About Sublime China Information

Sublime China Information

Sublime China Information Co., Ltd., known internationally as SCI and in Chinese as Longzhong Information (Zhuochuang Information), is one of China's largest commodity market information service institutions. Headquartered in Zibo, Shandong province, the company provides price assessment, market data monitoring and research analysis for bulk commodities, with a particular strength in energy commodities. Listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the code 301299, SCI serves producers, traders, government agencies and research institutions with real-time information, analytics, digital intelligence and consulting across the commodity economy.

Founding in Zibo

The company's history can be traced back to 2004, when Zibo Zhuochuang Information Ltd. was established in Zibo by Mr. Jiang, who funded the venture and recruited its first employees; Mr. Jiang was appointed a director in 2005 and became its founding figure. SCI's own group brochure dates the founding to May 2004 and records its founding principles as "Independent, Professional, Concentration" and its mission as "Our Information, Your Wealth". Zibo, a chemicals and industrial centre in Shandong, placed the young company close to the refining, petrochemical and plastics producers whose prices it set out to track — a practical advantage for a service built on direct contact with market participants.

Development into a national information group

From 2004 to 2017 the company completed several rounds of capital contributions and equity transfers, and in June 2017 it was converted into a joint stock limited company under the name Sublime China Information Co., Ltd. By the time of its 2015 English-language group brochure, SCI already described itself as China's largest and leading commodity information service institution, with hundreds of sub-websites covering nearly ten thousand products, tens of thousands of data collection points around the world and millions of registered customers. The brochure recorded three and a half million registered customers drawn from producers, traders, downstream users, research institutions, financial institutions and government departments, and noted that two hundred and seventy-nine Fortune 500 companies were subscribers to SCI. Those early figures, though dated, show the scale the business had reached well before its stock market listing.

Listing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange

SCI's A shares were listed on the ChiNext Board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in October 2022, under the stock code 301299. Filing documents record that the listing was completed on 19 October 2022 and that the company issued an aggregate of fifteen million A shares, representing twenty-five per cent of its total share capital immediately following the listing. Company profiles record about one thousand three hundred and seventy-one employees. In August 2026 the company refiled an application for a listing in Hong Kong, with Ping An Securities (Hong Kong) as sole sponsor, seeking a second listing venue alongside Shenzhen — a step that would give the Zibo-based information group a direct presence in Hong Kong's capital market.

Headquarters and branches

The company's head office is at No. 186 North Beijing Road, Zhangdian District, Zibo, Shandong. SCI has branches in Shanghai and Xiamen, and its earlier group materials also recorded a presence in Springfield, Missouri, in the United States, reflecting an ambition to serve international readers of Chinese commodity data. The branch structure supports its reporting model: analysts located near producing and trading centres collect prices and operating information locally, which is then standardised and published through the group's portals and data products.

Market position

According to industry data cited in its Hong Kong filing materials, SCI ranked first in the energy commodities segment of China's commodity information services industry by revenue in 2025, with a market share of approximately thirty-one point nine per cent, and second in the overall industry, with a market share of twelve point four per cent by 2025 revenue. Its operations covered twenty-five commodity industries, supported by more than one hundred and twenty thousand information sources globally. Revenue reported in the same materials rose from RMB 283.6 million in 2023 to RMB 294.4 million in 2024 and RMB 356.0 million in 2025. That position — leadership in energy information within a fragmented national market — is the commercial foundation of the business.

Information network and daily output

The scale of SCI's daily operation is set out in its filing documents. As of mid-2026 the company operated over nine hundred comprehensive and vertical industry research portals, covering approximately one thousand two hundred commodity types and publishing approximately ninety-five commodity industry indices. Its teams typically communicated with the market over seventeen thousand times and updated over thirty-five thousand market price-related data points daily. Data gathered from its information sources is organised through a self-developed data storage and classification framework into price data, supply-demand fundamental data, forecast data, index data and other categories. This industrial-scale collection process is what allows a regional-headquartered company to act as a national price reference across so many unrelated commodity markets.

Products and service lines

SCI's business segments comprise information services, digital intelligence services, consulting services and exhibition services. Its information services are subscription-based, centred on market data monitoring, price assessment and market research analysis across energy commodities, basic raw materials and agricultural and sideline products. Company profiles summarise the offer as real-time information, analytics products, digital intelligence and consulting across energy, chemicals, plastics, steel, non-ferrous metals, agriculture and other industries. The exhibition and conference side of the business brings its subscriber community together at industry events, while consulting engagements apply its price and fundamental databases to individual client questions — the same four-part model of news and prices, data, advice and events used by leading commodity information groups worldwide.

Government and institutional cooperation

A distinctive feature of SCI's history is its formal cooperation with Chinese state bodies. Its group brochure records that the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Bureau of Statistics signed cooperation agreements with SCI to develop index products and publish data reports. For a price-reporting business, such arrangements signal that its indices and surveys are used not only commercially but also as inputs to official monitoring of commodity markets. Its client base has always reflected that dual role, spanning producers and traders on one side and government agencies and scientific research institutions on the other.

Coverage and role in China's commodity markets

SCI's coverage spans the bulk commodity economy: energy first and foremost, together with chemicals, plastics, steel, non-ferrous metals, agriculture and other sectors detailed in its industry portals. In a market where transparent spot prices were historically difficult to obtain, services such as SCI became part of the trading infrastructure, supplying the assessments against which physical cargoes are negotiated and the fundamental data used to judge supply and demand. Headquartered away from China's financial centres yet listed in Shenzhen and seeking a Hong Kong listing, Sublime China Information illustrates how the country's commodity information industry grew out of the producing regions themselves — collecting prices where commodities are made and traded, and selling that intelligence nationally and, increasingly, internationally.

International presence and outlook

SCI's international-facing service is presented through its English-language site at intl.sci99.com, through which overseas subscribers access its Chinese commodity prices and analysis in translation. The Springfield, Missouri presence recorded in its earlier group materials, and the Hong Kong listing application filed in 2026 with Ping An Securities (Hong Kong) as sole sponsor, both point in the same direction: a company whose data originates in China's producing regions but whose customers and investors are increasingly international. Its filing materials describe a business that already draws on more than one hundred and twenty thousand information sources globally, far beyond its Shandong base. The same materials record the 2025 acquisition of Wuxi Chulei as a step that comprehensively upgraded the business. For readers of this directory, SCI is significant less for any single product than for what it represents: the professionalisation and stock-market listing of China's commodity price-reporting industry, in which a firm founded in Zibo in 2004 could, within two decades, lead the national energy information market by revenue, employ well over a thousand people, update tens of thousands of price points a day and seek listings in both Shenzhen and Hong Kong.