Shanghai Information Investment

Shanghai Information Investment Inc. is a Shanghai-based state-owned investment company focusing on ICT and related industries. It was founded in September 1997 with the approval of Shanghai Municipal Government for accelerating the construction of Shanghai Info-Port and improving the informatization of Shanghai economy and society. SII, with its registered capital of 375 million RMB, has Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. as its controlling shareholder. Since its foundation, by the way of utilizing both government commands and market operation, SII managed to successfully complete main projects of Shanghai Info-port (such as intensive information pipeline, cable network bidirectional transformation, supercomputing center, etc.), cable TV digitization projects (including overall conversion of analog TV to digital TV, construction of Shanghai Next Generation Broadcast Network (NGB),merging of Shanghai suburban counties’ cable networks, etc), and information technology projects (such as “efficient customs clearance” project, electronic payment system, digital certificate authentication system, credit system, etc), thus completed the business layout for “two networks, four platforms” (i.e. the 2 networks of cable TV network and intensive information pipeline network and the 4 platforms of digital home service platform, financial information service platform, modern logistics information service platform, and enterprise data management platform). SII has become an enterprise group possessing total asset of over 10 billion RMB, employing approximately 7,000 people, consisting of one wholly owned enterprise, 12 holding companies, and 11 equity participation companies, and has played the main role in Shanghai’s urban informatization construction.