Richina Inc., an independent and closely held New Zealand-headquartered holding company with a strong China focus, operates in four sectors: financial services, real estate, consumer and manufacturing. Richina has leveraged its New Zealand base to actively invest in and operate numerous businesses in China that have benefited from China’s extraordinary growth over the past 20 years. Increasingly, Richina is developing a broader range of financial, business, cultural and educational links between China and New Zealand.

In the Financial Services sector, Richina (China) Investments Limited, a Chinese Holding Company (“CHC”), provides a wide range of financial services to both affiliates and strategic and financial partners.Through the CHC, Richina operates a wholly-owned credit guaranty company, Shanghai Richina Credit Guaranty Limited , headquartered in Shanghai with a national license, which works in cooperation with a large number of Chinese banks. Richina Guaranty facilitates the financial needs of thousands of individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”) throughout China.

In New Zealand, Richina Financial Holdings operates Richina Finance Limited, a finance company that has the objective of securing a full banking license that will attract depositors from China who wish to diversify their offshore financial holdings but will focus its lending activities onshore in New Zealand.

In the Real Estate sector, Richina has diversified development, infrastructure, construction, interiors, project management, property ownership and facilities management operations in both the commercial and residential sectors operating between China and New Zealand. Richina owns and operates 116 acres of land with 4.5 million square feet of improvements in Shanghai. Its New Zealand subsidiary Mainzeal Property and Construction Limited has been a leading real estate development, infrastructure and construction company in both the commercial and residential sectors throughout New Zealand since 1968.

In the Consumer sector, Richina has a wide range of branded products, and entertainment, hotel and restaurant facilities in China and New Zealand. In Beijing, the Blue Zoo Aquarium has entertained more than 10 million domestic and international visitors since its opening in 1996. It remains one of the most popular world class “edu-tainment” facilities in the heart of Beijing. In Shanghai, Richina has built the “New Zealand House” that will market the best of New Zealand products and services and become the home away from home for Kiwi businesses and institutions that are interested in the Chinese market. Also in Shanghai, Richina owns and operates a number of budget hotels under various national brands either as a franchisee or as a landlord.

On Waiheke Island (The Martha’s Vineyard of the South Pacific) near Auckland, Richina operates the Te Motu Vineyard and Restaurant. Under the Te Motu brand, Richina plans to roll out high quality food and beverage products beyond its core wine range for the Chinese consumer market.

In the Manufacturing sector, Richina wholly owns a large and diverse portfolio of operating companies in China. Its subsidiary, Shanghai Richina Leather operates a large world class leather tannery in Shanghai that produces shoe, automotive for its partner GST Autoleather, accessory and upholstery finished leather. In addition, SRL has recently opened a brand new wet blue and wet white facility with lime fleshing and lime splitting on its own 75 acre industrial site in Fuxin city of China’s Liaoning Province. Through its Shanghai Leather Corporation subsidiary, Richina operates finished product businesses in leather chemicals, shoe, leather garments, luggage and athletic balls.

Richina and its subsidiaries employ 5,000 people globally.

Richina’s portfolio companies date back in China to 1903 and in New Zealand to 1888.