Southern Media

Southern Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. was established in 2009 and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2016 (stock abbreviation: Southern Media; stock code: 601900). It is the first cultural industry stock in Guangdong Province, a leading cultural enterprise in Guangdong, and an important force in China's publishing industry. The company's business areas mainly include publishing, distribution, printing, media, cultural real estate, materials trading, and financial investment. Southern Media owns 10 publishing houses, 4 newspapers, 26 magazines, and 1 large distribution enterprise, as well as multiple professional platforms and park projects in digital publishing, capital operations, and cultural real estate. The total number of major publishing awards won and the volume of exported book copyrights rank among the top of local publishing groups nationwide. It has published works by numerous important writers and experts such as Wang Meng, Mo Yan, Rao Zongyi, Jin Yong, Zhong Nanshan, Wu Jinglian, Jia Pingwa, Chen Zhongshi, Han Shaogong, Cao Wenxuan, and Bi Shumin. Classic works first published by the company, such as Wang Xiaobo's 'The Silver Age' and Lu Yao's 'The Ordinary World', have had a profound impact on the industry. The new curriculum textbooks compiled for Guangdong, known as the Yue Edition, are used across the country, and the company pioneered the province-wide coverage project for digital textbooks in primary and secondary schools. The Nanguo Book Festival, hosted by Southern Media, has been rated as an 'Outstanding Project of National Reading Activities for All' and has become the world's largest Chinese book fair. There are more than 1,200 distribution outlets of various types, represented by Xinhua Bookstores and Education Bookstores, spread across urban and rural areas of Guangdong Province. In recent years, Southern Media has actively seized the strategic opportunities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area construction, establishing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Educational Exchange Center, setting up Macau Qiyuan Publishing House and Southern Media (Europe) Co., Ltd., and establishing a 'China Theme International Editorial Department' in Singapore, with business continuously expanding. Southern Media is committed to becoming a cultural enterprise rooted in Lingnan, serving the Greater Bay Area, and looking to the world. Guangdong Southern Media Investment Co., Ltd. was registered and established in September 2016 with a registered capital of 600 million yuan. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Southern Media') and serves as a professional investment institution created by Southern Media. By establishing professional investment institutions, it aims to improve investment efficiency and achieve investment specialization, thereby realizing the transformation of Southern Media's development model from connotative growth to denotative growth. In the future, Southern Media will leverage its advantages as a listed company, using Nanchuan Investment as a starting point, M&A investment funds as a means, with a focus on direct equity investment, acquisitions, and mergers, and breakthroughs in project development, fully leveraging the resource integration role of Southern Media as a listed state-owned cultural media enterprise. Nanchuan Investment holds a stake in Guangdong Bay Area Venture Capital Co., Ltd., a platform focused on equity investment, where fund establishment has been completed. Nanchuan Investment also holds a controlling stake in Guangdong Nanchuan Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd., a platform focused on industry asset management.