Corporation. In January 2008, the name shown is CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. The present name, CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co., Ltd., appears from June 2015, when the history page records its affiliation with China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC). The current company profile describes Puzhen as a core subsidiary of CRRC Corporation Limited and a specialist in research and manufacturing for multiple-unit and electric multiple-unit trains, railway passenger coaches and urban rail transit vehicles. It also describes the company as a system integration supplier and urban rail transit solutions provider. Its present business is framed across rail vehicles and key components, operation and maintenance-related services, and emerging logistics and digitalized services. The company profile reports international market activity across 16 countries and regions in Asia, South America, North Africa and the Middle East, alongside 10 subsidiaries and nearly 6,900 employees. The company’s stated technical and product capabilities span metro vehicles, modern trams, intercity trains, railway coaches, specialized vehicles and components, as well as digital guided rubber-tyred low-floor trains, straddle monorail, APM and suspended-train systems. The official homepage also highlights Puzhen-built vehicles entering service or reaching project milestones on Chinese urban rail networks. The available sources do not identify individual founders or current executives, so those details are not included here.
- 2015
Current CRRC Nanjing Puzhen name recorded
- 2008
CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. name recorded
- 2002
Affiliation with China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Industry Group Corporation
- 1994
Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Factory under China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Industry Group
- 1908
Puzhen factory established
Products and positioning
A specialized rail-vehicle manufacturer, system integrator and urban rail transit solutions provider within the CRRC group.
CRH6 intercity EMU
An intercity electric multiple-unit product; the company profile lists CRH6 trains in its product range and gives a speed range of 140–200 km/h.
Metro vehicles
The company profile lists A-type and B-type vehicles with stainless-steel, aluminium-alloy or carbon-steel structures.
Modern tram platform
A product platform highlighted on the official homepage and in the company profile.
Other rail equipment
The company profile also lists railway passenger coaches, specialized vehicles, bogies, braking systems, low-floor rubber-tyred trains, monorail, APM and suspended-train systems.
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