Tsinghua Holdings Explained

Tsinghua Holdings Corp., Ltd.
Native Name:清华控股有限公司
Type:State-owned enterprise
Hq Location City:Beijing
Hq Location Country:China
Area Served:mainland China
Revenue Year:2015
Income Year:2015
Net Income Year:2015
Assets Year:2015
Equity Year:2015
Owner:Tsinghua University (100%)
Subsid:Tsinghua Unigroup
Footnotes:in a consolidated basis, excluding minority interest[1]
Module:
Child:yes
S:清华控股有限公司
T:清華控股有限公司
P:Qīnghuá Kònggǔ Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī
Order:st

Tsinghua Holdings Corp., Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tsinghua University, itself a public university in China. The company was established as an in-house asset management company for Tsinghua's subsidiaries that were established in the 1990s by the technology transfer of research to business.

History

Tsinghua Holdings was formally formed in 2003 (though preliminarily tested in 2001)[2] in response to the 2001 policy of separating universities and university-owned enterprises;[3] all the shares of subsidiaries of Tsinghua University were transferred to Tsinghua Holdings. Announced by State Council of China in 2001, the plan aimed to separate ownership and management of holdings, bring on professional business managers, and separate assets of operating business and non-operating business. The university itself did not invest in other companies directly thereafter, but through the holding companies. The role of the university is to supervisor holding companies via nominating the board of directors with oversight for business plans, major investments, salary structure and other roles.[4]

The predecessor of Tsinghua Holdings, Beijing Tsinghua University Enterprise Group, was incorporated on 26 August 1992. The university used an established company to become a new holding company in 2001 for its subsidiaries. According to 2010 Annual Report of Tsinghua Holdings, some assets unrelated to its business scope were transferred back to the university.[5]

Company officials

Hu Haifeng, the son of then General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao, was appointed in 2009 as the Party Committee Secretary of Tsinghua Holdings.

As of 2017, the Party Committee Secretary of Tsinghua Holdings was Long Dawei,[6] who also served as the vice-chairman. The current chairman was Xu Jinghong .[7]

Rong Yonglin was the former chairman of the holding.[8]

Subsidiaries

Chengzhi Shareholding

Chengzhi Co., Ltd was set up in Jiangxi province; its controlling shareholder is Tsinghua Holdings, and it was part of the corporate structure used in the acquisition of Shijiashuang Yongsheng Huatsing Liquid Crystal Co.[9]

Tsing Capital

Tsing Capital describes itself as a clean tech venture capital arm of Tsinghua Holdings.[10]

Tsinghua Tongfang

See main article: Tsinghua Tongfang. Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd. is involved in consumer electronics and energy, software outsourcing, manufacture of PC hardware, and the manufacture of LEDs. A particular field was the Nuctech Container Inspection System.

Tsinghua Unigroup

See main article: Tsinghua Unigroup. Tsinghua Unigroup is a fabless semiconductor company that is 51 percent owned by Tsinghua Holdings and 49 percent owned by Beijing Jiankun Investment Group; the latter is led by Tsinghua Unigroup chairman and CEO Zhao Weiguo. In December 2013, it acquired Spreadtrum, now Unisoc,[11] then acquired RDA Microelectronics in 2014.[12] In 2016, Tsinghua Unigroup, Hubei Province and the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund invested in Yangtze Memory Technologies.[13] The $24 billion project employs about 6,000 people, with offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Silicon Valley.[14] In 2017, Tsinghua Unigroup formed Shanghai JV, a joint-venture with ChipMOS of Taiwan.[15] In 2019, it formed a subsidiary to produce DRAM memory chips.[16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2015 Annual Report. 13 July 2016. 7 February 2017. Tsinghua Holdings. Chinese.
  2. Web site: 关于同意北京大学清华大学设立北大资产经营有限公司和清华控股有限责任公司的复函. 24 April 2003. 7 February 2017. General Office of the State Council of China. Chinese.
  3. Book: Wong, Poh Kam . 2011 . Edward Elgar . 978-1-84980-307-6 . Academic Entrepreneurship in Asia: The Role and Impact of Universities in National Innovation Systems.
  4. Web site: 关于北京大学清华大学规范校办企业管理体制试点问题的通知. 1 November 2001. 7 February 2017. General Office of the State Council of China. Chinese.
  5. http://www.shclearing.com/xxpl/fxpl/mtn/201309/t20130927_21415.html 清华控股有限公司2013年度第二期中期票据发行披露材料
  6. Web site: 清华控股党委 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170208132828/http://www.thholding.com.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=lists&catid=79 . February 8, 2017 . 7 February 2017 . Tsinghua Holdings . Chinese.
  7. Web site: 公司治理 . 7 February 2017 . Tsinghua Holdings . Chinese.
  8. http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/news/4205/2014/20140901100942747523681/20140901100942747523681_.html 大浪淘尽 唯余清欢——访清华大学原校长助理、清华控股有限公司原董事长荣泳霖
  9. Book: Liu, Chengwei . Kluwer Law . Chinese Capital Market Takeover and Restructuring Guide . 2010 . 978-9041132109.
  10. Web site: About Tsinghua Holdings . 2014-01-11.
  11. News: Spreadtrum Communications Agrees to $1.78 Billion Takeover . 21 November 2020 . The Wall Street Journal.
  12. News: Qualcomm's Problems Just Got Worse As China Builds Chip Giant . 21 November 2020 . forbes.com.
  13. Web site: A Chinese firm made a memory chip that can compete with Samsung. What's next . technode.com . 23 April 2020 . 21 November 2020.
  14. News: How China's chip industry defied the coronavirus lockdown . 21 November 2020 . Nikkei Asia.
  15. Web site: ChipMOS Milestone . chipmos.com . ChipMOS . 21 November 2020.
  16. News: Amid U.S. tech squeeze, China's Tsinghua Unigroup forms new DRAM chip unit . 21 November 2020 . Reuters.