Perfect World Holding Group

Perfect World Holding Group is a global leading entertainment industry group with Perfect World Co., Ltd. (002624) as its listed arm. The group has introduced its products into over 100 countries and regions around the world, with a principal focus on the countries and regions in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company has established dozens of offices in its home market, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Hainan Province, Wuhan, and Hangzhou, as well as some overseas offices in Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. Perfect World Holding Group is now involved in business segments including movies & TV, games, e-sports, cinemas, culture, All Knowledge, Perfect Marriage, and Perfect Lingo.

Between 2011 and 2024, Perfect World has been voted as one of the China Top 30 Cultural Enterprises thirteen times and was named as one of the Annual Key Enterprises for Cultural Exports multiple times. In 2016 and 2020, Perfect World was twice awarded the Most Socially Responsible Listed Company respectively, while in 2017, the company was honored as one of the most respected Chinese enterprises of 2016-2017. In 2018, the company won the title of Enterprise Model of China’s Social Responsibility for Games. In 2019, Perfect World won the award of Excellent Enterprise of Achieving Employee Happiness 2019, and was ranked among the fourth batch of "National Culture and Technology Integration Demonstration Bases" in 2021. In 2024, it has been listed as a cultural industry demonstration base at national level.

Movies & TV

The business segments of Perfect World Pictures (PWPIC) include production, artist management, game and movie integration, international businesses, business derivatives, alongside investment and M&As. Perfect World Pictures reaped outstanding results with its popular TV series which took more than 10% of the prime-time slots in China. Its films and TV series have won many important awards both in and outside of China, including the Best Works Award, the Flying Goddess Award, the China TV Golden Eagle Award, the Magnolia Award, the Huabiao Film Award, the Hundred Flowers Award, the Golden Horse Award, and the Academy Award, among others. In July 2014, DVDs of the movies and TV series Beijing Youth, To Elderly with Love and Love Is Not Blind produced by Perfect World Pictures were offered by Chinese President Xi Jinping as national gifts to the then-national leader of Brazil and Argentina during his visit to Latin America.

In addition, PWPIC forged a strategic partnership with Universal Pictures in 2016. Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread, two films that Perfect World co-produced with the famous Hollywood studio, were nominated at the 90th Academy Awards. Darkest Hour won awards for Best Actor and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, while Phantom Thread won Best Costume Design. At the 91st Academy Awards, BlacKkKlansman took home the award for Best Adapted Screenplay while First Man garnered Best Visual Effects.

Games

Perfect World Games was the first Chinese gaming company to pioneer the independent development of 3D game engines. As a global game developer, distributor and operator, its products cover PC games, mobile games, console games, VR games and cloud games. Perfect World Games’ products have been distributed to more than 100 countries and regions, introducing global users to excellent Internet culture and contributing to the global popularity of Chinese culture.

E-sports

Perfect World has always strived to provide players with a great entertainment experience in the arena of e-sports. As the exclusive carrier of well-known e-sports products such as Defense of the Ancients 2 (DOTA 2) and Counterstrike: Global Offensive (CS) in the Chinese mainland, since 2015, Perfect World has successfully hosted large international e-sports events, including the CS Asia Championships (three times), the DOTA 2 Asia Championships (four times) and the DOTA 2 SuperMajor. Perfect World also assisted VALVE in hosting the 2019 International DOTA 2 Championships, the world's most-watched e-sports event. In November 2021, DOTA 2 was included in the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou as an official event. In the Hangzhou Asian Games 2023 DOTA 2 finals, the Chinese national team concluded the event by winning the gold medal for the Chinese e-sports delegation in October 2023. In December 2024, Perfect World hosted the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024, marking the first time the tournament was held in Asia. In 2026, the premier DOTA 2 tournaments The International (TI) 2026 will return to Shanghai. Through the global influence of such major events, it will promote the development of the esports industry and enhance the position of the Chinese esports industry globally.

Perfect World has launched new leagues for CS since 2020. Through stable and professional leagues, the company has created a better gaming environment for professional teams and players of the game.

The Perfect World National League (PNL), organized by Perfect World, is a premier national esports competition aimed at university students and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) enthusiasts across China. Since 2021, it has been held annually in two seasons, Spring and Autumn, covering over 50 cities and more than 100 universities nationwide. Additionally, initiatives such as university esports clubs and campus caster training programs contribute to building a more robust collegiate esports ecosystem for CS:GO and DOTA.

Since June 2018, Perfect World and VALVE have been working on Steam China, which was launched in 2021, aiming at providing Chinese players and game developers with more high-quality content and superior experience and services, so as to spur Chinese gaming enterprises, especially medium and small-sized to go overseas.

Cinemas

In October 2016, Perfect World Cinemas Management Co., Ltd. was established, with the primary aim of engaging in cinema chain and theater operations, including film distribution, theater development, investment, construction, film screening, as well as derivative services such as merchandise sales and advertising. To date, Perfect World Cinema Chain has expanded to over 30 cities across more than 20 provinces in China, operating 160 theaters with 983 screens. Among these,59 are self-operated theaters with 412 screens.

Culture

Perfect World Culture and Technology Co., Ltd. (Perfect World Culture), as an active explorer in emerging fields of the cultural industry under Perfect World Holding Group, focuses on areas such as talent development, industrial parks and cultural innovation collaborations. The company is committed to cultivating talent with a digital culture mindset and contributing to the sustainable development of the industry.

The education division is committed to bridging the values of talent and industry and enabling professionals in digital content to become creators of a better world. Leveraging industry resources, it offers industry-standard courses, practical opportunities, contests and certification programs, and dual-instructor training and industry project practices, and provides learners and partner institutions with an integrated "Position-Course-Competition-Certification-Industry" solution for lifelong growth and professional education. This approach continuously nurtures skilled talent for the digital content industry, injecting fresh energy into the sector and consistently inspiring its vitality and creativity..

The industrial park division focuses on innovation to create dynamic spaces for industries, businesses, and new cultural tourism. It fosters ecosystem development, scenario innovation, and drives the growth of industrial ecosystems.

The cultural and creative division emphasizes digital creativity, utilizing digital technology to explore cultural depth, revitalize traditional culture dissemination, empower brand IPs, and promote the integration of culture and the digital economy, catering to the cultural consumption needs of Generation Z.

From talent development to industry incubation and implementation, Perfect World Culture build up its presence across the entire industrial chain, injecting fresh vitality into diverse sectors with a digital culture mindset to drive sustained growth.

All Knowledge (Knowledge platform)

All Knowledge is a well-known App on professional humanities and social science in China. It is committed to presenting efficient, systematic and contextual knowledge to users and creating an authoritative and comprehensive content community platform.

With a unique knowledge context as the main line and the time and space coordinates as the index, it integrates and displays the brief histories of the universe, the world, dynasties, science and technology, art, music, philosophy, war, and other sub-fields such as knowledge of psychology, historic sites, ancient books. Through over 300,000 celebrity genealogies, over 20,000,000 pieces of historical knowledge, over 20,000,000 ancient books of music and paintings, and 5,000-year vector historical maps, users can have uninhibited surveys of global history and the diversity of human civilization here.

In 2022, All Knowledge unveiled its groundbreaking "Ability and Wealth Ladder" initiative. This ambitious endeavor aims to build the most comprehensive and invaluable repository of knowledge and experiences for humanity. It covers every stage of life, from campus to the workplace, encompassing all aspects from understanding to action. This all-in-one solution equips young individuals with the necessary tools to thrive and grow.

In March 2023, the All Knowledge app introduced the Panorama Chinese History Ladder, further expanding its offerings. It takes on a chronological framework and provides a comprehensive solution for learning history through thematic interpretations. By delving deep into the context and laws of history, it offers valuable insights that guide us in understanding the present and shaping the future.

In September 2023, the upgraded version of the Elite Teen Ladder was launched, featuring the innovative “Happle!” learning system, curated content from 12 major subjects, and a scientific “Study, Test, Memorize, Question” four-step cycle, empowering children to broaden their horizons and become elite teens.

In November 2023, Literature and History Ladder was launched, created by an elite team of renowned professors from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University. Embracing the philosophy of "Integrating Literature and History, Mastering Thousands of Texts," this program aids students in amassing a vast array of classic literary materials. By expanding their knowledge from classic works, students can develop advanced reading and writing techniques, fostering their ability to transform learning inputs into productive outputs.

In September 2024, the Critical Thinking on Journalism course was launched, aimed at helping users develop critical thinking skills in the age of information overload. The course empowers users to analyze information with wisdom and a critical perspective, enabling them to make more informed decisions.

In order to efficiently impart knowledge, All Knowledge has created space-time columns, historical chronology, time-space maps, law collection relational maps, 3D museums, knowledge trees and other popular sections, thus digitizing, correlating and visualizing the knowledge tree.

Perfect Marriage

“Perfect Marriage” was established in 2020. It is a comprehensive and serious marriage service platform. It introduced the 'parents helping children find a spouse' model, now serving parents nationwide. Its mission is to help parents get their children married, which addresses the problem of marriage and relationships among the country's unmarried young adults of marriageable age. As a deputy director unit certified by the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs, “Perfect Marriage” has established partnerships with Jiangsu TV, Tsinghua University, and other institutions. It was honored with the 2024 'Most Socially Responsible Enterprise Award' in the industry. There are currently over 10 million registered users in the country, and the platform has helped thousands of families find compatible partners, receiving praise from parents and notice from all facets of society.

After parents register and log into the platform, they can view the dating profiles of the children of the other party in the platform's "matchmaking square" and contact the other parents. It is analogous to relocating a park's "matchmaking corner" online, transcending temporal, spatial, and social boundaries. Children are assisted in defining their preferences for partners and finding suitable matches by a team of professionals who have, on average, more than ten years of experience in the matchmaking sector. In addition, they offer other services like parent-child relationship counseling, dating advice, and relationship counseling. Combining online and offline services, offline public matchmaking events have occurred in over 20 locations, including Beijing and Shanghai.

Perfect Lingo App

“Perfect Lingo App” was developed by the Perfect World Language Education Project, the first “cognitive English learning” project team under Perfect World Holding Group. Since the project's beginning, the team has assembled a team of senior North American teachers who have worked in China for decades and have a thorough understanding of Chinese learners, along with seasoned English education specialists from prominent universities in China and abroad, such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Cambridge University, and Boston University. Together, they have developed two English learning products tailored to different scenarios: “Vocabulary King” (video-based vocabulary learning) and “Perfect English” (course-based learning).

Perfect Lingo App, China’s first vocabulary learning software featuring native English-speaking teachers and North American real-life scenes, aims to crack the problems in “remembering, speaking, using and listening” for users from the thinking perspective.

In accord with the theory of “meaning, form, and use” advocated by Cambridge University, more than 100 Hollywood actors and actresses were invited to perform in real-life scenes with North American landmarks to provide an immersive vocabulary learning environment.

It’s a vocabulary learning APP that integrates intelligent vocabulary memorization, oral English practice, and foreign journal reading.

“Perfect English App” is a course development project based on “cultivating English thinking.” It provides a range of courses, such as phonics, real foreign teacher-led speaking classes, New Concept English, and more. Additionally, it facilitates AI-driven speaking practice, mock tests, and Cambridge KET/PET preparation. The program, created by several well-known educators, combines AI interaction, dialogues with foreign educators, and animated cartoons to make studying enjoyable and interesting. This aids users in rapidly enhancing their performance and fluency in English.