China Ship Research Institute, also known as the Seventh Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), is affiliated with China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. It is a scientific and technological research institution specializing in ship research, design, and development, serving as CSIC's military product technology research center and scientific and technological development center. Its main activities include strategic research on naval weapon equipment development, top-level technological research on ship systems, system integration and system engineering management, and research and development of dual-use technologies (military and civilian). The China Ship Research Institute's predecessor was the Seventh Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, established in June 1961, and it was successively affiliated with the Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND), the Sixth Ministry of Machine Building Industry, the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC).

　　CSIC Group Spirit: Prosper the shipbuilding industry to serve the nation, innovate and surpass.

　　Prosper the shipbuilding industry to serve the nation, strengthen the shipbuilding industry to empower the enterprise. The Group's spirit inspires the Group and its employees to embark on a new path of industrialization, continuously promoting conceptual innovation, technological innovation, institutional innovation, and management innovation. It encourages constant striving for progress, continuously surpassing competitors, constantly surpassing ourselves, keeping pace with the times, and bravely scaling new heights, thereby continuously making new and greater contributions to national defense and economic development. CSIC Group's Goal: To build China's strongest and largest, world-class shipbuilding group, to become the strongest and largest supplier of equipment for the Chinese Navy, and to become the dominant force in China's shipbuilding industry. This is the Group's forward-looking goal.