On February 25, 2022, National Silicon Industry Group Co., Ltd. (NSIG) announced the completion of its first directional private placement since its listing, raising a total of approximately 5 billion yuan at 20.83 yuan per share. Shanghai SITICO Assets Management Co., Ltd. (SAM) was allocated 10.0816 million shares, contributing a total of approximately 210 million yuan. The capital was raised to ramp up the production of NSIG's 12in silicon wafers from 300,000 pieces per month to 600,000 pieces per month, thereby improving the production technology and scale of China's large silicon wafers, and consolidating the development foundation of China's semiconductor industry.

NSIG (688126.SH) was founded in December 2015, and listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in April 2020. Funded by China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund and other investment institutions, it is one of mainland China's largest semiconductor silicon wafer manufacturers mainly engaged in the R&D, production and sales of semiconductor silicon wafers. As mainland China's first enterprise to sell 300m semiconductor silicon wafers in large volume, it has filled a gap of China in the localization of 300mm semiconductor silicon wafers, and advanced the independent and controllable development of China' production technologies of key semiconductors materials.

In recent years, SAM has focused on the overall development goal set in Shanghai's "Fourteenth Five-Year" Plan, followed the strategy of its controlling shareholder--Shanghai International Group (SIG), and increased systematic investment in integrated circuit, one of Shanghai's three leading industries. Aiming at a "bottleneck" field restricting the innovative development of China, the investment is of great significance to addressing problems concerning the R&D, manufacturing and production capacity of China's high-end large silicon wafers. Meanwhile, SAM will implement SIG's plan, support Shanghai in developing "five new cities", and align its practice with the development of Nanhui New City and Jiading New City. Through promoting the directional private placement of NSIG and deepening strategic cooperation with it, SAM will fully leverage its demonstrative effect, strengthen cooperation and exchange with Nanhui New City, form a strategic synergy in more key fields and major projects, and contribute power to the development of Nanhui New City.