Development of real estate trust

As early as the 1920s, the trust industry appeared in China and Shanghai. However, after the founding of New China, it has been stagnant for a long time. After 1978, the trust industry resumed. Since then, the trust industry has made unprecedented development in profits and wealth. During this period, the country defined the trust and investment industry as "the light cavalry of the financial industry and the financial department store". Due to the reform, there are many problems in the development of trust and investment industry. The trust industry has undergone five major reorganizations, namely 1982, 1985, 1988, 1994 and 1999. However, throughout the previous major rectifications, except for the latest one, the previous ones did not jump out of the strange circle of expansion, rectification and re-expansion.

The fifth rectification began with the bankruptcy of 1999 Guangdong SDIC and ended in June 2002, which lasted for three years. The number of trust companies in China has decreased from 239 before 1999 to dozens now, and the chaos has been effectively controlled. This rectification has solved the huge financial risks accumulated by the illegal operation of the trust industry. More importantly, according to the nature of the trust, it is necessary to restore the true colors of trust and investment companies as "entrusted by others to manage money on behalf of others", so that trust and investment companies can obtain healthy development space.

During the period of 1998, there were almost no trust institutions in China to handle real estate trust business. However, with the end of the fifth rectification of China Credit Trust, major trust institutions have adjusted their business and gradually developed real estate trust business. On July 18, 2002, the first real estate trust plan-550 million yuan "Outer Ring Tunnel Project Fund Trust Plan" was sold out in Shanghai within one week. On July 29th, 2002, Shanghai International Trust and Investment Corporation launched the "New Shanghai International Building Project Fund Trust Plan", and the trust products were sold by major banks. This is the first real estate fund trust product in China after the re-opening of the trust industry, with a product scale of 230 million yuan. The term of the trust plan is three years, and the amount of each trust contract is not less than RMB 50,000. It is expected that the beneficiary will receive an annual rate of return of 4% (the income will be paid every year and the principal will be returned at maturity). In September of the same year, Beijing SDIC's CBD Trust Plan became the first trust in China to invest in real estate development. By September 2003, more than 50 trust companies in China had 65,438+0/3 real estate-related businesses. Especially when the central bank issued document 12 1 and the industrial fund law was not passed, the real estate trust became a "quasi-industrial fund" for a time, which was sought after by the real estate industry and favored by most trust network companies.