Haitong Securities Co., Ltd., founded in 1988, is a large-scale securities firm with relatively early or strong comprehensive strength in China, with securities as the core, and its business covers futures, direct equity investment, funds and financial leasing and other fields of financial holding group

Haitong Securities Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Haitong Securities") was established in 1988 and is the only large-scale securities company that has not been renamed or injected into the earliest securities company in China. The company was formerly known as Shanghai Haitong Securities Co., Ltd., which was restructured and developed into a national securities company in 1994. At the end of 2001, the company was restructured into a joint stock limited company. In 2002, the company completed the capital increase and share expansion, and the registered capital increased to 8.734 billion yuan, becoming the largest comprehensive securities company in the domestic securities industry at that time. In 2005, the company successfully managed Gansu Securities and Xing'an Securities, achieving low-cost rapid expansion, and in the same year, the company became an innovative pilot brokerage. Haitong Securities' A shares were listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2007 and completed a private placement, H shares were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2012, and a private placement of H shares was completed in 2015, increasing the company's registered capital to 11.502 billion yuan. Since 2007, the company's total assets and net assets have been ranked second in the domestic securities industry.

As of the end of 2016, the company has 337 business departments, more than 8.56 million retail customers and more than 20,000 institutional customers and high-net-worth customers, with customer assets of more than 2.3 trillion yuan, and the market share of the total trading volume of the brokerage business ranks among the top in the market. The company's investment banking business has a high market influence, with professional service capabilities, excellent innovation capabilities and excellent sales and pricing capabilities, which can provide customers with personalized and all-round financing solutions. In particular, it enjoys a high reputation in the issuance and underwriting of financial and high-tech enterprises and private enterprises, the restructuring and reorganization of state-owned enterprises, and the mergers and acquisitions of cultural and media enterprises. The company was the first to obtain the qualification of the host brokerage of the New Third Board, and the market-making business of the New Third Board is in the leading position in the industry.

The company's innovative business has always been at the forefront of the market, and it has been the first to obtain innovative business qualifications such as margin financing and securities lending, agreed repurchase securities trading, securities counter market, insurance fund management, public fund custody, partnership independent custody, futures asset management, RQFLP and so on. The company's capital intermediary business such as margin financing and stock pledge financing ranks first in the industry, and its counter market business is in the leading position in the industry, and it is one of the first in the industry to pass the acceptance of the Free Trade Zone Accounting Unit (FTU) of the People's Bank of China.

The company vigorously promotes the internationalization strategy, actively promotes the linkage of domestic and foreign business, and strives to build a business platform for overseas development. In January 2010, the company successfully acquired Taifook Securities, a well-established local brokerage in Hong Kong, and changed its name to Haitong International Securities. In recent years, Haitong International Securities' operating performance has improved rapidly, and it has always maintained a leading position in the field of RMB products in Hong Kong, and has been one of the first to obtain the qualification of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII), successfully completed a number of large-scale IPO project offerings, and won the reputation of "King of Public Offerings" in the Hong Kong market. In September 2015, the company successfully acquired the Holy Spirit Investment Bank of Portugal and renamed it Haitong Bank, further enhancing its international popularity and brand influence, covering 14 countries and regions, further improving its overseas layout and deepening its internationalization strategy.

The company actively promotes the construction of a financial holding group, and has basically built a financial holding group with securities as the core and its business covers futures, direct equity investment, funds and financial leasing and other business areas. The company has one direct investment subsidiary (Haitong Kaiyuan) and seven equity investment management subsidiaries (Haifu Industry, Haitong Jihe, Haitong Innovation, Haitong New Energy, Haitong Creative, Haitong M&A and Haitong New Venture), which is in a leading position in the field of PE investment in the domestic securities industry and has created a well-known brand in the field of PE investment in China. The company has professional asset management subsidiaries such as Haitong Asset Management, Haifutong Fund and Wells Fargo Fund, with a total asset management scale of more than 1 trillion yuan. The company established Haitong Innovation Securities Investment Company to create a professional platform for alternative investment. Haitong Futures, a subsidiary of the company, ranks among the top three in the futures industry in terms of market share. In 2013, the company successfully acquired Hengxin Financial Group, becoming the first securities company to set foot in financial leasing business.

Haitong Securities will continue to be customer-centric, with brokerage, investment banking, asset management and other sell-side businesses as the ontology, capital-based intermediary business and investment business as the two wings, innovation and internationalization as the driving force, strengthen the construction of the four pillars of research, talent, IT and compliance and risk control, and strengthen the five capacity building of capital and investment management, asset and wealth management, investment banking contracting and sales pricing, institutional brokerage and sales trading and Internet securities, and is committed to building Haitong into an online securities, wealth management securities, It is a domestic first-class and internationally influential financial holding group with small and medium-sized enterprise securities and institutional business securities as the core.