The company, formerly known as Yunnan Lincang Xinyuan Germanium Co., Ltd., was founded in July 1998. In July 1998, it was approved by the Yunnan Lincang Regional Administration Office “Linxingfu (1998) No. 38” document, and the Yunnan Lincang Regional Smelter (name changed to Lincang Feixiang Smelting Co., Ltd. on January 9, 2008) and the Yunnan Nuclear Industry 2009 Geological Brigade jointly funded the establishment of Yunnan Lincang Xinyuan Germanium Industry Co., Ltd. The company's main business is germanium mining, fire enrichment, wet purification, regional melting refining, deep processing and research and development. The company's current material-grade germanium products are mainly fused germanium ingots and germanium dioxide; in terms of deep processing, photovoltaic grade germanium products are mainly solar germanium wafers, infrared-grade germanium products are mainly infrared-grade germanium single crystals (optical elements), germanium lenses, and infrared thermal cameras; fiber-grade germanium products are germanium tetrachloride for optical fibers, and compound semiconductor materials are mainly gallium arsenide wafers and indium phosphide wafers. Corporate honors: In 2017, it was re-certified as a national high-tech enterprise; in 2015, the company's technology center was recognized as a national enterprise technology center; in 2017, it obtained a laboratory accreditation certificate from the China National Accreditation Committee for Conformity Assessment.