Chinachem Group is a private real estate developer and property management company in Hong Kong, with a 65-year legacy of creating quality residential homes, commercial properties, hospitality and retail destinations.

The group dedicates to make better places to live, work, and raise future generations in Hong Kong and beyond, with a vision for enriching the lives of people, driving prosperity and protecting planet in order to deliver lasting commercial, social and environmental benefits.

As a leading real estate developer and property management in Asia, Chinachem Group (CCG) delivers high-value property services to tenants and businesses across commercial, retail, and residential portfolios. As managing portfolios continued to grow, CCG realized a number of its e-commerce platforms suffered slow performance during peak traffic, while fragmented operations hampered database management and incident response. Critically, migration risks for ERP systems and large-scale data transfers threatened business continuity across high-value assets.

Moreover, underutilized resources and legacy-infrastructure lock-in have also led to spiralling costs, while managing compliance processes were time-consuming and have left security gaps exposed. Therefore, its demand for a scalable, cost-efficient cloud platform for mission-critical workloads with enterprise-grade security and fulfill local compliance has become the top priority to the group.

Chinachem Group sought a strategic cloud partner to resolve performance, scalability, and cost challenges across its property management systems, including ERP system, corporate web portal, and e-commerce platform. Alibaba Cloud was selected for its strong Cloud Adoption Framework best practice and local compliance understanding, proven migration expertise, automated compliance capabilities, and enterprise-grade reliability.

Alibaba Cloud managed services partner, HKBN Enterprise Solutions, offer expertise in Kubernetes migration, server, and database transitions using tools like Data Transmission Service and Terraform. They ensure seamless project management with robust support for containerized applications, compliance, and configuration migration, while minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity in CCG's migration journey. Post-migration, HKBN continues to deliver professional management services for CCG’s Alibaba Cloud environment, including performance monitoring, security governance, and cost optimization—ensuring long-term operational excellence and cloud resilience.

Their purpose-built workload accounts (K8S, SAP) integrate seamlessly into the Landing Zone, exemplifying thoughtful design and technical precision. HKBN’s ongoing management of Alibaba Cloud environments for CCG highlights its strategic value. This large-scale SAP database migration sets a rare benchmark in HK, proving HKBN’s capability to handle large-scale professional services with excellence.

Together, Alibaba Cloud and HKBN Enterprise Solutions delivered a future-proof foundation for Chinachem’s portfolio growth.

Cloud Adoption Framework / Landing Zone

Alibaba Cloud Landing Zone facilitates IT transformation by enabling businesses to adopt a multi-cloud strategy, enhancing system resilience and providing greater agility for growth. Customer's infrastructure complies with globally recognized security standards and local regulations, making it suitable for local business operations and expansion, especially in the Chinese market. The advanced IT governance framework, built on Alibaba Cloud’s mature adoption framework, ensures strict audit compliance, it also supports digital transformation with innovative, cloud-native solutions and leverages a global partner ecosystem to optimize enterprise operations and modernize IT systems.

With the design and implementation by Alibaba Cloud Professional Service team, it allows CCG to adopt the latest infrastructure framework technology in the areas of security, serverless and audit. This has greatly enhanced both the overall management experience and operation security.

Migration

Chinachem Group implemented a comprehensive cloud migration and modernization strategy using Alibaba Cloud’s integrated services. The architecture leveraged Server Migration Center (SMC) to automate data transition, while ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL replaced legacy databases to deliver fully managed, high-availability storage. Data migration was streamlined, transferring critical assets to Object Storage Service (OSS).

Security

For security enhancement, Key Management Service (KMS) and Secret Manager established multi-region encryption for sensitive eStaff Card and property data across Hong Kong and Virginia regions. The solution integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Security Center for threat detection, complemented by Cloud Config to enforce compliance rule mappings.

Performance optimization utilized Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN) to accelerate global content delivery and Elastic Container Instance (ECI) for serverless auto-scaling during traffic peaks. Operational visibility was unified through CloudMonitor and EventBridge, enabling real-time alerting for infrastructure and application health metrics.

• 35% faster page load times for Nina Mall's digital platform via Dynamic CDN, enhancing global tenant experiences.

• 99.95% database availability with ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL, ensuring uninterrupted ERP and property management services.

• 50% acceleration in security incident response through integrated WAF and Security Center.

• 80% efficiency gain in compliance audits via automated Cloud Config rules (HKMA/GDPR alignment).

Chinachem Group aims to deepen its collaboration with Alibaba Cloud in its bid to accelerate digital innovation across its property portfolio. The partnership will focus on sustaining operational excellence through enhanced cost efficiency, reinforcing tenant experience standards, and enabling agile scalability for future growth – all built upon Alibaba Cloud’s vendor-neutral foundation. Together, the companies aim to redefine technology-enabled real estate services in Asia.