CITIC Ltd. is an investment holding company, which engages in finance, energy, engineering, manufacturing, and real estate businesses. It operates through the following segments: Comprehensive Financial Services, Advanced Intelligent Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, New Consumption, and New-Type Urbanisation. The Comprehensive Financial Services segment spans the banking, trust, asset management, securities and insurance services. The Advanced Intelligent Manufacturing segment includes manufacturing of special steels, heavy machineries, aluminium wheels, and other products. The Advanced Materials segment comprises of the exploration, processing, and trading of resources and energy products, including crude oil, coal, and iron ore. The New Consumption segment focuses on investment and operation of infrastructures, telecommunication services, motor and food and consumer products business, commercial aviation services, publication services, and others. The New-Type Urbanisation segment manages the development, sale and holding of properties. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.