What does city investment do?

City Investment engages in comprehensive land improvement, housing projects, real estate development and investment in real estate development projects with its own funds.

City Investment Company is a public institution, which was established in August 1995. Its industry is financial industry, and the enterprise type is limited liability company. Its specific business scope includes construction-related business, investment consulting and property management. City investment companies are generally legal entities under the Urban Construction Bureau. City investment company is the abbreviation of urban construction investment company, and it is the investment and financing platform of major cities in China. It originated from 199 1 and assumed the corresponding government functions. It is a special market operation entity.

Most of these city investment companies are unprofitable and belong to public institutions or wholly state-owned companies. They realize profits through government subsidies and belong to special market operators with government nature. Generally, there are construction bureau, planning bureau, construction planning bureau, land construction bureau and construction housing management bureau, which are set up separately and jointly.

Business model of city investment company

The business models of city investment companies mainly include PPP model and BOT model. PPP mode is a public-private cooperation mode, that is, government departments and enterprises share the risks and benefits of project construction, operation and maintenance. BOT mode is a construction-operation-transfer mode, that is, enterprises invest in construction projects, operate for a certain period of time, and then hand over the projects to the government or other institutions. These two modes have been widely used in urban infrastructure construction, providing important support for urban development.

In recent years, the city investment company has played an important role in responding to the COVID-19 epidemic. During the period, the city investment company actively participated in the fight by increasing investment in medical and health facilities, speeding up the construction of temporary medical equipment such as shelter hospitals, actively supporting protective material production enterprises, and providing financing support for disaster-stricken enterprises, which made positive contributions to the prevention and control work.