In 2025, with Chongqing state-owned capital entering the market, China Merchants Renhe Life Insurance’s net profit "quadrupled."

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Amid the intersection of a low interest rate environment and industry transformation, China Merchants Renhe Life, backed by the two giants China Merchants Group and China Mobile, presented a "report card" in 2025 marked by clear signs of expansion.

According to the latest disclosed Solvency Report for the fourth quarter of 2025, China Merchants Renhe Life has officially joined the "Trillion Club":

By the end of 2025, its total assets reached 108.1 billion yuan, up about 18.4% from the end of the previous year; this leap in scale has become a new anchor for the eight-year-old insurer in the market game.

Behind the growth in scale is an explosive surge in profits, with China Merchants Renhe Life achieving a cumulative net profit of 672 million yuan in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 411%, and a return on equity (ROE) soaring from 2.24% to 8.69%.

From its financial performance, the company appears to have exited the loss cycle of its start-up period and entered the fast lane of profit harvesting.

However, against the backdrop of both "scale and profit celebrations", attention must still be paid to the trend of capital adequacy.

The report shows that by the end of 2025, the core solvency adequacy ratio of China Merchants Renhe Life had fallen to 96.18%, a significant decrease from 128.47% at the end of 2024;

The main reason for this change lies in the rapid accumulation of business liabilities, with recognized liabilities jumping from 7.65 billion yuan to 9.53 billion yuan.

Meanwhile, affected by the second phase of C-ROSS and market environment, the future surplus of policies counted as core Tier 1 capital shrank from 1.17 billion yuan to 520 million yuan, eroding the capital base to some extent.

Facing a "bleeding" of core capital, China Merchants Renhe Life demonstrated its financial planning capabilities in the fourth quarter.

In November 2025, the company issued 1.3 billion yuan of capital supplementary bonds with a coupon rate of only 2.40%, and simultaneously redeemed 800 million yuan of old debt issued in 2020 with a coupon rate as high as 4.95%;

This "new debt to repay old debt" financial alchemy not only brought a 500 million yuan increase in supplementary capital, but also saved about 20 million yuan in annual interest expenses, achieving both capital structure and cost control optimizations.

On the investment side, China Merchants Renhe Life showed a distinct defensive posture.

Its investment yield in 2025 was 5.22%, slightly lower than last year's 5.47%, but with a clearly defined allocation logic: a significant increase in holdings of government bonds to 31.05 billion yuan;

During a period of declining interest rates, this "rate locking" operation, though sacrificing some liquidity (cash ratio fallen to 0.67%), has nevertheless built a moat for steady long-term returns.

Another change worth market attention is hidden in the list of shareholders.

Beijing Zaichuan Technology Co., Ltd. plans to transfer its 3.79% stake to Chongqing Yufu Holdings Group and Chongqing Linkong Development Investment Group, which means that strong Chongqing state-owned capital will be introduced among the shareholders of China Merchants Renhe Life.

From its Shenzhen headquarters extending into the Southwest market, this cross-regional synergy at the shareholder level may suggest new ambitions for China Merchants Renhe Life's business landscape.

Although the company achieved the milestone of surpassing 100 billion in assets in 2025, challenges still objectively exist.

According to the company's forecast, the core solvency adequacy ratio may further drop to 83.55% in the next quarter. With over half of the capital supplementary bond quota already used, whether future capital pressure will be relieved through capital increase by shareholders will be a key point to monitor for subsequent growth momentum.

Between the impulse to expand and the red line of capital, China Merchants Renhe Life is trying to find a more sustainable balance.

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