GEM Green Industry (Wuhan) Innovation Research Institute focuses on the intelligent, digital and high-value development of power batteries and urban mineral resources, and conducts high-level research on leading green technologies and equipment. The institute has the Research Center for Recycling of Scrapped Vehicles under the National Engineering Research Center of WEEE Recycling, the Hubei Provincial Engineering Research Center for Recycling of Scrapped Vehicles (including New Energy Vehicles) and the Hubei Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Cascaded Utilization of Decommissioned Power Batteries of Vehicles, and other innovation platforms.

The institute consists of seven laboratories: Laboratory of Digital Technologies and Equipment, Laboratory for Cascaded Utilization of Decommissioned Power Batteries, Laboratory for Recycling of Decommissioned Power Batteries, Center for Power Battery Performance Assessment and Test, Laboratory for Dismantling and Shredding of New Energy Vehicles, Laboratory for Sorting of Vehicle Shredding Residues, and Laboratory for Recycling of Precious Metals. It researches on the fine dismantling and recycling of scrapped vehicles, the intelligent, flexible and fine dismantling, efficient cascaded utilization and recycling of decommissioned power batteries, the concentrating of precious metals, etc.