The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and sell participations in other companies, mainly in the context of Swiss-Chinese trade relations. Furthermore, the company may establish companies, grant loans to affiliated companies, provide guarantees, conduct foreign exchange and financing transactions of all kinds, take out loans, acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate and properties, as well as acquire intellectual property rights such as patents, licenses, permits, etc., conclude license agreements, establish branches and subsidiaries, participate in other domestic and foreign companies, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, and enter into any business and conclude any contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it.