COL Group (stock code: 300364) was founded in 2000 at Tsinghua University. On January 21, 2015, it was listed on the ChiNext of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, becoming China's " first digital publishing stock".

COL is a pioneer in China's digital cultural and creative sector. It is devoted to fostering the integrated development of technology and culture by expanding its domestic and international operations; focusing on digital content production, copyright distribution, IP derivatives, and intellectual property protection; and producing great content, winning the IP market, and serving the industry ethically and diligently.

COL sources its licensed digital content through its online platform, famous authors, and copyright agencies. It has accumulated over 5.6 million digital content resources and 4.5 million online authors. It owns platforms that produce original content, such as 17K.com, 4YT.Net, science fiction label "qixiangyuzhou", and thriller label "Mystery Project". In 2013, under the guidance of the China Writers Association, COL established Internet Literature Creation Training, which has continuously trained many excellent and passionate professional web fiction writers.

COL distributes digital reading products to a variety of terminals, platforms, and media outlets after gathering and managing digital content. COL primarily focuses on literature IP, and creates a wide range of derivative forms of excellent web fiction, such as audiobooks, short and medium drama series, animation, film, and merchandise. COL has adhered to the "authorization before dissemination" principle and has set up a top-notch professional intellectual property protection team. So far, the team has worked on nearly 10,000 rights protection lawsuits that involve more than 100,000 works. To protect the legal rights of authors, COL used blockchain technology and set up the one-stop intellectual property service platform "Quan Shao" and the IP protection platform "Wu Chao".

COL is actively involved in the construction of the next-generation Internet. To fulfill the corporate mission of "better content, better life", COL combines high-quality content with advanced digital technology and promotes the exploration of new Metaverse forms such as digital collections, virtual humans, IP Metaverse, VR film, and television/animation.