Known as the birthplace of the Chinese electric lo-comotive, ZELRI is based in Tianxin Town of HunanProvince's Zhuzhou City. ZELRI is China's only enter-prise holding independent intellectual property rights torail electric traction drive systems and a pioneer in rail-way equipment manufacturing. Its original incarnation,Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute, wasestablished by the Chinese Ministry of Railways (MOR)in 1959.