[3] In the 2012 China League One campaign, Xu Hui was appointed as manager and he would lead the club to a third-place finish.

This saw Yongchang Real Estate (Chinese: 永昌地产集团) becoming interested in the team and they bought 70% shares of the club, which officially went through on January 18, 2013.

[4] The club moved to Hebei Province's capital city Shijiazhuang into the Yutong International Sports Center.

[5][6] In the 2014 league season, Shijiazhuang Yongchang won promotion to the top tier for the first time in their history when they came runners-up within their division.

[7] The following campaign would prove to be considerably more difficult and Yasen Petrov was relieved of his position on 14 July 2016, and replaced by Li Jinyu on a caretaker basis, after a run of bad form saw the club in a relegation battle.

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