Kunming Metallurgical Research Institute, founded in 1953, is a national high-tech enterprise, Kunming scientific and technological innovation pilot enterprise, the National Enterprise Technology Center - the core R & D organization of the Yunnan Metallurgical Group Limited by Share Ltd technology center. It is the Key Laboratory of the new technology of the Yunnan metallurgy and metallurgy, the national post doctoral research workstation and the country. The support unit of the international cooperation base of the Ministry of science and technology is also the key technology of Yunnan province hydrometallurgical Engineering Technology Research Center, Yunnan Province aluminum electrolysis energy saving and emission reduction engineering technology research center, Yunnan province lead metallurgical engineering technology research center, Yunnan province manganese series product engineering technology research center and Yunnan Province polysilicon industrialization key technology The main support unit of the center is the technical development and innovation team of Yunnan province germanium and titanium series high-tech products, the new technology innovation team of Yunnan Province aluminum electrolysis metallurgy, the research and innovation team of the pressure hydrometallurgy technology application in Yunnan Province, the low cost polysilicon technology innovation team in Kunming and the titanium and titanium production in Kunming. Product development science and technology innovation team. Existing resources development (mineral processing), metallurgy, material composition, analysis and testing, materials, engineering design and environmental protection, and other research departments, mainly engaged in the development and utilization of mineral resources, technology research and technology and technology services; metallurgy, environmental protection technology development and service; new materials research and development; mining, selection, metallurgy engineering design, civil Architectural design; analysis of multi element in ore and metal products, phase analysis and structural determination of alloy materials; mineral composition and occurrence state, analysis of various material composition and so on.

Existing fixed assets of 53 million yuan, more than 300 staff and staff, with 124 senior professional titles, including 3 doctoral tutors, 18 senior engineers, 1 people with 100 million people, 2 leaders in Yunnan Province, 5 scientific and technological innovation teams, 4 new talents in Yunnan Province, and more than 30 related sheets at home and abroad. It has established a scientific and technological cooperation relationship with Commonwealth of Australia science and industry organization, the University of Utah of the United States, University of Queensland in Australia, montsara, Australia, Bateman, South Africa, and other institutions, scientific research units and well-known enterprises, and the exchange of information and information for Southeast Asia. Vietnam, Laos, Burma and other neighboring countries carry out technology export and external technical services. The service fields are all over the more than 30 provinces, cities, autonomous regions and neighboring countries, including yuncopper group, Yunxi group, Kun Steel Group, Yunnan geology and mineral stock company, Yunnan Jinding Zinc Industry Co., Ltd., Yunnan Hualian zinc and indium Limited by Share Ltd, Gansu silver company, Jinchuan company and so on. Scientific and technological cooperation and technical services have provided fruitful technical support for the development and utilization of major mineral resources. At the same time, technical services for small and medium-sized mining and metallurgical enterprises have promoted the development of regional economy in minority areas.

In the past 60 years, a total of more than 3000 scientific and technological projects have been completed, and about 300 achievements have been awarded by the state, the Ministry and the provincial level. More than 260 large and medium-sized mining and metallurgy enterprises have been built on the basis of scientific research. More than 70 new technologies and new technologies have been applied to the development of Yunnan and China's metallurgical industry.