D&J Industrial Property China Investment Ltd., a business park and suburban office developer which is owned by Warburg Pincus through a majority stake, has launched a capital fund with AVIC Trust to invest in industrial infrastructures in China.

Co-founded by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and OCBC Bank of Singapore, AVIC Trust is an investment and trust manager in China, with assets under management of over RMB430 billion (about US$62.18 billion).

With this partnership, the D&J Zhiyan Equity Investment Fund raises an initial equity capitalization of RMB10 billion (about US$1.45 billion), founded on a USD-RMB hybrid basis, which is said to be the first of its kind in China.

“In addition to helping tenants lower potential cost of land sourcing, infrastructure and facilities construction, the fund also seeks to provide integrated services in the areas of finance, data storage, consultancy, and R&D,” said the chairman of AVIC Trust, Yao Jiangtao.

The capital is dedicated to China’s industrial infrastructure landscape, where it will mainly be used to invest in modern integrated industrial parks in China’s major cities – backing projects which include business parks, production facilities, and R&D parks.

“Driven by a strong trend for an industrial upgrade, continued urbanization and rise of the knowledge economy, the fund will invest in quality assets and provide modern infrastructure services for corporates and manufacturers across the entire industry value chain,” said Sun Dongping, the co-founder and chairman of D&J China.

China’s D&J Industrial holding is the second real estate platform co-founded by Warburg Pincus and Sun Dongping, after the pair co-founded warehouse developer e-Shang in 2011.

Since its establishment, China D&J has completed two rounds of financing and currently has over 1.2 million square meters of operating and under development properties in Beijing, Shanghai, and other Chinese cities.

The company’s tenants portfolio include Shell, Abbott, and FMC, as well as high-tech knowledge economy companies – Asiainfo and iSoftStone.

D&J China targets to grow its assets to over 5 million square meters in the next three to five years, targeting to increase its total asset value to RMB45 billion by 2020.

By Vivian Foo, Unicorn Media