What Makes China Investment & Development Special

China Investment & Development's (CIDC) executive team and consultants possess extensive personal and professional networks, enabling them to maintain a sure grasp on emerging investment projects and timing issues, so that they can assist businesses targeted for investment to grow. What sets CIDC apart from other players are:

Access to extensive resources drawn from shareholders and affiliated business groups, helping in sourcing promising investment projects and managing the project after investment

CIDC's shareholders, who are all renowned Taiwanese companies, spanning a broad range of industries. In addition to providing investment resources and information to CIDC itself, in related areas they can facilitate a business synergy with investee companies, as well as benefit management of investee companies by virtue of their own extensive business experience. In addition, CIDC's affiliate, Global Financial Services (GFS) is a well-known financial consultant company which has provided financial consulting services for many small and large company in Taiwan in the past. Through GFS we can assist our portfolio companies to establish sound financial systems, helping them achieve vigorous growth. 　

An executive team with extensive experience in investment management, coupled with broad industry resources

Since its founding CIDC has already been involved in more than 220 investment projects, explored over 1,000 companies as potential projects, and toured more than 3,000 vendors. It has already established an extensive range of personal relationships within high-tech industry circles, as well as an intricate intelligence network. 　

Rigorous due diligence and management practices, to ensure investment quality and deliver high returns

CIDC's investment process is renowned as one of the most rigorous in the industry, and strictly conforms to the highest industry standards. We demand that project managers tour vendors upstream and downstream of the investment target, as well as its competitors, as a routine part of investment due diligence. Project managers must analyze and verify the targeted company's key personnel, financial history, financial planning, industry and products, markets, manufacturing and technology, investment risk, potential for public listing, and probable return on investment, and finally write an assessment report. Investment requires the approval of the investment evaluation committee and the board of directors. Once the investment is made, each project is assigned a specialist to manage it. Based on the development status of the investee company, this specialist will assess progress on a weekly or monthly basis in order to provide appropriate managerial support after the investment has been made.

Work with European and American partners to make joint investments

CIDC has maintained a sustained cooperative relationship with the UK's Doughty Hanson & Co (DHC) since 1993. DHC currently has EUR5 billion under management, with investments across Europe. DHC is a leverage buyout specialist and has invested in both traditional and high-tech industries. With their expertise, they are a key partner for CIDC as it pursues similar investment projects. CIDC has a cooperative relationship with AIGGIC, a subsidiary of the U.S. financial group AIG. AIGGIC currently manages assets worth US$100 billion, and maintains business offices in fifteen locations around the globe, seeking investment opportunities for its clients. In the biotechnology industry, CIDC also has an excellent working relationship with several of its venture capital partners, frequently sharing leads on investment projects, enormously benefiting our efforts in biotechnology investment, in particular. 　

Excellent Group of Professional Consultants

In order to maintain a grasp of global trends in technology innovation and industry development, CIDC has recruited a number of richly experienced experts from within the industry, the investment world, and academic circles. Forming a group of professional consultants in their respective fields, these experts assist teams at CIDC in evaluating the development feasibility of the technology possessed by an investment target as well as its management capabilities. CIDC can utilize the rich interpersonal networks of its consultants to source additional potential investment projects and obtain a dynamic, current picture of the state of the industry.