Wuxi Ranked First in China for New Equity Funds Last Year, Report Says
Dou Shicong
DATE:  Jan 28 2022
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
Wuxi Ranked First in China for New Equity Funds Last Year, Report Says Wuxi Ranked First in China for New Equity Funds Last Year, Report Says

(Yicai Global) Jan. 28 -- With a cluster of high-tech industries, Wuxi, a city in eastern China, raised CNY116.1 billion (USD18.3 billion) in new equity funds last year, up more than 10 times from the year before to rank first among major Chinese cities, according to a new report.

There were a total of 104 new equity funds in the city last year, up 181 percent annually. Of them, two reached CNY10 billion: the second phase of the China Structural Reform Fund and the Guolian Wingtech 5G Communication and Semiconductor Industry Fund, said the report date provider Zero2IPO Group published yesterday.

In recent years, many outstanding firms in fields such as the Internet of Things, biomedicine, high-end equipment and integrated circuits have emerged in Wuxi. The local government also has brought out a series of measures to support development of the equity investment industry, attracting an increasing number of leading funds to settle in the city, the report said.

Shanghai ranked second in the country with 182 new equity funds raised last year, a gain of 19.7 percent. The funds raised rose 5.7 percent to CNY109.9 billion.

Suzhou, like Wuxi also in Jiangsu province, and Shenzhen in Guangdong province ranked third and fourth, with fundraising of CNY107.9 billion and CNY107.7 billion, respectively.

In terms of investment activity, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen continued to rank in the top three.

The number of equity investment cases jumped 52.3 percent to 2,433 in Beijing, with the amount up 26.1 percent to CNY291.7 billion. Shanghai saw 2,393 cases and CNY280.3 billion in value, while Shenzhen had 1,624 cases and CNY143.9 billion in value, the report said.

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Keywords:   Wuxi,Equity Investment