In 2009, with the approval of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National X-ray Digital Imaging Instrument Center was established relying on the Institute of Applied Electronics. With the support of the National Defense Science and Industry Administration and other units over the years, several sets of different types of testing equipment have been developed, covering the energy range from 160keV to 9MeV.

The Key Laboratory of High Energy Laser Science and Technology was officially listed in July 2012, relying on the Institute of Applied Electronics (affiliated unit), the Institute of Fluid Physics, the Institute of Chemical Materials, the Laser Fusion Research Center, and the Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics , which entered into formal operation in May 2014 through trial operation evaluation.