Lear Chemistry is the first owner of something in China.

The first one in China has integrated technology of catalytic chlorination system for pyridine compounds. Lier Chemical Co., Ltd. is a Sino-foreign joint venture initiated by China Academy of Engineering Physics and Russian Academy of Sciences in February 1993. In 2007, the company was restructured into a foreign-invested joint-stock company and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2008.