[11] The current CEO and managing director is Hu Yanyan, who was included in a 2015 Financial Times list as one of the five most powerful women in Asia's art world.
[13] When China Guardian was first established in 1993, it focused primarily on the Mainland Chinese market until it decided to expand to Hong Kong in 2012.
[14] As of July 2016, China Guardian owns a 24% stake in Taiking Life Insurance Co.[15] Taiking Life Insurance Co, in turn, owns a 13.5% stake in the British auction house Sotheby's.
[6] In the past 23 years, China Guardian has successfully held more than 1,200 auctions, with a total sales volume of nearly 50 billion yuan.
[18] In October 2012, Album of Mountains and Rivers by Qi Baishi sold for almost US$6 million in China Guardian's Hong Kong auction.
[20] Chinese painter Zhang Daqian's water colour and ink painting A Landscape of Mountains was sold for US$15.2 million in November 2016.