Since 2005, China's equity investment market has increased rapidly. In 2007, a total of 177 cases by PE were taken place in Mainland China, up 59% year on year, and the total investment scale had reached USD $12.8 billion, up 8.9% year on year.

Number of Investment Cases by Typical PE in china, 2001-2007 

 
Source: ResearchInChina

In the first half of 2008, investment strategy of growth capital still dominated the market, but its proportion was on the downward trend, however, investment strategy of bridge capital and PIPE increased continually. In 2007 the number of bridge capital cases doubled to 22 from 11 in 2006, and number of PIPE cases rose 15.8% to 22 from 19 in 2006.All of these indicate that China's private equity market tends to be diversified in terms of investment strategies.

Investment of Carlyle Group in China, 2007-2008


Source: ResearchInChina

This report makes an in-depth analysis on the current situation, policy environment, and 27 equity investors in China, and also makes forecast on the development trend of China equity investment market after 2008 based on a thorough study on the market in the period 2007 to 2008.

2. China Equity Investment in 2008
2.1 Operation of China Equity Investment, 2008
2.1.1 Overview of Private Equity, 2008
2.1.2 Overview of Fundraising By Private Equity Funds, 2008
2.1.3 Overview of Venture Capital, 2008
2.1.4 IPOs of Chinese Firms Invested by Venture Capital & Private Equity, 2008
2.2  Ranking List of China Equity Investment, 2007
2.2.1 Ranking List of VC in China, 2007
2.2.2 Ranking List of PE in China, 2007
2.3 Major Events of China Equity Investment, 2007-2008
2.4 China Top 10 Cases of Equity Investment, 1H2008

3. Analysis of Macro Environment of China Equity Investment
3.1 Market Environment of Equity Investment 
3.1.1 Analysis of Monetary Policy
3.1.2 Financial Investment Development
3.1.3 Analysis of Withdrawal Environment
3.2 Policy Environment of Equity Investment

4. China Equity Investment, 2008
4.1 Investment distribution of Private Equity according to industry,2008
4.2 Investment Strategy of Private Equity,2008
4.3 Investment distribution of Venture Capital according to industry, 2008
4.5 Withdrawal Situation
4.6 A comparison between domestic and foreign Investment in China, 2007

5. Key Companies
5.1 Morgan Stanley
5.2 Carlyle Group
5.3 Goldman Sachs 
5.4 Sequoia Capital China
5.5 SAIF Partner 
5.6 CDH Investment
5.7 IDGVC
5.8 Legend Capital Limited
5.9 Intel Capital
5.10 JAFCO Asia
5.11 SIG Asia Investment
5.12 Hony Capital
5.13 New Horizon Capital
5.14 Temasek Holdings
5.15 Hope Investments
5.16 Merrill Lynch
5.17 Warburg Pincus L.L.C.
5.18 CITIC Capital
5.19 Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd.
5.20 Suzhou Trust Investment Co., Ltd.
5.21 CIC
5.22 AIGGIG
5.23 GIC
5.24 Yangtze Power Trust Investment Co., Ltd
5.25 Shenzhen GTJA Investment Group (GIG)
5.26 MATRIX
5.27 Fortune 
5.28 Other Companies

6. Trend and Prospect of China Equity Investment, 2008-2009
6.1 Launch of The Second Board and Its Impact
6.2 Changing Trend of Withdrawal Forms
6.3 Monetary Policy and Its Impact
6.4 Geographical Trend of Investment