The ZKZM-500 is the subject of a July 2018 article in the South China Morning Post describing a laser gun purported to have been developed by Chinese researchers of the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shaanxi. Le ZKZM-500 est un projet de pistolet laser potentiel qui serait développé en Chine par le Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics à l'Académie chinoise des sciences dans la province de Shaanxi.