ZTT embarked on optical fiber communications in 1992, accessed to the "smart grid" in 2002, and commenced work on renewable energy products in 2011. In 2020, ZTT decided to spin off the Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable Company which is to be floated on the Shanghai Stock Exchange as a new public company. ZTT is the biggest taxpayer of private enterprises in Rudong, the largest advanced manufacturing enterprise in Nantong, one of Top 500 Chinese Enterprises, National Key High-tech Enterprise as well as the winner of China Quality Award and China Grand Awards for Industry.

ZTT follows the new economic model of fostering cleaner production and accelerating green and low-carbon development, works hard to serve as the pioneer of persistent endeavor to achieve national goal involving carbon dioxide emissions peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, emerging as a green manufacturing technology group assuming regional economy.

ZTT has pictured a diversified industrial portfolio for marine equipment, renewable energy, new materials, smart grid, optical communications and other diversified industrial products. ZTT Group is now hosting 76 subsidiary companies and over 16, 000 employees, as well as 54 offices and 10 marketing centers set up overseas, and 6 overseas plants operated in India, Brazil, Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey and Germany. The products of ZTT are exported to 160 countries and regions, and the businesses of ZTT have achieved full coverage of countries and regions along the Belt and Road. In 2020, ZTT broke through $ 10.82 billion in sales revenue.