Bohai International Trust Co., Ltd. (BITC) known as just Bohai Trust, is a Chinese

investment management Investment management (sometimes referred to more generally as financial asset management) is the professional asset management of various Security (finance), securities, including shareholdings, Bond (finance), bonds, and other assets, such as r ...

company based in

Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang; Mandarin: ; formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province. A prefecture-level city southwest of Beijing, it administers eight districts, three county-le ...

, Hebei Province. The company has licensed to create

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(as

private equity fund A private equity fund (abbreviated as PE fund) is a collective investment scheme used for making investments in various equity (and to a lesser extent debt) securities according to one of the investment strategies associated with private equity. ...

). The company is a subsidiary of

HNA Group HNA Group Co., Ltd., was a Chinese conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in Haikou, Hainan, China. Founded in 2000, it was involved in numerous industries including aviation, real estate, financial services, tourism, logistics, and ...

for 51.23% shares (via HNA Capital), plus additional 22.10% shares via

China Xinhua Airlines China Xinhua Airlines () was an airline based in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. It operated scheduled trunk services and charter flights. Its main bases were Beijing Capital International Airport and Tianjin Binhai International Airport. On ...

, a subsidiary (83.39%) of

Hainan Airlines Hainan Airlines is an airline headquartered in Haikou, Hainan, China. It is the largest civilian-run enterprise, civilian-run and majority State ownership, state-owned air transport company, making it the fourth-largest airline in terms of flee ...

. Hainan Airlines, a listed company, is partially owned by HNA Group. The remain 26.67% shares of the trust company were owned by another subsidiary of HNA Group (), which the group owned 72.98% stake of that subsidiary directly and indirectly (via ).

History

The predecessor of the trust company was founded in December 1983 as Hebei International Trust Investment Corporation (). In 2004 the company was re-registered as Hebei International Trust & Investment Co., Ltd. (), which Hebei Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission was the largest shareholder for 95.24% stake. In 2006 it was acquired by

from

Hebei Provincial People's Government The Hebei Provincial People's Government is the local administrative agency of Hebei. It is officially elected by the Hebei Provincial People's Congress and is formally responsible to the Hebei Provincial People's Congress and its . Under the coun ...

; the

share capital A corporation's share capital, commonly referred to as capital stock in the United States, is the portion of a corporation's equity that has been derived by the issue of shares in the corporation to a shareholder, usually for cash. ''Share ...

of the company had increased to in 2010 and to in 2016. The company also changed from "company limited by quote/stake" to "company limited by shares" (analog to

public limited company A public limited company (legally abbreviated to PLC or plc) is a type of public company under United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth jurisdictions, and Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is a limited liability co ...

) in 2015. In 2012

also acquired the minority stake (795.65 million shares) from HNA Hospitality Group, , Haikou Meilan International Airport Co., Ltd. and 2 sister companies, for a total price of ( per share). China Xinhua Airlines did not subscribed the 2016 capital increase of the trust company, making the shares were diluted to 22.10%. In November 2017, Bohai Trust was sued for failing to pay the collective funds trust plan for the Bohai Trust Ningbo Weitong Investment Project, which was originally scheduled to expire on July 27, 2017.

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* {{in lang, zh Financial services companies of China Private equity firms of China Civilian-run enterprises of China Former government-owned companies of China Chinese companies established in 1983 Companies based in Hebei Companies based in Shijiazhuang HNA Group