Celebrating its 24th anniversary, Guoyuan Securities has grown alongside China’s capital markets, delivering impressive development results. Over the past three years, among the top 20 brokers by net assets, Guoyuan Securities achieved a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.51% in total assets, 8.7% in operating income, and 5.53% in net profit, all ranking first. The company’s net profit and return on equity (ROE) have improved from 28th and 46th at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan to 15th and 16th among listed brokers in 2024. This ranking in growth rates reflects Guoyuan Securities' commitment to "building a first-class industrial investment bank with core competitiveness."
Since positioning itself as a "growth accelerator for the hard technology industry" in 2022, Guoyuan Securities has guided its strategies through three key paths: "looking up, exploring new territories, and seeking internal improvement," ensuring strategic implementation in all aspects of its business operations, ultimately leading to tangible high-quality development results.
Looking upwards, Guoyuan Securities acts as a practitioner of national strategies. Anhui is both the starting point for Guoyuan and its primary battlefield. Recently, Guoyuan Securities has closely aligned its business operations with national strategies such as the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the rise of central China, and technology-driven development, shifting its business focus from Anhui to Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Jiangsu.
Guoyuan Securities has become an undeniable "main force, key player, and engine" in Anhui’s capital market. Currently, Anhui has a total of 186 A-share listed companies, with Guoyuan Securities having sponsored nearly 70 listings, accounting for 40% of the total in the province, and provided capital market services to over 100 listed companies, helping Anhui enterprises raise over 100 billion yuan. Guoyuan Securities has also published a series of specialized reports titled "Deepening Anhui," systematically detailing Anhui's industrial policy planning, investment opportunities, and critical nodes in the industrial chain, providing decision-making references for local economic development.
By implementing the spirit of the “New National Nine Articles” and “Six Merger Articles” policies, Guoyuan Securities is modernizing mergers and acquisitions by establishing the Anhui Mergers and Acquisitions Association, actively promoting the construction of the Hefei M&A cluster, and striving to assist in the industrial transformation and upgrading of Anhui, enhancing traditional industries, fostering new emerging industries, and encouraging competitive industries to expand internationally.
Additionally, Guoyuan Securities seeks to integrate all its business into the broader context of supporting the "Yangtze River Delta Integration" development, co-sponsoring IPO projects for 16 companies from Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, raising nearly 10 billion yuan, and attracting nearly 6.5 billion yuan in investments through its fund operations, earning recognition from the Anhui provincial government as an "Excellent Collective for Promoting Higher Quality Integrated Development in the Yangtze River Delta."
Guoyuan Securities is not stopping here; it is currently focusing on Shanghai as a key area for development, aiming to elevate its regional service capabilities by establishing a business headquarters in Shanghai, further solidifying its operational capabilities in core cities of the Yangtze River Delta. According to public information, the headquarters is already in the office area renovation stage. Guoyuan Securities stated that this is a crucial step in its "regional focus" strategy, creating a "dual-pole interaction" model in conjunction with its headquarters in Hefei.
In terms of technology exploration, Guoyuan Securities seeks to be a partner in technological innovation. Leading new productive forces through technological innovation and building a modern industrial system is a significant task for China's high-quality economic development. The strategic vision of Guoyuan Securities has shifted from "building a first-class investment bank" to "building a first-class industrial investment bank." This shift reflects the company's reevaluation of the essence of financial services—moving beyond traditional financial services to deeply engage in industrial contexts, transitioning toward a new paradigm of “deep industry integration + full-cycle capital empowerment.”
For this purpose, Guoyuan Securities has identified the “golden track” of "Industrial Research + Industrial Investment + Industrial Investment Banking + Comprehensive Wealth Management": leveraging industrial research to capture trends, fostering targets through industrial investment, promoting listings via industrial investment banking, and linking funds through comprehensive wealth management, thus forming a full-chain service capability from the "front end of the industry" to the "back end of capital," and enhancing its “industrial empowerment closed loop."
The "Scientist Accompaniment Program" is a notable practice exemplifying the implementation of this golden track and serves as an important functional measure for Guoyuan Securities in supporting economic transformation and facilitating scientific independence. This program offers a "housekeeper-style" service model, providing dedicated teams for scientists’ projects and creating a comprehensive solution covering the entire lifecycle of scientific and technological companies, from guiding directions during the incubation phase, to resource integration in the startup phase, growth management during the scaling phase, and capital empowerment in the mature phase.
Data shows that as of now, Guoyuan Securities has accompanied 10 academicians, 6 top talents from the “Thousand Talents Program,” 10 leaders from the “Ten Thousand Talents Program,” and 8 recipients of the “National Science Progress Award” from laboratory to product, and then to market; successfully advancing the industrialization of over 20 cutting-edge technologies in semiconductor, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine; directly or indirectly investing in over 60 new productive force projects with a scale exceeding 2 billion yuan; providing comprehensive financing advisory services to over 20 startups led by scientists; and supporting 20 technological innovation companies with regulatory rectification and listing guidance, while assisting leading firms like Sungrow Power Supply and GuoDun Quantum to complete post-listing mergers.
Guoyuan Securities is focusing on specialized and innovative enterprises and plans to launch a regional equity market "Leap Plan" for specialized enterprises, selecting a batch of such enterprises, establishing a dedicated investment fund, forming an enterprise service alliance, and providing a comprehensive financial service empowerment plan to enable these specialized enterprises to access the capital market directly.
To ensure that the seeds of innovation take root, Guoyuan Securities has established a comprehensive financial service center for scientific and technological enterprises at the Anhui Innovation Center, gathering core resources in "financial services, industrial resources, policy connection, and professional consulting" to build a complete ecological chain from laboratory to market for technological companies ranging from quantum technology to new energy, high-end manufacturing to semiconductors.
Internally, Guoyuan Securities seeks to solidify its development foundation and mitigate market risks. "Looking upwards" encapsulates seizing external strategic opportunities, "exploring new territories" signifies broadening industrial service landscapes, while "seeking internal improvement" represents firm actions to bolster its core support for development. By enhancing Party building, deepening internal management, strengthening capability construction, and upholding compliance standards, Guoyuan Securities lays a solid foundation for realizing its strategic goal of becoming a "first-class industrial investment bank."
The company prioritizes party political construction and strictly implements the “three major and one large” decision-making system, ensuring compliance with party-led discussions on significant business management matters; it actively engages in party integrity and anti-corruption work, integrating these efforts into business management processes to ensure company sustainability.
By launching the "Yuanzhong Red" Party brand and achieving complete coverage through the establishment of 143 grassroots party brands, Guoyuan Securities has also developed its own dual intelligent party-building system to enhance management efficiency through digital empowerment.
In terms of internal management upgrades, Guoyuan Securities employs "industry-technology integration" as its core methodology, deeply embedding AI capabilities across the entire business chain. The "Smart Guoyuan" initiative applies AI technologies in investment research and analysis, risk monitoring, and customer service, significantly improving business response efficiencies, ensuring the resilience of operational capacity amid market fluctuations, and providing reliable financial services to clients and investors.
“With China's economic development entering a new phase, driven by profound transformations, evolving and transitioning new and old drivers, the capital market’s role in serving the real economy embodies new meanings and focuses,” stated Shen Hefei, Party Secretary and Chairman of Guoyuan Securities. As the 14th Five-Year Plan concludes, Guoyuan Securities will further reinforce its strategic determination to "look upwards," innovate through "exploring new territories," and strengthen its solid foundation through "seeking internal improvement," using the warmth of capital to connect deeply with industries as it embarks on a new journey to support the development of new productive forces.
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