Subsidiaries center in
Qingdao, China Hisense owns over 40 subsidiaries, both inside and outside China. Hisense and
Hitachi established Hisense-Hitachi Air-conditioning System Co Ltd in 2003. It designs, manufactures and markets its products, which include commercial and household central air-conditioning systems, in China. They sell Hisense-Hitachi products in Japan. It operates a commercial air-con production facility in the Hisense Information Industrial Park. Hisense Air Conditioning Co Ltd is a subsidiary set up in the Hisense Pingdu Home Appliance Industrial Park in
Pingdu, China, in 1996 to produce air-conditioners using frequency conversion air-conditioner technology purchased from
Sanyo. Hisense (Beijing) Electric Co Ltd took over a modern refrigerator factory near Beijing with the help of the local government after
Whirlpool withdrew from the project in 1998. Hisense provides this joint venture with refrigerator know-how and Whirlpool, its washing machine manufacturing expertise. The company operates a plant in
Huzhou,
Zhejiang province, which manufactures washing machines and large capacity refrigerators. They created Hisense Export & Import Co Ltd in 1991, this subsidiary is tasked with establishing
OEM contracts with foreign companies. In 2001, Hisense (Shandong) Information Technology Co Ltd created a subsidiary in
Jinan,
Shandong province, and this subsidiary handles infrastructure-use IT. It develops and markets security technology and intelligent traffic control products and their software.
Hisense Kelon Electrical Holdings Ltd is listed on two stock exchanges. Hisense Kelon is a large Hisense subsidiary. Hisense Intelligent Commercial Equipment Co Ltd was founded in 1989, this subsidiary manufactures, designs, markets and services
POS terminal,
electronic cash registers and other specialized peripheral equipment for retailing, tax monitoring and finance. It is also responsible for R&D Holding 233 patents, 64 inventions and 116 software copyrights, its products include mobile handsets, Linux OS smart phones, wireless modules, PC cards and industry customized
terminals. degaussing coils and injection molded parts. It may also produce or produced optical instruments, cameras and telephones. It is also responsible for marketing Ligent Photonics Inc products in Asia. Founded in 2000 Hisense and Ligent Photonics Inc. established a joint venture in 2002. This subsidiary designs, develops and fabricates optical components for the telecommunications and data communications industries. Qingdao Hisense Communications Co Ltd is a subsidiary manufactures mobile phones and operates an R&D facility. One of its products, the Hisense C108, is the first mobile phone to use Qualcomm's
biomimetic screen technology,
Mirasol, which allows it to be easily read in direct sunlight. Qingdao Hisense Network Technology Co Ltd was established in 2004. This subsidiary grew out of an internal Hisense department, the Information Technology Center, and provides IT consultancy services. Qingdao Hisense Property Management Co Ltd provides property management services, as well as product design, mold design, pattern making and mold processing and manufacturing, through this subsidiary. Qingdao Hisense Real Estate Co Ltd was created in 1995. This subsidiary has over 40 completed developments in
Shandong province, including residential buildings, apartments, villas, townhouses, office buildings and large industrial parks. Qingdao Hisense TransTech Co Ltd was founded in October 1998, this subsidiary manufactures and markets electronics for urban traffic, public transport and logistics. Its products include traffic light control systems, traffic signal controllers, comprehensive public security and traffic information platforms, digital traffic violation video processing systems, public transport dispatch systems, the Hisense intelligent vehicular terminal, the Hisense mobile audio-visual intelligent vehicular terminal and electronic
stop signs.
Production bases Hisense owns at least 14 manufacturing parks worldwide and operates several production bases. Hisense Guangdong Multimedia Industrial Base was put into operation on 28 September 2007. This industrial base produces flat panel TVs Hisense Industrial Park in South Africa was set up to manufacture televisions and
white goods. Hisense Information Industrial Park was created in 2001 and in
Qingdao,
Shandong, this industrial park is on 80 hectares of land. Hisense Pingdu Home Appliance Industrial Park was in
Pingdu, Shandong, it is home to Hisense Air Conditioning Co Ltd. Hisense Yellow Island Information Product Manufacturing Park was encompassing over , Hisense Yellow Island Information Product Manufacturing Park is one of the twelve industrial parks owned by Hisense as of 2009. Huzhou production base is a Hisense inverter-type/variable-frequency air-conditioner production base is in
Huzhou,
Zhejiang, and was set up on 8 May 2005. Hisense Whirlpool (Huzhou) Household Appliances Industrial Park is a production base that manufactures washing machines and refrigerators for a joint venture with
Whirlpool is at this Huzhou park. Nanjing Refrigerator Industrial Park is in the Nanjing Xingang Economic and Technological Development Zone of
Nanjing,
Jiangsu. A refrigerator production base is in this industrial park. The site's factory is 52,000 square meters in size. Sichuan production base is a Hisense Kelon refrigerator production base with a 36,000-square-meter factory is in
Chengdu,
Sichuan. ==Partnerships==