Looking at stock investments, you can find professional research reports from analysts. A reliable, professional, timely, and comprehensive source helps you discover potential opportunities. From the source: Financial Reading. Hefei state-owned capital, the company's nine rounds of financing and various capital players in the IPO strategic investment phase, and the founding team represented by Zhu Yiming have become the three most important shareholder groups behind ChangXin Memory Technologies. Through a win-win model of "capital plus technology," they have helped the company reach its current position.
On July 27, ChangXin Memory Technologies, the largest IPO in the history of the STAR Market, was officially listed. Its market value directly surged to 3 trillion yuan, making it the highest-valued listed company in the A-share market and the largest technology company by market capitalization in A-share history. The founding of ChangXin Memory Technologies originated from a domestic DRAM chip project codenamed "506," aiming to break the long-term monopoly of international memory giants from the US and South Korea and achieve a breakthrough for domestically produced memory chips. Under a cooperation model where Hefei state-owned capital provided the funds and Zhu Yiming, chairman of GigaDevice, provided the technology, both sides reached an agreement. Subsequently, ChangXin Memory Technologies received substantial financial support from dozens of investment institutions during its R&D and capacity expansion phases. From its angel round in 2018 to June 2025, ChangXin Memory Technologies completed nine rounds of financing, accumulating tens of billions of yuan. By the signing date of the prospectus, it had 60 shareholders behind it. After nearly a decade of patient nurturing and support, these parties collectively elevated it to become China's largest and the world's fourth-largest domestic DRAM chip giant.
With the successful listing of ChangXin Memory Technologies, the earliest and most committed heavy investor, Hefei state-owned capital, along with the capital from its nine financing rounds and strategic investment phase, and the founding team led by Zhu Yiming, have become the three most important shareholder groups behind this listing feast. Among them, Hefei state-owned capital, the earliest and largest investor, has become the biggest winner, with an estimated paper profit exceeding one trillion yuan. This amount is equivalent to 70% of Hefei's 2025 GDP. This "Hefei model" of local government supporting hard technology has also become a benchmark case in the industry. The founding team of ChangXin Memory Technologies has also reached a high point in their careers. The ten directors and senior executives, including founder and chairman Zhu Yiming, have an average net worth in the hundreds of millions. Based on the closing price on the first day of listing, Zhu Yiming's personal net worth reached 77.9 billion yuan. Additionally, through two phases of employee stock ownership plans, ChangXin Memory Technologies granted shares to a total of 6,760 person-times, covering management talents, business骨干, core technical personnel, and key production line employees. Many employees have become millionaires thanks to the company's listing. Besides Hefei state-owned capital and the founding team, other shareholders of ChangXin Memory Technologies have also reaped substantial rewards. Before the IPO, ChangXin Memory Technologies had 60 shareholders, including national teams like the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Phase II and the China State-owned Capital Venture Capital Fund Phase II, industrial capital like Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi, insurance funds like China Life Investment and PICC Capital, and market-oriented investment institutions like Yancapital, China Merchants Capital, and Hangxu Capital. During the IPO phase, ChangXin Memory Technologies also received strong support from 30 strategic investors. Among them, the Alibaba Group, through participating in multiple financing rounds and strategic placement, holds a total of over 3 billion shares, with a shareholding ratio of approximately 4.51%, and a market value of nearly 150 billion yuan on the first day of listing.
On the night before its listing on July 27, ChangXin Memory Technologies held a pre-listing appreciation reception in Shanghai titled "Forging Ten Years, Starting a New Future." According to an observer at the scene, about 300 guests, including strategic investors and industry partners, attended. Zhu Yiming reviewed the company's entrepreneurial journey, noting the huge technological gap with international giants at the company's inception. He credited long-term capital support and the persistent efforts of domestic and overseas technical teams for ultimately achieving a breakthrough in the mass production of mainland China's DRAM, expressing gratitude to the shareholders who had patiently supported ChangXin for ten years. "The atmosphere at the entire dinner was very warm. Many shareholders attended, and everyone fully recognized the development achievements of ChangXin's ten-year hard work. They are optimistic about the company's future development space and full of expectations for its capital market performance after listing," a person who attended the dinner told Cai Jing. The Hefei state-owned capital model of "long-term companionship, early and hard technology investment, and industrial synergy" is a benchmark example of local state-owned capital supporting hard technology. It closely aligns with the current Chinese capital market logic of "technology-industry-capital" virtuous cycle, supporting technological innovation and promoting high-quality economic development, said Zhou Chunsheng, a finance professor at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and Vice Dean of its Executive Education program. He added that Hefei state-owned capital, with core goals of technological self-reliance and self-improvement, is willing to accompany enterprises through the complete industrial cycle. This "patient capital" is the most scarce resource for hard technology companies. "China Life Investment began its布局 when the industry was at a cyclical bottom in 2020, with a post-A round valuation of only a little over 30 billion yuan. After several years, the return on this investment has been very substantial. We have always focused on national industrial policies and technological support directions, establishing technology innovation funds and dual-carbon technology funds, with a key focus on the hard technology sector. It can be said that investing in ChangXin Memory Technologies was the beginning of a trend. The entire insurance and finance industry has fully understood and proactively shifted to the main track of supporting hard technology development," a relevant person from China Life Investment, a subsidiary of China Life, which participated in the 2020 Series A round of ChangXin Memory Technologies, told Cai Jing.
Hefei state-owned capital can become the largest and earliest investor in ChangXin Memory Technologies, but the company's growth into China's largest and the world's fourth-largest domestic DRAM chip giant cannot be separated from the support of pre-IPO shareholders in its multiple financing rounds, especially Hefei state-owned capital. "Memory chips are a typical capital-intensive, technology-intensive, and long-cycle industry. Early investments are large, and the mass production ramp-up takes time. It is difficult for short-cycle capital alone to bear the full-cycle risk from 0 to 1. The role of Hefei state-owned capital in ChangXin's development goes beyond just providing capital. More importantly, it provides long-term, continuous capital support and coordinates financing, talent, and industrial chain resources to help the company overcome the early-stage construction and mass production ramp-up phases," said Yang Guang, founding partner of耀途资本, to Cai Jing. Reviewing the founding history of ChangXin Memory Technologies, on June 13, 2016, Hefei Industrial Investment Group (Hefei产投), under Hefei state-owned capital, contributed 14.4 billion yuan, and Zhu Yiming's GigaDevice contributed 3.6 billion yuan, totaling 18 billion yuan as the initial investment for the first phase of ChangXin's factory construction, marking the official establishment of ChangXin Memory Technologies. Subsequently, Hefei state-owned capital continued to inject capital and support ChangXin Memory Technologies after its establishment, helping it invest heavily in DRAM chip R&D and capacity expansion. Rough estimates suggest that by the time of the IPO issuance, Hefei state-owned capital, through multiple entities such as Hefei Qinghui Jidian (holding 13.04 billion shares, 19.5%, the largest shareholder), Hefei Changxin Integration (holding 7.048 billion shares, 10.54%, the second largest shareholder), Hefei Industrial Investment No. 1 (holding 1.111 billion shares, 1.66%, the seventh largest shareholder), Hefei Jianchang Equity (holding 901.3 million shares, 1.35%, the eleventh largest shareholder), and Hefei Industrial Investment High Growth (holding 38 million shares, 0.057%), collectively holds approximately 22.138 billion shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies, with a total shareholding ratio of approximately 33.1%, making it the largest shareholder entity behind ChangXin Memory Technologies.
With the successful IPO of ChangXin Memory Technologies, Hefei state-owned capital has finally entered its harvest period after a decade of companionship. Based on the closing price of 49 yuan per share on the first day of listing, the market value of the shares held by Hefei state-owned capital exceeded one trillion yuan, reaching 1,084.76 billion yuan. It is noteworthy that, according to official data, Hefei's total GDP for the full year of 2025 is approximately 1,421 billion yuan. This means that the return from a single investment in ChangXin Memory Technologies is equivalent to about 70% of Hefei's annual GDP. On the night of ChangXin's listing, Hefei Industrial Investment Group, one of the three major platform companies under Hefei state-owned capital, issued a statement regarding the listing. The group stated that in 2016, under the decisions and部署 of the Hefei municipal party committee and government, it invested in ChangXin Memory Technologies, helping it grow into China's largest, most technologically advanced, and most comprehensively laid out integrated DRAM R&D, design, and manufacturing enterprise. In the future, Hefei Industrial Investment Group will continue to support ChangXin's development, jointly contributing to Hefei's goal of building an integrated circuit industry highland with global influence. "Hefei's local state-owned capital entering ChangXin with long-term patient capital and accompanying hard technology from 0 to 1 is a typical paradigm of combining local industrial attraction with technological self-reliance strategy," Miao Tianyi, managing partner of朴拙资本, told Cai Jing. He added that local state-owned capital has jumped out of short-term financial return demands, focusing on core goals like building urban industrial clusters and ensuring supply chain security. It bears the early-stage risks of heavy assets, long cycles, and high losses in memory manufacturing, compensating for the shortcomings of market-based financial capital that dares not invest or endure the long R&D ramp-up cycle. However, this model also places extremely high demands on local finances and industrial judgment capabilities. "The core of the Hefei state-owned capital model lies in abandoning short-term profit-seeking thinking and accompanying enterprises through high-risk cycles like technological R&D and capacity ramp-up as 'patient capital.' Unlike simple capital injection, Hefei ensures capital efficiency by precisely selecting tracks, binding industrial chain resources, and making phased dynamic investments, while avoiding administrative intervention in market pricing," said Tian Lihui, director of the Institute of Financial Development at Nankai University, to Cai Jing. The key to the success of this model, he explained, lies in positioning state-owned capital as a 'strategic investor' rather than a 'controlling shareholder,' respecting the company's market-oriented operations, while amplifying technological spillover effects through industrial synergy. However, experts also caution that the Hefei investment model cannot be simply replicated. "Local state-owned capital supporting hard technology is necessary, but this model has several prerequisites. The government is more suitable as a patient capital provider and organizer of the industrial ecosystem. Technical routes, products, and operational decisions must still be left to professional teams and subjected to market validation. Whether the model can be replicated depends not on copying funds and policies, but on whether the local area has the industrial base, professional decision-making ability, matching talent pool, and the capacity to accompany the enterprise through cycles. Otherwise, it may evolve into homogeneous industrial attraction and redundant construction," Yang Guang stated. Tian Lihui also warned against blindly copying the Hefei model. Hard technology investments need to match local industrial foundations and professional judgment capabilities. A lack of technical understanding and exit mechanism design can lead to a 'only invest, no exit' predicament. The lesson from Hefei's experience is that local state-owned capital should act as the 'architect' of the industrial ecosystem, not just a simple 'money bag.' Zhou Chunsheng agreed, noting that while the Hefei model has many advantages, it is extremely difficult to replicate. Investment involves risk. If a failure leads to losses, how should the boundaries of accountability be determined? If a system of due diligence exemption for mistakes is not in place, it is difficult to cultivate state-owned investors willing to take risks. Overemphasizing error tolerance inevitably brings moral hazard. "The Hefei model started with BOE and has lasted for ten years. It's hard for most local governments to persist in doing the same thing for ten years. It's not simply a matter of burning money to succeed, making it very difficult for other places to replicate. Future urban industrial development will diverge, with cities having good foundations becoming stronger," a investment banker told Cai Jing.
In fact, while the ChangXin Memory Technologies project was launched with strong support from Hefei state-owned capital, as a heavy-asset memory chip industry requiring continuous heavy investment, especially during the cyclical downturn in previous years when the entire industry suffered widespread losses, relying solely on Hefei state-owned capital was insufficient to drive the success of this domestic chip-making project. ChangXin Memory Technologies' successful landing on the capital market is inseparable from the support of dozens of institutions and industrial capital in its subsequent financing rounds. It is understood that from the angel round in 2018 to the final pre-IPO round in June 2025, ChangXin Memory Technologies completed nine financing rounds over eight years, raising a total of hundreds of billions of yuan. Before the IPO, ChangXin Memory Technologies had 60 shareholders. These included national teams like the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Phase II and the China State-owned Capital Venture Capital Fund Phase II, industrial capital like Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi, insurance funds like China Life Investment and PICC Capital, and market-oriented investment institutions like Yancapital, Cystone Capital, and Hangxu Capital. It is noteworthy that most of the pre-IPO financing for ChangXin Memory Technologies came from state-owned capital institutions. "In the early stages of ChangXin's financing, many state-owned capital institutions responded to the national call to invest in hard technology and firmly entered while ChangXin was still incurring losses. Looking back now, the results prove that the investment at that time was entirely correct," an industry insider told Cai Jing. China Life Investment, a subsidiary of China Life, participated in the Series A round of ChangXin Memory Technologies in 2020. Before the IPO, it held 476 million shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies, accounting for 0.79% of the total pre-IPO share capital. A relevant person from China Life Investment familiar with the situation told Cai Jing, "Even the most daring assumptions at that time are far from the current situation. At the current market price, this is an investment with nearly 50 times return." Discussing the background of investing in ChangXin at that time, the person said, "At that time, the country had clearly proposed a policy for finance to support the real economy, and the hard technology track became a key support direction. The domestic chip industry was in a process of building from 0 to 1, and the demand for self-controllable industries was very prominent. At that time, there were very few domestic enterprises capable of tackling the DRAM chip field. With strong support from the Hefei city government, ChangXin Memory Technologies had been operating stably for four years, accumulating solid technical沉淀 and mass production experience, which was fully validated by the market. The huge demand for domestic substitution, combined with industrial development opportunities, solidified our investment confidence." "In 2021, against the backdrop of the DRAM market being long-term monopolized by international giants and the future of semiconductor localization still unclear, we resolutely chose to heavily invest in ChangXin Memory Technologies with the support of Ningbo county and district state-owned capital and local private capital, investing 1.32 billion yuan. This was also the largest investment in our company's history," said Guo Chengwei, partner and investment head of Ningbo Yancapital, which participated in the Series B round of ChangXin Memory Technologies in 2021. "What supported this decision was our high recognition of ChangXin Memory Technologies as a pioneer achieving a historic breakthrough from nothing in domestic DRAM." Elaborating on the specific reasons for investing in ChangXin, Guo Chengwei gave four points: First, the DRAM chip market has vast space. Second, ChangXin is one of the few domestic companies achieving mass production of general-purpose DRAM, presenting a major opportunity for domestic substitution. With the support of national and local industrial capital, it aligns with their long-term investment thinking in hard technology. Third, ChangXin possesses strong technical and industrialization capabilities with a clear commercialization path. Fourth, the company's governance structure is reasonably designed, and the management team is strong. The support from Hefei state-owned capital and the national fund has helped build a governance structure that combines government investment endorsement and market-oriented operational capabilities, achieving a good integration of industrial guidance and market mechanisms. China Merchants Capital, which also participated in the Series B round of ChangXin Memory Technologies in 2021, stated that it strategically invested in ChangXin Memory Technologies in 2021 and has been empowering the company through continuous capital and industrial resource allocation, helping it break through key technologies and accelerate capacity enhancement. China Merchants Capital will work with ChangXin Memory Technologies to promote the expansion of its advanced production capacity and the R&D of next-generation memory technology, continuously consolidating ChangXin's global industrial competitive position. Huayuan Securities' private equity subsidiary, Huayuan Jiaye, invested in ChangXin Memory Technologies through a combination of direct investment from a special fund and a fund-of-funds approach. It stated that "based on the national semiconductor self-controllable strategy and the advantages of Anhui's local industrial cluster, Huayuan Jiaye has accompanied ChangXin Memory Technologies through industry cycles with long-term companionship, effectively supporting the breakthrough of the domestic DRAM industry while achieving the dual realization of fund value and industrial value." Industrial capital from ChangXin's upstream and downstream supply chains has also invested. Among them, the Alibaba Group is one of the largest external investment institutions in ChangXin Memory Technologies. In the final pre-IPO round, its subsidiary Alibaba Cloud Computing invested 6.1 billion yuan at a price of 2.63 yuan per share, making it the largest industrial investor in that round. After the IPO, Alibaba Cloud Computing holds 2.319 billion shares, a 3.47% stake, making it the sixth largest shareholder of ChangXin Memory Technologies. Meanwhile, Alibaba Network holds 676 million shares, a 1.01% stake. Additionally, the Alibaba Group also participated in the IPO strategic placement through its subsidiary Alibaba Cloud Feitian, obtaining 18 million shares. The total shares held by the Alibaba Group reached 3.013 billion, with a shareholding ratio of approximately 4.51%. Based on the closing price of 49 yuan per share on the first day of listing, the market value of the Alibaba Group's holdings reached 147.6 billion yuan. "As the only new DRAM manufacturer in the world in the last decade to achieve mass production, ChangXin Memory Technologies has broken the technological monopoly of overseas players. The scarcity of its technology, and the synergistic value of automotive-grade memory and the intelligent vehicle industry chain, are the core logic behind Hangxu Capital's confidence in making a heavy investment," said Hangxu Capital, which participated in the Series B round of ChangXin Memory Technologies in 2021. Hangxu Capital is a private equity investment institution established through market-oriented restructuring under SAIC Motor (a state-owned enterprise). Entering the IPO phase, ChangXin Memory Technologies received strong support from 30 strategic investors, with lock-up periods ranging from 12 to 36 months. Among them, the main representative of the national team, 36 products under the National Council for Social Security Fund, subscribed for 7.5 billion yuan, and the China State-owned Capital Venture Capital Fund Phase II subscribed for 100 million yuan, with the national team subscribing a total of 7.6 billion yuan, accounting for over half of the total strategic placement amount. Major insurance funds like PICC P&C Insurance, China Life Insurance, China Post Life Insurance, and Taikang Life Insurance were also on the list. ChangXin's strategic investors also included several industrial chain partners, including semiconductor companies like AMEC, Piotech, Montage Technology, and NSIG. Downstream end-user industrial chain strategic cooperation companies also participated, such as internet companies like Alibaba Cloud Feitian, Shanghai Haoyu Information (Tencent), and Shenzhen San Kuai Network (Meituan); consumer electronics companies like Wuhan 1810 (Xiaomi) and Transsion Holdings; and automotive companies like NIO Power and Chery Automobile. Among them, NIO Power subscribed for 158 million yuan with an 18-month lock-up period. It is understood that NIO's factory is also located in Hefei, just a few hundred meters from ChangXin's factory. NIO is a cornerstone strategic partner for ChangXin's DRAM, and the two parties will engage in strategic cooperation on existing automotive-grade LPDDR4X and LPDDR5X products. On the evening of July 26, NIO founder Li Bin appeared at the ChangXin pre-IPO appreciation dinner. When discussing the cooperation with ChangXin, he said, "The cooperation is progressing smoothly, and working with ChangXin Memory Technologies helps stabilize NIO's supply chain."
Besides Hefei state-owned capital and various other capital players, there is another important shareholder force behind ChangXin Memory Technologies: the founding team centered around Zhu Yiming. Under the company's equity structure, which has no actual controller, they hold the operational leadership. Before the IPO, the ten directors and senior executives, including Zhu Yiming, collectively held 2.012 billion shares, with each holding more than 3.8 million shares. According to the prospectus, ChangXin Memory Technologies implemented two phases of employee stock ownership plans before listing. In the second phase, the board of directors granted Zhu Yiming 1.536 billion shares as recognition for his decade-long contribution to the domestic DRAM industry, with a grant cost of only 0.108 yuan per registered capital unit. Among them, Zhu Yiming holds a total of 1.59 billion shares; the company's president and core technician Cao Kanyu holds 212 million shares; and Executive Vice President Zhu Wenju holds 53 million shares. These three hold the top three positions in terms of share count. Based on the closing price of 49 yuan per share on the first day of listing, the market value of the shares held by these ten individuals is close to 98.6 billion yuan. Zhu Yiming's personal shareholding market value reached 77.9 billion yuan. At the same time, Zhu Yiming voluntarily committed that within ten calendar years starting three years after ChangXin's listing, he would use 768 million of his shares for employee incentives to motivate key employees. Public information shows that Zhu Yiming graduated from the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University in 1997. He then went to the State University of New York for a master's degree in Electronic Engineering and subsequently worked in Silicon Valley on memory chip development. In 2005, Zhu Yiming returned to China to found the memory chip design company GigaDevice. In 2016, with the support of Hefei state-owned capital, he founded ChangXin Memory Technologies and resigned as General Manager of GigaDevice in 2018 to focus on ChangXin's development. At the time of ChangXin's founding, the domestic DRAM industry was non-existent. The three overseas giants, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology, had already entered mass production of 10-nanometer class DRAM, while ChangXin could only start from the old technology framework left by Qimonda, with a process gap of more than two generations. Zhu Yiming led ChangXin not to follow a gradual iterative path but adopted a "leapfrog R&D" strategy, directly completing the mass production transition from the first generation to the fourth generation of process technology platforms. "The reason ChangXin's project succeeded, besides favorable factors like the opportunity for domestic substitution, is a more important factor: the people. The entrepreneurial spirit represented by Zhu Yiming is crucial for ChangXin's development. Whether it's strategic vision, dedication, or key strategic choices at critical junctures, they have profoundly influenced ChangXin's rapid start and growth," the aforementioned person from China Life Investment told Cai Jing. He added that in the early stages of ChangXin's development, Zhu Yiming placed great emphasis on intellectual property. Starting with related IP from Qimonda, he early on laid out a large number of defensive patents, a very crucial step. At the same time, he gathered a technically experienced team and managed to keep these talents stable in Hefei, which is very difficult. The reason these talents were willing to stay was Zhu Yiming's own appeal and influence. Long-term investment and cultivation in talent building, and continuously attracting top industry talents, were very important reasons for the company's success. "They are very resilient and possess great entrepreneurial初心 and passion. Most core team members have been deeply involved in the industry for many years, long扎根 in the industrial front line, deeply focusing on DRAM technical攻坚 and mass production implementation. They can endure loneliness during industry downturns. This persistence is very rare. They are a mature entrepreneurial team with technical strength, practical spirit, and strategic vision," the person said. Guo Chengwei also told Cai Jing that the management team of ChangXin Memory Technologies is impressive. First, there is a deep sense of industrial patriotism, adhering to long-termism,潜心 tackling domestic memory, ignoring short-term gains and losses, and showing strong determination. Second, they have excellent professional capabilities, with core members possessing profound backgrounds in the global semiconductor industry, combining technical R&D, factory operations, and market expansion capabilities. Finally, they are pragmatic and honest, with an open格局, objectively viewing difficulties and risks, emphasizing talent incentives, and fully binding the core team. At the same time, they maintain a clear-minded attitude as a chaser, steadily laying out technology and business. They are an industrial team worthy of 'strategic' long-term companionship.
With the successful listing of ChangXin Memory Technologies supported by Hefei state-owned capital, Zhu Yiming's founding team, and dozens of institutional investors, the company's lack of an actual controller has also drawn external attention. Yuan Yuan, Vice President and Board Secretary of ChangXin Memory Technologies, mentioned during the roadshow that after listing, the company's equity structure would become more dispersed. The top five shareholders each hold less than 30%, and no single shareholder holds more than 50%. The company will maintain its control structure without an actual controller after listing. Which of the three parties—Hefei state-owned capital, the founding team, or the institutional and industrial capital—can determine ChangXin's ultimate direction? It is understood that the Hefei Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and the Hefei Economic and Technological Development Zone SASAC, as the largest investors, play more of a financial investor role. Both have stated that they do not seek actual control over Hefei Qinghui Jidian or ChangXin Memory Technologies. Meanwhile, although Zhu Yiming is the executive partner of Hefei Qinghui Jidian, he cannot actually control the company. The company's status without an actual controller is closely related to the rights-checking agreement among the partners of its largest shareholder, Hefei Qinghui Jidian. ChangXin Memory Technologies has stated that the rights-checking mechanism of Hefei Qinghui Jidian aligns with the investment初衷 of the two local state-owned capital platforms in Hefei, which is "aiming for technological self-reliance without seeking control rights," while also reflecting the importance placed on the operational leadership of the management team. Zhou Chunsheng told Cai Jing that the governance structure of ChangXin Memory Technologies, characterized by "no actual controller plus checks and balances between state-owned capital and the founding team," is an innovation in the state-owned capital participation model for large hard technology companies. It essentially balances the strategic demands of state-owned capital with the team's operational leadership. Zhou Chunsheng summarized the advantages of this checking mechanism: state-owned capital provides resources, credibility, and strategic support instead of administrative intervention, while the founding team holds the technological and operational initiative. This establishes state-owned capital as a "ballast" while activating the market's "driving force," avoiding the efficiency loss typical of traditional state-owned enterprises. Miao Tianyi told Cai Jing that the model has four advantages. First, strategic and operational rights are separated. State-owned capital anchors industrial security and large investments without interfering in daily operations or technology routes, ensuring the founding team's dominance and avoiding short-term political performance interfering with long-cycle R&D. Second, multi-layer partnership checks and balances prevent a single entity from controlling the voting rights of the largest shareholder, curbing unilateral intervention and improving market-oriented governance. Third, risk and return are bound. State-owned capital bears the cyclical bottom risk, while management's performance is tied to long-term equity returns, forming a risk-sharing, benefit-sharing structure. Fourth, it is compliant and suitable for IPO, clarifying the rights and responsibility boundaries of state-owned capital while balancing asset preservation and appreciation with the market-oriented operation of tech enterprises. However, this mechanism also hides risks. Zhou Chunsheng summarized that the memory industry has strong cyclicality. Operational decisions requiring rapid responses, such as price adjustments and capacity scheduling, can be hindered by multi-party negotiation and consensus mechanisms, potentially missing opportunities. The shortcomings in decision-making efficiency will become more prominent during industry downturns. In the future, as the industry matures, conflicts may arise between state-owned capital's goals of asset preservation, appreciation, and industrial security and the management team's market expansion and short-term performance orientation. The checking structure could potentially evolve into internal friction, affecting governance stability. In Miao Tianyi's view, a structure without an actual controller lacks a defensive center in the face of hostile takeovers or external capital games, relying on long-term understanding among all parties. The diverse demands of multiple subjects increase governance costs for long-term coordination. The multi-layer nested structure is complex, making equity penetration and transparency of rights and responsibilities more difficult.
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