China Market Weekly Update

2025/03/24 - 2025/03/30

Weekly Investment Overview

Total Investment Events
167
Total Transaction Value
¥60.14B
Largest M&A Deal
¥5.99B

Weekly Summary

This week, a total of 167 investment events occurred in the market, involving a total transaction value of RMB 60.144 billion, covering various areas such as fundraising, investment, IPOs, and mergers & acquisitions. China Resources Sanjiu Medical & Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. completed the acquisition of a 28% stake in Tianjin Tian Shili Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. for RMB 5.99 billion.

Industry Distribution

Key Projects

Category Details Value
Fundraising Nanjing Jiangning Smart Equity Investment Partnership ¥10 billion
Investment Ruichao Dingke (Shanghai) Medical Technology Co., Ltd. ¥1+ billion
M&A China Resources Sanjiu stake in Tianjin Tian Shili ¥5.99 billion
IPO Development Technology (Beijing Stock Exchange) ¥1.017 billion
Fundraising: 85 new funds registered with total scale of RMB 41.888 billion
IPOs: Six companies successfully went public, raising RMB 2.776 billion in total
Regional Focus: Investment activities mainly concentrated in Guangdong (15.6%), Jiangsu (13.8%), and Zhejiang (12.6%)

China Market & Policy Weekly Update

Recycled Aluminum Target (2027)
15M tons
Low-altitude Economy Growth
¥0.5T → ¥2T
Outpatient Prepayment
Eliminated

Policy Environment Overview

This week, the dynamics of the Chinese market and policy primarily focused on pharmaceutical regulation and medical insurance reform, high-quality development of the aluminum industry, medical reform and prepayment adjustments, strategic restructuring in the automotive industry, and the development of the low-altitude economy.

Policy Focus Areas
  • Pharmaceutical Regulation

    The National Healthcare Security Administration launched a special campaign to crack down on the illegal trade of "returned drugs" and promote the comprehensive application of drug traceability codes to ensure patient medication safety and the security of medical insurance funds.

  • Aluminum Industry Development

    The government released the "Implementation Plan for High-Quality Development of the Aluminum Industry (2025-2027)," aiming for recycled aluminum production to exceed 15 million tons by 2027, encouraging mergers and acquisitions.

  • Medical Payment Reform

    Public medical institutions will eliminate outpatient prepayment fees starting from March 31, 2025, and reduce the prepayment amount for hospitalization, aiming to alleviate the financial burden on patients.

  • Automotive Industry Restructuring

    The National Development and Reform Commission and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission plan to undertake strategic restructuring of central state-owned enterprises in vehicle manufacturing to enhance industry concentration.

  • Low-altitude Economy Development

    The low-altitude economy is viewed as a trillion-yuan market, with expectations that the market scale will expand from 500 billion yuan to 2 trillion yuan by 2030, providing new market opportunities for foreign enterprises operating in China.

Weekly Tech News

China's Tech Market: AI, Cell Therapy, and Semiconductor Highlights

This week, the Chinese market has made remarkable progress in the fields of artificial intelligence, cell therapy, and semiconductors. In the realm of artificial intelligence, numerous enterprises and institutions have showcased significant breakthroughs across various domains. Baidu Apollo donated L4-level autonomous vehicles to Wuhan University and launched the "Spark Program" to promote research in autonomous driving at universities. Alibaba has open-sourced its first end-to-end multimodal large model, Qwen2.5-Omni-7B, enhancing the capabilities for handling multimodal tasks.

In the cell and gene therapy sector, Hebei Meiyou Sai'ao Biotechnology's NK cell therapy, ZMPB-NK006, received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration, offering new treatment hope for patients with advanced malignant solid tumors, marking a further development in China's cell therapy field.

Additionally, the semiconductor industry has highlighted the urgency for self-reliance amid international environmental challenges. The SEMICON China exhibition and the call from the China Integrated Circuit Innovation Alliance for regional market system development reflect China's determination in independent R&D and industrial layout in chip technology.

Meanwhile, companies have also made significant strides in smart manufacturing, smart hardware, and AI applications. Midea Group's revenue for 2024 surpassed 400 billion yuan, demonstrating strong growth in smart home and new energy businesses. JD.com is actively exploring embodied intelligence technology and plans to launch a "thousand people, thousand faces" digital human to enhance personalized user interaction experiences.

In education and talent cultivation, an AI Talent Cultivation Forum was held in Beijing, emphasizing the importance of AI education and launching the Beijing Youth AI Academy to nurture top talent in the AI field.

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Selected News

30th Mar 2025
Hebei Meiyou Sai'ao Biotechnology's NK cell therapy, ZMPB-NK006, has received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration for treating advanced or metastatic malignant solid tumors, showcasing its strong anti-tumor capabilities.
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30th Mar 2025
"Tongtong" 2.0 was released at the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference in Beijing, positioned as a virtual being with autonomous learning, cognitive, and decision-making capabilities, expected to reach the intelligence level of a 6-year-old child within this year.
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30th Mar 2025
The AIGC business of Out the Door has achieved revenues exceeding 220 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 88.5%, with overseas business revenue accounting for 41.8%, demonstrating its success in global operations.
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30th Mar 2025
Mianbi Intelligence has launched the first pure edge smart assistant, cpmGO, which realizes visual, voice, and multimodal interaction capabilities, enhancing the smart cockpit experience.
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30th Mar 2025
OPPO Research Institute and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have jointly proposed the OThink-MR1 technology to enhance the generalization and reasoning capabilities of multimodal language models through dynamic reinforcement learning, breaking traditional model limitations.
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29th Mar 2025
At the "Future AI Pioneer Forum" during the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, Turing Award winner Joseph Sifakis and other top scholars discussed the technological innovations and industrial practices of AI, emphasizing that AI has become a crucial pillar of Beijing's core industries.
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29th Mar 2025
Baidu Apollo donated eight L4-level production autonomous driving vehicles to Wuhan University and launched the "Spark Program" aimed at promoting research and talent cultivation in the field of autonomous driving.
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28th Mar 2025
The Macau Drug Administration has approved the marketing authorization application for Ikigai Injection, marking it as the first CAR-T product approved in Macau, signifying the successful cross-border supply of domestically produced CAR-T drugs to Hong Kong.
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28th Mar 2025
China successfully launched the Tianlian II-04 satellite into its designated orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, which is primarily used to support data relay and control services for manned spacecraft, marking continuous progress in China's space endeavors.
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27th Mar 2025
Alibaba has open-sourced its first end-to-end multimodal large model, Qwen2.5-Omni-7B, supporting real-time interactions across text, audio, images, and video, showcasing strong multimodal processing capabilities and offering free experiences.
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Weekly Market & Policy News

31st Mar 2025
The National Healthcare Security Administration has initiated a special action to crack down on the illegal trade of "returned drugs" and promote the application of drug traceability codes to ensure the security of medical insurance funds.
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31st Mar 2025
By 2027, recycled aluminum production is expected to exceed 15 million tons, with the proportion of energy-efficient benchmark capacity in the electrolytic aluminum industry rising to over 30%.
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31st Mar 2025
From March 31, 2025, public medical institutions will stop collecting outpatient prepayment fees, and from June 30, the prepayment amount for hospitalization will be reduced.
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29th Mar 2025
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission plans to strategically restructure central state-owned enterprises in vehicle manufacturing to enhance industry concentration and combat disorderly market competition.
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28th Mar 2025
The low-altitude economy is regarded as a trillion-yuan market, with the government promoting its healthy development, and it is expected that the market scale will reach 2 trillion yuan by 2030.
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