The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Shanghai. It was later listed on the main boards of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on August 18, 2009 and August 18, 2016, respectively. It has witnessed the development, innovation, reform and opening up of China's capital market from scratch. The company gave full play to the synergy and brand advantages of Everbright Group, firmly established the development idea of “focusing on the development of the main business, adhering to steady development, promoting balanced development, strengthening collaborative development, and achieving safe development”, and followed the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics. The company's main business segments include wealth management business clusters, corporate financing business clusters, institutional client business clusters, investment trading business clusters, asset management business clusters, and equity investment business clusters. Corporate honors: Top 500 Asian Brands (Asiabrand), China Brand 500 (China Brand Value Research Institute), Global Top 500 Best Employers (Forbes Magazine), Shanghai's Top 100 Foreign-Invested Enterprise Taxpayers of the Year (Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and Shanghai Foreign Investment Association), etc.; in 2022, the company won the “Regional Service Featured Underwriter” of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, China Securities Corporation's “Outstanding Local Debt Non-Bank Underwriting Institution”, China Securities Corporation Golden Bull Award “Jinniu Investment Bank Team”, the 5th New Wealth Investment Advisory Organization Outstanding Award With awards such as the Daily Economic News Best Rural Revitalization Award, brand awareness and social influence continue to grow. By the end of the reporting period, 211 securities sales departments of the company had actually carried out securities brokerage business. The company has a total of 1,255 domestic securities brokers, all of whom have completed information registration with the China Securities Association. Foreign currency financing from all overseas subsidiaries is used exclusively for investment in the local market to achieve natural hedging of exchange rate risks.