Zhiyan Consulting

Zhiyan Consulting (智研咨询) is a Chinese market-research and data-analytics firm whose statistics are regularly cited by investment funds and media outlets covering China's industrial and consumer sectors. The bundle shows its data appearing in reports by 峰瑞资本 (FreeS Fund) and 暗涌Waves on topics ranging from new-energy-vehicle batteries and industrial robots to restaurant-chain penetration rates and cross-border VC comparisons . Its figures have been used to anchor claims such as China's share of global lithium-ion battery production, the 2019 inflection point when Chinese industrial-robot exports exceeded imports, and the 18.3% chain-franchise rate of the hot-pot industry in 2020 . The firm is treated as a standard industry-data source rather than a subject of profile coverage itself; elsewhere's corpus does not contain independent reporting on its founding, ownership, or methodology.