QAX Technology Group

QAX Technology Group

Founded in 2014 by Xiangdong Qi, formerly a co-architect of Qihoo 360's internet-security empire, QAX Technology Group was purpose-built to move enterprise cybersecurity beyond signature-based antivirus into a full-stack, AI-driven model. The firm's founding thesis — that China's government and critical infrastructure needed a domestic, verifiable security layer independent of the Wintel ecosystem — anticipated the state's decoupling mandates by half a decade. Today it operates as a publicly listed corporate investor (SSE: 688561) whose strategic center of gravity is the "PKS" architecture, where security capabilities are fused directly into China's Feiteng CPUs and Kylin operating system. QAX's deployment spans the full security lifecycle: endpoint protection through its Tianqing platform (over 40 million endpoints), network traffic analysis via Skynet threat-detection systems, cloud workload security, industrial controls protection for power grids and factories, and a growing AI-security stack led by the QAX-GPT large language model and AISOC intelligent operations platform. Confirmed client segments include the financial sector — where it runs DNS security, software supply-chain scanning, and remote-office protection for major banks — and the energy and government verticals, where its 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics engagement delivered the first ever "zero incident" record for an event of that scale. Geographically, the firm operates from its headquarters in Beijing's Xicheng District, with R&D centers in Zhuhai and a commercial hub in Hong Kong that partners with Lenovo PCCW Solutions for Security Operations Centres serving the Greater Bay Area. QAX went public on Shanghai's STAR Market in July 2020 and has sustained the highest R&D intensity in its peer group, with cumulative R&D expenditure exceeding RMB 120 billion. The group fields a workforce that includes the proprietary "Tiger Talisman" security research base, eight joint innovation labs, and the X Labs threat-intelligence unit. Adjacent vehicles include the QAX Charitable Foundation for corporate social responsibility initiatives and a family-linked philanthropic footprint — Xiangdong Qi and his spouse, Yanny Wang, are listed donors to the Holy Trinity School (HTS) Annual Fund. In 2024, QAX was one of only 14 enterprises globally to receive the World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award, and in 2025 it achieved scaled deployment of its AI-driven security architecture, with the AISOC platform winning the WIC "New Light" product award for a second consecutive year. QAX's authentic structural differentiator is not its product breadth but its governed adversary status as the cybersecurity arm of China's sovereign electronics conglomerate, CEC. The 2019 strategic acquisition of a 23% equity stake by CEC transformed QAX from a venture-backed startup into a state-designated national security utility, whose R&D roadmap is co-developed with the central government's IT standardization bodies. This hybrid public-market / state-mandate model means QAX simultaneously competes for commercial enterprise contracts and fulfills compulsory security integration obligations for the nation's critical infrastructure, a dual posture that redefines what an institutional allocator should benchmark when comparing it to a Western cybersecurity pure-play.