HONG KONG, August 31, 2026 – (ACN Newswire) – Shanghai Gench Education Group Limited (“Gench Educationor the”Businesstogether with its subsidiaries, the”GroupStock Code:1525. HK— the leading greater employment education group in East China and the biggest greater employment education group in Shanghai, happily revealed the unaudited combined interim outcomes for the 6 months ended 30 June, 2026 (the”Reporting Period).
Throughout the Reporting Period, the Group taped profits of roughly RMB569 million, representing a boost of 6.6% year-on-year (“YoY”). Gross revenue was RMB354 million, up 11.7% YoY; Profit for the year was RMB179 million, a YoY increase of 10.2%. Fundamental and diluted profits per share attributable to regular equity holders of the moms and dad were RMB0.45, compared to RMB0.41 in the exact same duration in 2015. The development in efficiency was mainly attributable to the increase in typical tuition costs, boarding charges per trainee, and earnings from education-related services throughout the Reporting Period. The Board has actually solved the payment of an interim dividend of HKD$ 0.04 per normal share for the 6 months ended 30 June 2026, preserving a steady dividend policy.
Policy Dividends Continued to Be Released, Lingang’s Location Advantages Solidified Growth Foundation
As the biggest personal university in Shanghai, Shanghai Jian Qiao University (the “University”) has actually completely taken advantage of double assistance from nationwide professional education policy and Lingang unique location policy. In February 2025, the Management Committee of Lingang New Area released “the Action Plan for High-Quality Development of Industry-Education Integration in Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (2025-2027)”, clearly supporting the University in constructing itself into an industry-education combination university. In December 2025, “Shanghai Lingang Science and Technology Innovation City Construction Plan” was introduced, motivating universities to take part in local innovation advancement and bringing the Group chances in regards to policy assistance and resources.
At the nationwide level, in February 2026, the Ministry of Education released the “Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Deepening the Reform of Key Elements in Vocational Education and Teaching”, which concentrates on the crucial links of industry-education combination. In June 2026, the State Council released the “Education Development Plan for the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan Period” (the “Plan”), which proposes introducing the “Dual Excellence” building of top-level application-oriented undergraduate universities, and leading and driving universities to concentrate on cultivating unique disciplinary specialized clusters around essential commercial chains. Driven by these several policies, the University has actually leveraged its area in Lingang’s emerging market pile to change its geographical benefits into institutional competitiveness. Since 31 August 2025, 77.5% of the University’s 2025 graduates were used in the Yangtze River Delta area and 59.2% in Shanghai, which completely showed the University’s efficient combination into the local advancement community through its instructional results.
Teaching Quality Has Been Steadily Enhanced, While Digital and Intelligent Transformation Has Been Vigorously Advanced
The University stays dedicated to teaching quality as its core top priority, with continuous efforts to reinforce professors capability structure, curriculum advancement and wise school building. In regards to professors, since 30 September 2025, amongst the full-time instructors, the master degree or greater represented 86.4%, the postgraduate degree represented 28.8%, the senior title represented 38.6%, and the double-position represented 47.8%. Grounded in its placing as an application-oriented technological university, the University intensely promotes expert instructors to practice in business, arranges thematic workshops on market education combination, and boosts instructors’ awareness and proficiency in industry-education combination.
In regards to program and curriculum advancement, in the 2026/27 academic year, the University has actually presented 2 undergraduate majors, specifically the Artificial Intelligence and the Electronic Packaging Technology, carefully lining up with the needs of essential markets such as incorporated circuits and expert system. The University concentrates on courses connotative building and construction, constructs “school level– city level– nationwide level” 3-level courses developing system, and boosts useful mentor and quality mentor. In 2025, 12 courses were picked as Shanghai initially class undergraduate courses – the variety of authorized courses revealed a YoY boost of 50%, reaching a historical brand-new high. 26 courses were authorized as Shanghai greater education community level crucial courses – the number of authorized courses ranked the 7th location amongst greater education organizations in Shanghai, and hence ended up being the only personal university in the leading 10. The courses cover different types consisting of “AI+courses” and “industry-education combination courses”. In 2025, the “Fundamentals of Gemstone Geology and Crystallography” course of the College of Jewelry was picked as a “Online/Offline Hybrid First-Class Course”, accomplishing an advancement for the University in the building and construction of nationwide first-rate courses. In May 2026, the “Fundamentals of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment” course of the College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering was consisted of in the nationwide case collection of “Excellent Intelligent Manufacturing Courses”.
The Group continues to deepen the updating and remodelling of mentor and research study instruments and devices in addition to mentor labs. The University has actually released clever class incorporated with high-definition cams, smart audio gadgets and high-speed networks, and has actually developed a clever mentor system covering the whole procedure of skill growing, curriculum mentor and quality tracking. The Group has actually actively checked out the deep combination of AI and education, ingrained innovations such as AI, 5G, and VR into the mentor procedure, and started the building and construction of a DeepSeek-based big design for vertical-domain instructional applications, therefore developing 3 smart representatives for services, management, and mentor.
Industry-Education Integration Has Been Further Deepened, While the Diversified Education Ecosystem Has Been Continuously Improved
The Group is completely dedicated to developing an industry-education incorporated university. It executes a tripartite functional design incorporating “scholastic schools + commercial colleges + business entities”, making every effort to attain the synergistic advancement of “market, academic community, research study, and development” as an incorporated whole. Since 30 June 2026, the University has actually successively released 7 crucial industry-education combination tasks covering the College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, the College of Journalism and Communications, business College, the College of Art Design and the College of Jewelry. It has actually developed Medical Engineering Industrial College, the Live Streaming Economy Industrial College, and Big Data Industrial College, is actively getting ready for the facility of the Integrated Circuit Industrial College and the Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial College, and undertakings to develop a distinct academic structure including multi-track market and college partnership and extensive industry-education combination.
International cooperation has actually made constant development, while external exchanges have actually continued to broaden. The University deals with Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics, Teesside University, to name a few, in junior college to master’s program, undergraduate to master’s program, double bachelor’s program and other programs. In 2025, the University contracted with 11 overseas popular universities/colleges in Germany, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Thailand and other nations, to broaden instructors and trainees’ abroad exchange channels. As the very first personal university in Shanghai that has actually acquired the certification to hire worldwide trainees, the University likewise brings in global trainees from numerous nations around the globe and forms a worldwide trainee education system that integrates long-lasting and short-term programs.
The University has a reputable long-lasting education system. With the Shanghai “Dual-system” Pilot Base for Continuing Education of Employees in Higher Education Institutions (Incubation) as a platform, the University has actually developed an incorporated, multi-field and cross-age long-lasting education system for understanding upgrading and capability improvement, covering adult college, trade abilities training, and youth science and development education. Since 30 June 2026, the variety of in-service trainees registered in the University’s grownup continuing education programs totaled up to 3,316, and an overall of over 400 kinds of employment ability certificate training had actually been supplied.
Financial Position Remains Sound, While the Asset-Liability Structure Has Been Continuously Optimized
Throughout the Reporting Period, financing expenses of the Group reduced by 69.0% YoY, which was mainly due to the outcome of early payment of the majority of long-lasting interest-bearing bank loanings by the end of 2025. As at 30 June 2026, the scale of interest-bearing loanings reduced to RMB276.7 million, with the tailoring ratio staying at 0.1. The monetary position has actually ended up being more robust.
Looking forward, Mr. Zhao Donghui, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Gench Education, mentioned: “The Group’s efficiency in the very first half of 2026 accomplished constant development, verifying the expediency of its top quality advancement technique. In the future, we will continue to abide by the academic viewpoint of ‘student-oriented, teaching-centred, undergraduate-focused’ and the work ideology of ‘quality as the core, mentor as the centre, trainees as the base, instructors as the principal’ to promote the top quality advancement of our endeavors. We will likewise totally take advantage of this historical chance by proactively lining up with the nationwide method of promoting the top quality advancement of employment education and with Lingang’s local effort of ending up being a ‘Global Hub of Power’, cultivate more top quality technical and competent skills, and speed up the change to an industry-education combination university, and aim to develop our University into a top-notch personal university in China with more distinct functions and global standing and a long-distance runner for the premium advancement of college in China.”
About Shanghai Gench Education Group Limited
Gench Education (Stock Code: 1525. HKis a greater trade education group which supplies undergraduate education and junior college education, concentrating on premium education for the arrangement of outstanding education for trainees. The Group runs Shanghai Jian Qiao University, being the domestic leading personal university, at Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone. As determined by the variety of full-time trainees registered in the 2025/26 academic year, the University is the biggest personal university in Shanghai and is likewise a leading personal university in the whole Yangtze River Delta. According to CUAA.net, the University ranked 3rd amongst all classification I personal universities in China for 5 successive years and initially amongst personal universities in the Yangtze River Delta for 7 successive years. Over 26 years of operation, the education quality of the University ranked in the leading edge of peer universities, which has actually built up a strong brand name credibility. Considering that 2004, the University has actually been consecutively granted “Shanghai Civilized Unit” over 18 years. The University has actually won various honorary titles such as “National Model Unit of Civilization “, “Shanghai Garden Unit”, “Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus”, and so on. The University has actually likewise been given trustworthy title of “Lei Feng Spirit College Demonstration Education Base” amongst the very first batch of universities in the PRC in April 2024, and was granted the “Contribution Award for Promoting Lei Feng Spirit in the New Era” in September 2024. In February and March 2025, the University was successively acknowledged as an “Outstanding Unit in Information Disclosure Work amongst Shanghai Higher Education Institutions for 2023-2024” and an “Outstanding Unit in Petition Work within the Shanghai Education System for 2024”.
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