Winreal Investment runs its own research institute and publishes reports on sectors like hydrogen energy storage, coherent optical communications, embodied intelligence, and semiconductors, and its founder has said semiconductors will matter over the next 20 years both for replacing imports in bottleneck areas and for creating brand-new technologies. The firm has repeatedly invested in advanced manufacturing and robotics companies, including Unitree Robotics, holds a 2022 award for automotive electronics investing, closed the first round of a new fund at 1.3 billion yuan (about $150 million), and operates out of both Shanghai and Hangzhou in China's Yangtze River Delta manufacturing and tech corridor.