Beijing Honghu Zhiyuan Venture Capital Leads Investment in Huasheng Intelligent, Empowering Smart Logistics Together with IBI’s Digital Cloud Factory
Recently, Honghu No.1 Fund, managed by Beijing Honghu Zhiyuan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (Honghu Zhiyuan), together with well-known investment institutions including Sinochem Capital and CICC Capital, jointly led the investment in Qingdao Huashine Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Huasheng Intelligent”), a leading domestic provider of integrated smart manufacturing and intelligent warehousing and logistics solutions.
Huasheng Intelligent is a national high-tech enterprise, a provincial/municipal “Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative” enterprise, and a recognized “Gazelle Enterprise” in Shandong Province. It provides integrated hardware and software solutions for “intelligent manufacturing + smart warehousing and logistics,” based on industrial internet standards. Since 2010, its founding team has been engaged in smart factory and automated warehousing businesses, committed to supporting the digital and intelligent transformation of industrial and commercial enterprises. To date, the company has provided solutions for over 400 enterprises. It has received numerous prestigious industry awards, including the 2022 Excellent Brand Award of the Smart Logistics Industry, the Smart Logistics Industry Benchmark Enterprise Award, the 2022 Excellent Case Award of the Smart Logistics Industry, the 2023 Logistics Technology Innovation Case Award, and the 2022–2023 Excellent Enterprise Award in Modern Pharmaceutical Logistics Equipment.
With years of deep expertise in smart warehousing and logistics, Huasheng Intelligent combines extensive practical experience with mature technologies. Through independently developed and self-produced core hardware (such as stacker cranes, AGVs, RGVs, shuttles, and robotic arms) and core software systems (MES, WMS, WCS, TMS, etc.), it provides enterprises in various industries with integrated solutions, including intelligent logistics systems, automated warehouses, and smart factories. It is among the few enterprises capable of delivering end-to-end large-scale smart factory planning, software and hardware implementation, and service execution.
Currently, Huasheng Intelligent’s solutions cover 20 industries, including rubber tires, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, new energy, food, cold chain, furniture, e-commerce, and machinery, with continued expansion into new application areas. The company’s customers include many well-known enterprises such as Bridgestone, Kumho Tire, Cheng Shin Tire, Sailun Tire, Linglong Tire, Yangzi Petrochemical, Donghua Energy, Jinneng Science & Technology, CATL, Changyuan Lithium, Ganfeng Lithium, Qilu Pharma, Zhejiang Pharma, Mindray, Sunao Chemical, and Sinochem Blue Sky, earning widespread recognition across the industry.
Smart Logistics
Smart logistics is one of the key investment directions of Honghu Zhiyuan. Its lead sponsor, IBI, is a main-board listed leader in China’s industrial internet sector. IBI’s development strategy centers on “platform services, technology-driven, and data-supported,” building a new vertical industrial internet ecosystem through platform, technology, and data.
Currently, IBI is focusing on building its second growth curve—the Digital Cloud Factory, which provides industrial chain partners with diversified digital services. Among them, smart logistics is a key focus area. In the wave of industrial internet and digital technology development, IBI will work together with leading smart logistics providers such as Huasheng Intelligent to empower each other, connect ecosystems, and achieve complementary strengths. This cooperation aims to create a synergistic effect greater than the sum of its parts, helping the industrial chain reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Xu Hai, Founding Partner of Beijing Honghu Zhiyuan Venture Capital, stated:
“The smart logistics industry integrates deeply with both the internet and logistics industries. By applying AI, big data, and information algorithms, it enables enterprises to develop intelligent and digital hardware and software solutions, empowering a wide range of industries. Compared with traditional logistics, smart logistics has significant advantages in space utilization, operational efficiency, and labor cost reduction. Its effectiveness in cutting costs and improving efficiency makes it a major trend for the future. With the growing adoption of smart logistics across industries and the continuous improvement of automation, intelligence, and efficiency, demand for smart logistics will continue to deepen. As a CVC investment institution with strong industrial background and resource advantages, Honghu Zhiyuan will continue to focus on and invest in outstanding enterprises with technological strengths and business synergies. Through investment, we aim to drive cooperation, mutual empowerment, and win-win outcomes.”
About Beijing Honghu Zhiyuan Venture Capital Co., Ltd.
Beijing Honghu Zhiyuan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was jointly established by IBI, a main-board listed industrial internet leader, along with well-known domestic and international financial institutions and seasoned capital market professionals. Registered with the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC), it is a private equity investment management institution.
Through fund investment, Honghu Zhiyuan adopts an industry–finance integration model and strategically focuses on future-oriented sectors such as “industrial internet + digital technology.” On one hand, it supports IBI’s strategy of “platform, technology, and data.” On the other, it accelerates the growth and collaboration of outstanding enterprises in the industrial internet and digital technology sectors. Honghu Zhiyuan and its managed funds look forward to deepening cooperation with both industry and finance partners to jointly drive innovation, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and achieve sustainable development.
