Huajian Group East China Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as: East China Institute; English: ECADI) was first established on May 19, 1952. It is one of the first large-scale state-owned architectural design consulting companies in New China. In 1999, it was restructured from East China Architectural Design and Research Institute to East China Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., which is the leading enterprise in the field of design consulting in Huajian Group. Over the past 70 years, East China Institute has been fully serving the national development strategy, adhering to the core values of “efficiency, cooperation, leadership, dedication, and innovation”, adhering to the development positioning of international advanced and domestic leading, and is committed to providing localized integrated services of innovative design and consulting for high-quality urban and rural development. As the vanguard of national urban and rural construction, East China Institute has deeply cultivated and laid out major national strategic development areas. It has headquarters in Shanghai and Shenzhen, and has established 23 regional business units and branches in key areas and important cities across the country, such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Greater Bay Area, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Central China, Southwest China, and Northwest China. Overseas, East China Institute’s design works are spread across more than 30 countries and regions in seven continents of the world. The East China Institute has gathered more than 4,500 outstanding professional talents from home and abroad, of which more than 20% are registered professionals with various national qualifications and senior professional titles, more than 40% are highly educated talents with master’s and doctoral degrees, and about 15% are foreign employees and employees who have returned from overseas studies. It has also trained many outstanding experts and talents, including academicians, national engineering survey and design masters, and Shanghai leading talents. Innovate Chinese design and lead a better life. In the construction of people’s cities in the new era, the East China Institute will use innovative design that leads the times to create a better living scene for the city and a better life for the people.
