As the national research and development and manufacturing base of heat recovery steam generators, and the chairman and secretariat member of National Standardization Technical Committee on Waste Heat Utilization Equipment in China Energy Industry, it has taken the lead in the development planning and standard formulation of waste heat utilization standards. The Key Enterprise Research Institute for Intelligent Energy and Energy Storage Technology of Zhejiang Province and the Post-doctor Workstation of Zhejiang Province are also set up in the Company.

XIZICE has 378 professional R&D personnel, including 3 professor-level senior engineers, 67 senior engineers, and 5 doctors, the R&D personnel account for 26% of its staff. A number of technical experts are members of industrial associations and standard committees.

XIZICE is in cooperation with a number of well-known universities in China and has invited many academicians and professors of the Chinese Academy of Engineering as its long-term technical consultants. It has carried out strategic cooperation in technical resources with Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and Southwest Jiaotong University respectively, and established Xi'an Jiaotong University-Hangzhou Boiler Group Energy and New Science and Technology Research Institute and Zhejiang University-Hangzhou Boiler Group Advanced Energy Joint Research Center, and has also built research platforms with Chengdu Design and Research Institute and Jinan Energy Utilization Solution Research Institute.