Knowledge City (Guangzhou) Investment Group Co., Ltd.

Knowledge City (Guangzhou) Investment Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Knowledge City Group") was established in 1984 and is one of the earliest state-owned enterprises in Guangzhou Development District. The current registered capital of the Group is 2.168 billion yuan, with the highest domestic AAA credit rating and Fitch BBB investment-grade international rating. As of April 2023, the Group's total assets exceeded 85 billion yuan, with 68 wholly-owned holding enterprises and 56 equity-participating enterprises at all levels. Adhering to the principle of "Based in Knowledge City, Develop Knowledge City, Serve Knowledge City", Knowledge City Group strives to build a leading knowledge economy industry group in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Guided by professionalism and marketization, the Group has laid out an "8+3" industrial system, focusing on business segments such as real estate, engineering construction, industrial investment, business travel services, modern agriculture, manufacturing, Guangzhou-Hong Kong Smart Manufacturing, and urban renewal. It is committed to building three major business brands: industrial development services, financial services, and financial leasing; promoting area development, and striving for coordinated development of urban renewal with ecological restoration, historical revitalization, rural revitalization, and industry-city integration; fully leveraging the advantages of the national comprehensive reform pilot zone for intellectual property rights application and protection, and striving to achieve "Knowledge Empowerment, Knowledge City Soaring". In 2023, adhering to the guidance of Party building, Knowledge City Group focused on "strengthening leading enterprises, supplementing the chain, and gathering clusters", anchoring on artificial intelligence and digital economy as main businesses, intensifying investment attraction and industrial investment efforts, focusing on introducing leading AI enterprises such as CloudMinds, SenseTime, Biren Technology, and Cambricon, forming industrial agglomeration and upstream-downstream linkage effects, and promoting industrial chain extension, supplementation, strengthening, and expansion; focusing on investment in strategic emerging industries such as Huangpu Tire, Cyan Technology, Huangpu Aperture, He Eye Hospital, etc., promoting the clustering and settlement of major industrial projects in Knowledge City; promoting the construction of industrial parks such as Pengcheng Laboratory Guangzhou Base, Yinhai and Provincial Eye Center, Knowledge City Industrial Agglomeration Service Center, Jufu Innovation Center, Lixin Pharmaceutical Industrial Park, and the second-phase industrial project of Aviation Tire Large Scientific Device; focusing on the construction and operation of projects such as Knowledge Tower, Knowledge City Plaza, Knowledge Pagoda, Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Entry-Exit Building, Knowledge City International Conference Center, Knowledge City International Talent Free Port, Changling Yaju, Kaike Xingmao, Yuechen No.1, etc.; doing a good job in the protection of Liantang Village ancient village and the construction of Jingxia Village boutique village, responding to the national rural revitalization work, improving service supporting facilities for the integrated development of "production, life, and ecology" in Knowledge City, helping create a first-class business environment, promoting the implementation of Huangpu District's four "Trillion" plans through high-quality development of the Group, and fully assisting Knowledge City in building a national knowledge center with global influence.