Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Ltd.
 
 

2007
- Acquired shares from Zhejiang Futong Optical Fibre Technologies Co., Ltd.
- The fibre drawing length for a single perform exceeded 2,000km.
- Entitled "500 Largest Manufacturers in China"
- Entitled "The Most Influential Enterprise in China's Optical Fiber and Cable Industry for the past 30 years"

2006
- Cable products have been awarded the title of "Famous Brand in China"
- Made investment to establish YOTC
- Entitled "Top Ten Innovative Enterprises in Information Industry of China in 2006

2005
- Ranked No.2 among fibre manufacturers all over the world, with the output up to 10,000,000km fibres.
- Acquired shares from Sichuan Huiyuan Communication Co., Ltd.
- Acquired shares from Zhongtian Technologies Fibre Optics Co., Ltd.
- The project "Mass production of non-zero dispersion shifted single-mode fibre with PCVD technology" was awarded State Second Prize for Progress in Science and Technology.
- Passed OHSAS 18001 Uccupational Health and Safety Management System audit

2004
- Ranked No.3 among fibre manufacturers and No.5 among cable manufacturers all over the world
- Made investment to establish Yangtze (Wuhan) Optics System Co. Ltd.
- Made investment to establish Sichuan Yangtze Shuanglong Optical fibre and Cable Co. Ltd.
- Passed ISO 14001 Environment Management System audit
- Participated in ITU-T standard drafting

2003
- Made investment to establish Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
- R&D and mass production of FullBand Low Water Peak Single-mode Fibre

2002
- Made investment to establish Jiangsu Yangtze Zhongli Optical Fibre and Cable Co., Ltd.
- Passed ISO 9001 Quality Management System audit

2001
- Acquired shares from Aoxing Optical Communication Equipment Co., Ltd.
- Finished the sixth fibre production expansion with the output up to 3,500,000km fibres

2000
- Annual sales over 3 billion RMB

1999

- Made investment to establish NK Wuhan Cable Co., Ltd.
- Produced slotted core fibre ribbon cables which were successfully adopted in the backbone metro network construction of Nanjing Telecom

1998
- Provided 30% of cable products required in national primary trunk line project of China Telecom including eight lines from East to West and eight from North to South.
- Finished the fourth and the fifth fibre production expansion with the output up to 1,800,000km fibers.

1997
- Produced the first generation of G.655 fibres in China which were successfully adopted in the first G.655 fibre trunk line project (from Guangzhou to Huizhou)
- Finished the third fibre production expansion with the output up to 800,000km fibres.

1996
- Finished the second fibre production expansion with the output up to 450,000km fibres.

1995
- R&D and production of Dispersion Shifted Single-mode Fibres which were successfully adopted in the trunk lines of Xinjiang Telecom
- Finished the first cable production expansion

1994
- Mass production of single-mode fibres
- Entitled " 500 Largest Companies with Foreign Investment in China"

1993
- Became the first company in optical fibre and cable industry of China which passed ISO 9002 Quality Management System audit.
- Fibre products began to be sold to overseas market.
- Finished the first fibre production expansion with the output up to 10,000km fibres.

1992
- Fibres and cables were put into regular production and the output exceeded the designed capacity of 50,000km fibres and 5,000km cables.

1991
- Fibres were put into pilot production
- Cables were put into pilot production. YOFC took the lead in making the first stranded loose tube cable in China which was successfully used in the trunk line project of Anhui Administrative Bureau of Posts and Telecommunications.

1989
- Infrastructure construction began in Wuhan

1988
- YOFC was established in Wuhan