Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises

Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises Co. is a Chinese state-owned enterprise, supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises is the parent company of publicly traded companies Overseas Chinese Town Limited (SZSE: 000069), Overseas Chinese Town (Asia) (SEHK3366, a subsidiary of Overseas Chinese Town Company) and Konka Group (SZSE: 000016). It is engaged in cross-sector and cross-industry operation.

Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises
OCT Group
Company typeState-owned enterprise
IndustryTourism and Culture
Founded1985
Headquarters,
China
Area served
China
Revenue110,348,810,000 renminbi (2018) Edit this on Wikidata
OwnerState Council of China (100%)
ParentSASAC of the State Council
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.chinaoct.com Edit this at Wikidata
Footnotes / references
in a consolidated basis; equity and profit excluded minority interests; in Chinese Accounting Standards[1]
Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises Co.
Simplified Chinese华侨城集团公司
Traditional Chinese華僑城集團公司
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáqiáochéng Jítuán Gōngsī
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingwaa4 kiu4 sing4 zaap6 tyun4 gung1 si1

The company was founded on 1985 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China. Since 1985, the company has fostered three leading major businesses in China, which are tourism and related cultural industry, real estate, hotel development, and manufacture of electronic products. As the listed subsidiary, OCT A provides a platform for capital operation of OCT group.[citation needed]

The company is well known for its nationally famous brands, including six Happy Valley amusement parks,[2] Konka Group, Splendid China Folk Village, Window of the World, OCT East, OCT Grand Hotel, Venice Hotel, OCT Harbour and so on.[3]

History

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  • In 1985, OCT starting from a stretch of mud flat beside Shenzhen Bay.[citation needed]
  • In 1994, the former CEO Ren Kelei (Chinese: 任克雷) started reconstructing OCT group's business structure by cutting from more than 30 industries to only 3 main focusing areas.[4]
  • In November 1997, OCT Group incorporated a subsidiary OCT Holding and listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange.[5]
  • In 2000, OCT Group has invested to construct multiple large-scale comprehensive projects, such as Beijing OCT, Shenzhen OCT East, Shanghai OCT, Shanghai Pujiang OCT, Chengdu OCT, Jiangsu Taizhou OCT, Shenzhen Happy Harbor, Yunnan OCT, Tianjin OCT, Wuhan OCT, Xi’an OCT, Qingdao OCT, and so on.[citation needed]
  • In 2004, OCT had been granted a title of the first batch of “National Culture Industry Demonstration Base” by the State Ministry of Culture and had been granted the title of one of the first two “National Culture Industry Demonstration Park Area” by the State Ministry of Culture in August 2007.[citation needed]
  • In 2010, OCT Group has been granted the title of “Top 30 Culture Enterprise” by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.[6]
  • In 2015, consulting and design firm AECOM ranked OCT parks China as #4 of Top 10 Worldwide Theme Park Groups with 30 million visitors in the year.[7]

List of amusement parks

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Park name Location Opening date Status Roller Coasters Ref
Happy Coast Theme Park Foshan   Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong, China 2019 Operating
2
[8]
Happy Valley Shenzhen   Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 1998 Operating
5
[9]
Happy Valley Beijing   Chaoyang, Beijing, China 2006 Operating
6
[10]
Happy Valley Chengdu   Jinniu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China 2009 Operating
6
[11]
Happy Valley Shanghai   Songjiang, Shanghai, China 2009 Operating
7
[12]
Happy Valley Wuhan   Hongshan, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2012 Operating
5
[13]
Happy Valley Tianjin   Dongli, Tianjin, China 2013 Operating
4
[14]
Happy Valley Chongqing   Yubei, Chongqing, China 2017 Operating
4
[15]
Happy Valley Nanjing   Qixia, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 2020 Operating
4
[16]
OCT East   Yantian, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 2010 Operating
1
[17]
Visionland Liuzhou   Yufeng, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China 2017 Operating
4
[18]
Visionland Changde   Dingcheng, Changde, Hunan, China 2020 Operating
2
[19]
Window of the World Changsha   Kaifu, Changsha, Hunan, China 1997 Operating
4
[20]
Window of the World Shenzhen   Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 1994 Operating
0
[21]

References

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  1. ^ "2015 Annual Report". Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises (in Chinese). Shanghai Clearing House. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  2. ^ Theme Parks Won't Be Part of the Digital Revolution, Bloomberg, 2015-10-01
  3. ^ OCT Group Brief Introduction, XINHUANET, 2012-05-17, archived from the original on October 22, 2016
  4. ^ "华侨城集团总经理任克雷与网民在线交流" (in Chinese). SASAC of the State Council. 2009.
  5. ^ "The World's Biggest Public Companies", Forbes, 2016
  6. ^ "今日华侨城" [OCT Today] (in Chinese). Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises.
  7. ^ 2015 Theme Index (PDF), AECOM, 2015
  8. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Coast Theme Park  (Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  9. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  10. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Chaoyang, Beijing, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  11. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Jinniu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  12. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Songjiang, Shanghai, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  13. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Hongshan, Wuhan, Hubei, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  14. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Dongli, Tianjin, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  15. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Yubei, Chongqing, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  16. ^ Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Nanjing, Jiangsu, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase.
  17. ^ Marden, Duane. "Knight Valley  (Yantian, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  18. ^ Marden, Duane. "Visionland  (Yufeng, Liuzhou, Guangxu, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  19. ^ Marden, Duane. "Visionland  (Dingcheng, Changde, Hunan, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  20. ^ Marden, Duane. "Window of the World  (Kaifu, Changsha, Hunan, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  21. ^ Marden, Duane. "Window of the World  (Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
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