Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises

Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises Co. is a Chinese state-owned enterprise. It was 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) (SEHK: 3366, 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
Typestate-owned enterprise
IndustryTourism and Culture
Founded1985
Headquarters
Shenzhen
,
China
Area served
China
Revenue CN¥50.693 billion (2015)
CN¥8.457 billion (2015)
CN¥4.810 billion (2015)
Total assets CN¥136.957 billion (2015)
Total equity CN¥27.405 billion (2015)
OwnerState Council of China (100%)
ParentSASAC of the State Council
Subsidiaries
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

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.

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
  • In 1985, OCT starting from a stretch of mud flat beside Shenzhen Bay.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • In 2010, OCT Group has been granted the title of “Top 30 Culture Enterprise” by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China.[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
Park nameLocationOpening dateStatusRoller CoastersRef
Ankapark Ankara, Ankara, Turkey2019Under Construction
17
[8]
Happy Coast Theme Park Foshan Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong, China2019Under Construction
2
[9]
Happy Valley Shenzhen Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China1998Operating
5
[10]
Happy Valley Beijing Chaoyang, Beijing, China2006Operating
6
[11]
Happy Valley Chengdu Jinniu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China2009Operating
6
[12]
Happy Valley Shanghai Songjiang, Shanghai, China2009Operating
7
[13]
Happy Valley Wuhan Hongshan, Wuhan, Hubei, China2012Operating
5
[14]
Happy Valley Tianjin Dongli, Tianjin, China2013Operating
4
[15]
Happy Valley Chongqing Yubei, Chongqing, China2017Operating
4
[16]
Happy Valley Nanjing Qixia, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China2019Under Construction
4
[17]
Knight Valley Shenzhen Yantian, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China2010Operating
1
[18]
Visionland Liuzhou Yufeng, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China2017Operating
4
[19]
Visionland Changde Dingcheng, Changde, Hunan, China2019Under Construction
2
[20]
Window of the World Changsha Kaifu, Changsha, Hunan, China1997Operating
4
[21]
Window of the World Shenzhen Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China1994Operating
0
[22]

References
  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
  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. "Ankapark (Ankara, Ankara, Turkey)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  9. Marden, Duane. "Happy Coast Theme Park  (Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  10. Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  11. Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Chaoyang, Beijing, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  12. Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Jinniu, Chengdu, Sichuan, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  13. Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Songjiang, Shanghai, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  14. Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Hongshan, Wuhan, Hubei, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  15. Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Dongli, Tianjin, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  16. Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Yubei, Chongqing, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  17. Marden, Duane. "Happy Valley  (Qixia, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  18. Marden, Duane. "Knight Valley  (Yantian, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  19. Marden, Duane. "Visionland  (Yufeng, Liuzhou, Guangxu, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  20. Marden, Duane. "Visionland  (Dingcheng, Changde, Hunan, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  21. Marden, Duane. "Window of the World  (Kaifu, Changsha, Hunan, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  22. Marden, Duane. "Window of the World  (Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
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