China Merchants Group’s corporate culture

China Merchants Group was founded in 1872 during the Westernization Movement of the late Qing Dynasty. Over the past 140 years, it has established China's first merchant fleet in modern times, opened China's first bank, first insurance company, first telegraph office, built China's first railway, etc., creating a modern Chinese nation. The shipping industry and many other modern economic fields play an important role in China's modern economic history and social development history. In 1978, China Merchants invested solely to develop China's first industrial zone open to the outside world, Shekou Industrial Zone, which had a wide impact at home and abroad, and successively founded China's first commercial joint-stock bank, China Merchants Bank, China's first Corporate joint-stock insurance companies such as Ping An Insurance Company have provided useful experience for China’s exploration of reform and opening up.

China Merchants Group’s business mainly focuses on three core industries: transportation and related infrastructure construction, operation and services (ports, highways, energy transportation and logistics), financial investment and management, and real estate development and operation.

China Merchants Group is an important investor and operator in the transportation infrastructure industry in Mainland China and Hong Kong. A nationwide strategic layout of container hub ports has been basically formed, with its ports located in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Zhangzhou in the Pearl River Delta; Shanghai and Ningbo in the Yangtze River Delta; and Qingdao and Tianjin in the Bohai Bay. China Merchants Group is one of the top three public terminal operators in the world. It is an important investor and operator in three of the world's four largest container ports, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Shenzhen.