Guangdong Investment Limited is a Chinese company incorporated in Hong Kong. It is engaged in the businesses of

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to Hong Kong,

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Dongguan Dongguan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the s ...

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operations.Guangdong Investment Limited
Guangdong Investment is a constituent of

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index or HSCCI is a stock index of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong for red chip companies listed on the exchange, which are incorporated outside of mainland China, such as in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, ...

( red chip index). The parent company was

Guangdong Holdings Guangdong Holdings Limited is a Chinese holding company. Guangdong Holdings is the parent company of Hong Kong incorporated GDH Limited (), in turn it was the parent company of listed companies Guangdong Investment (), Guangnan Holdings (), Guan ...

(held the stake via GDH Limited and Guangdong Trust) Guangdong Holdings is a wholly owned subsidiary of

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History

was incorporated on 5 January 1973 in Hong Kong. On 12 July 1988 it was renamed into Guangdong Investment Limited, which the listed company was acquired by

Guangdong Enterprises Guangdong Holdings Limited is a Chinese holding company. Guangdong Holdings is the parent company of Hong Kong incorporated GDH Limited (), in turn it was the parent company of listed companies Guangdong Investment (), Guangnan Holdings (), Guan ...

: a "window company" of mainland China in the British colony. Since that year Guangdong Investment became a

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that Guangdong Enterprises

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its assets.

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External links

* {{official website, http://www.gdi.com.hk Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Companies owned by the provincial government of China Former companies in the Hang Seng Index Conglomerate companies of China Companies based in Guangzhou Chinese companies established in 1988