Hongtao Stock

Shenzhen Hongtao Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Hongtao", stock code: 002325, registered capital 1.25 billion yuan) was established in Shenzhen in 1985 and listed on the A-share market in 2009. It is the first listed company in the architectural decoration industry in South China and the second nationwide. After more than 30 years of development, Hongtao Stock has become a modern group company with a dual main business of architectural decoration and internet vocational education, and is a leader in China's high-end architectural decoration and internet vocational education. Hongtao Stock is one of the earliest enterprises approved by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development with dual Class A qualifications for architectural decoration design and construction, holding eight first-class/Class A qualifications including architectural decoration construction, curtain wall, road and lighting, building intelligence, mechanical and electrical equipment installation, fire protection facilities, and architectural curtain wall design. It integrates architectural decoration design, construction, green building material R&D and production. The company has established the Hongtao Decoration Design Research Institute and the China Architectural Decoration Industry Comprehensive Science Research Institute, with a strong professional team of architectural decoration design and research, including Royal Chartered Builders, senior qualified builders, nationally accomplished senior interior architects, and outstanding young and middle-aged designers. It has collaborated or is collaborating with over 50 world-renowned masters such as I.M. Pei, Rem Koolhaas, Herzog, Zaha Hadid, Paul Andreu, Jean-Marie Charpentier, and Frederic Rolland. With dozens of branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Suzhou, Hefei, Nanjing, Changzhou, Ningbo, Changchun, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Chengdu, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces and cities, the company covers nationwide business, providing customers with comprehensive systematic decoration solutions and representing a leader in China's general contracting system integration services for decoration. The company is one of the earliest industry enterprises to pass ISO9001 quality, ISO14001 environmental, and OHSAS18001 occupational health and safety system certifications, always guided by sustainable development and aiming to improve technology, green, smart, and intensive development models. The company has successively invested in industrial parks integrating production, education, and research in Shenzhen, Tianjin, and Yunfu, covering both north and south locations, achieving factory-based production of architectural decoration components and marking the completion of industrial chain integration and the north-south development strategic plan. Relying on strong design and construction team support, along with high-quality and efficient industrial supporting and management, Hongtao Stock has created hundreds of landmark quality projects, ranking first nationwide in the architectural lobby segment, grand theater and hall decoration segment, and state guesthouse decoration segment, and leading in the five-star hotel segment and top intelligent office building decoration segment. It is the only enterprise that has participated in the decoration of the main venues of all four major international events of China in the new century. * Quality projects: Praised as the "Lobby Specialist," completing hundreds of five-star and above standard lobbies; praised as the "Grand Theater Specialist," completing construction/design of nearly a hundred famous theaters including Shanghai Grand Theater, Changsha Meixihu Grand Theater, Guangzhou Opera House, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Wuhan Qintai Art Center, and Shenzhen Poly Theater, representing the highest level of Chinese theaters; praised as the "State Guesthouse Specialist," completing construction/design of dozens of state guesthouses including Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Fangfeiyuan, G20 Hangzhou Xizi Hotel, Beijing Hotel, and Guangzhou Baiyun International Convention Center; praised as the "Five-Star Hotel Decoration Expert," completing construction/design of hundreds of five-star hotel projects such as the Castle Hotel, a Luxury Collection Resort, Dalian, Conrad Beijing, Hilton Shenzhen Shekou, Park Hyatt Ningbo, Raffles Hainan Clearwater Bay, Crowne Plaza Xiamen Panji, and Sheraton Huizhou Bailuhu Resort; praised as the "Top Intelligent Office Building Decoration Expert," completing over a hundred 5A office buildings such as the new CCTV headquarters, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Baidu Headquarters Beijing, Tencent Headquarters Shenzhen, Anhui Radio and Television Tower, Huawei Research Building Shenzhen, and Wangjing SOHO Beijing. Industry Honors: The company is a flagship in China's architectural decoration industry, vice president unit of the China Architectural Decoration Association, and has ranked among the top five in China's architectural decoration for 10 consecutive years. By the end of 2017, Hongtao Stock had won over 30 national design awards, 34 China Construction Luban Prizes, 111 China Architectural Decoration Awards, over 200 provincial and municipal quality engineering awards, and 19 classic projects among the 100 classic projects in the 30-year history of China's architectural decoration industry, ranking first in South China and leading nationwide. It is recognized as a specialized top-100 enterprise in hotel space, theater and cinema, and sports and cultural venues categories, a pioneering enterprise in the industry's 30 years, an excellent decoration construction enterprise in China's 30 years, and a national green industry base in architectural decoration. Comprehensive Honors: Adhering to the business philosophy of "One hundred clients become one hundred friends," and with the enterprise spirit of "Loyalty, Family Harmony, Excellence, Innovation," Hongtao Stock creates quality projects and has won recognition and awards from clients, industry associations, government organizations and institutions, making the "Hongtao Decoration" and "Hongtao Stock" brands well-known domestically and internationally, with over 20 international honors, over 2000 national, provincial, and municipal honors, and ranking first in comprehensive strength in professional contracting among Shenzhen's top 100 construction enterprises for 13 consecutive years. Second Main Business - Vocational Education: In terms of the company's second main business of internet vocational education, since 2014, the company has defined the strategic goal of "Building internet vocational education into the company's second main business." It has successively acquired Zhongzhuang Xinwang, Kuakao Education, and Xuesen, and participated in Jinyingjie and other professional internet vocational education platforms, covering subdivided markets such as postgraduate entrance exams, construction engineering, medicine, and design, building a big data cloud platform for internet vocational education and accelerating the layout of its internet vocational education sector. While reaping fruitful results in vocational training education, Hongtao Stock initially completed the acquisition of two excellent private colleges, Sichuan Urban Vocational College and Guangzhou International Economics College, in early 2018, accelerating the integration of quality academic education resources and continuously building an ecosystem of quality vocational education brands.