China's equity investment has developed much rapidly in the past several years. In 2002, China's total equity investment was only US$534 million, but it already reached US$2.18 billion in 2006.

Investment Growth of China Equity Investment Market, 2002-2006

From January to September of 2007, the investment of the private equity fund in Mainland China was on the upward trend. The accumulative number of companies, in which investment was made, reached 126 and the accumulative value of the investment totaled US$8.37 billion, up 3.3% compared with the same period of previous year.

47 private equity funds completed their fundraising in the first three quarters of 2007, up 74% year on year. The total amount was US$23.05 billion, 3.36 times the figure in the same period of the previous year.

Fundraising by private equity fund in each quarter, which could be invested in Mainland China, 2006-2007

(unit:USD $ million)

In the first three quarters of 2007, 34 companies invested by private equity funds and venture capital firms completed their initial public offering or IPO and raised US$6.3 billion.

The number of Chinese companies invested by private equity funds and venture capital firms, and total amount of fund raised by these companies

(unit: USD $ million)

ResearchInChina collected ten typical cases of China equity investment in 2007 based on  the investment amount, as follows:

Ten typical cases of China equity investment, 2007

According to the research on the cases and the authoritative statistics issued by the listed companies and institutions, the report analyzes the status quo, the policy environment, the investment cases and the key enterprises' development of China equity investment industry in 2007. It makes a detailed summary of 25 active equity investment companies in China and their investment cases. Furthermore, the report also forecasts the developing trend of the industry in 2008 by analyzing the development situation of China equity investment in 2007 and before 2007.

2 China Equity Investment in 2007
2.1 Operation of China equity investment, 2007
2.1.1 Overview of Private equity investment, 2007
2.1.2 Overview of fundraising by private equity funds, 2007
2.1.3 Operation of venture capital, 2007
2.1.4 Statistics of IPOs by Chinese companies with investment from venture capital firms and private equity funds, 2007
2.2 Ranking list of China equity investment, 2007
2.2.1 Ranking list of China venture capital firms, 2007
2.2.2 Ranking list of China private equity funds, 2007
2.3 Major events of China venture capital, 2007
2.4 Ten typical cases of China equity investment, 2007

3 Analysis of Macro Environment of China Equity Investment
3.1 Environment of equity investment market
3.1.1 Analysis of monetary policy
3.1.2 Development of financial investment
3.1.3 Analysis of withdrawal environment
3.2 Policy environment of equity investment 

4 Analysis of Status Quo of China Equity Investment, 2007
4.1 Industrial distributions
4.2 Analysis of investment strategy
4.3 Withdrawal situation 

5 Comparison between Domestic Capital and Foreign Capital of China Equity Investment

6 Analysis of Key Companies' Operation in China, 2007
6.1 Carlyle Group
6.2 IDG
6.3 CDH Investments
6.4 SAIF Partners
6.5 Legend Capital Ltd
6.6 Sequoia Capital China
6.7 Merrill Lynch
6.8 Warburg Pincus
6.9 Granite Global Ventures£¨GGV£©
6.10 DFJ DragonFund China£¨DFJ£©
6.11 Goldman Sachs (Asia) Ltd.
6.12 SIG
6.13 JAFCO
6.14 Intel Capital
6.15 Chengwei Ventures
6.16 TEMASEK
6.17 Morgan Stanley
6.18 Deutsche Bank
6.19 Eplanet Ventures
6.20 Blue Ridge Capital
6.21 Qiming Venture
6.22 Capital Today
6.23 Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd.
6.24 AsiaVest Partners, TCW/YFY Ltd.
6.25 WI Harper Group

7 Trend and Prospect of China Equity Investment, 2008
7.1 Launch of the second board and its influence
7.2 Changing trend of withdrawal forms
7.3 Monetary policy and its influence
7.4 Changing trend of regional investment