Established on March 8th, 1998, Northern International Groupis combined by the advanced enterprises among sta-e-owned foreign trade companies in Tianjin and it is the first sizable foreign trade group approved by Tianjin Municipality, ranking No.2 in the 50 top export enterprises in Tianjin.Nowit has nine enterprise members of colose level,which all have established morden enterprise system,seven import and exp-ort companies of them are classified among the 50 top exp-ort enterprises in Tianjin and three of them rank with the 500 largest import and export and export enterprises in China,theother two service companies are leading enterprises in their own fields as well.The Group has 2 bran- ches in Tianjin engaging import & export business and warehousing & transportation.The Group also has over 110 enterprises of semi-close level with investment relationship,more than 30 of them are o- verseas enterprises or representative offices.

Approved by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and Tianjin People′s M- unicipality,the core enterprise of the Group,Northern International Holding Co.,Ltd.(herein after called NIC)is a holding company and solely-owned legal body with first lot of registered capital of RMB 118 million and total assets of about RMB 3 billion.Its import and export volume in 1999 is US$420 mill-ion and export volume is US$368 million which covers about 40% of total export volume of the state-owned foreign trade companies in Tianjin.It expects that its annual grows of import and export volu-me will be 10%. NIC aimes at turning itself into a multinational company backed up with trabe, ind- ustry,finance and technology and engages in trade,financing,information,service and development.

The staff of NIC sincerely welcome friends from all walks of life borth at home and abroad to est- ablish and promote the business relationships,and enjoy a prosperous future together through futher cooperation.