About 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, animation, education, All History, Perfect Lingo.
Between 2011 and 2022, Perfect World has been voted as one of the China Top 30 Cultural Enterprises eleven times. The company was named as one of the 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, and 2019-2020 Annual Key Enterprises for Cultural Exports. 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.
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 Flying Goddess Award, the Magnolia Award, the Best Works Award, the Tripod Award, the Golden Angel Award for Chinese American Film Festival Outstanding Chinese TV Series, the Huabiao Film Awards, 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 the 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 the Latin America.
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 been striving to provide players great entertainment experience in the arena of e-sports.
As the exclusive carrier of well-known e-sports products such as DOTA2 and CS:GO in Chinese mainland, since 2015, Perfect World has successfully hosted large international e-sports events, including the CS:GO Asia Championships, the DOTA2 Asia Championships (three times) and the DOTA2 SuperMajor.
Perfect World also assisted VALVE in hosting the 2019 International DOTA2 Championships, the world's most watched e-sports event, providing the firm a leading role in enhancing the Chinese e-sports sector’s positioning and level of influence when it comes to major international events.
In November 2021, the Hangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee (HAGOC) announced that DOTA2 will be an official event at the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou 2022.
In September 2022, on the occasion of its fifth anniversary of operating CS:GO in the Chinese mainland, Perfect World E-sports launched CS:GO's first Chinese music kit "Hua Lian" (Painted Face), conveying the beauty of Qinqiang Opera, a treasure of China’s intangible cultural heritage, to global users.
Perfect World launched new leagues for DOTA2 and CS:GO in 2020. Through stable and professional leagues, the company has created a better gaming environment for professional teams and players of the two games.
The DOTA Pro Circuit (DPC) is the only official DOTA2 league authorized by Valve in the world, and the DPC points of the teams will directly affect their chances to secure a direct invite to the subsequent event of The Internationals (TIs). Perfect World hosts and operates the China DPC League, and the professional CS:GO leagues like PAL and PPL held by the Perfect World offer direct invites to the world’s top CS:GO MAJOR championships. The leagues offer dazzling stages for Chinese teams to compete for entries into international championships.
Hosted by Perfect World, College League and City Challenge are prominent for domestic college students and gamers of DOTA2 and CS:GO. Since 2018, the College League and City Challenge have been held in more than 20 major cities in China every year during spring and autumn. Meanwhile, campus commentary incubation and the recruitment platform for e-sports college leagues also help build a more complete college e-sports system.
Since June 2018, Perfect World and Valve have been working on Steam China, which had been launched in 2021, aiming at providing 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 the management of single cinema and cinema chains, including cinema chain distribution, and cinema development, investment, construction, and screening, as well as surrounding business such as commodity retailing and advertising publication.
Perfect World currently owns and operates 44 cinemas spread across over 60 cities in 20 provinces and municipalities throughout the Chinese mainland. Additionally, Perfect World also holds the stakes of 152 cinemas.
Animation
Perfect World Animation is an animation company under Perfect World Group. Founded in 2015, it is engaged in the core businesses of animation development, production, distribution, merchandising and licensing, etc.
The animated series Cosmicrew I, the company’s three-year undertaking, has become the most viewed of its category since its launch in October 2018 and has shown on over 100 Chinese TV channels including CCTV Children’s Channel and CCTV General Channel.
Cosmicrew III was telecasted on September 30, 2020. The show was selected as Outstanding Domestic Animated Programs in 2018 as well as Outstanding Animated Programs Donated to Minority Areas in 2019 by the China National Radio and Television Administration. In 2020, it was listed as one of the excellent TV shows amid a public welfare campaign launched by the China National Radio and Television Administration to rally public morale in the battle against the Covid-19 epidemic.
The first two seasons of Cosmicrew were shortlisted for the 2020 Golden Monkey King Awards. Cosmicrew III was aired on BTV Kaku Kids Channel on January 25, 2021, with first-day ratings as high as 1.21%, and was awarded the outstanding animation by the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau.
Cosmicrew: Steel Armored T-Rex, the fourth season, has been aired prime-time on more than 200 channels and available on all major online platforms since September 6, 2021, ranking No. 1 on the TV Ratings Chart for all kids channels multiple times and also ranking No.1 on the All Platform View Index Day Chart in the first week of its launch. Cosmicrew: Steel Armored T-Rex also gained sponsorship from the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau in filming and publicity.
Cosmicrew Season 5 gained more than 10 million views within a week of its premiere on July 22, 2022, and on its first airing on the Golden Eagle cartoon channel, Cosmicrew Season 5 ranked the top on both audience rating and audience attention.
After the premiere of Cosmicrew Season 6 on October 31, it attracted waves of audiences to the video platforms and ranked top on the Mongo TV’s weekly list. The Cosmicrew series was granted the title of Most Valuable IP in the 2021 Gold Wing Awards with more than 6 billion views across online video platforms, and Cosmicrew: Steel Armored T-Rex won the title of Most Popular Animation in 2021 Golden Wings Awards.
The production of Perfect World Animation’s first animated film Cosmicrew: Storm Force has been completed and will soon be aired nationwide.
Education
Perfect World Education (lifelong education and business incubation & services)
Perfect World Education & Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Perfect World Education”) is a segment Perfect World Holding Group (hereinafter referred to as “the Group”) focusing on the cultivation of young talents. Adhering to the Group’s globalization strategy, Perfect World Education has been devoting to reconstruction education via resources of the industry, creating a better platform for innovative talents, and promoting the development of China’s digital entertainment industry under an open and sustainable ecology of the grand culture industry.
Perfect World Education is comprised of lifelong education platform, business incubation platform, and practice platform, providing holistic solutions for individuals, universities, enterprises, governments, and public institutions in the digital culture and entertainment industrial chain, along with individualized needs in the vertical domain.
Lifelong education platform includes production-education integration and vocational development education, providing its trainees and partnering institutes with a whole-set education plan featuring lifelong growth and professional curricula via integrating posts, curricula, competitions, certificates, and industries based on the “one-body, two-wing” pattern in which “education empowers industry and industry feeds education.”
Established partnerships with more than 620 higher education institutes both in China and overseas as of the end of 2022, Perfect World Education has assisted these institutes in training some 1,000 dual-certificate teachers annually with its 1+X certificates program of game art design and e-sports event management that had more than 10,000 examinees every year.
In addition, two independent and distinctive training bases have been established in Beijing and Chengduo, offering a total of 122 courses in game art design, game design, and esports. Particularly, our ten post-oriented classes develop more than 2,000 highly-skilled personnel and supply versatile talents featuring standarization and creativity to the digital cultural and creative industries every year.
Business incubation platform aims at breaking the barrier between talents and the industry and accumulating high-quality IPs. High-productivity platforms such as Perfect World Cultural & Creative and Yuweiwen have been incubated successfully. The practice platform integrates talents and IPs of the other two platforms to provide talents with practice chances and a cross-sector vision and empower the industrial chain of digital culture and creative.
In addition, based on years of practical achievements in cultural and creative sectors such as games, pictures, and IP operation, Perfect World Education has explored and summarized the concept of "Creative Thinking," and has joined hands with partners to empower the transformation & upgrading of traditional industries such as museums, tourism, science popularization, and transportation, to realize the development of these industries in a creative manner.
All History (Historical knowledge platform)
All History 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 order to efficiently impart knowledge, All History 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 Lingo App
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. “English in Motion” is a curriculum development program based on the concept of “cultivating English thinking.”
In contrast with Chinese people’s traditional foreign language learning method of rote memorization, the program will render the learned English really “in motion” to be used by learners with the teaching goal of “drawing inferences.”