Beijing Highlander Digital Technology Co., Ltd.

Booth No.: 7T39

Company Profile

Founded in 2001, Highlander is the only publicly listed company in China with the capability to deliver both "Smart Ocean" and "Intelligent Navigation" solutions (stock code: 300065). It has been awarded the First Prize of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Award and the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. Headquartered in Beijing Environmental Science and Technology Park, the company maintains branches in Shanghai, Guangdong, Qingdao, Hainan, Nantong, Wuhan and other locations, as well as subsidiaries and R&D institutions in Germany, Singapore, Canada and other countries. It became a navy supplier in 2004, and its products serve both the civil market and the military-standard market.

Enterprise Highlights and Honors

Beijing Highlander Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Highlander") was registered and established in 2001, became a supplier of naval equipment in 2004, and was listed on the ChiNext board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in March 2010. It holds a full set of military industry qualifications and is a national "Little Giant" enterprise recognized for specialization, refinement, differentiation and innovation. Its major shareholders are the founding team, Hainan state-owned capital and other private capital, with no foreign investment or foreign-national background whatsoever.

For more than two decades since its establishment, the company has been deeply engaged in the field of marine high technology. Guided by the national strategy of building China into a maritime power, it actively responds to the country's call to develop and manage the oceans and to advance marine development through science and technology. Upholding the mission of "exploring the ocean and dedicating ourselves to national defense," Highlander is committed to becoming "a global leader in intelligent navigation and China's innovator and practitioner in smart ocean."

Highlander has been selected for the Forbes China Most Promising Enterprises List 2018 and for the defense and military industry sector list of the Military Industry Committee of the China Association for Public Companies. In 2025, the company had a total workforce of more than 500 employees and an output value of nearly RMB 800 million.

The company attaches great importance to independent R&D and innovation. To date, it has developed a series of core, independently developed and controllable key technologies in the fields of radar, intelligent navigation and smart ocean, and has obtained 175 patents and 142 software copyrights. In 2021, the company was awarded the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. Owing to its strength in marine science and technology, in 2022 the company and its subsidiaries were added to the Entity List of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Exhibited Products

01 Solid-State Radar

The Highlander HLD-RADAR 900S is a domestically developed all-solid-state shipborne navigation radar, available in two models — X-band and S-band. Adopting third-generation gallium nitride (GaN) solid-state transmitting technology, it completely eliminates the wear-and-tear problem inherent in traditional magnetron radars. Designed for ocean-going cargo ships, coastal vessels, engineering work vessels, official service craft and inland waterway ships, it is a leading product in the domestic substitution of ship navigation and sensing equipment.

Product Features

1. No consumable parts, eliminating the cost of frequent magnetron replacement;

2. Significantly improved small-target detection under complex sea clutter and rainfall conditions;

3. Instant start-up with no warm-up waiting and no tuning required, delivering a higher level of automation;

4. Built-in system fault diagnosis, reducing troubleshooting difficulty;

5. Compliant with domestic and international class survey requirements, supporting ship export projects.

02 "NavMind" Autonomous Navigation System

The new-generation "NavMind" autonomous navigation system is designed for two major scenarios: inland waterways and coastal waters. The system deeply integrates navigation radar and the Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS), and uses AI algorithms to achieve multi-source target fusion. It provides core functions including collision avoidance assistance, track-following navigation, and automatic berthing and unberthing, and can be extended with value-added services such as smart engine room management and energy efficiency management. Requiring no additional hardware, the system enables intelligent advancement through function upgrades alone. Compatible with a variety of vessel types including new energy vessels and LNG carriers, it has already been applied on the main lines of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, providing digital and intelligent services across the entire life cycle of vessels.

Product Features

1. Multi-target fusion perception integrating radar, vision and AIS;

2. Supports track-following navigation, intelligent collision avoidance, berthing assistance and remote monitoring;

3. Highly integrated design that significantly reduces bridge equipment and saves procurement and installation costs;

4. Supports tiered intelligent upgrades, evolving step by step from assisted navigation toward higher levels of autonomous navigation, and suits both the intelligent retrofitting of inland and river-sea combined transport vessels and the equipment of newbuilds.

(Article reprinted from the WeChat official account "Marine Equipment Expo")