Listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in February 1997, SOCAM Development Limited (SOCAM, HKSE Stock Code: 983), a member of the renowned Shui On Group, is principally engaged in specialised property development in the Mainland.

With unparallel strengths in special situation projects and knowledge communities in the Chinese Mainland, we capitalise on our solid foundation in cement and construction sectors established over the years and is transforming into a property developer with unrivalled strengths in strategic partnership, financial restructuring, acquisitions construction, project management as well as sales and marketing.

Over the years, we have turned around numerous high quality properties in special situations. Some typical examples are, just to name a few, 21st Century Tower in Shanghai, Centrium Residence in Beijing as well as Central Point in Chengdu.

In 2011, the company successfully established a private equity vehicle "SoTan" to partner with the world's leading institutional investors to invest in China's special situation property market. With our vision on business development supported by foresighted financing arrangement, we are moving into an advantageous position which enables us to capture every opportunity opens to us.

While we are extending our reach in the Chinese property market, we have stepped up our effort to set the trend and contribute to the creation of a large-scale, multi-faceted knowledge communities focusing on the global software and outsourcing industries to provide a total "work-live-learn-play" environment. Dalian Tiandi, our leading knowledge community with a total gross floor area of 3.3 million square metres, set a model for us on which we can be inspired to introduce potential projects of similar kinds in other key cities in China.

SOCAM started investing in the cement business in the Chinese Mainland in 1994. In November 2005, SOCAM and Lafarge, the world leader in building materials, merged their cement operations in China to form Lafarge Shui On Cement Ltd, 55% owned by Lafarge and 45% owned by SOCAM which represents the company's presence in Southwest China.

Our accredited and award-winning construction business marked the origin of SOCAM. With its high level of competence in construction, design-and-build, interior fitting-out, renovation, heritage restoration and maintenance of public housing and institutional buildings in Hong Kong, Macau and the Chinese Mainland, the construction division has become a cornerstone on which SOCAM's property development operations will build future prosperity.