Tsinghua Holdings Co Ltd is a solely State-owned limited liability corporation approved by the State Council. In September 2003, to integrate enterprises under its control, Tsinghua University funded Tsinghua Holdings Co Ltd with a registered capital of 2.5 billion yuan ($385.25 million).

By making full use of Tsinghua University's advantages in scientific research and professional expertise, Tsinghua Holdings integrates enterprise and academic research into a development strategy of ecologicalization, socialization and globalization to help promote national strategies and social development.

The company aims to become China’s leader in university industry and a global model for others, set a benchmark for industry-university-research integration, and to remain a giant incubator, investor and operator of innovative start-up activity. It is committed to boosting China's innovation-driven economic transformation by industrializing scientific and technological research achievements and connecting innovation, industry, and capital chains.

Tsinghua Holdings Co Ltd has established six major industrial clusters, from industrial incubators, to sci & tech industries and online education. The clusters operate in four comprehensive groups such as Tongfang Co, Tsinghua Unigroup, Tuspark Holding Ltd, and Chengzhi Shareholding Co, and other professional groups including CapitalBio Corporation and Tsinghua Holdings Habitat Development Group Co Ltd. In addition, the company has cultivated a group of leading enterprises in specific fields.

As a significant platform Tsinghua University works on to serve the society, Tsinghua Holdings actively promotes the industrialization of the university's sci & tech research results. To date, it has successfully commercialized over 40 national key research achievements, including many with international influence. It is the operator of the biggest university science park in the world and the first entrepreneurship street in China.

Tsinghua Holdings now controls a dozen listed companies, including Tsinghua Tongfang Co Ltd (600100), Chengzhi Shareholdings Co Ltd (000990) and Unisplendour Co Ltd (000938).