Wuhan Zall Center Investment Co., Ltd.

Zall Holdings Group ranks among China's Top 500 Enterprises. It focuses on investing in advanced manufacturing, modern services, and other real economy sectors. It is the major shareholder of five listed companies—Zall Smart Commerce (********), Hanshang Group (600774.SH), China Tongshang Group (********), LightInTheBox (LITB.US), and Huazhong Numerical Control (300161.SZ)—as well as Wuhan Zhongbang Bank. The company has been awarded titles such as "National Advanced Private Enterprise in the 'Ten Thousand Enterprises Helping Ten Thousand Villages' Targeted Poverty Alleviation Campaign," "National Advanced Private Enterprise in Employment and Social Security," and "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization in Exceeding and Striving for Excellence." Yan Zhi, founder and chairman of Zall Holdings, was selected for the "100 Outstanding Private Entrepreneurs in 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up" list.
Zall Bookstore is the flagship project of Zall Bookstore (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zall Holdings. Located in the bustling commercial district of central Hankou, it represents an investment of nearly 100 million yuan, covers an area of 3,000 square meters, with a building area of 10,000 square meters. Zall Bookstore is dedicated to creating a new-concept cross-disciplinary literary and artistic experience center in Wuhan themed around book culture, featuring master lectures, cultural salons, small theater performances, painter studios, art exhibitions, coffee bars, and music halls. It is committed to promoting reading, inspiring creativity, deepening culture, and enhancing the public's spiritual and cultural needs as a public welfare undertaking, providing citizens with an exquisite and elegant reading space for various extended reading activities in a cultural and artistic atmosphere, meeting the public's spiritual and cultural needs.
Zall Bookstore began construction in 2012 and officially opened in November 2013. The first-phase book sales area exceeded 4,000 square meters, encompassing over 80,000 titles and 150,000 books. The first floor mainly features Chinese and foreign literature, local specialty books, new releases, bestsellers, lifestyle, and business management books; the second floor focuses on social sciences, art, architecture, history, philosophy, and law books. The third floor mainly offers foreign language, Hong Kong and Taiwan books, and rare out-of-print books. The second-phase project added a nearly 600-square-meter children's bookstore, advocating reading companionship for growth and creating a warm and colorful children's reading space, with over 4,500 titles and nearly 20,000 books, mainly including early childhood readers, picture books, children's literature, children's encyclopedias, and children's skill books for children aged 1-14.