Shanghai Synergy Culture & Entertainment Group

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Shanghai Synergy Culture & Entertainment Group (SSCEG)
Industry Music Entertainment
Media
Headquarters Shanghai , People's Republic of China
Area served
Shanghai
Greater China
Key people

Qin Gu (President)

Bill Zang (Vice President)
Owner Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group
Website www.ssceg.com

Shanghai Synergy Culture & Entertainment Group (SSCEG) (Shanghai Synergy) is a music entertainment and media company headquartered in Shanghai, China. It is owned by one of the largest media conglomerates in China—Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group (SMEG). Reorganization of SMEG resulted in the creation of Shanghai Synergy (SSCEG) and its sister company Shanghai Media Group (SMG). Shanghai Synergy is the largest music industry media group, distributor, and retail outlet in China.

Shanghai Municipality in Peoples Republic of China

Shanghai is one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of the central government of the People's Republic of China, the largest city in China by population, and the second most populous city proper in the world, with a population of 24.18 million as of 2017. It is a global financial centre and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta, it sits on the south edge of the estuary of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the East China coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.

China State in East Asia

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities, and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group (SMEG) is one of the largest media conglomerates in China. Founded on April 19, 1997, SMEG is a major media content provider in China that also manages other culture-related businesses such as performances, exhibitions, tourism and hotels.

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Operations

In 2007, SSCEG merged several record labels, CD pressing plants, e-games, animation, and television production companies.

Shanghai Synergy Group Subsidiaries
Company
Shanghai New Sony (Sony BMG Joint Venture)
Shanghai Audio Visual Company
Shanghai Audio Visual Press
Shanghai Audio Visual Electronic Press
Shanghai Gold Statue Optical Disk Manufacturing
Shanghai Century Chinese Creation Cultural Image Management
Shanghai Red Motion Digital Technology

Shanghai Synergy has licensed and distributed international artists from the four "major label" companies; other major labels SSCEG has signed contracts with include Disney, Rock Records, and Avex Group.

Rock Records record label

Rock Records(滾石唱片) is a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980 by Sam and Johnny Duan (段鍾沂). The record label had their first multiseller in 1989 with Sarah Chen. It is now Asia's largest independent record label.

Avex Group holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiaries based in Japan

Avex Inc. is an entertainment conglomerate led by founder Max Matsuura and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Avex manages J-pop talents like Ayumi Hamasaki and internet sensation PikoTaro. It has also shifted into other business domains like anime, video games and live music events like partnering with Ultra Music Festival and hosting the annual A-nation.

Recent developments

a-Peer Synergy Joint Venture

In 2008, Shanghai Synergy and a-Peer Holding Group, a U.S. music and media technology company, announced a new joint business venture—a-Peer Synergy Shanghai Culture and Technology Company (a-Peer Synergy). The new venture will create new market opportunities and revenue for international artists entering the China market and Chinese talent expanding into the world market. [1]

a-Peer Synergy business is based on a combination of SSCEG's physical platform with a-Peer Holding's digital platform.

President of a-Peer Synergy is Bill Zang and its CEO is Thomas Olscheske, Ph.D.

Blu-ray Manufacturing

In 2009, Shanghai Synergy (SSCEG), Shanghai Jingwen, and Sony jointly invested in China's first Blu-ray Disc production line located in Shanghai. The Blu-ray disc plant is located in the Songjiang Industrial Zone. With advanced Blu-ray disc manufacturing equipment, the plant has an estimated monthly production capacity of 500,000 discs.

Sony Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation

Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment and financial services. The company owns the largest music entertainment business in the world, the largest video game console business and one of the largest video game publishing businesses, and is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets, and a leading player in the film and television entertainment industry. Sony was ranked 97th on the 2018 Fortune Global 500 list.

Songjiang District District in Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China

Songjiang is a suburban district of Shanghai. It has a land area of 605.64 km2 (233.84 sq mi) and a population of 1,582,398 (2010). Owing to a long history, Songjiang is known as the cultural root of Shanghai.

It is speculated that the launch of this production line in Shanghai represents the completion of China's Blu-ray industry chain. [2]

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