StarTimes Communication Network Technology Co. Ltd. (四達時代通訊網絡技術有限公司), formerly registered as Beijing StarTimes Communication Network Technology Co., Ltd. (北京四達時代通訊網絡技術有限公司), is a Beijing-based Chinese technology and engineering company incorporated on January 18, 2000, in Haidian District, Beijing, with a registered and fully paid capital of 132 million RMB. It is the primary contracting entity for StarTimes Group’s (四達時代集團) government engineering, procurement, and construction contracts in Africa, and is the entity named in AidData’s record — sourced to Zambia’s Auditor General — as having signed the 273 million US dollar commercial EPC contract with Zambia’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services on September 18, 2015. It holds the 60 percent controlling stake in TopStar Communications Company Limited and wholly owns Beijing StarTimes Media Co., Ltd. (北京四達時代傳媒有限公司). The company is owned 80 percent by Qinhuangdao Development Zone Sida Electronics Co., Ltd. (秦皇島開發區四達電子有限公司) and 20 percent by Tibet Pan-African Investment Co., Ltd. (西藏泛非投資有限公司) — both ultimately controlled by Chinese businessman Pang Xinxing (龐新星), whom the registry identifies as the beneficial owner of approximately 82.46 percent of the company across both shareholding paths. The Tibet entity was inserted as a 20 percent shareholder on July 10, 2015, replacing a prior Beijing-registered shareholder, just two months before the Zambia EPC contract was signed in September 2015. While AidData renders the company’s English name as “Star Times Communication Network Technology Co. Ltd.” without providing a corresponding Chinese name, the most likely entity in PRC company registry records is 四達時代通訊網絡技術有限公司.