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.

Maoye International

Maoye International Holdings Limited , or Maoye International, Maoye, is the top-rank leading department store in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and is engaged in department store and retailing business in Guangdong, Sichuan, Chongqing and Jiangsu.

Maoye postponed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for two times in 2000 and January 2008 respectively due to poor stock market conditions at that time, until it was successfully listed on 5 May, 2008. At the first trading day, its stock price closed at 3.04, 2% lower compared with its IPO price, HK$3.1.

Hasee

Hasee Computer Company, Ltd. is a personal computer manufacturer based in Shenzhen. Hasee is the second largest Chinese manufacturer of computers after Lenovo. The company was created 1995 and has at present an annual turnover of approximately 600 million euros. The company Teldoo Distribution GmbH, based in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, handles sales in Germany.

China Vanke

China Vanke Company Limited is the largest residential real estate developer in the People’s Republic of China. It is engaged in developing, managing and selling of the properties across 20 cities in Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and -Rim Region, with the provision of investment trading, consultancy services and e-business. Its parent company is China Resources. It is headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong.

China Vanke was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 1991, the second listed company in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange after Shenzhen Development Bank. It had the largest market capitalisation in 2006 on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

China Merchants Property

China Merchants Property Development Company Limited , was established in Shenzhen, China in 1984 and it is the real estate flagship of China Merchants. It offers residential properties in China cities, including Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Zhangzhou, Foshan, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Beijing, Tianjin and Chongqing.

China Merchants Bank

China Merchants Bank is a bank headquartered in Shenzhen, China. Founded in 1987, it is the first share-holding commercial bank wholly owned by corporate legal entities.

CMB has over five hundred branches in mainland China and one in Hong Kong. In November 2007, as part of a drive for international growth, it won federal approval to open a branch in .

China International Marine Containers

China International Marine Containers Co., Ltd is a Chinese company principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of transportation equipment, such as containers, road transport vehicles and airport ground-handling equipment.

Its container department produces dry freight containers, refrigerated containers, special containers and other containers. CIMC also offers road transport vehicles, including logistics vehicles, tanker trailers and construction vehicles. In addition, the Company designs and manufactures passenger boarding bridges and cargo handling systems for airports. Based in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, CIMC is also engaged in the real estate industry through its subsidiaries.

With over 40% market share in the international container business and over 50% market share in reefer container market, CIMC has been the biggest container-manufacturing company in the world since 1996. It has 12 production bases lay out in South, East and North of China, with products ranging from dry van, reefer, tank and other special containers. The customers include leading shipping companies and container leasing companies.

Share ownership


China International Marine Containers Company Limited was founded in January 1980 and became a public company in December 1993. COSCO is one of the two biggest shareholders with 20.05% shares of the company. The other one is China Merchants Group.

CITIC Securities

CITIC Securities Company Limited is engaged in securities business in China, including securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management, securities investment, stock and bond trading, stock market research and consulting services. It was established in 1999 and it is headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Its parent company is CITIC Group.

CITIC Securities was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2003. It is one of the SSE 50 constituent stocks and one of the top ten constituent stocks in iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Tracker.

Belle International

Belle International Holdings Limited is the largest retailer of ladies footwear in Mainland China. It is engaged in the manufacturing, distribution and retail sales of footwear products. It offers a number of brand names on its footwear business, including ''Belle'', ''Staccato'', ''Teenmix'', ''Tata'', ''Fato'', ''JipiJapa'', ''Joy & Peace'' and ''Bata''.

It is headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007.

BYD Electronic

BYD Electronic Company Limited or BYD Electronic , the subsidiary of BYD Company Limited, is engaged in the manufacture and sales of handset components , handset modules and assembly services to handset manufacturers. One of its customers is Nokia.

It was incorporated and listed in Hong Kong in 2007 with IPO price of 10.75 per share. However, it has dropped below IPO price since the first trading day because of recent poor performance of Hong Kong stock market and BYD's legal dispute with its competitor, Foxconn.

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Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China is the largest networking and telecommunications equipment supplier in China.

Established in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei, Huawei Technologies is a private high-tech enterprise which specializes in research and development , production and marketing of communications equipments, and providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers. Huawei serves 35 of the top 50 telecoms operators and puts 10 per cent of revenue into R&D each year. In addition to the R&D centers in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Xi’an, Chengdu, and Wuhan in China, Huawei also has R&D centers in Stockholm, Sweden; Dallas and Silicon Valley, U.S.; Bangalore, India; Ferbane in Offaly, Ireland; Moscow, Russia.

Huawei


, 3G cards , 3G HSDPA USB modem, Huawei E220. and 3G HSUPA modem stick Huawei E172.

In 2005, Huawei was selected by as a preferred supplier of communications equipment for BT’s 21CN network strategy. In the same year, Huawei signed a Global Framework Agreement with Vodafone for mobile network infrastructure. In 2006, Motorola signed a deal with Huawei where Motorola distributes and installs Huawei's 3G equipment. On November 15 , Huawei signed a deal worth 30 million euros with German operator Versatel Holding Deutschland GmbH. Huawei will build a fibre-optic communication network based on Internet protocol for Versatel, Germany's third largest fixed-line operator. On February 1 , Forbes reported that France Telecom has selected Huawei to supply UMTS mobile equipment for its third generation network. Huawei replaced Alcatel/Motorola in Romania, and Nortel in Belgium.

Vodafone awarded Huawei 2007 Global Supplier Award for Outstanding Performance in June, 2007.

On October 29, 2007, Huawei announced a WiMAX Solution

Competitive position



Huawei's global contract sales for 2006 reached USD11 billion , 65% of which comes from overseas market. Huawei has now become a leading vendor in the industry and one of the few vendors in the world to provide end-to-end 3G solutions. In 2006, Huawei ranked No.1 in the global NGN market , No.1 in Mobile Softswitch , No. 2 in Optical Network , No.1 in IP DSLAM , No.2 in broadband convergence routers , and No.1 in MSAN market .

In 2007, Huawei became the 4th largest patent applicant in the world after Matsushita, Philips Electronics and Siemens with 1,365 applications. It also recorded sales of 12.56 billion US dollars for the year, which makes it the fifth largest telecommunication company in the world in terms of revenue after Cisco, Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent, and Nokia Siemens.

Huawei Technologies was included in the World's Most Respected 200 Companies list compiled by Forbes magazine in May 2007, one of the six from telecom industry.

Cisco Lawsuit Against Huawei


On January 23, 2003, Cisco sued Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd and its subsidiaries, Huawei America, Inc. and FutureWei Technologies, Inc. over Huawei's unlawful copying of Cisco's intellectual property. The suit alleged that Huawei "unlawfully copied and misappropriated Cisco's IOS software... and infringed numerous Cisco patents." Cisco suspended the patent infringement lawsuit on October 1, 2003, after Huawei agreed to modify some of their products.