Sunday, October 12, 2008

BYD Company

BYD Company Limited is a privately-owned company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, which is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of rechargeable batteries, handset components and automobile products. It is currently the second largest mobile phone rechargeable battery producer in the world and the largest producer of nickel-cadmium batteries.

In 2002, its H shares were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Tencent Holdings

Tencent Holdings Limited is the largest and most used Internet service company in the People's Republic of China. It was established by Mr. Ma Huateng in 1998. QQ, Tencent's most notable product, has become one of the most popular instant messaging platforms in Mainland China.

Tencent was listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on June 16, 2004.

With effective from 10 June 2008, Tencent Holdings is added to Hang Seng Index Constituent Stock . It has the highest historical PE ratio currently among HSI blue chip stocks.

Shenzhen Investment

Shenzhen Investment Limited is property developer in Southern China, partly owned by Shenzhen Government. It also involves in infrastructure and cement businesses through other companies. It was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1997.

Shenzhen International Holdings

Shenzhen International Holdings Limited is engaged in the investment, construction and operation of logistics infrastructure facilities, third party logistics services and logistics information services. It is held by Shenzhen Investment Holding Corporation, an investment holding institution owned by Shenzhen Government and Cheung Kong Holdings.

Shenzhen Energy

Shenzhen Energy Group Company Limited , formerly Shenzhen Energy Investment Company Limited, is one of the main power generation companies in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It involves in developing all types of energies, researching and investing high new energy-related technologies. Huaneng Power International is now the second largest shareholder of Shenzhen Energy.

Shenzhen Development Bank

Shenzhen Development Bank Co., Ltd. is a bank based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. It is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Ping An Insurance

Ping An , full name Ping An Insurance Company of China, Ltd. is a holding company whose subsidiaries mainly deal with insurance and financial services. The company was founded in 1988 and has its headquarters in Shenzhen.

Ping An Insurance group is the holding company of Ping An Life Insurance Company of China, Ltd. and Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Company of China, Ltd. It also controls China Ping An Insurance Overseas Limited and Ping An Trust & Investment Co., Ltd. Ping An Insurance Overseas, located in Hong Kong, is a second holding company for subsidiary companies located outside of China.

Ping An Trust & Investment has the subsidiaries of Ping An Securities and Ping An Bank.

Ping An began as only a casualty insurance company. Since the mid 1990s Ping An has been diversifying into financial services from its core business of insurance and began taking investments from overseas firms. Ping An accepted investments from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in 1994. In 2002 HSBC took a large equity interest in Ping An. In early 2008, Ping An took a 50% share in , which had taken over ABN AMRO Asset Management as a result of the split up of ABN Amro in late 2007.

Markets


Since June 24 2004 Ping An has been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Now, it has stock exchange in Shanghai, .

Ping An was chosen as an index stock of the replacing Anhui Expressway.

The Hang Seng Index Services Company announced on 11 May, 2007 that Ping An will join as Hang Seng Index Constituent Stock since 4 June, 2007.

Operations


Ping An has operations across all of the People's Republic of China, and in Hong Kong and Macau through Ping An Insurance Overseas. Ping An has branches or a representative agent in 150 countries.