SQ Group has established a national enterprise technology center with more than 10 professional research institutes, totaling nearly 500 researchers and about RMB 300 million investment in research and development per year. SQ Group has established a number of scientific research platforms such as national postdoctoral research workstation, national certification and accreditation laboratory and Shandong Provincial Project Research Center, and has formed an international team with nearly 30 world-class experts, further injecting innovation vitality into the company.

SQ Group is well equipped with all kinds of instrument resources, including more than 50 sets of analysis and inspection equipment, such as the scanning electron microscope (SEM), nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, XRD, X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF), microscopic infrared spectrometer, microscopic Raman spectrometer, ion chromatograph and tandem quadrupole inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, with the total value being more than RMB 30 million yuan, thus making it possible to provide reliable analysis data and accurate technical support for the industry.

SQ Group passed ISO9001 quality management system certification in 1997, introduced TS16949 standard in 2014, and passed ISO14001 environmental management system certification in 2002. What’s more, SQ has passed GB/T28001 occupational health and safety management system certification, and the review of national “Level 2” safety standardization enterprise. SQ Group has also been granted as a benchmarking enterprise in the construction of “Work Safety Risk Hierarchical Management System and Potential Risk Identification and Management System” in Shandong Province.

SQ Group owns 3 national manufacturing individual champion demonstration enterprises(two at national level and one at provincial level), 8 high-tech enterprises and 4 specialized and sophisticated enterprises that produce new and unique products, and has been awarded with the following honors: National Technological Innovation Demonstration Enterprise, National Key Leading Enterprise Of Agricultural Industrialization, National Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprise, one of the first batch of National "Green Factories", one of China’s Top 500 Private Manufacturing Enterprises.