Beijing, 29th March: Baidu, the leading Chinese-language Internet search provider, has announced the pricing of the initial public offering (IPO) of its subsidiary, iQIYI, Inc. Shares will begin trading at US$18 per American Depositary Share (ADS).

A total of 125,000,000 ADSs, each representing seven Class A Ordinary Shares of iQIYI will be sold. That results in an offering of US$2.25 billion. The company listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker symbol “IQ”.