江南永新  　
南京江南永新光学有限公司（下称：江南永新）是由南京江南光电(集团)股份有限公司改制建立的宁港合资企业，注册资本1000万美元，拥有员工1100名。

　　江南永新是具有六十多年历史显微镜生产制造经验的大型专业化显微镜及光电仪器制造商。其生产能力和技术创新能力位居中国光学行业的前列，被誉为中国光学的摇篮，填补了我国光学的许多空白。中国第一台生物显微镜，第一台航空摄影仪，第一台电子显微镜等都诞生在这里。

　　“江南”品牌历史悠久。2004年春建成的新厂区，座落于南京经济技术开发区，占地6.8万平方米，优美的环境，现代化的厂房。具备国际先进水平的显微镜研发实力,拥有一支不断创新的管理团队和百余人的技术研发队伍，大型精密的加工中心和精密检测仪器。近十多年来，公司通过与Leica(美国、瑞士、新加坡) 、Nikon(日本)、Lomo(俄罗斯)等世界著名光学企业的合资、合作，全面提升公司产品的技术水平和制造能力，公司研制的生物、体视、偏光、金相、数码等系列显微镜在国内处于领先水平，“江南”产品遍布全世界。

　　公司连续十三年蝉联“江苏省名牌产品”称号，2002年被评为中国机械工业企业核心竞争力100强企业；2006年又跨入中国机械500强中仪器仪表20强行列。
Nanjing Jiangnan Novel Optics Co., Ltd (called “Jiangnan Novel” thereafter), is a joint venture with Hong Kong re-founded from the Nanjing Jiangnan Optics & Electronics (Group) Joint Stock Co., Ltd, with the registered capital USD 10 million and personnel 1100.

Jiangnan Novel is a large specialized microscope and photoelectric instrument manufacturer, which has a more than 60 years experience to produce the microscopes. Its production capacity and technology innovation capacity top the Chinese optoelectronic industry; it is honored as the cradle of Chinese Optoelectronics, and fills up many blanks in Chinese Optoelectronics. It is also the birthplace of the first Chinese bio-microscope, the first aero photographic apparatus and the first electron microscope.

The “Jiangnan” brand has a long history. The new factory built in the spring of 2004, located in the Nanjing Economic-Technological Development Area, took an area of 68,000 m2, with beautiful environment and modern workshops. It has an international advanced level of microscope research and development strength, a continuously innovative management team, a technology research and development team of more than 100 persons, a large delicate machining center and delicate detecting instruments. In recent ten years, the company made join ventures and cooperation with many world famous optics enterprises, such as Leica (USA, Switzerland and Singapore), Nikon (Japan), Lomo (Russia) and so on, completely upgrades the technology level and capacity of product production, the microscopes that the company developed lie in the top level in China include: bio-microscope series, stereomicroscope series, polarizing microscope series, metallurgical microscope series, digital microscope series, etc., now the “Jiangnan” brand products could be found all over the world.

The company was honored as “Jiangsu Famous Products” for 13 years; in 2002, it was selected to be one of the top 100 enterprises that are most competitive in the Chinese machinery industry; in 2006, it entered into the top 500 enterprises in the Chinese machinery industry and the top 20 enterprises in the Chinese apparatus and instrument industry.