Zhongnan Group

Founded in 1984, Zhejiang Zhongnan Holding Group is a large modern enterprise group led by two core industries: construction engineering and cultural creativity. Guided by the business philosophy of "honesty-based development and innovation-driven growth," Zhejiang Zhongnan Group's market competitiveness and brand influence have continued to improve. It is a national Special Grade General Contractor for Construction Engineering, a National High-Tech Enterprise, a National Key Cultural Export Enterprise, a National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base, and a National Prefabricated Construction Industry Base.
Zhejiang Zhongnan Group attaches great importance to the construction industry and is committed to providing customers with professional one-stop, all-round services. Through nearly 40 years of pioneering and innovation, it has formed a full-industry ecological chain of engineering construction covering building construction, curtain wall engineering, steel structure engineering, decoration engineering, mechanical and electrical intelligence, municipal landscaping, foundation engineering, and other fields, and spanning the entire process of standardized design, factory production, prefabricated construction, and information-based management. Its engineering professional technical capabilities and comprehensive service capabilities have continued to improve. Zhongnan Curtain Wall has successfully ranked among the top three in design and construction in the country, and the comprehensive strength of Zhongnan Construction, Zhongnan Green Building, Zhongnan Decoration, and other companies has also remained at the forefront of the industry.
In recent years, Zhejiang Zhongnan Group has participated in the construction of many major domestic and international engineering projects and landmark buildings, including the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center (the main venue of the 2022 Asian Games), the Hangzhou High-Tech Intelligent Manufacturing Valley Industrial Service Complex, the headquarters of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing, and the Hangzhou Olympic Sports International Expo Center (the main venue of the G20 Summit). It has won more than 300 professional awards, including the "China Construction Engineering Luban Prize," the "China Civil Engineering Zhan Tianyou Award," the "China Construction Engineering Decoration Award," the "China Construction Engineering Steel Structure Gold Award," and the "National Quality Engineering Award."
In 2003, Zhejiang Zhongnan Group entered the cultural and creative industry and established Zhongnan Cartoon, dedicated to the operation of the entire animation digital culture industry chain integrating original animation, global distribution, IP licensing, and cultural creativity and tourism. It is one of the well-known original animation companies in China. Leaders at the central, provincial, and municipal levels have shown great concern and support for Zhongnan Cartoon. Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, and other central leaders visited and inspected it many times, giving high praise and full affirmation. Guided by the enterprise development philosophy of a high starting point, large investment, and internationalization, Zhongnan Cartoon has produced a total of 170,000 minutes of original animation works, including "Tianyan," "Magic Wonderland," and "Zheng He's Voyages." These works have won more than 190 domestic and international awards, including the National "Five One Project" Award for Spiritual Civilization Construction, the first prize of the National Animation Excellence Award, and Outstanding Domestic Animation. They have been broadcast on more than 400 television stations and new media platforms in China and have entered the broadcasting systems of more than 100 countries and regions worldwide. Zhongnan Cartoon is among the first batch of National Key Animation Enterprises and National Key High-Tech Enterprises, and has been rated as a National Key Cultural Export Enterprise for 16 consecutive years since 2007. In September 2021, the "Zhejiang Digital Culture International Cooperation Zone" it operates was successfully approved as a National Cultural Export Base and a National Digital Trade Function Zone.
Zhongnan Cartoon has long been committed to the application of digital technology in the field of animation and cultural creativity and actively promotes the deep integration of technology and culture. Since the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period to the present, it has participated in more than 10 national science and technology programs. As early as 2010, it launched the "Animation Cloud (Rendering)" service, led the formulation of the local standard "Management and Service Specifications for Animation Rendering Platforms," and has won the second prize of the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and the China Culture and Art Government Award--Animation Award. In January 2022, with the Chinese Year of the Tiger as the theme, Zhongnan Cartoon created and released a series of "Meta Tiger" avatar-type digital collectibles, building a metaverse spanning the virtual and the real. This also marked the official beginning of the domestic original animation industry's exploration of the "metaverse."
Based on the international and domestic animation markets, Zhongnan Cartoon takes independent intellectual property rights as its core, continuously improves its innovation capabilities, and seizes the "golden period" of cultural industry and cultural consumption development. Guided by the concept of "Animation IP + Cultural Creativity + Scientific and Technological Innovation + Cultural Tourism," it has built digital platforms such as the "Zhijiang No. 1" AI performance animation digital studio and the "Bandeng" digital cultural copyright protection voucher, actively expanded cultural tourism integration formats such as digital cultural and creative industrial parks and cultural tourism complexes, and promoted the innovative development of the digital cultural industry.
Over 40 years of entrepreneurship and innovation, Zhejiang Zhongnan has always listened to the Party and followed the Party, regarding Party building as an important guarantee for enterprise development, and has built the "Red Pile Foundation" Party building project--Party organizations are the foundation, and Party members are the piles. The Group currently has 342 Party members, with 2 general Party branches and 12 Party branches under it. In recent years, it has been awarded honorary titles such as "Top 100 Demonstration Groups in Grassroots Party Building," "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization in Supporting Earthquake Relief," "Double-Strong Top 100 Party Organization," "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization," and "Five-Star Party Organization."
At the same time, Zhejiang Zhongnan Group remembers its roots and actively fulfills its social responsibilities. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the Group donated 10 million yuan and a large amount of materials at the first opportunity and urgently rushed to support the Hangzhou Baimahu emergency project to fully assist frontline prevention and control. In addition, the Group has actively participated in paired assistance, poverty alleviation and assistance, educational donations, public welfare and charity, and disaster prevention and relief, with cumulative donations and material contributions exceeding 100 million yuan. It has won honorary titles such as National Advanced Private Enterprise in the "Ten Thousand Enterprises Helping Ten Thousand Villages" Targeted Poverty Alleviation Action, Advanced Unit in COVID-19 Prevention and Control of the Zhejiang Construction Industry, and Top 100 Chinese Private Enterprises in Social Responsibility. In 2020, the Group was selected into the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce's "Excellent Cases of Chinese Private Enterprises' Social Responsibility," and Chairman of the Board Wu Jianrong himself was awarded the title of "Outstanding Responsible Person Selected in the 2020 Excellent Cases of Chinese Private Enterprises' Social Responsibility."
On the journey of the new century, Zhejiang Zhongnan Group will continue to uphold the enterprise purpose of "honesty-based development and innovation-driven growth," adhere to the mission of "creating a better living environment," strengthen the political responsibility of "responding to the Party's call and fulfilling missions without fail," practice the private enterprise responsibility of "being brave in dedication and living up to the mission," and temper the Zhongnan iron army spirit of "daring to fight tough battles and capable of winning victories," continuing to contribute to national prosperity, national rejuvenation, and people's happiness.