SNH48 Group Strategy Shuffle

Jan 19 2019

## Introduction

In order to respond to the current idol entertainment market's ever-expanding track and the proactive changes to the industry's accelerating iteration rate, therefore STAR48 has decided to embark on a Strategy Team Shuffle where a few announcements were made as well:

### Announcement 1

1. Launch of STAR48 **Overseas Trainee Program**. After the announcement of the **launching of the STAR48 overseas training base back in 2018**, SNH48 GROUP has selected 5 new generation members, namely **Gao Chong, Li JiaEn, Wang QiuRu, Xu JiaYin and Zhou RuiLin**, to go to the overseas base to **receive two years of high-level closed training**. The five members will **leave the stage after the Spring Festival** and officially embark on an overseas training trip. *(This is also an important step taken by STAR48 to realize the diversification and internationalization of idol cultivation and the star-making model)*.
2. STAR48 also launch the **2019 SNH48 GROUP 3 Groups Joint Recruitment**. **Between January 19 and March 20 2019, SNH48 12th Gen, BEJ48 7th Gen, GNZ48 7th Gen and STAR48 Overseas Trainees will be recruited**. *(This is to let more young people with dreams embark on their idol path, and inject fresh blood into the Chinese Idol Industry)*.

### Announcement 2

1. 5 teams **SHY48 TEAM SIII**, **SHY48 TEAM HIII**, **CKG48 TEAM C**, **CKG48 TEAM K** and **SNH48 TEAM FT** will be **officially disbanded**. The existing members of the five teams will partially move to the rest of the SNH48 GROUP teams and hope that they can continue to shine in their new teams and work hard on the idol path. **For the member list of the re-organized 10 teams, refer below.**

### Announcement 3

1. Establishment of **IDOLS Ft**. The group's members will be joined by some of SNH48 GROUP's Current Members, and will henceforth **interact with their fans mainly through their own channels such as Pocket48 App, and third-party cooperative Internet Interactive platforms**, *(realizing a completely Internet-based idol developing operation model)*. As the newest component of SNH48 GROUP, IDOLS Ft members will also have the opportunity to rejoin the various teams of SNH48, BEJ48 and GNZ48 through the support and selection of fans and "internet producers" for all.
2. SNH48 GROUP will **further increase the promotion of the top members of the group**, **the TOP66 members of the general election**, and the **selected members of other major annual events**, *(so as to achieve a great improvement of user experience and star-making ability)*.

### Announcement 4

1. STAR48 will continue to **improve the creation and production capacity of entertainment content**, including **online variety shows, dramas and movies**, with the core of **continuously optimizing the fan experience**, to **create high-quality idols that can be accepted and recognized by the public**, to **achieve a new leap in the idol formation and star-making business based on internet thinking**, and **to add bricks to the sustainable development of China's new generation idol industry**!
2. In addition, from 2019 onwards, in addition to the existing groups in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, STAR48 will fully launch the **new initiative of new sister group chain cooperation or model export**, here **to invite partners and entertainment investors around the world to discuss chain management and other in-depth cooperation**. *(This initiative is a new attempt to spread the national sister groups and realize the ecological and alliance operation covering the whole of China, in looking forward to opening more stories about dreams)*.

### Announcement 5

1. In March 2019, SNH48 Group's Summer Single will be shot overseas
2. In April 2019, SNH48 Group Sports Meet will be officially held.

## SNH48 Group Strategy Shuffle

### New Team HII

* Due to space constraints, we have to omit the full name of Wang XinYanTianTian down to just her initials.

### New Team X

#### Concurrent Position Members

* **Zhang QiongYu** with **GNZ48 Team G**