Recently, Jiushi Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. in the China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone Qingdao Area ("SDPFTZ Qingdao Area" for short) completed the registration of its capital increase, raising its registered capital from RMB 1.35 billion to RMB 2.1 billion. It is the first financial leasing company in the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area to surpass RMB 2 billion in registered capital, securing its position among the province's top five financial leasing companies. The capital boost not only strengthens the company's development resilience and service capacity but also significantly enhances the clustering effect and influence of the financial leasing sector in both the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area and the entire city.

In recent years, the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area has actively cooperated with the Qingdao Local Financial Regulatory Administration to promote a thorough cleanup, regulation, and structural optimization of the financial leasing industry. Through the strategy of prioritizing quality over quantity, the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area continues to guide resources toward high-quality and distinctive institutions. This strategy has strongly supported the high-quality development of the real economy and the advancement of the city's major projects.

The SDPFTZ Qingdao Area safeguards its risk bottom line and actively supports the city's cleanup and regulation actions by clearing out companies that have lost contact or become a mere shell and rectifying non-compliant practices. For this purpose, it has established a cross-department coordination mechanism. In the first half of 2025, through strengthened monthly scheduling and quarterly notification mechanisms, as well as one-on-one targeted interventions, the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area promoted the orderly withdrawal of enterprises with abnormal operations from the market. To date, the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area has achieved the market exit of a total of 137 companies, effectively purifying the industry ecosystem and contributing to a steadily stabilizing market order.

To empower the real economy, the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area has put five financial leasing companies, including several key institutions, under regulatory supervision, accounting for 20% of the city's total count. Since 2024, both Jiusi Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. and Qingdao Port International Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. have successively increased their capital, bolstering the industry's overall financial strength, and the total assets of financial leasing in the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area are nearly RMB 20 billion, further enhancing the industry's capacity to serve the real economy. At the same time, the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area remains committed to returning to the essence of leasing, encouraging institutions to focus on emerging fields such as green infrastructure, the marine economy, healthcare, computing power infrastructure, and specialized, sophisticated technologies. For example, Jiushi Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. has provided key shield equipment support for the construction of the Jiaozhou Bay Second Tunnel through direct leasing and operational leasing arrangements, setting an exemplary model of integrating production and financing to serve key urban projects.

Looking ahead, the SDPFTZ Qingdao Area will continue to foster the optimization, strengthening, and compliant development of financial leasing companies, further stimulate their advantages in financing and gathering tangible assets to better serve the real economy and shape a new development pattern, and inject more financial momentum into Qingdao's high-quality development.