Zhenghe Ecology (605069) controlling shareholder pledges 80 million shares, accounting for 3.78% of the company's total share capital

On February 25, Beijing Zhenghe Hengji Waterfront Ecological Environment Management Co., Ltd. announced that recently, the company received notice from its controlling shareholder, Huiheng Investment, that it has completed part of its share pledge procedures. This pledge involves 8 million shares, accounting for 3.78% of the company’s total share capital. Based on a strategic cooperation agreement signed between the company and the Miyun District government, the company has initiated cooperation with policy banks. The share pledge by Huiheng Investment is to facilitate the company’s financing with this policy bank through pledged collateral.

According to Bicai Finance, in recent years, the traditional ecological environment industry has faced development bottlenecks. As global climate change increases natural disasters, the country continues to invest heavily in water conservancy infrastructure construction and restoration. Leveraging its strengths in ecological environment business, the company focuses on the ecological water conservancy facilities sector, which is of greater concern to national livelihood, to enhance watershed comprehensive management capabilities. Meanwhile, local governments’ demand to activate existing green assets is growing. The company, with extensive experience in urban waterfront space design, planning, and construction, is upgrading urban waterfront lounges and cultural tourism scenic area operations, promoting the transformation of ecological resources into urban public services and cultural tourism consumption scenarios. Additionally, with the rapid development of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence, the company actively invests in AI-centered AI businesses, empowering ecological environment operations through knowledge bases and large models for rivers, lakes, and oceans; expanding water environment management and urban waterfront cultural tourism applications through robotics; and creating emotionally interactive companion robots that combine technological warmth with emotional engagement, building an AI-native business ecosystem.

The company adheres to the internationally leading 7+1 symbiotic city sustainable development concept and the NbS (Nature-based Solutions) approach as core principles. It focuses on ecological water conservancy infrastructure, rivers, lakes, wetlands, marine ecological restoration, urban waterfront lounges, cultural tourism scenic operations, and AI businesses, providing clients with full lifecycle services of “technology + design + construction + operation + commerce.”

As a national high-tech enterprise and Beijing enterprise technology center, the company always drives market development through technological innovation, continuously increasing R&D investment, and establishing an industry-leading technological innovation system. As a governing unit of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment’s National Engineering Research Center for Lake Water Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, the company deeply engages in industry-academia-research collaborative innovation. It has jointly established the “Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Protection and Restoration of the Ministry of Natural Resources” with the Third Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the “National Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology” with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Ecological Environment Research Center, promoting the efficient transformation and industrial application of cutting-edge technological achievements, successfully implementing several landmark projects.

Relying on national laboratory platforms, the company has led the development of three major industry standards: “Guidelines for Marine Island Ecological Restoration,” “Acceptance Guidelines for Marine Ecological Restoration Projects,” and “Technical Guidelines for Constructing Vibrant Coasts,” becoming an authoritative standard in marine ecological governance. It has hosted and participated in major national science and technology projects such as the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” key project “Water Environment Management and Ecological Restoration of the Upper Reach of the North Canal (2017ZX07102)” and led the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” national key R&D project “Key Technologies for Coastal Erosion Prevention and Construction of Vibrant Coasts—Model Construction and Demonstration Application (2022YFC3106105).”

In the field of intellectual property, the company has accumulated 19 invention patents, 88 utility model patents, and 47 software copyrights, forming a core technology matrix covering the entire chain of ecological protection and environmental management, and has established a comprehensive technological and product system in digital technology business.

In terms of performance, in the first three quarters of 2025, the company achieved operating revenue of 214 million yuan.