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According to the company website, "[Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd.] was the first heavy machinery manufacturer of the new born People’s Republic of China and extolled as the ‘cradle’ of the machinery industry of China. It is one of the large scale key enterprises of Chinese machinery industry. In 1996, it was reorganized as Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (SHMG). SHMG is made up of 11 enterprises: Shenyang Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd.; Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd., Import and Export Company; Shenyang Heavy Machinery of Metallurgy and Mining Manufacturing Company; Fuyang Man-made Board Co., Ltd; Shendor Wooden Co., Ltd.; Permanent Stainless Steel Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; etc.. After a few years of system change and assets reorganization, it is changing from a production operation type company to a capital operation type company" (Company Website).

     Shenyang Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. is a joint venture of Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd., China Huarong Asset Management Corporation, Xinda Asset Management Corporation and China Great Wall Asset Management Corporation. It is a legal entity which has autonomy in management and assumes sole responsibility for its profits or losses. It is a subsidiary owned by SHMG. It is a heavy machinery manufacturing enterprise which mainly produces large technological equipment for power plants, metallurgy, steel rolling, forging, mining, cement, man-made board, war industry and environment protection. It has the capability of producing 100,000 tons of steel, 40,000 tons of steel casting, 20,000 tons of forged pieces, 20,000 tons of structural members and 60,000 tons of machinery products" (Company Website).

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“[Northern Heavy Industries Group Co., Ltd.] is a large-scale and state-owned company which is incorporated by Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co, Ltd. and Shenyang Mining Machinery Group Co., Ltd" (Company Profile).

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"NHI is a transnational, large-scale backbone enterprise in the field of equipment manufacturing industry of our country. In 2008, NHI becomes one of the top 500 enterprises in both Chinese machinery industry and international machinery industry. NHI is located in Shenyang Economic and Technology Development Zone with total asset value of 12.7 billion yuan, covering an area of 1.3 million m², more than 10800 employees."

"Its main products are tunnel engineering equipment, power equipment, building material equipment, metallurgy equipment, mining equipment, coal machinery, bulk material handling and conveying equipment, environmental protection equipment, forging equipment, construction machinery and transmission machinery, total about 500 types and 7000 models. Some products are exported to more than 80 countries and regions in the world" (Company Profile).

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NHI tunneling projects in Iran, Mashad and Ahvaz metros (Iran Project website).

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In 2007, Northern Heavy Industries Group Co., Ltd. (NHI), a Chinese state-owned corporation, “acquired a controlling stake of 70 percent of France's NFM, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany's Wirth Group” (“China's Northern Heavy Industries acquires controlling stake of France's NFM,” Sina English, August 28, 2007).

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NHI-owned NFM Technologies, a mechanical engineering company and leading tunnel-boring machine manufacturer, does business in Iran and has been involved in a number of tunneling projects. NFM is also listed on the IBR.
•    NFM representative in Iran (NFM Company Website)
•    NFM project in Iran, Shiraz Metro Project (Iran Project Website)

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With the acquisition of NFM technologies, NHI specializes in the manufacture of tunnel-boring machines. ("NHI-Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Tunnel Boring Machine Company," Chinese business website) 

The Wall Street Journal named Zhenhua as a company that sold oil to Iran in 2009.

(The Wall Street Journal, "Black-Market Gasoline Shelters Iran," 6/17/2010)

According to an article in The Oil Daily, sources say that "Chinese firms--reportedly including China Natural Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Zhenhua Oil, a subsidiary of state industrial giant Norinco--this month (September 2009) started supplying Iran with gasoline for the first time."

(Allbusiness.com, "Chinese Gasoline Sales Set to Complicate Iran Sanctions Push," 9/24/2009)

"An opposition news website is reporting that Iran has imported high-tech armored anti-riot vehicles equipped with water cannons that can douse people with boiling water or teargas.

The U.S.-based Persian-language news website Rahesabz, or Green Path, posted a photograph of what it described as a photograph of two of the trucks arriving at the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas in the south.

The website said the vehicles were a rush order from their manufacturers in China, Dalian Eagle-Sky, according to the blogger Sohrebestan. 

(See a translation of his post in English at the blog Persian2English.)

With an alleged price of $650,000 a unit, the 25-ton trucks each hold 2,640 gallons of water, which can shoot hot or cold water at a distance of up 220 feet. 

They can also shoot tear gas, burning chemicals or paint stored in three 26-gallon containers.

It includes a plow, which can presumably demolish makeshift barriers placed on streets by protesters, or even the demonstrators themselves.

Iranian protesters torched police vehicles and motorcycles during anti-government riots last weekend, when police trucks allegedly ran over at least one demonstrator, as shown in the video below." (Los Angeles Times, "Chinese-made armored anti-riot trucks, equipped with plows, may arrive in Tehran," 1/1/10)

The Chinese Anti-Riot Vehicle Reportedly Imported by Iran

In 2006, LIMMT Economic & Trade Co., a Chinese seller of metallurgical products, was blocked from selling goods in the U.S. for allegedly selling high-strength metals and sophisticated military materials to Iran.

In April 2009, a New York grand jury indicted LIMMT and its owner, Li Fang Wei, for allegedly conspiring to evade that ban by using aliases, and the U.S. Treasury updated its sanctions list to include those aliases.

In 2006, Dalian Sunny Industry & Trade Co. sent seven shipments of steel parts to Coastal Flange Inc. in Houston. (The 2009 case established that Dalian was an LIMMT affiliate.) In 2007, the shipments began coming from Dalian Orient Pipe Components Co. Bills of lading reveal that Dalian Sunny and Dalian Orient share the same address and telephone number.

Officials at LIMMT, Dalian Sunny and Dalian Orient didn't return calls seeking comment. (The Wall Street Journal, "Chinese Evade U.S. Sanctions on Iran," 1/5/10)

"Chinese companies banned from doing business in the U.S. for allegedly selling missile technology to Iran continue to do a brisk trade with American companies, according to an analysis of shipping records.

A unit of state-owned China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp., for example, has made nearly 300 illegal shipments to U.S. firms since a ban was imposed on CPMIEC and its affiliates in mid-2006, according to an analysis of shipping records by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a nonprofit proliferation watchdog.

A Wall Street Journal review of the records and interviews with officials at some of the American companies indicate that the U.S. firms likely were unaware they were doing business with banned entities, and in many cases were tripped up by altered company names.

The CPMIEC shipments, worth millions of dollars, include everything from anchors and drilling equipment to automobile parts and toys. In many cases, CPMIEC acted as a shipping intermediary -- activity also banned under a 2006 presidential order.

The ability of CPMIEC and other foreign companies to continue doing business in the U.S. despite the sanctions comes as the Obama administration considers fresh economic sanctions against Iran. The illegal shipments suggest that U.S. sanctions have become so numerous and complex that they have become difficult to enforce...

In June 2006, the U.S. banned CPMIEC and three other Chinese companies from conducting business in the U.S., citing their alleged sales of missile technology to Iran in defiance of previous sanctions. Two months later, a shipment of oil-drainage tanks from Shanghai landed at the port of Tacoma, Wash., bound for a New York City firm, American Forge & Foundry Inc. The shipper: a unit of CPMIEC, according to a shipping record known as a bill of lading...

John Iliff, general manager of American Forge & Foundry, says the single shipment of oil-drainage tanks it received in 2006 from the CPMIEC unit set off no alarms. 'Trading in illegal goods certainly never crossed our minds,' he says.

The shipment came from China JMM Import & Export Shanghai Pudong Corp., which didn't appear on any sanctions list until Thursday. Records indicate the company shares an address and phone number with a CPMIEC unit that was previously banned: CPMIEC Shanghai Pudong Corp. The Treasury determined that the two companies are affiliated." (The Wall Street Journal, "Chinese Evade U.S. Sanctions on Iran," 1/5/10)

"May 15, China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) signed the formal contract of Tehran Subway Line 4 Project with Tehran Railway Company. The total amount of this contract is 836 million US dollars. It was China's biggest international project contract to date... The international competitive bidding of the Line 4 Project of Tehran Subway began in September 2002. NORINCO, on the strength of the good reputation and experience gained from building the first Tehran subway, Line 5, from 1996 to 1999, beat many large international contractors." (Press Release from Company Website)

Runs multiple flights each week both to and from Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) and Urumqi International Airport (URC) to Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport (IKA). (Company Website)

"China's state-run Zhuhai Zhenrong, which started buying oil from Iran more than a decade ago and was among the first buyer to heed Tehran's call to pay in euro instead of U.S. dollars, has extended its agreement with National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) to import 240,000 bpd of crude for 2009." (Reuters, Factbook, 6/5/09)

• Sinopec's trading arm Unipec booked a vessel to load 250,000 barrels in Singapore on Tuesday, with options to discharge in the Gulf. The cargo was likely to go to Iran, trade sources said.

  A Sinopec spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

  Unipec sold gasoline to Iran between 2001 and 2004. State-run Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, the world's largest single lifter of Iranian crude, also used to be a regular supplier to Iran. (Reuters. "Exclusive: China's top oil firms sell gasoline to Iran-trade," 4/14/10)

• Last year’s foreign buying spree was not the first for the likes of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and China Petrochemicals Corporation (Sinopec), but previously the Chinese firms had mostly purchased assets in Africa and Central Asia, which typically produce oil similar to China’s own crude...

  All three of China’s biggest state-controlled oil companies have clinched deals with Tehran to develop some of Iran’s biggest oil and gasfields. Last year’s crop included agreements for CNPC to develop phase 11 of the massive South Pars gasfield to develop three oilfields. (The National, "China's global quest for oil," 1/9/10)

• "Top refiner Sinopec Corp. has agreed to import 150,000-160,000 bpd of Iranian crude this year, unchanged from 2008." (Reuters, "FACTBOX: Iran's major oil customers, energy partners," 8/19/09)

• "China's top three oil firms PetroChina (0857.HK), Sinopec Corp (0386.HK) and CNOOC, and state banks such as China Construction Bank (0939.HK) were briefed last week by senior Iranian oil officials in Beijing on a series of refining projects under Tehran's planning board, the officials said." (Reuters, "Iran seeks China investment to build refineries," 7/13/09)

• "But Greg Priddy, an oil analyst at the Eurasia Group consultancy, said Chinese companies did not have the same expertise as more established European operators. 'Iran was already looking to companies like Sinopec and CNPC, which are doing onshore work which is technologically much easier,' Mr Priddy said, but he added that those companies would not be able to do the more difficult offshore development needed for South Pars." (Financial Times, "Turmoil turns Iran's energy sector to Beijing," 7/11/09)

• "The enormous New York State Common Retirement Fund plans to divest $86.2 million in investments from nine companies doing business in Sudan and Iran...The decision comes after two years of reviewing these companies, the potential risk of the investments and, in some cases, humanitarian efforts in these countries. 'We don't expect our investments to benefit regimes that support genocide and terrorism,' said DiNapoli. The fund plans to divest out of $86 million in Gazprom (OGZPY), Inpex (1605.TO), Lukoil (LUKOY), Oil And Natural Gas Corp (500312.BY), OMV (OMVKY), Petroleo Brasilia (PBR), Statoil (STO), Wartsila OYJ and Sinopec Corp. DiNapoli said the firms were chosen because 'they failed to respond or we were not satisfied with their responses' when asked to provide information to the fund on the investments and their risks." (Wall Street Journal, NY Comptroller To Divest $86.2M In State Pension Fund Investments, 6/30/09)

Listed by U.S. Government as doing business in Iran. (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, List of Companies Doing Business With State Sponsors Of Terror, Removed from the internet in July of 2007)