Recently, H&J Vanguard Consulting Group (H&J Group) set up the first PE fund in Jiangsu Province, Suzhou Heda Fund. Located at Huaqiao Economic Development Zone, Kushan City, the fund plans to have a size of RMB500M and will focus on pre-IPO investments in China. The fund manager will adopt mature international market operation mode with more emphasis on unlisted growth-stage enterprises in such fields as hi-tech, biomedicine, advance manufacturing, energy conservation and environment protection.

H&J Group is the largest native management consulting group in China and has built up a team of nearly 1,000 consultants. H&J Capital is a PE investment arm under H&J Group and has been dedicated to pre-IPO, growth capital, buyout, industrial investments and holding. Suzhou Heda Fund created by H&J Capital will continue to follow the investment concept of H&J Group, i.e. "consulting+investment", and stress on equity investments in growth-stage enterprises which plan to get listed in 1-2 years.