Shanghai Electric engaged in the design, manufacture and sale. The company can provide system equipment and general contract projects. Its Products range over power generation equipment, power transmission and distribution equipment, electromechanical integration equipment, transport equipment, machine tools, elevators, package and print machinery, environmental protection equipment etc., Now Shanghai Electric has become a first-tier domestic and world class equipment manufacturing conglomerate.　

There are several A share listing companies such as Shanghai Mechnical&Electrical Industry co., Ltd., and there are 50 more very famous joint-venture such as Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator Co., Ltd.,

Through R&d inovationg, management capability enhancement, Shanghai Electric has ever achieved a number of breakthroughs since 1949. Such as first 6, 000KW fossil-fueled power generating unit, the first cooling gas turbine generator of the world, the first ten-thousand water pressing machine of China, the first 300mw nuclear power generating unit of China, the first large ship-use crankshaft of China, the first 1, 000mw ultral super-critical fossil-fueled power generating units of China etc.

The group will pay more effort to the improvement of the country's overall competitiveness through the execution of following three major strategies: "core business concentration, self-mastered innovation, global resource consolidation". Meanwhile, the group brand "Shanghai Electric" are developing as a universal brand.