General Steel
 Tianjin, China
 Position Acquired: February 2005
Status: New York Stock Exchange symbol GSI

General Steel Holdings, Inc. through its subsidiary, Tianjin Daqiuzhuang Metal Sheet Co., Ltd., is a leading manufacturer of high quality hot-rolled steel sheets used in the construction of small agricultural and specialty vehicles. It sells its products through a nation-wide distribution network of 35 distributors and 3 regional sales offices. With 2006 sales exceeding $139 million, it is the largest producer in its product category within China.

 

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Qingkelong Supermarkets
 Daqing,  China    
Status:  NASDAQ symbol QKLS

Qingkelong Supermarkets “QKL” operates two forms of retail operations, supermarkets and department stores. In its supermarkets, QKL purchases, distributes and sells groceries—fresh and dried foods, meats, vegetables—and daily-use products.  QKL department stores are designed to be a one-stop shopping center combining supermarkets, fast foods, cosmetics and fashion.  QKL leases and controls the whole building, serving as the anchor tenant on the first floor, and sublease the rest of building to another 100+ concessionaires.  China has more than one billion retail customers.  The retail industry has become one of China’s most vibrant industries since opening to foreign investment in 2005.  For the years 2007-2010, China’s retail industry is expected to grow at 14%, reaching $1.68 trillion by 2010, creating the world’s second largest retail market. 


 



 

 

 

Rino Environmental 
Dalian,  China
Status:  NASDAQ symbol RINO

Dalian Rino Environmental Engineering Science and Technology Co.,Ltd is a high-tech company involved in the environmental protection industry.  It develops and applies new energy, new technology and new products.  Rino specializes in the waste water treatment, flue-gas desulphurization, the development of energy saving and resources recycling products, and design, production, installation, and after service. Rino provides a vital environmental service to clean up industrial pollution.   For more information visit www.RinoGroup.com

     

Shengtai Pharmaceutical
 Weifang,  China
Status: Private

Founded in 1999, Shengtai Pharmaceutical, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, is a leading domestic producer of pharmaceutical-grade glucose in China. The company has about 40% of the market and one of the only 3 licensed Dextrose Monohydrate manufacturers in China. With increased production capacity ready, the company will have potential to acquire 50% China pharmaceutical glucose market in about 1-2 years. The Company has a great growth revenue in the past several years. The company’s products include pharmaceutical-grade glucose or dextrose, used for medical purposes as well as other glucose and cornstarch products used for the food and beverage industry, and for industrial productions in China. The company’s main customers include medical supply companies, pharmaceutical companies, medical supply exporters, and food and beverage companies covering all of China with the exception of Tibet. The Company also export its products to more than 70 different countries.

Shengtai Pharmaceutical, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiary, Shengtai Holding, Inc. (SHI), and the Chinese operating company of Weifang Shengtai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., is a leading manufacturer and supplier of pharmaceutical grade glucose used for medical purposes.  It also manufactures and supplies glucose and cornstarch products to the food, beverage and industrial production industries in China. For more information about Shengtai Pharmaceutical, Inc., please visit http://www.shengtaipharmaceutical.com/

The Chinese healthcare market was the seventh largest in the world in 2008 and is expected to become the fifth largest by 2010, according to Frost & Sullivan. Healthcare expenditure in China has been steadily increasing, evidenced by the rapid growth of China’s gross domestic product (GDP) and the percentage of China’s GDP spent on healthcare. In 2008, China registered an annual GDP growth rate of 9.0%, and annual healthcare spending increased to 4.2% of GDP in 2005, up from 3.7% of GDP in 1995. Frost & Sullivan estimates that annual healthcare spending in China as a percentage of GDP will further increase to 8.0% by 2010.

On April 6, 2009, the PRC government outlined a healthcare reform proposal that will involve an expenditure of approximately RMB850 billion ($124.5 billion), approximately 3% of China’s GDP, from 2009 to 2011 to revamp the healthcare system in China. The proposal covers various aspects of the healthcare system in China.

China Yida
 Fuzhou,, China
 Status: NASDAQ symbol CNYD

China Yida is a leading diversified entertainment enterprise focused on China's fast-growing media and tourism industries and headquartered in Fuzhou City, Fujian province of China. The Company's media business provides operations management services; including channel, column and advertisement management for television station, presently the Fujian Education Television Station ("FETV", a top-rated provincial education television channel), and "Journey through China on the Train" (an advertisement-embedded travel program, currently the only on-board media program from third party authorized by Ministry of Railways). Additionally, the Company provides tourism management services, and specializes in the development, management and operation of natural, cultural and historic scenic sites. China Yida currently operates the Great Golden Lake tourist destination (Global Geopark, including Golden Lake, Shangqing River, Zhuanyuan Rock, Luohan Mountain and Taining Old Town.), Hua'An Tulou tourist destination (World Culture Heritage, including Dadi Tulou cluster and the Shangping Tulou cluster), and China Yunding tourist destination (National Park, including Colorful Rock Valley, Yunding Paradise, Yunding Waterfall, South Heavenly Mountain, and Seven Star Lake). The Company's operating scenic sites are over 300 square kilometers in the area. For further information, please contact the Company directly, or visit its Web site at http://www.yidacn.net.

China is the world's fourth largest country for inbound tourism. The number of overseas tourists was 55 million in 2007. Foreign exchange income was 41.9 billion U.S. dollars, the world's fifth largest in 2007. The number of domestic tourist visits totaled 1.61 billion, with a total income of 777.1 billion yuan.  According to the WTO, in 2020, China will become the largest tourist country and the fourth largest for overseas travel. In terms of total outbound travel spending, China is currently ranked fifth and is expected to be the fastest growing in the world from 2006 to 2015, jumping into the number two slot for total travel spending by 2015.  

China's tourism revenue reached $185 billion in 2009.

 

China Golf Lifestyle
 Shenyang, China
 Status: Private

Founded in 2006, China Golf Group is a leading designer/developer of premium golf courses and golf communities and improve land properties sold to developers of private residence villas and/or corporate clubs.  The Company completed construction of 18 holes and the Club House in Liaoyang Taizihe Golf Course in 2009.  Shenyang Shenbei Golf Course has been started for fall 2010. There are more than 7 leased land in Beijing Miyun, Yanqing, Daxing, Liaoning, Hebei ,Shanghai and Shandong  plans to start building golf courses. 

After more than a century on the sidelines, golf will return to the Olympics at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

 

                       

China Greenscape
 Jiangsu, China
 Status: Private

TREE is the largest greenscape company in China, supplying trees, plants and flowers to China’s cities and developing communities .and is positioned to become one of Asia’s largest forest product companies.  2002 PRC Central Government policy calling for 35% “Green” coverage in new and existing cities by 2010, and 10 square meters of “green” open space per capita.   TREE nhuge growing market fueled by migration of 500 million farmers moving to China’s cities, creating 20 new cities each year of 500,000 people per new city (the size of Denver)  n TREE possesses the largest and most diverse inventories of trees and plants in China creating a pnredictable revenue and earnings stream  with over $200 million existing contracts and 50% Profit Margins,  TREE plans to expand organically and by acquiring smaller forestry companies. TREE is an environmentally friendly company important for China.

 

            

 

 

Yanglin Soybean
Harbin, China    
Status: Private

Heilongjiang Yanglin Soybean Group is the largest privately owned enterprise in China engaged in the growing, crushing and refining of soybeans, and China’s leading domestic soybean product brand.  It's products are sold under the “Yanglin” brand name.  All of Yanglin’s products are non-genetically modified (“non-GM”).  With respect to GM soybeans, think “Animals”; with respect to non-GM soybeans, think “People”.  Non-GM soy products are generally considered more desirable for human consumption than GM soy products, especially with respect to soy protein and other value-added soy products.  Yanglin is headquartered in the City of Jixian, in Heilongjiang Province.  Heilongjiang Province is the country’s most fertile soybean growing area.  Heilongjiang Province produces approximately 66% of the total soybeans grown in the PRC.  Yanglin represents a successful company who benefits Chinese society through good health.

      

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