北京开关厂是全国输变电行业的国有大型企业，主要研制生产用于电力系统及国家重点工程所需的高低压电器、高低压成套配电装置及核电站控制设备。改革开放以来，北开和众多国有企业一样，面临着许多新情况、新问题。八十年代末和九十年代初，北开曾是北京市工业企业亏损大户， Beijing Switchgear Factory is a state-owned large-scale enterprise in the power transmission and transformation industry in China. It mainly develops and manufactures high- and low-voltage electrical appliances, high- and low-voltage complete sets of power distribution equipment and nuclear power plant control equipment for power systems and national key projects. Since the reform and opening up, Beikai, like many state-owned enterprises, has faced many new situations and new problems. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Beikai was a large loss-making industrial enterprise in Beijing.