The National Engineering Research Center of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Recycling (hereinafter referred to as the "Research Center") was established on the basis of Jingmen GEM Co., Ltd. The construction project of Research Center was approved on September 28, 2014 and accepted on July 27, 2018. In the past decade, GEM has continuously increased the R&D investment. As of the end of 2022, GEM had invested more than 5.3 billion RMB in R&D facilities and attracted over 1000 R&D personnel. GEM possesses seven research institutes and an National Demonstration Base for Urban Minerals Analysis Center. The seven research institutes are namely, GEM (Shenzhen) Super Green Technology Institute, GEM Nickel-Cobalt-Tungsten Waste Recycling and New Materials Research Institute, GEM New Energy Materials Research Institute, GEM (Taixing) New Product Research Institute of Cobalt Business, GEM (Wuhan) Green Industry Innovation Research Institute, QMB (Indonesia) Laterite Nickel Ore Hydrometallurgy and New Energy Materials Engineering Technology Research Center and GEM Polymer Materials Recycling Research Institute.

In 2022, the R&D investment exceeded 1.476 billion RMB, accounting for 5.02% of the sales revenue and 113.94% of net profit, which showed GEM has made continued efforts to promote innovation and has become an advantageous enterprise with heavy investment in innovation. With an aim of providing technological support for the company, the Research Center focuses on key technology breakthroughs in the recycling of waste batteries, electronic waste, scrapped cars and various kinds of scarce resources such as cobalt, nickel, and tungsten, the design of cathode material production line and the innovation in ternary material technology, the technological innovation in ternary precursor technology, technical breakthroughs in the resource utilization of complex and low-grade cobalt-nickel raw materials and cobalt-nickel powder (materials containing cobalt oxide), technological breakthroughs in high-quality tungsten carbide powder materials, as well as rapid breakthroughs and commercialization of key technologies.