What Hunan Creator Information Technologies does

Hunan Creator Information Technologies (湖南科创信息技术股份有限公司, SZSE: 300730) is a Shenzhen-listed Chinese digital government and smart enterprise IT services provider founded in 1998 by five Central South University professors. The company is headquartered in Changsha, Hunan, with 1,001-5,000 employees (90%+ technical R&D) and 17 branch offices/subsidiaries across 20+ Chinese provinces. It serves 5,000+ government agencies and 500+ large state-owned enterprises through flagship deployments including the Hunan CPPCC Cloud (70,000+ users), Hunan Government Affairs one-network platform (14 cities, 122 counties), Hunan Non-Tax Revenue platform, and the Hunan Eco-Environment Big Data Resource Center (2.32B+ records).

The company operates a 'Platform + Applications + AI' framework built on 15+ self-developed foundational platforms: C2BDS big data, private cloud, AI, knowledge graph, digital twin, BOCS (blockchain + privacy-preserving computation), IoT, mobile development, and data governance. Its product portfolio spans Digital Government (政务大脑 / Government Brain, Internet+Government Services, traffic police, non-tax revenue, CPPCC Cloud, market supervision), Smart Enterprise (supply chain finance, unified payment, smart office), and specialized verticals (smart healthcare, smart education, smart environment, industrial machine vision). The company holds 60% domestic market share in float glass inspection, is the only domestic supplier of full-series float glass inspection equipment, and has participated in 30+ national and international standards. Technology credentials include CMMI5, CCRC Level 1, full ISO suite, full domestic (Xinchuang) IT stack adaptation (Kylin, Kunpeng, Feiteng), and 800+ self-developed IP items.

The business model combines enterprise field sales of platform and integration projects (the primary revenue stream) with system integration services, managed IT services, machine vision hardware sales, and emerging usage-based API monetization. Go-to-market is direct enterprise sales via regional branch offices targeting government bureaus and large SOEs, supplemented by a B2B2C self-serve channel (e.g., the 瀟湘高考 app serving 700,000+ exam candidates). Revenue recognition is project-based with multi-year contracts. Reported financial performance shows significant volatility: revenue peaked at approximately 78B CNY in 2021, dropped sharply to ~33B in 2023, partially recovered in 2024, and declined again in 2025, with the company posting net losses in each of 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Name

Hunan Creator Information Technologies

Legal name

湖南科创信息技术股份有限公司

Website

https://chinacreator.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Hunan Creator Information Technologies is a Shenzhen-listed Chinese digital government and enterprise IT services provider that builds 15+ self-developed foundational platforms (big data, AI, knowledge graph, digital twin, blockchain) and deploys integrated solutions to 5,000+ government agencies and 500+ state-owned enterprises across 20+ Chinese provinces.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Government Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

akta.pro primary industry

Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services) (HDABAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

IT Service Management (ITSM) Platforms (HDAEALAA), IT Asset Discovery, Inventory & CMDB Services (BPAEAOAE), Q&A and Knowledge Discovery Platforms (BPAMAAAF)

Keywords

• Digital government platforms
• Enterprise software solutions
• Machine vision inspection
• Big data platforms
• Smart city solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Liuyang

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices18 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Platform Sales & Implementation: Sale and deployment of proprietary software platforms (政务大脑, 数字孪生平台, 大数据平台, etc.) and integrated solutions to government agencies and enterprises. Revenue recognized from initial deployment, customization, and ongoing support. This is the primary revenue stream.
2. System Integration Services: Cloud data center infrastructure integration, big data foundation platform integration, network and security integration, and IT infrastructure operations and maintenance services. Services provided to government, enterprise, education, and healthcare clients.
3. Machine Vision Hardware Products: Sale of proprietary machine vision inspection sensors and systems (including embedded real-time controllers, line-scan smart cameras, optical sensing equipment). Products sold domestically (with 60% domestic market share in float glass inspection) and exported to Central Asia, South Asia, and West Africa. First export to Europe achieved in 2025.
4. IT Services & Consulting: IT consulting, system optimization, desktop operations and maintenance, and intelligent weak current services. Billed on project or retainer basis.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Hunan Creator Information Technologies develops and sells proprietary digital government and smart enterprise IT platforms built on a "Platform + Applications + AI" framework, including big data, private cloud, AI, knowledge graph, digital twin, blockchain trusted collaboration, and IoT platforms. It delivers packaged solutions for government administration, healthcare, education, finance, and smart city management, plus machine vision inspection sensors and systems for industrial quality control (notably the only domestic full-series float glass inspection supplier). The company also provides system integration, intelligent integration, and IT operations/maintenance services to government and enterprise clients across 20+ Chinese provinces.

Product overview

Hunan Creator Information Technologies operates as a comprehensive digital government and smart enterprise IT service provider offering a 'Platform + Applications + AI' core framework. The product portfolio consists of foundational platforms (大数据平台, 专有云平台, 人工智能平台, 知识图谱平台, 机器视觉平台, 数字孪生平台, 数据可信协作平台, 能力开放平台, 移动开发平台, 物联网平台, 数据治理管控平台) that serve as the technological foundation for vertical solutions. These platforms enable a wide range of applications across Digital Government (政务大脑, 协同办公, 互联网+政务服务, 城市运行管理, 智慧治理, 智慧应急, 智慧市监, 数字公安, 智慧财政, 政协云平台, 综合执法, etc.) and Enterprise segments (经营管控, 供应链金融, 智慧办公, 统一支付, 智能协维, 智慧金融, 企业数字化转型, 智能化生产检测). The company also provides specialized solutions in Smart Healthcare (智慧医疗), Smart Education (智慧教育), Smart Environment (智慧环保), Smart Civil Affairs (智慧民政), and Smart Agriculture (数字农业). IT services include System Integration, Intelligent Integration, and Operation & Maintenance services. The company leverages AI capabilities in computer vision (for industrial inspection), NLP (for government services), knowledge graphs (for domain knowledge management), and generative AI (for intelligent applications) across its product ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• 科创政务大脑: AI-powered digital government platform product
• 科创大数据平台
• 科创人工智能平台
• 科创专有云平台
• 科医云
• 潇湘高考

Products and services

• Big Data Platform (大数据平台) Enterprise big data management suite using 'one engine, three platforms' architecture providing data exchange, integration, storage, management, sharing, and application capabilities for government and enterprise clients.
• Private Cloud Platform (专有云平台) Enterprise-grade PaaS platform built on cloud-native technology providing autonomous-controllable, one-stop application lifecycle management services for government and enterprise IT infrastructure, with full-stack domestic (Xinchuang) adaptation including Kylin, Kunpeng, and Feiteng chips.
• Capability Open Platform (能力开放平台) API management platform enabling organizations to achieve API operations and operations integration, connecting internal and external business ecosystems efficiently. Supports API lifecycle management including publishing, monitoring, security control, rate limiting, circuit breakers, authentication, routing, and load balancing.
• Artificial Intelligence Platform (人工智能平台) AI platform focusing on machine vision inspection and natural language processing, providing comprehensive solutions across government services, public safety, healthcare, and intelligent manufacturing sectors. Uses deep learning algorithms, multi-domain models, and knowledge graphs to deliver defect recognition, intelligent Q&A, decision support, behavior recognition, and vehicle information structuring.
• Knowledge Graph Platform (知识图谱平台) Knowledge graph platform supporting visual, one-stop construction of industry knowledge graphs with applications in government services, healthcare, public security, and market supervision. Integrates semantic networks, graph computing, and NLP.
• Machine Vision Platform / Glass Defect Inspection Series (机器视觉平台) Industrial machine vision platform with proprietary visual inspection sensors achieving international advanced levels, widely used in glass production, railway safety, and item sorting applications. Supports 16-channel parallel processing with over 1 trillion operations per second. The only domestic supplier of full-series float glass inspection equipment.
• Digital Twin Platform (数字孪生平台) Smart city digital twin cloud rendering platform integrating space-air-ground multidimensional data with knowledge graphs, AI, and IoT technologies for perception, simulation, and prediction applications. Supports BIM integration and CIM1-CIM7 multi-dimensional large-scale data management and rendering.
• BOCS Data Trusted Collaboration Platform (数据可信协作平台) Blockchain and privacy computing-based data collaboration network providing secure data sharing, cooperation, and computation services across organizations with 'data usable but not visible' capabilities. Supports multi-party computation, secure multi-party matching, federated model training, and data anonymous querying.
• Data Governance and Control Platform (数据治理管控平台) Comprehensive data governance platform enabling standardized management of data resources, hierarchical classification and control of data assets, and business application empowerment.
• Government Brain (政务大脑) AI-powered proactive service digital government platform integrating big data, NLP, knowledge graphs, and large models to enhance government management and public service capabilities.
• Collaborative Office Platform - Party/Government (协同办公平台 党政版) Unified, secure, intelligent, efficient, open multi-domain integrated party-government smart collaborative office platform supporting comprehensive OA scenarios.
• Internet+ Government Services Platform (互联网+政务服务平台) One-stop government services platform based on 'six unifications' principles enabling unified application, processing, feedback, and full-process supervision of administrative services.
• City Operation Management Service Platform (城市运行管理服务平台) Urban operation management platform achieving 'one network manages the city, one center controls the domain, one team governs' through integration of IoT, cloud computing, big data, and AI technologies.
• Internet+ Transparent Kitchen (互联网+明厨亮灶) Food safety supervision platform using cloud computing, AI analysis, and video streaming to monitor kitchen operations in schools and food service establishments.
• CPPCC Cloud Platform (政协云平台) Digital platform for Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference operations enabling CPPCC members to fulfill duties through online proposals, surveys, remote consultations, and data analytics.
• New College Entrance Examination Platform (新高考招生考试信息管理平台) Comprehensive information management system for new college entrance examination reform covering registration, physical examination, volunteer reporting, and score inquiry.
• Traffic Police Intelligent Duty Supervision Platform (交警智能勤务监督平台) Intelligent supervision and assessment platform for traffic police duty management achieving automated, intelligent analysis and supervision of enforcement processes and results.
• Non-Tax Revenue Middle Platform (非税中台) Provincial-level non-tax income collection platform enabling online processing of government revenue collection with integration to budget management systems.
• Smart Healthcare (智慧医疗) Medical big data and AI products including hospital data centers, DRG management platforms, clinical decision support systems, and regional health information platforms.
• Smart Education (智慧教育) Comprehensive education management solutions covering smart examination systems, campus management, teacher training, and regional education governance platforms.
• Smart Governance (智慧治理) Grid-based social governance platform with capabilities for event management, key personnel monitoring, emergency command, and dispute resolution (矛盾纠纷调解).
• Intelligent Production Inspection (智能化生产检测) Machine vision-based quality inspection systems for industrial production including float glass defect detection, stress/thickness measurement, and completeness verification.
• Smart Finance (智慧金融) Financial sector solutions including supply chain finance platforms, private fund management systems, comprehensive financial services, and financial risk prevention systems.
• Unified Payment Platform (统一支付平台) One-stop payment solutions featuring account systems and flexible settlement models supporting multiple payment channels for enterprise campus and government applications.
• Supply Chain Finance Platform (供应链金融平台) Blockchain-based supply chain finance platform enabling financing, cost reduction, and efficiency improvement for upstream and downstream enterprises in industrial chains.
• Smart Environmental Protection (智慧环保) Environmental monitoring and management platform integrating IoT, big data, and AI for air quality, water quality, pollution source monitoring, and ecological assessment.
• System Integration Services (系统集成服务) Cloud data center infrastructure integration, big data foundation platform integration, and network and security integration services provided to government, enterprise, education, and healthcare clients.
• Intelligent Integration Services (智能化集成服务) Weak current engineering, building intelligent engineering implementation, smart park integration, IoT and smart city integration, and intelligent EPC general contracting services.
• Operation and Maintenance Services (运行维护服务) IT infrastructure operations and maintenance, system tuning, desktop operations and maintenance, and intelligent weak current service maintenance billed on project or retainer basis.

Quantifiable outcome

• Changsha traffic platform reduced average dispatch time from 11.3 min to 7.8 min; enforcement data matching rate increased from 66.95% to 82.68%, procedure compliance from 80.14% to 96.06%, enforcement accuracy from 94.75% to 99.49%; 24h case acceptance rate increased from 90.16% to 94.74%
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability14 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Haiguang Information (海光信息)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024科海智算 (Kehai Zhisuan), a subsidiary of the company, is the only authorized server terminal manufacturing enterprise for Haiguang Information in the South-Central region. This partnership enables the company to produce and distribute servers and storage products powered by Haiguang chips, supporting the domestic (信创) IT ecosystem.
• Hunan Caixin Financial Holdings Group (湖南财信金融控股集团)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Built the Caixin Star Link (财信星链) supply chain finance platform for Hunan Caixin Financial Holdings Group. The platform enables 'one-click application, automatic review, T+0 account arrival' fully online financial product operations. Customer applies through their own industry SaaS platform. Implemented face recognition, e-signature, online payment, and process engine components.
• Hunan Equity Exchange (湖南股交所)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Built the '湘股交链' comprehensive blockchain service platform for Hunan Equity Exchange. The platform uses blockchain for regulatory data cross-chain reporting, member data sharing, and enterprise financing services. Ranked first nationally among 25 regional equity markets for two consecutive years.
• Chonggu Towni Chain Technology (湖南树图科创信息技术有限公司 — Chain Chain Conflux)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Controlling subsidiary 湖南树图科创信息技术有限公司 focuses on research of alliance chain (联盟链) underlying technology and blockchain applications for digital government, digital finance, intelligent manufacturing, and supply chain management. Conflux (树图) is a China-developed public blockchain.
• People's Liberation Army of China / Railway SectormajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Provided machine vision safety monitoring systems for railway applications including wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, temperature, humidity, pressure, and solar radiation monitoring for railway lines. Won the Railway Science and Technology Second Prize in 2015.
• Central South University (中南大学)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Collaborated with Central South University on medical big data research, including the Xiangya Medical Big Data Platform with over 60 million patient records and 1.5 billion+ clinical records. Participated in national key R&D programs and co-built the Medical Big Data International Joint Laboratory. The company was founded by five professors from Central South University.
• Hunan Provincial Government (湖南省人民政府)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Hunan Provincial Government is the primary government client. The company has built multiple flagship government platforms including the Hunan 'Internet + Government Services' One Network Platform covering 14 cities, 122 counties; Hunan CPPCC Cloud; Hunan Education Examination platform; and Hunan Non-Tax Revenue Platform managing 967 billion yuan.
• 旗滨集团 (Qibing Group)majorTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2018Provided multi-version visual product inspection solutions (defect detection, stress detection, thickness detection, marking) for Qibing Group across 10+ production bases in China and Malaysia, covering float glass, photovoltaic glass, and electronic glass. Ongoing 10+ year partnership.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Beijing Lanxum Technology: Chinese smart city and digital government solutions provider offering comparable city operation management, government service platforms, and digital twin solutions. Similar size and target customer base to Hunan Creator.
• Wonders Information: Chinese A-share listed digital government and smart enterprise software provider offering comparable e-government, smart city, and industry digitalization solutions. Direct competitor in Chinese government IT services and similarly positioned as a mid-sized regional-to-national player.
• Beijing Shenzhou Taiyue Technology: Chinese digital government and smart city software provider directly competing with Hunan Creator across e-government platforms, city operation management, and government big data. Comparable in serving provincial/municipal bureaus and offering similar AI-enabled government service platforms.

Broad incumbents

• ChinaSoft International: Major Chinese IT services and software company providing government IT, cloud, and digital transformation services. Competes with Hunan Creator on government digitalization projects and enterprise IT services; broader scale and stronger offshore delivery capabilities.
• Digital China Group: Major Chinese IT distribution, cloud, and digital transformation company with significant government and enterprise IT services exposure. Competes on government cloud, system integration, and digital government modernization projects.
• Yonyou Network: China's largest enterprise software (ERP/financial/HR) vendor with a growing government finance and digital-government footprint. Much larger and broader; competes with Hunan Creator on enterprise financial platforms, government budget/integrated financial management, and cloud PaaS for government.
• Inspur Electronic Information Industry: Leading Chinese server, cloud, and government IT infrastructure provider. Competes on the cloud PaaS layer for government workloads and on digital-government/smart-city deployments; a substantially larger incumbent with broader product portfolio.
• Sangfor Technologies: Leading Chinese cloud computing, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure vendor with a growing government and enterprise digitalization business. Competes with Hunan Creator's private cloud PaaS and government-facing security/infrastructure layers; significantly larger and publicly listed.
• Neusoft Corporation: Established Chinese IT solutions and services company with strong smart city, healthcare IT, and government digitalization businesses. Directly comparable to Hunan Creator on healthcare IT (hospital information systems, DRG), smart city platforms, and enterprise digitalization.

Others

• Haiguang Information (Hygon): Chinese domestic (信创) CPU and server vendor that is a strategic partner and ecosystem counterpart to Hunan Creator (Kehai Zhisuan subsidiary is the authorized Haiguang server manufacturer in South-Central China). Provides the silicon foundation for Hunan Creator's domestic IT stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance10 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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