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 Knowledge, and Perfect Lingo.

Between 2011 and 2024, Perfect World has been voted as one of the China Top 30 Cultural Enterprises thirteen times. The company was named as one of the 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2019-2020 and 2023-2024 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. 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 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 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 (three 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 2024, Perfect World will host the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024. All of these events promote the development of the esports industry and enhance the position of the Chinese esports industry globally.

Perfect World has launched new leagues for DOTA 2 and CS since 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 DOTA 2 league authorized by VALVE in the world, and the DPC points of the teams will directly affect their chances of securing a direct invite to the subsequent event of The Internationals (TIs). Perfect World hosts and operates the China DPC League, and the professional CS leagues like PAL and PPL held by Perfect World offer direct invites to the world’s top CS MAJOR championships.

Hosted by Perfect World, College League and City Challenge are prominent for domestic college students and gamers of DOTA 2 and CS. 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 ecosystem for college e-sports events.

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 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 46 cinemas spread across over 60 cities in 20 provinces and municipalities throughout the Chinese mainland. Additionally, Perfect World also holds the stakes of 154 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 in its category since its launch in October 2018 and has been shown on over 100 Chinese TV channels including CCTV Children’s Channel and CCTV General Channel. Cosmicrew II also achieved high TV ratings upon its launch in September 2019. During its airing on BTV Kaku Kids Channel, its ratings consecutively ranked first in prime time. Cosmicrew III was telecasted on September 30, 2020. The show was selected as Outstanding Domestic Animated Program in 2018 as well as Outstanding Animated Program 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 Rating 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: The Mighty T-Rex Season One premiered across all new media platforms on July 22, 2022, and was released online on October 24, 2022. Within one week of its release, the viewership broke ten million. Cosmicrew: The Super Dinosaurs was released online on September 28, 2023, and consistently ranked among the top in viewership as always.

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 the 2021 Golden Wings Awards. The production of Perfect World Animation’s first animated film Cosmicrew: Storm Force was screened at Perfect World Cinemas on April 15 and 16, 2023, followed by a nationwide release on April 29, 2023. In addition, it was released on March 21, 2024 in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region. The animated series Cosmicrew has been launched on new media platforms in North America, the Asia Pacific region, and other overseas countries.

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 dedicated to bridging the gap between talent and industry. By offering a comprehensive learning system that guides content creators through their growth journey and a matching mechanism that connects them with real projects. Additionally, we provide services for enterprises to outsource digital content creators or sub-contract projects. Our goal is to meet the digital content needs of various enterprises during their digital upgrading, empowering digital content creators to become the builders of a better world.

Perfect World Education is comprised of a lifelong education platform, a business incubation platform, and a 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 728 higher education institutes both in China and overseas as of the end of 2023, 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, three independent and distinctive training bases have been established in Beijing, Chengdu and Deqing, offering a total of more than 200 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 standardization 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 creativity.

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 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 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 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.”