NetDragon Celebrates 20th Anniversary, Innovation & Technology Driving Strategy Upgrades
2019年5月21日 - 9:57PM
JCN Newswire
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited ("NetDragon" or the
"Company"; Hong Kong Stock Code: 777) celebrated its 20th
anniversary on 18th May at Haixi Animation Creativity City in its
headquarter in Fuzhou, where former and current employees gathered
to reminisce about the growth and development of the Company. From
focusing on game development in the past, to now aggressively
expanding its education business, NetDragon has gradually formed a
dual growth engine model integrating "Gaming + Education". Along
the way, NetDragon has become one of the most reputable online game
developers in China with multiple renowned game IPs. At the same
time, its fast growing education business has made the Company a
global leader in building internet communities.
Mr. Dejian Liu, Founder and Chairman of NetDragon, commented: "Over
the past 20 years, NetDragon has started off its online gaming
business as the first business engine. Through strategizing
proprietary R&D and M&As in parallel, we have established a
complete online education ecosystem integrating content, software,
hardware and other fields. Such effort has cemented our strategy
upgrade from a single growth engine to one with dual growth
engines. NetDragon believes that in the next 20 years, the steady
growth of the gaming business and gradual development of the
education business will help the company achieve leaping
development. While strengthening NetDragon's position as a quality
game developer and operator, the initiatives will also make our
company a global internet education enterprise as well as a driving
force of global education development and innovation."
Since its inception, NetDragon's core business has always been at
the forefront of industries. In 2001, NetDragon created China's
first online gaming information portal, 17173.com, and then began
R&D of its own online games. Since then, NetDragon has
successfully developed a number of popular flagship IPs, including
"Conquer Online", "Eudemons Online" and "Heroes Evolved", which
cover over 180 countries in 11 languages. With the remarkable
development of gaming business, NetDragon was listed on the Growth
Enterprise Market (GEM) of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007 and
was successfully transferred to the Main Board of the Hong Kong
Stock Exchange in just 8 months, becoming the fastest company to
transfer in history.
Since then, with good customer reputation, outstanding R&D
capabilities and strong support from the capital market, NetDragon
has accelerated its development of the Internet and mobile
platforms, and successfully incubated 91 Wireless, a smartphone
service platform. The platform was sold to Baidu in 2013 for US$1.9
billion, making it the largest M&A deal of the China Internet
industry at that time. With such huge financial support, NetDragon
has established its first step of strategic upgrade - creating the
second growth engine by venturing into the education sector.
NetDragon has actively developed its education business ever since.
It fosters knowledge dissemination and boosts teaching efficiency
through mobile internet and advanced technologies. In addition to
fulfilling corporate social responsibility, this has provided a new
momentum for the company's development.
After affirming the strategy of entering the education sector, in
order to establish and further enrich its education product line,
NetDragon acquired an international giant Promethean in November
2015. It has since created a series of products that are highly
recognized by users by integrating Promethean's products and
NetDragon's education content, teaching tools and education
platforms. After laying a solid foundation, NetDragon has also
completed a number of M&A projects. It has acquired several
well-known education companies in and out of China, including
JumpStart, a US company that develops and provides creative
educational games for K12 students, which perfectly combines the
education and gaming businesses. On the other hand, the proprietary
software platforms, namely 101 Education PPT and 101 Mysticraft,
have been well received as they improve learning efficiency and
improve teaching experience using technology.
Leveraging the enriched hardware and software products, NetDragon
pursued another strategic upgrade. With an aim to make learning
possible at anytime and anywhere, NetDragon strategized to create a
global life-long learning platform. On the back of this concept,
the company acquired Edmodo in 2018, an online global education
community. As a communication and collaboration platform for
teachers, administrators, students and parents for K12 schools
around the world, Edmodo covers all learning scenarios including
pre-class, in-class and post-class, allowing users to learn at
anytime and anywhere while improving the product portfolio of
NetDragon. Through a series of R&D and M&A activities,
NetDragon's education sector has evolved into an online education
platform that integrates tools, contents, resources and services.
NetDragon has now over 100 million registered users, covering 1.3
million classrooms across more than 190 countries. NetDragon's
education business is about to enter the monetization phase and is
expected to reach another new high.
Looking forward, NetDragon will continue to implement the dual
growth engine strategy of "Gaming + Education". For the gaming
business, NetDragon will continue to adopt the strategy of
maximizing the value of its IPs to drive business growth, while
expanding its IP portfolio by proprietary R&D and
collaborations with partners.
NetDragon will also aggressively promote the development of its
education business. In 2019, Promethean launched the new ActivPanel
Elements series, whereas the Edmodo platform is expected to launch
a new online tutoring service in the second half of 2019 to
increase the user engagement in both classrooms and at home,
enhance the connection between teachers and students using cloud
technology, and accelerate monetization via value-added services.
In addition, NetDragon will actively promote Promethean products in
China, while expanding its market share in both developed and
emerging countries. Furthermore, under the "Belt and Road"
initiative, NetDragon will bring its education technology, products
and services to overseas, so as to build "the world's largest
online learning community".
On the back of its leading position in the industry, NetDragon will
adhere to its principles of promoting innovative education through
advanced technologies and enhancing product quality and
penetration, in order to fulfill its mission of creating the
"future classroom" as it moves forward towards the next 20
years.
About NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader
in building internet communities with a long track record of
developing and scaling multiple internet and mobile platforms that
impact hundreds of millions of users. These include China's number
one online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's most influential
smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless, which was sold to Baidu
for US$1.9 billion in 2013 as the largest Internet M&A
transaction in China.
Established in 1999, NetDragon is one of the most reputable and
well-known online game developers in China with a history of
successful game titles including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved
and Conquer Online. In recent years, NetDragon has also started to
scale its online education business on the back of management's
vision to create the largest global online learning community, and
to bring the "classroom of the future" to every school around the
world.
For more information, please visit www.netdragon.com.
For investor enquiries, please contact:
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
Ms. Maggie Zhou
Senior Director of Investor Relations
Tel.: +852 2850 7266 / +86 591 8754 3120
Email: maggie@nd.com.cn
Website: ir.netdragon.com
Source: NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
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