# Kuixin Technology

Fuelling the Future? A Chinese Oil Retailer’s High-Stakes Pivot to Semiconductors

Struggling oil retailer Heshun Petroleum is acquiring a 51.1% controlling stake in semiconductor IP firm Kuixin Technology for 540 million RMB. The move marks a desperate strategic shift to leverage China's semiconductor 'domestic substitution' trend as Heshun's core gas station business faces mounting losses.