09 Education Industry Venture Investment Market scale shrink into new growth period

Beijing Time December 21 News, in the experience of overheating investment, the 2009 Chinese education Industry venture capital market appears very deserted.　　According to the latest data report statistics, as of November 2009, the domestic education industry has a total of 8 investment cases, the investment amount of 644 million U.S. dollars, the scale is significantly reduced. Compared with 2008, the education industry disclosed 33 investment cases, involving an amount of $4.229 billion.　　From November 2008 to November 2009, the market activity of China's education industry showed a gradual decline. The analysis reports that China's education industry after a 2006-2008-year IPO active period, into another round of long-term. Some educational enterprises with IPO potential are still growing up.　　In this regard, the industry believes that the education of this traditional industry in 10 years to mature, enterprises want to be big and long must have innovative technology or innovative business model. Last week, however, some education and training institutions faced a crisis of confidence after the "overnight evaporation" of private education and training institutions such as Kane English.　　Thus, even with the "risk-resistant, anti-cycle" education industry also exposed a certain degree of investment risk. Huawei International (CID) general manager Lowen in the media interview that education investment opportunities are generally distributed in the field of non-academic education, simply to avoid the risk of focusing on the education of such a rigid demand of the industry, of course, there will be investment overheating phenomenon, vicious competition is inevitable.