The China BlueStar Changsha Design and Research Institute was founded in 1978 as a research, surveying, design, and supervisory organization under the (then) Ministry of Chemical Industry. It has grade A certification in many areas such as the chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries (chemical engineering, mines), construction engineering, municipal projects and sanitation, environmental engineering (waste disposal), surveying, and engineering consultation, and grade B certification in petroleum, medicines, metallurgy, gas, urban and rural planning and environmental engineering (water pollution, air pollution). It also has design qualifications for A2 pressure vessel and for GA, GB, and GC pressure pipes.