About Gelonghui

Gelonghui

Gelonghui, published at gelonghui.com, is a Shenzhen-based Chinese investment news and community platform founded in 2014, focused on Hong Kong and US-listed Chinese companies as well as A-shares. It publishes market news, company research and investor discussion for cross-border Chinese investors — the mainland readers who follow Chinese companies wherever they are listed, not only on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. The platform was established in November 2014 by a founding team whose members all had professional experience in investment, and it built its name with Hong Kong stock coverage, including a widely followed WeChat account devoted to Hong Kong shares. Alongside its community and news operation, Gelonghui runs a research arm that publishes analyst reports on listed companies, and a services business offering listed companies consultation, research, roadshow and investor relations support. Its research carries the tagline "Global Vision, China Focus", which summarises the editorial bet behind the whole platform: Chinese capital and Chinese companies are global, and the investor media serving them has to be global too.

Founding in Shenzhen in 2014

Gelonghui was established in November 2014, with its headquarters in Shenzhen, the Guangdong technology and finance city that sits directly across the border from Hong Kong. The location was a strategic choice for a platform about cross-border investing: Shenzhen is the mainland terminus of the Shenzhen–Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme and home to a large population of investors oriented toward the Hong Kong market. A sponsor profile published by the Hong Kong Investor Relations Association records that all of Gelonghui's founding team members were professionals with working experience in investment. That distinguishes its origins from both the journalist-founded platforms and the data-vendor portals in this directory: Gelonghui was built by investment practitioners for investors, and its early content — Hong Kong stock analysis written for mainland readers — reflected the professional interests of its founders.

Hong Kong and US-listed Chinese companies

The editorial heart of Gelonghui is the universe of Chinese companies listed outside the mainland exchanges, above all in Hong Kong and the United States, covered alongside A-shares. For mainland investors, these offshore listings include many of China's best-known technology and consumer companies, yet they sit outside the coverage routines of A-share-focused media. Gelonghui filled that gap with news, analysis and community discussion aimed specifically at the cross-border investor. The same Hong Kong Investor Relations Association profile describes how the platform's WeChat official account, devoted to Hong Kong stocks, published numerous original articles, some of which were reprinted by People's Daily in China and by Foreign Affairs magazine in the United States — an unusual pair of citations that indicates the reach its Hong Kong coverage achieved. Company databases summarise the business in similar terms, describing Gelonghui as a global investment research platform for Chinese investors.

News, research and the Gelonghui Research arm

Gelonghui operates three connected content businesses. The first is market news: real-time financial news and updates on economic events, corporate actions and market developments, covering both domestic and international markets. The second is community publishing, through its website and app, where investors discuss market trends and share investment ideas. The third is Gelonghui Research, a professional research operation that publishes analyst reports on public companies. Research reports issued under the Gelonghui Research name carry formal disclosures stating that it is a professional publisher of investment research reports on public companies, and that it is not a registered broker-dealer or investment adviser; its analysts cover sectors including technology, media and telecommunications, and Chinese companies listed in the United States and Hong Kong, drawing on buy-side and sell-side research backgrounds. This research arm gives the platform a professional product that a pure discussion community lacks, and it feeds the investor relations business described below.

Services for listed companies

From early in its life, Gelonghui sold services to the companies its readers invest in. The Hong Kong Investor Relations Association profile states that Gelonghui provides one-stop services to listed companies, including consultation, research, transaction, roadshow and investor relations services. That model — a media platform that also helps listed companies reach investors — is common among Chinese investor platforms, and it explains Gelonghui's presence as a sponsor and participant in Hong Kong investor relations industry events. The profile, written after three years of operation, described Gelonghui as one of the biggest and most authoritative overseas investment research social platforms in China. Such descriptions come from the company's own sponsor materials and should be read as positioning rather than independent measurement, but the underlying businesses they describe — research distribution, roadshows and investor relations for offshore-listed Chinese companies — are documented features of the platform's operation.

Audience and scale

The same sponsor profile, reflecting the position after three years of operation, said Gelonghui's audience covered more than 10 million high-net-worth individuals and over 10,000 co-operating institutional investors, and that its app, then online for 18 months, had been downloaded more than 8 million times, with at least 30,000 daily active users and 1.5 million monthly active users. Those figures date from the profile's period and are the company's own, so they are presented here as historical claims rather than current verified measurements. More recent evidence of the community's scale comes from its annual stock-selection exercise: coverage of the 2026 edition of Gelonghui's "Bet on China" Top 10 Core Assets list describes the vote as aggregating the choices of members across more than seventy countries, which indicates a readership that has become international in distribution even though its focus remains Chinese assets.

The "Bet on China" core assets exercise

Since the end of 2018, Gelonghui has organised an annual "Global Vision, Bet on China" core assets discussion and voting activity, in which its members select a Top 10 list of Chinese core assets for the year ahead. Coverage of the 2026 list records that the exercise had run for seven consecutive years, that the selections are produced by data-driven aggregation of member votes with no human intervention in the final list, and that candidate companies must meet principles set by the platform: they should represent China with the domestic market as their core foundation, represent the future direction of China's economy, hold leading competitive positions, and show a meaningful probability of market value growth. The exercise functions as both community ritual and editorial product — a yearly, crowd-sourced statement of which Chinese companies the platform's cross-border investor base considers the country's core assets — and it is one of the most distinctive recurring features in Chinese investor media.

Place among Chinese investor platforms

Gelonghui belongs to the second generation of Chinese investor platforms, the mobile-era services built after the portal generation of Hexun and Eastmoney and alongside the social model of Xueqiu. Its specialisation is the clearest in the group: where Xueqiu built a general investor community and Futu built a brokerage, Gelonghui built its identity around offshore-listed Chinese companies and the research and investor-relations services surrounding them. Its Shenzhen base, its Hong Kong-facing content and its research reports on US-listed Chinese firms make it a useful source for readers tracking the part of China's corporate sector that lists abroad. Directories such as CB Insights and Tracxn catalogue it, from its 2014 founding, as a Shenzhen investment platform, and its research is distributed internationally through financial platforms that carry its reports and its core-assets selections.

How to read and use Gelonghui

Gelonghui is published in Chinese at gelonghui.com and through its app, with market news, company research, community discussion and data services organised around Hong Kong, US and mainland-listed shares. Readers using it from outside China will find it most valuable for Chinese-language coverage of Hong Kong-listed and US-listed Chinese companies, for its analyst research reports, and as a gauge of mainland investor interest in offshore Chinese stocks through features such as the annual core assets vote. As with other investor platforms, readers should distinguish the platform's news reporting from community opinion and from research connected to its listed-company services, and should note the disclosures attached to its research reports. The official website is https://www.gelonghui.com, operated from Shenzhen, Guangdong, by the platform founded in November 2014.