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Sunac China Holdings Limited Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2016

Oct 17, 2016

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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THIS CIRCULAR IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

If you are in any doubt about any aspect of this circular or as to the action to be taken, you should consult your licensed securities dealer or registered institution in securities, bank manager, solicitor, professional accountant or other professional advisers.

If you have sold or transferred all your shares in Sunac China Holdings Limited , you should at once hand this circular together with the enclosed form of proxy to the purchaser(s) or transferee(s) or to the bank, licensed securities dealer or registered institution in securities or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser(s) or transferee(s).

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited take no responsibility for the contents of this circular, make no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaim any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this circular.

This circular appears for information purposes only and does not constitute an invitation or offer to acquire, purchase or subscribe for any securities.

SUNAC CHINA HOLDINGS LIMITED 融創中國控股有限公司

(incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 01918)

(1) CONNECTED TRANSACTION — PROPOSED SHARE ISSUANCE UNDER SPECIFIC MANDATE AND

(2) APPLICATION FOR WHITEWASH WAIVER

Independent Financial Adviser to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders

Capitalised terms used on this cover shall have the same meanings as those defined in the section headed “Definition” in this circular, unless the context requires otherwise.

A letter from the Board is set out on pages 5 to 13 of this circular. A letter from the Independent Board Committee containing its recommendation to the Independent Shareholders is set out on pages 14 to 15 of this circular. A letter of advice from Quam Capital to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders is set out on pages 16 to 37 of this circular.

A notice convening the EGM of Sunac China Holdings Limited to be held at Conference Hall, 16/F, Building A, Far East International Plaza, No. 319 Xianxia Road, Shanghai, the PRC on 2 November 2016 (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. is set out on pages 209 to 211 of this circular. A form of proxy for use by the Shareholders at the EGM is also enclosed. Such form of proxy is also published on the website of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (www.hkexnews.hk). Whether or not you are able to attend and vote at the EGM in person, you are requested to complete the form of proxy in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and return it to the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17/F, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong as soon as possible but in any event not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the EGM or any adjournment thereof. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude Shareholders from attending and voting at the EGM or any adjournment thereof (as the case may be) if they so wish.

17 October 2016

CONTENTS

Page
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
**Letter from the ** Board
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5
**Letter from the ** Independent Board Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Letter from Quam Capital
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16
Appendix I
Financial information of the Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
38
Appendix II
Summary of property valuation of the Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
171
Appendix III
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
190
Notice of EGM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

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DEFINITIONS

In this circular, the following expressions shall have the meanings set out below unless the context requires otherwise:

“Announcement” the announcement of the Company dated 26 September 2016 in relation to, among other matters, the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver “associate(s)” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules “Board” the board of Directors “Business Day(s)” any day(s) (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holiday and any day on which a tropical cyclone warning signal number 8 or above is hoisted or on which a “black” rainstorm warning signal is in force between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.) on which banks are generally open for business in Hong Kong

“Company” Sunac China Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability, and the issued Shares of which are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange (stock code: 1918) “Completion” the completion of the issue and subscription of the Subscription Shares in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Subscription Agreement “Completion Date” the day on which the completion of Subscription takes place, which shall be not later than the 10th Business Day after the date on which all the conditions precedent to the Subscription Agreement are fulfilled or such other date as the Company and the Subscriber may agree in writing

  • “connected person(s)” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules “controlling shareholder(s)” has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules “Director(s)” director(s) of the Company “Executive” the Executive Director of the Corporate Finance Division of the SFC or any delegate of the Executive Director

  • “EGM” an extraordinary general meeting of the Company to be convened to consider and, if thought fit, to approve the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver

  • “Group” the Company and its subsidiaries “HK$” Hong Kong dollars, the lawful currency of Hong Kong

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DEFINITIONS

  • “Hong Kong”

the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the PRC

  • “Independent Board Committee”

an independent board committee of the Company comprising all the non-executive Director and the independent non-executive Directors which has been established to advise the Independent Shareholders as to whether the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver are fair and reasonable and as to voting

  • “Independent Financial Adviser” or “Quam Capital”

  • Quam Capital Limited, a corporation licensed to carry on type 6 (advising on corporate finance) regulated activities under the SFO, the independent financial adviser appointed to advise the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders in connection with the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver

  • “Independent Shareholders”

  • Shareholders other than (i) the Subscriber Concert Group; and (ii) any Shareholder who is involved in or interested in the Subscription or the Whitewash Waiver, and their respective associates

  • “Last Trading Day”

  • 26 September 2016, being the last day on which the Shares were traded on the Stock Exchange before prior to the entering into of the Subscription Agreement

  • “Latest Practicable Date”

  • 13 October 2016, being the latest practicable date prior to the printing of this circular for the purpose of ascertaining certain information for inclusion in this circular

  • “Listing Rules”

  • the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange

  • “Long Stop Date” 31 December 2016 or such other date as the Company and the Subscriber may agree in writing

  • “Mr. Sun”

  • Mr. Sun Hongbin, the chairman of the Board and an executive Director

  • “PRC”

  • The People’s Republic of China

  • “Registrar”

the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17/F, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong

  • “Relevant Period”

the period commencing from 26 March 2016, being six months before the date of the Announcement and up to and including the Latest Practicable Date

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DEFINITIONS

“RMB” Renminbi, the lawful currency of the PRC “SFC” the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong “SFO” Securities and Futures Ordinance, Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong “Share(s)” ordinary share(s) of HK$0.1 each in the share capital of the Company “Shareholder(s)” holder(s) of the Share(s) “Share Option(s)” the outstanding option(s) held by the holders under the Share Option Schemes entitling them to subscribe for a total of 104,716,440 Shares as at the Latest Practicable Date “Share Option Schemes” the share option scheme adopted by the Company at the annual general meeting held on 29 April 2011 and the share option scheme adopted by the Company at the annual general meeting held on 19 May 2014

“Stock Exchange” The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited “Subscriber” Sunac International Investment Holdings Ltd, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with limited liability, being the subscriber as named in the Subscription Agreement and the controlling Shareholder of the Company wholly-owned by Mr. Sun

  • “Subscriber Concert Group” the Subscriber, Mr. Sun and parties acting in concert with any of them

  • “Subscription” the subscription of the Subscription Shares by the Subscriber pursuant to the terms of the Subscription Agreement

  • “Subscription Agreement” the subscription agreement dated 26 September 2016 entered into between the Company and the Subscriber in connection with the subscription of 453,074,433 new Shares by the Subscriber

  • “Subscription Price”

  • HK$6.18 per Subscription Share

  • “Subscription Shares” a total of 453,074,433 new Shares to be subscribed by the Subscriber pursuant to the Subscription Agreement

  • “substantial shareholder(s)” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Listing Rules

  • “Takeovers Code”

  • the Code on Takeovers and Mergers

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DEFINITIONS

“trading day(s)” any day on which Shares are traded on the Main Board of the
Stock Exchange
“US$” the lawful currency of the United States of America
“Whitewash Waiver” a waiver to be granted by the Executive pursuant to Note 1 on
dispensations from Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code in respect
of the obligation of the Subscriber to make a mandatory
general offer for all the issued securities of the Company not
already owned, controlled or agreed to be acquired by the
Subscriber Concert Group which may otherwise arise as a
result of the subscription of the Subscription Shares by the
Subscriber pursuant to the Subscription Agreement
“%” per cent.

This circular has been printed in English and Chinese. In the event of any inconsistency, the English text of this circular shall prevail over its Chinese text.

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

SUNAC CHINA HOLDINGS LIMITED 融創中國控股有限公司

(incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 01918)

Executive Directors:

Mr. SUN Hongbin (Chairman) Mr. WANG Mengde (Chief Executive Officer) Mr. JING Hong Mr. CHI Xun Mr. SHANG Yu Mr. LI Shaozhong

Non-executive Director:

Mr. ZHU Jia

Independent non-executive Directors:

Mr. POON Chiu Kwok Mr. LI Qin Mr. MA Lishan Mr. TSE Chi Wai

Registered office:

Landmark Square 3rd Floor, 64 Earth Close P.O. Box 30592 Grand Cayman KY1-1203 Cayman Islands

Headquarters and principal place of business in the PRC:

10/F, Building C7 Magnetic Plaza Binshuixi Road, Nankai District Tianjin 300381 The PRC

Principal place of business in Hong Kong:

36/F, Tower Two Times Square 1 Matheson Street Causeway Bay Hong Kong

17 October 2016

To the Shareholders

Dear Sir or Madam,

(1) CONNECTED TRANSACTION — PROPOSED SHARE ISSUANCE UNDER SPECIFIC MANDATE AND

(2) APPLICATION FOR WHITEWASH WAIVER

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

1. INTRODUCTION

As stated in the Announcement, the Company and the Subscriber entered into the Subscription Agreement on 26 September 2016, pursuant to which the Company conditionally agreed to allot and issue to the Subscriber, and the Subscriber conditionally agreed to subscribe for, 453,074,433 Subscription Shares at the Subscription Price of HK$6.18 per Subscription Share.

The purpose of this circular is to provide you with, among others, (i) further information on the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver; (ii) a letter of recommendation from the Independent Board Committee to the Independent Shareholders in respect of the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver, (iii) a letter of advice from Quam Capital to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders in respect of the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver, (iv) other information as required under the Listing Rules and the Takeovers Code and (v) the notice of the EGM.

2. THE SUBSCRIPTION

The Subscription Agreement

Date:

26 September 2016

Parties:

  • (1) the Company, as the issuer; and

  • (2) the Subscriber, as the subscriber.

To the best of the knowledge, information and belief of the Directors, having made all reasonable enquiry, the Subscriber was solely and beneficially owned by Mr. Sun and was the controlling shareholder of the Company as at the Latest Practicable Date.

Number of Subscription Shares

Pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, the Company conditionally agreed to allot and issue, and the Subscriber conditionally agreed to subscribe for, the Subscription Shares comprising 453,074,433 Shares, which, having an aggregate nominal value of HK$45,307,443.30, represent:

  • (i) approximately 13.31% of the existing issued share capital of the Company as at the Subscription Agreement and the Latest Practicable Date;

  • (ii) approximately 11.75% of the issued share capital of the Company as enlarged by the allotment and issue of the Subscription Shares (assuming that there will not be any other changes in the issued share capital of the Company between the date of the Subscription Agreement and the Completion Date; and

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

  • (iii) approximately 11.44% of the issued share capital of the Company as enlarged by the allotment and issue of the Subscription Shares and the Shares to be issued upon exercise of all the outstanding Share Options (assuming that there will not be any other changes in the issued share capital of the Company between the date of the Subscription Agreement and the Completion Date).

Subscription Price

The Subscription Price of HK$6.18 per Share represents:

  • (i) a premium of approximately 18.85% over the closing price of HK$5.2 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange on 13 October 2016, being the Latest Practicable Date;

  • (ii) a premium of approximately 6.55% over the closing price of HK$5.8 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange on 26 September 2016, being the date of the Subscription Agreement and the Last Trading Day;

  • (iii) a premium of approximately 3.34% over the average closing price of approximately HK$5.98 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange for the last five trading days up to and including the Last Trading Day; and

  • (iv) a premium of approximately 7.11% over the average closing price of approximately HK$5.77 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange for the last ten trading days up to and including the Last Trading Day.

The Subscription Price was agreed after arm’s length negotiations between the Company and the Subscriber with reference to recent market prices of the Shares.

Rights and ranking of the Subscription Shares

The Subscription Shares, when issued and fully paid, will rank equally in all respects among themselves and with all other Shares in issue as at the date of allotment and issue of the Subscription Shares, including the right to receive all future dividends and distributions which may be declared, made or paid by the Company with a record date falling on or after the date of allotment and issue of the Subscription Shares.

Conditions of the Subscription

The Subscription is conditional upon the following being fulfilled:

  • (a) the passing at the EGM of the resolution to approve the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver by the Independent Shareholders by way of poll in accordance with the Listing Rules and the Takeovers Code;

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

  • (b) the Executive granting the Whitewash Waiver and the satisfaction of all conditions (if any) attached to the Whitewash Waiver granted; and

  • (c) the listing committee of the Stock Exchange granting the listing of, and permission to deal in, the Subscription Shares.

Neither the Company nor the Subscriber may waive any of the conditions above. As at the Latest Practicable Date, none of the above conditions had been fulfilled.

In the event any of the above conditions has not been fulfilled on or before the Long Stop Date, the Subscription Agreement shall lapse automatically.

As the Subscription is subject to the fulfillment of certain conditions and may or may not proceed, Shareholders and potential investors are advised to exercise caution when dealing in the Shares, and are recommended to consult their stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor or other professional adviser if they are in any doubt about their position or as to actions they should take.

Mandate to issue the Subscription Shares

The Subscription Shares will be allotted and issued pursuant to the specific mandate to be sought at the EGM.

Application for listing

An application will be made by the Company to the listing committee of the Stock Exchange for the listing of, and permission to deal in, the Subscription Shares.

Completion of the Subscription

Pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, completion of the Subscription shall take place on the Completion Date.

3. INTENDED USE OF PROCEEDS

The gross and net aggregate proceeds after deducting all relevant costs and expenses of the Subscription is approximately HK$2,800 million and HK$2,795 million, respectively, representing a net price of approximately HK$6.17 per Subscription Share.

The Company intends to apply the net proceeds to be raised from the Subscription for repayment of offshore debts and as general working capital of the Company. In particular, the Company intends to allocate (i) the majority of the net proceeds for repayment of the offshore debts of the Group with a view to further reducing the Group’s exposure to interest rate and exchange rate risks due to offshore debts; and (ii) the balance, if any, as general working capital of the Group, including for payment of offshore management and other expenses and payables as may be incurred by the Group from time to time.

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

After the Subscription, the Company will review its working capital needs, cash flow position and debt exposures from time to time and will consider other fund raising means if any additional funding is required by the Group for its business development and operation.

Having regard to the cash position of the Company (including the cash to assets ratio) and the amount and intended use of proceeds from the Subscription as set out above, the Company takes the view that the Subscription will not render the Company a cash company under the Listing Rules.

4. FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS

The Company had not carried out any fund raising exercises by any issue of equity securities during the 12 months immediately preceding the Latest Practicable Date.

5. EFFECT ON SHAREHOLDING STRUCTURE OF THE COMPANY

Set out below is the shareholding structure of the Company (i) as at the Latest Practicable Date; (ii) immediately after completion of the Subscription; and (iii) immediately after completion of the Subscription and following the exercise of all Share Options in full, assuming that there will not be any other changes in the issued share capital and shareholding structure of the Company from the Latest Practicable Date. Shareholders should take note that the analysis under scenario (ii) and (iii) is shown for illustration purpose only.

Shareholders
Subscriber Concert Group
The Subscriber (Note 1)
Mr. Sun Hongbin
Sub-total for the Subscriber
Concert Group
Other Directors
Mr. Wang Mengde
Mr. Jing Hong
Mr. Chi Xun
Mr. Shang Yu
Mr. Li Shaozhong
Public shareholders
Total
Assuming that there will not be any other changes in
the issued share capital and shareholding structure of
the Company
As at the Latest
Practicable Date
Immediately after
completion of the
Subscription
Immediately after
completion of the
Subscription and exercise
of all outstanding Share
Options in full (Note 2)
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
1,589,549,451
46.70
2,042,623,884
52.96
2,042,623,884
51.56
10,090,000
0.30
10,090,000
0.26
11,390,000
0.29
1,599,639,451
47.00
2,052,713,884
53.22
2,054,013,884
51.85
3,300,000
0.10
3,300,000
0.09
13,000,000
0.33
650,000
0.02
650,000
0.02
9,600,000
0.24




9,200,000
0.23




7,450,000
0.19




8,000,000
0.20
1,800,252,865
52.89
1,800,252,865
46.67
1,860,369,305
46.96
3,403,842,316
100
3,856,916,749
100
3,961,633,189
100
Assuming that there will not be any other changes in
the issued share capital and shareholding structure of
the Company
As at the Latest
Practicable Date
Immediately after
completion of the
Subscription
Immediately after
completion of the
Subscription and exercise
of all outstanding Share
Options in full (Note 2)
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
1,589,549,451
46.70
2,042,623,884
52.96
2,042,623,884
51.56
10,090,000
0.30
10,090,000
0.26
11,390,000
0.29
1,599,639,451
47.00
2,052,713,884
53.22
2,054,013,884
51.85
3,300,000
0.10
3,300,000
0.09
13,000,000
0.33
650,000
0.02
650,000
0.02
9,600,000
0.24




9,200,000
0.23




7,450,000
0.19




8,000,000
0.20
1,800,252,865
52.89
1,800,252,865
46.67
1,860,369,305
46.96
3,403,842,316
100
3,856,916,749
100
3,961,633,189
100
0.33
0.24
0.23
0.19
0.20
46.96
100

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

Notes:

  1. As at the Latest Practicable Date, the Subscriber was solely and beneficially owned by Mr. Sun. Mr. Sun was deemed to be interested in all the Shares in which the Subscriber was interested by virtue of the SFO.

  2. As at the Latest Practicable Date, there were in aggregate 104,716,440 outstanding Share Options. Save for the Directors, none of the grantees of the Share Options are core connected persons (as defined in the Listing Rules) of the Company.

Based on the above, the Company will maintain the minimum public float of the Shares as required under the Listing Rules immediately upon completion of the Subscription.

6. INFORMATION OF THE PARTIES TO THE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

The Company is a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability, and the shares of which are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. As specialised in integrated development of residential and commercial properties, the Company is one of the leading real estate developers in the PRC. In line with its regional focus and high-end positioning strategy, the Company has developed or is developing many high-quality property projects ranging from high-rise residences, detached villas, retail properties and offices in first-tier cities and core second-tier cities across the PRC.

The Subscriber is a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and is principally engaged in investment holding. The Subscriber is solely and beneficially owned by Mr. Sun, the chairman of the Board and an executive Director of the Company.

7. REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE SUBSCRIPTION

The Board considers that the Subscription will be beneficial to the Company as it will enable the Company to expand its working capital, increase its shareholders’ equity base and lower its debt ratio, thereby achieve optimization of its capital structure and improve its ability to resist financial risks, which will support the healthy and sustained development of the Company.

As at 31 August 2016, the total outstanding principal amount of the Group’s offshore debts was approximately US$2.4 billion, among which approximately US$1.6 billion carried interest at fixed rates and approximately US$0.8 billion carried interest at floating rates. The total outstanding principal amount of the Group’s offshore debts that would require repayment upon maturity before 31 December 2016 was estimated to be approximately US$0.2 billion.

In light of the recent market circumstances, including the relative ease of availability and lower cost of onshore debt financing as compared to offshore debt financing, as well as the interest rate and exchange rate risks faced by the Group due to its offshore debts, the Company considers that it is an opportune time to control and further reduce the scale of its offshore debt exposures. From a long term perspective, the Company is in a stage of rapid business development. The proceeds from the Subscription will enable the Company to repay part of the offshore debts which carry interests at floating rates. This is aligned with the Company’s long term strategy to optimize its debt structure, expand its shareholder’s equity base, lower its interest rate and exchange rate risks and improve its

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profitability, in order to support the sustainable development of the Company. As compared to other equity fund raising means such as rights issue or placing of Shares, the Subscription does not involve any underwriting expenses or discount to the market price per Share which would increase the financial costs of the Company. With the Subscription Price set at a premium to the then market price for Shares, the Subscription represents the strong support from the controlling shareholder of the Company in the prospects and future development of the Company.

The Board (excluding the Independent Board Committee whose opinion has been set forth in the “Letter from the Independent Board Committee” of this circular after having been advised by Quam Capital in this regard) consider the terms of the Subscription Agreement to be normal commercial terms and the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole.

By virtue of his interests in the Subscription through the Subscriber, Mr. Sun, the chairman of the Board and an executive Director of the Company, has abstained from voting on (and has not been counted in the quorum for) the relevant Board resolutions for approving the Subscription Agreement, the Whitewash Waiver and the transactions contemplated thereunder. Save for Mr. Sun, none of the Directors is regarded as having a material interest in, and therefore none of them is required to abstain from voting on, the relevant Board resolutions for approving the Subscription Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereunder.

8. LISTING RULES IMPLICATION

The Subscriber is solely and beneficially owned by Mr. Sun, the chairman of the Board and an executive Director of the Company. As at the Latest Practicable Date, each of the Subscriber and Mr. Sun was interested in approximately 46.70% and 0.30% of the total issued Shares of the Company respectively. As such, the Subscriber is the controlling shareholder and a connected person of the Company under the Listing Rules, and the Subscription constitutes a connected transaction for the Company and is subject to the reporting, announcement and independent shareholders’ approval requirements under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules.

9. TAKEOVERS CODE IMPLICATIONS AND WHITEWASH WAIVER

As the Subscription will increase the aggregate interest of the Subscriber Concert Group by more than 2% from approximately 47.00% to approximately 53.22% (assuming that no outstanding Share Options are exercised and no other Shares are allotted or issued on or before the completion of the Subscription), the Subscription will give rise to an obligation on the part of the Subscriber to make a mandatory general offer for all the securities of the Company not already owned or agreed to be acquired by the Subscriber Concert Group under Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code.

The Subscriber has made an application for the Whitewash Waiver pursuant to Note 1 on Dispensations from Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code. Pursuant to the Takeovers Code, the Whitewash Waiver will be subject to, among other things, the approval of the Independent Shareholders by way of poll at the EGM in accordance with the requirements of the Takeovers Code. The Subscriber

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

Concert Group and any Shareholders who are involved in or interested in the Subscription or the Whitewash Waiver or the transactions contemplated thereunder are required by the Listing Rules or the Takeovers Code to abstain from voting on the proposed resolution approving the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver at the EGM.

As at the Latest Practicable Date, the Company did not believe that the Subscription gave rise to any concerns in relation to compliance with other applicable rules or regulations (including the Listing Rules). If a concern should arise after the Latest Practicable Date, the Company will endeavour to resolve the matter to the satisfaction of the relevant authority as soon as possible. The Company notes that the Executive may not grant the Whitewash Waiver if the Subscription does not comply with other applicable rules and regulations.

If the Whitewash Waiver is not granted by the Executive, or if granted, is not approved by the Independent Shareholders, the Subscription will not proceed.

If the Whitewash Waiver is approved by the Independent Shareholders, upon the issue of the Subscription Shares to the Subscriber (and assuming there is no other change to the issued share capital of the Company), the interest of the Subscriber in the Company will exceed 50%. The Subscriber may further increase its shareholdings in the Company without incurring any further obligations under Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code to make a general offer.

10. EGM

A notice convening the EGM is set out on pages 209 to 211 of this circular. The EGM will be convened and held at Conference Hall, 16/F, Building A, Far East International Plaza, No. 319 Xianxia Road, Shanghai, the PRC on 2 November 2016 (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, approving the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver.

A form of proxy for use at the EGM is enclosed with this circular. Such form of proxy is also published on the website of the Stock Exchange (www.hkexnews.hk). Whether or not you are able to attend and vote at the EGM in person, you are requested to complete the form of proxy in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and return it to the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17/F, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong as soon as possible but in any event not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the EGM or any adjournment thereof. Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude Shareholders from attending and voting at the EGM or any adjournment thereof (as the case may be) if they so wish.

The resolution proposed at the EGM will be taken by way of poll. An announcement on the poll results will be made by the Company after the EGM in the manner prescribed under Rule 13.39(5) of the Listing Rules.

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11. RECOMMENDATION

Your attention is drawn to the letter from the Independent Board Committee set out on pages 14 to 15 of this circular which contains its recommendation to the Independent Shareholders as to voting at the EGM regarding the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver. The Independent Board Committee comprised all the non-executive Director and independent non-executive Directors, namely Mr. Zhu Jia, Mr. Poon Chiu Kwok, Mr. Li Qin, Mr. Ma Lishan and Mr. Tse Chi Wai, who have not been involved or interested in, directly or indirectly, the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver.

Your attention is also drawn to the letter from Quam Capital set out on pages 16 to 37 of this circular which contains its advice to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders regarding the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver and the principal factors and reasons taken into consideration in arriving at its advice.

The Directors (including the members of the Independent Board Committee whose opinion have been set forth in the “Letter from the Independent Board Committee” of this circular after having been advised by Quam Capital in this regard) consider that the terms of the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver are fair and reasonable and are in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, the Directors (including the members of the Independent Board Committee whose opinion have been set forth in the “Letter from the Independent Board Committee” of this circular after having been advised by Quam Capital in this regard) recommend the Independent Shareholders to vote in favour of the resolution to be proposed at the EGM to approve the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver. You are advised to read the letter from the Independent Board Committee and the letter from Quam Capital mentioned above before deciding how to vote on the resolution to be proposed at the EGM.

12. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Your attention is also drawn to the additional information set out in the appendices to this circular.

By order of the Board Sunac China Holdings Limited WANG Mengde

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

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LETTER FROM THE INDEPENDENT BOARD COMMITTEE

SUNAC CHINA HOLDINGS LIMITED 融創中國控股有限公司

(incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 01918)

17 October 2016

To the Independent Shareholders

Dear Sir or Madam,

(1) CONNECTED TRANSACTION — PROPOSED SHARE ISSUANCE UNDER SPECIFIC MANDATE AND

(2) APPLICATION FOR WHITEWASH WAIVER

We refer to the circular of the Company dated 17 October 2016 (the “ Circular ”), of which this letter forms part. Unless the context requires otherwise, capitalised terms used herein have the same meanings as defined in the Circular.

We have been appointed by the Board as the Independent Board Committee to advise the Independent Shareholders as to whether the terms of the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver are fair and reasonable as far as the Independent Shareholders are concerned and to recommend whether or not the Independent Shareholders should vote for the resolution to be proposed at the EGM to approve the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver. The appointment of Quam Capital as the independent financial adviser to advise you and us in this regard has been approved by us. Details of its advice, together with the principal factors and reasons it has taken into consideration in arriving at such advice, are set out on pages 16 to 37 of the Circular.

Your attention is also drawn to the “Letter from the Board” in the Circular and other information set out in the appendices thereto.

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LETTER FROM THE INDEPENDENT BOARD COMMITTEE

Having considered the terms of the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver and taking into account the independent advice from Quam Capital, in particular the principal factors, reasons and recommendation as set out in its letter, we are of the opinion that the terms of the Subscription are fair and reasonable, and are of the view that the Whitewash Waiver, which is to facilitate the implementation of the Subscription, is fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, we recommend the Independent Shareholders to vote in favour of the resolution to be proposed at the EGM to approve the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver.

Yours faithfully,

For and on behalf of the Independent Board Committee Mr. ZHU Jia Mr. POON Chiu Kwok Mr. LI Qin Mr. MA Lishan Mr. TSE Chi Wai Non-executive Director Independent Independent Independent Independent non-executive non-executive non-executive non-executive Director Director Director Director

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LETTER FROM QUAM CAPITAL

The following is the full text of a letter of advice from Quam Capital, the independent financial adviser to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders, which has been prepared for the purpose of incorporation in this circular, setting out its advice to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders in respect of the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver.

17 October 2016

  • To the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders

Sunac China Holdings Limited 36/F, Tower Two Times Square 1 Matheson Street Causeway Bay Hong Kong

Dear Sirs/Madams,

(1) CONNECTED TRANSACTION — PROPOSED SHARE ISSUANCE UNDER SPECIFIC MANDATE AND (2) APPLICATION FOR WHITEWASH WAIVER

INTRODUCTION

We refer to our appointment as the independent financial adviser (the “ Independent Financial Adviser ”) to the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders in respect of the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver, details of which are set out in the circular of the Company dated 17 October 2016 (the “ Circular ”), of which this letter forms part. Capitalised terms used in this letter shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Circular unless the context otherwise requires.

On 26 September 2016, the Company and the Subscriber entered into the Subscription Agreement, pursuant to which the Company conditionally agreed to allot and issue to the Subscriber, and the Subscriber conditionally agreed to subscribe for, 453,074,433 Subscription Shares at the Subscription Price of HK$6.18 per Subscription Share.

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The Subscriber is solely and beneficially owned by Mr. Sun, the chairman of the Board and an executive Director. As at the Latest Practicable Date, each of the Subscriber and Mr. Sun was interested in approximately 46.70% and 0.30% of the total issued Shares respectively. The Subscriber is therefore the controlling shareholder and a connected person of the Company under the Listing Rules. As a result, the Subscription constitutes a connected transaction for the Company and is subject to the reporting, announcement and independent shareholders’ approval requirements under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules.

As the Subscription will increase the aggregate interest of the Subscriber Concert Group by more than 2% from approximately 47.00% to approximately 53.22% (assuming that no outstanding Share Options are exercised and no other Shares are allotted and issued on or before Completion), the Subscription will give rise to an obligation on the part of the Subscriber to make a mandatory general offer for all the securities of the Company not already owned or agreed to be acquired by the Subscriber Concert Group under Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code, unless the Whitewash Waiver is obtained from the Executive. In this regard, the Subscriber has made an application to the Executive for the Whitewash Waiver pursuant to Note 1 on dispensations from Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code.

The Independent Board Committee comprising all the non-executive Director and the independent non-executive Directors, namely Mr. Zhu Jia, Mr. Poon Chiu Kwok, Mr. Li Qin, Mr. Ma Lishan and Mr. Tse Chi Wai, has been established to advise the Independent Shareholders on (i) whether the terms of the Subscription Agreement and the Whitewash Waiver are fair and reasonable so far as the Independent Shareholders are concerned; (ii) whether the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver are in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole; and (iii) the voting action that should be taken by the Independent Shareholders at the EGM. The Independent Board Committee has approved our appointment as the Independent Financial Adviser to advise the Independent Board Committee and the Independent Shareholders in the same regard.

We are not associated with the Company, the Subscriber, Mr. Sun or any of their respective substantial shareholders, or any party acting, or presumed to be acting, in concert with any of them. Apart from normal professional fees payable to us in connection with this engagement, no other arrangement exists whereby we will receive any fees or benefits from the Company, the Subscriber, Mr. Sun or any of their respective substantial shareholders, or any party acting, or presumed to be acting, in concert with any of them. In the last two years and up to the Latest Practicable Date, a fellow subsidiary of Quam Capital had provided investor identity tracking service to the Company. As the aggregate contract value of the service provided by our fellow subsidiary is immaterial, we do not consider the aforesaid relationship will affect the objectivity of our advice. Accordingly, we are considered eligible to give an independent advice on the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver.

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BASIS OF OUR OPINION

In formulating our opinion and advice, we have relied on (i) the information and facts contained or referred to in the Circular; (ii) the information and facts supplied by the Group and its advisers; (iii) the opinions expressed by and the representations of the Directors and the management of the Group; and (iv) our review of the relevant public information. We have assumed that all the information provided and representations and opinions expressed to us or contained or referred to in the Circular were true, accurate and complete in all material respects at the time they were made and up to the Latest Practicable Date and may be relied upon. We have also sought and received confirmation from the Directors and the management of the Group that no material facts have been withheld or omitted from the information provided and opinions expressed to us by them and that all information or representations regarding the Group and the Subscriber Concert Group provided to us by the Group, the Directors, the management of the Group and the advisers of the Company are true, accurate, complete and not misleading in all material respects at the time they were made and up to the Latest Practicable Date. Shareholders will be informed as soon as possible if we become aware of any material change to such information. We have also relied on the responsibility statement made by the Directors contained in the Circular. We have no reason to doubt the truth, accuracy and completeness of the information and representations provided to us by the Group, the Directors, the management of the Group and the advisers of the Company.

We consider that we have reviewed sufficient information currently available to reach an informed view and to justify our reliance on the accuracy of the information contained in the Circular so as to provide a reasonable basis for our recommendation. We have not, however, carried out any independent verification of the information provided, representations made or opinions expressed by the Group, the Directors, the management of the Group and the advisers of the Company, nor have we conducted any form of in-depth investigation into the business, affairs, operations, financial position or future prospects of any member of the Group or its associates.

PRINCIPAL FACTORS AND REASONS CONSIDERED

In formulating our opinion and recommendation regarding the Subscription and Whitewash Waiver, we have considered the principal factors and reasons set out below:

1. Information on the Group

(i) Background of the Group

The Group is one of the leading real estate developers in the PRC and is specialised in the integrated development of residential and commercial properties. In line with its regional focus and high-end positioning strategy, the Group has been developing many high-quality property projects ranging from high-rise residences, detached villas, retail properties and offices in the first-tier cities and core second-tier cities across the PRC.

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As at 30 June 2016, the Group was engaging in a total of 132 property development projects in 21 core first- and second-tier cities in the PRC with land bank of approximately 37.76 million square metres (“ sq.m. ”) and attributable land bank of approximately 24.72 million sq.m..

(ii) Financial performance

Set out below is certain key financial information of the Group as extracted from the consolidated statement of comprehensive income for the two years ended 31 December 2014 and 2015 set out in the annual report for the year ended 31 December 2015 (the “ 2015 Annual Report ”) and for the six months ended 30 June 2015 and 2016 set out in the interim report for the six months ended 30 June 2016 (the “ 2016 Interim Report ”):

Revenue
- Property development and investment
- Property management and others
Gross profit
Gross profit margin (Note)
Other income and gains
Finance costs
Share of post-tax (losses)/profits of
investments accounted for using
equity method, net
Profit for the year/period
Profit attributable to owners
of the Company
For the six months
ended 30 June
For the year ended
31 December
2016
2015
2015
2014
(unaudited)
(unaudited)
(audited)
(audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
10,586,085
5,442,722
23,010,943
25,071,959
10,330,591
5,224,665
22,511,143
24,719,336
255,494
218,057
499,800
352,623
1,406,115
618,051
2,857,265
4,341,880
20.9%
23.6%
19.0%
25.4%
1,551,361
2,220,585
4,111,990
1,020,451
1,578,739
698,577
(2,520,575)
(1,267,380)
(235,504)
451,871
1,693,207
2,181,283
102,770
1,257,663
3,608,403
3,232,629
72,935
951,399
3,297,828
3,222,070

Note: Excluding the impact of fair value re-measurement and provision for impairment of the properties.

The Group generates its revenue substantially from sales of residential and commercial properties which accounted for approximately 97.8% and 97.6% of total revenue of the Group for the year ended 31 December 2015 and for the six months ended 30 June 2016, respectively. Only a small portion of the Group’s revenue was derived from provision of property management services.

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Six months ended 30 June 2016 compared to six months ended 30 June 2015

Revenue of the Group increased by approximately 94.5% from approximately RMB5,442.7 million for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately RMB10,586.1 million for the six months ended 30 June 2016, mainly attributable to the increase in total area of properties delivered, especially in the Hangzhou and Chengdu regions, for the six months ended 30 June 2016.

Excluding the impact of fair value re-measurement and provision for impairment of the properties, gross profit margin of the Group decreased from approximately 23.6% for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately 20.9% for the six months ended 30 June 2016, mainly attributable to the decrease in the proportion of revenue derived from properties with higher gross margins in Beijing and Shanghai for the six months ended 30 June 2016.

The decrease in other income and gains from approximately RMB2,220.6 million for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately RMB1,551.4 million for the six months ended 30 June 2016 was primarily due to the decrease in gains from disposal of subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates and interest income from joint ventures and associates, which was partially offset by the increase in gains from business combination and investments in joint ventures.

Finance costs increased by approximately 126.0% from approximately RMB698.6 million for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately RMB1,578.7 million for the six months ended 30 June 2016, mainly attributable to (a) the increase in the Group’s net foreign exchange loss from approximately RMB4.4 million for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately RMB376.0 million for the six months ended 30 June 2016; and (b) the increase in expensed finance cost from approximately RMB694.1 million for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately RMB1,202.7 million for the six months ended 30 June 2016 resulting from the decrease in the capitalisation ratio. Total finance costs (including capitalised and expensed finance costs) increased from approximately RMB1,362.2 million for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately RMB1,645.5 million for the six months ended 30 June 2016, mainly due to the increase in borrowings. The weighted-average effective interest rate of the Group’s borrowings however decreased from approximately 7.7% for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately 6.4% for the six months ended 30 June 2016, primarily attributable to continued optimisation of debt structure through refinancing existing borrowings with corporate bonds at lower finance costs.

The Group recorded a share of net losses of investments accounted for using equity method of approximately RMB235.5 million for the six months ended 30 June 2016, as compared to a net post-tax profit of approximately RMB451.9 million for the six months ended 30 June 2015. This was primarily due to the decrease in the proportion of sales by joint ventures and associates of properties with higher gross margins, including Beijing Jinmao Residence, Beijing Jinmao Palace and Tianjin Horizon Capital, as well as the establishment of a relatively large number of new joint ventures and associates which did not generate any sales and recorded only operating expenses prior to the property delivery stage, resulting in a share of net losses of investments for the six months ended 30 June 2016.

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As a result of the aforesaid, profit attributable to owners of the Company decreased by approximately 92.3% from approximately RMB951.4 million for the six months ended 30 June 2015 to approximately RMB72.9 million for the six months ended 30 June 2016.

Year ended 31 December 2015 compared to year ended 31 December 2014

Revenue of the Group decreased by approximately 8.2% from approximately RMB25,072.0 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB23,010.9 million for the year ended 31 December 2015, primarily attributable to the decrease in average selling price of properties sold from RMB15,001 per sq.m. for the year ended 31 December 2014 to RMB12,430 per sq.m. for the year ended 31 December 2015, representing a decrease of approximately 17.1%. Such decrease in average selling price of properties sold was mainly due to (a) the decrease in delivered area of properties with higher unit prices such as Tianjin Majestic Capital, Beijing West Chateau and Chongqing Asia Pacific Enterprise Valley as these projects were approaching the closure of sales; and (b) the higher percentage of total revenue derived from sales of properties with lower unit prices which were mainly located in Tianjin, Chongqing and Chengdu.

Excluding the impact of fair value re-measurement and provision for impairment of the properties, gross profit margin of the Group decreased from approximately 25.4% for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately 19.0% for the year ended 31 December 2015, primarily attributable to (a) the decrease in delivered area of properties with higher gross margins including Tianjin Majestic Capital, Beijing West Chateau, Chongqing Olympic Garden and Chongqing Asia Pacific Enterprise Valley as these projects were approaching the closure of sales; and (b) the higher percentage of total revenue derived from sales of properties with lower average selling price than expected which were mainly located in Tianjin and Chongqing. As a result of the decrease in revenue and gross profit margin of the Group, gross profit of the Group decreased by approximately 34.2% from approximately RMB4,341.9 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB2,857.3 for the year ended 31 December 2015.

Other income and gains increased significantly from approximately RMB1,020.5 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB4,112.0 million for the year ended 31 December 2015, primarily due to (a) the gains of approximately RMB2,180.0 million from disposing certain equity interests of the Group’s subsidiaries and certain equity interests and debts of the Group’s associates; and (b) the gains of approximately RMB829.5 million from business combinations and the acquisition of interests in certain joint ventures.

Finance costs increased substantially from approximately RMB1,267.4 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB2,520.6 million for the year ended 31 December 2015, mainly attributable to (a) the increase in the Group’s foreign exchange net loss from approximately RMB8.3 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB800.1 million for the year ended 31 December 2015; and (b) the increase in expensed finance cost from approximately RMB1,259.0 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB1,680.7 million for the year ended 31 December 2015, primarily due to a lower interest capitalisation ratio. Total finance costs (including capitalised and expensed finance costs) however decreased from approximately

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RMB3,036.0 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB2,908.7 million for the year ended 31 December 2015, mainly due to the decrease in the weighted-average effective interest rate of the Group’s borrowings from approximately 9.1% for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately 7.6% for the year ended 31 December 2015.

The decrease in share of post-tax profits of investments accounted for using equity method, net, from approximately RMB2,181.3 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB1,693.2 million for the year ended 31 December 2015 was mainly due to the lower percentage of total revenue derived from sales of properties developed by joint ventures and associates with higher gross margin, including Beijing Jinmao Residence, Beijing Jinmao Palace and Tianjin Horizon Capital, resulting in a decrease in the overall operating profit of the Group’s joint ventures and associates.

As a result of the aforesaid, profit attributable to owners of the Company increased by approximately 2.4% from approximately RMB3,222.1 million for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately RMB3,297.8 million for the year ended 31 December 2015.

(iii) Financial position

Set out below is the summary of the consolidated balance sheets of the Group as at 31 December 2014 and 2015 and 30 June 2016 as extracted from the 2015 Annual Report and the 2016 Interim Report:

As at 30 June
2016
(Unaudited)
RMB’000
Non-current assets
Investments accounted for using
the equity method
17,728,984
Prepayment for investments
3,230,375
Other non-current assets
1,964,714
22,924,073
Current assets
Properties under development
48,923,225
Completed properties held for sale
15,148,069
Trade and other receivables
2,080,084
Amounts due from related companies
20,138,851
Prepayments
5,209,953
Restricted cash
11,809,911
Cash and cash equivalents
28,337,573
As at 31 December
2015
2014
(audited)
(audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
15,260,581
12,048,789
4,722,036
944,991
1,801,657
1,901,673
21,784,274
14,895,453
34,142,659
35,700,545
15,727,129
13,682,451
970,481
2,474,809
11,660,049
17,999,418
4,166,080
2,568,194
4,371,010
4,384,145
22,687,280
20,657,285
As at 31 December
2015
2014
(audited)
(audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
15,260,581
12,048,789
4,722,036
944,991
1,801,657
1,901,673
21,784,274
14,895,453
34,142,659
35,700,545
15,727,129
13,682,451
970,481
2,474,809
11,660,049
17,999,418
4,166,080
2,568,194
4,371,010
4,384,145
22,687,280
20,657,285
14,895,453
35,700,545
13,682,451
2,474,809
17,999,418
2,568,194
4,384,145
20,657,285

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As at 30 June
2016
(Unaudited)
RMB’000
131,647,666
Total assets
154,571,739
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings
38,150,191
Derivative financial instruments
10,209
Deferred income tax liabilities
5,317,308
43,477,708
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
10,919,393
Advanced proceeds from customers
20,118,326
Amounts due to related companies
22,176,869
Current income tax liabilities
6,615,962
Borrowings
24,648,326
84,478,876
Total liabilities
127,956,584
Net asset value
26,615,155
Equity attributable to owners
of the Company
19,128,449
As at 31 December
2015
2014
(audited)
(audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
93,724,688
97,466,847
115,508,962
112,362,300
27,214,240
20,544,113


4,379,412
5,886,751
31,593,652
26,430,864
10,943,950
11,615,723
13,420,386
12,270,841
18,212,922
20,713,919
7,333,489
6,508,638
14,584,393
13,839,682
64,495,140
64,948,803
96,088,792
91,379,667
19,420,170
20,982,633
19,005,389
16,352,938
As at 31 December
2015
2014
(audited)
(audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
93,724,688
97,466,847
115,508,962
112,362,300
27,214,240
20,544,113


4,379,412
5,886,751
31,593,652
26,430,864
10,943,950
11,615,723
13,420,386
12,270,841
18,212,922
20,713,919
7,333,489
6,508,638
14,584,393
13,839,682
64,495,140
64,948,803
96,088,792
91,379,667
19,420,170
20,982,633
19,005,389
16,352,938
112,362,300
20,544,113

5,886,751
26,430,864
11,615,723
12,270,841
20,713,919
6,508,638
13,839,682
64,948,803
91,379,667
20,982,633
16,352,938

As at 30 June 2016, the Group’s total assets amounted to approximately RMB154,571.7 million and mainly included (a) investments accounted for using the equity method; (b) properties under development; (c) completed properties held for sale; (d) amounts due from related companies; and (e) cash and cash equivalents. As at 30 June 2016, the Group’s total liabilities were approximately RMB127,956.6 million, which mainly consisted of (a) borrowings; (b) advanced proceeds from customers; and (c) amounts due to related companies. The Group’s net gearing ratio, being total borrowings less cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash and divided by total equity, increased from approximately 75.9% as at 31 December 2015 to approximately 85.1% as at 30 June 2016.

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(iv) Prospects of the Group

In 2015, despite a decrease in revenue and gross profit primarily due to the decrease in average selling prices of properties sold, the Group’s operating results remained stable with a moderate growth in profit attributable to owners of the Company of approximately 2.4% as compared to 2014. In the first half of 2016, despite a significant decrease in profit, the growth in revenue and gross profit indicated a turnaround of the Group’s business operations.

The Group upholds its regional-based development strategy by acquiring quality property projects at reasonable prices in the core first- and second-tier cities in the PRC with a balanced supply and demand. As set out in the 2016 Interim Report, although the PRC economy is still faced with relatively great pressures, the PRC government will continue to adopt positive fiscal policies and monetary policies to stabilise economic growth and real estate markets with a healthy demand and supply relationship in the first- and second-tier cities will still maintain a relatively high degree of prosperity. This provides a favourable environment for the Group to pursue its regional-based development strategy, accelerate the launch of its projects for sale and achieve a greater growth in the sales amount. On this basis, the Directors are of the view, and we concur, that prospects of the Group’s principal business are expected to remain generally positive.

To take advantage of such favourable environment and provide support for the sustainable and steady development of the Group, the Group has been supplementing its land bank by acquiring property projects in the core first- and second-tier cities in the PRC. This has a high funding requirement. Maintaining an optimal capital structure through diversification of financing channels allows the Group to control its increasing finance costs and gearing, which we consider beneficial to the Company and the Shareholders as a whole.

2. Reasons for and benefits of the Subscription

Specialised in the integrated development of residential and commercial properties, the Group adheres to the regional focus development strategy through acquiring quality property projects in the core first- and second-tier cities in the PRC. As disclosed in the 2015 Annual Report, the Group acquired land bank of approximately 10.15 million sq.m. for the year ended 31 December 2015, with all projects located in core first- and second-tier cities in the PRC. Operating in a capital intensive industry, the Group has been financing its operations, including acquisition and development of new property projects, through proceeds from, among other things, borrowings from commercial banks and other parties. This resulted in increasing finance costs and gearing for the two years ended 31 December 2015 and the six months ended 30 June 2016.

To reduce its finance costs, the Group continues to take advantage of the domestic corporate bond market by replacing its historical financing at higher cost with corporate bonds at lower cost. This led to the continued decrease in weighted-average effective interest rate of the Group’s borrowings from approximately 9.1% for the year ended 31 December 2014 to approximately 6.4% for the six months ended 30 June 2016. As mentioned in the 2016 Interim Report, the Group attributed such decline in weighted-average effective interest rate to diversification of financing channels, control of refinancing costs and replacement of existing high-cost borrowings.

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We concur with the Directors that the Subscription, which is interest-free in nature, allows the Group to expand its working capital, increase its equity base, lower its gearing and therefore optimise its capital structure for the healthy and sustainable development of the Group, as disclosed in the “Letter from the Board” contained in the Circular. The Subscription also represents an opportunity for the Group to diversify its existing debt financing channels into equity financing channels while retaining existing financial resources for acquisition and development of new property projects which have high funding requirements. As disclosed in the “Letter from the Board” contained in the Circular, the Company intends to apply the net proceeds from the Subscription to repay its existing offshore debts which carry interests at floating rates and for working capital requirements. We concur with the Directors that the repayment of part of the offshore debts with the proceeds from the Subscription allows the Group to further reduce its exposure to interest rate and exchange rate risks due to offshore debts, given the relative ease of availability and lower cost of onshore debt financing. We also consider that with continued optimisation of its capital structure, the Group will be well positioned to take advantage of the favourable environment in the real estate industry as mentioned in the sub-section headed “Prospects of the Group” above.

3. Principal terms of the Subscription Agreement

Set out below is a summary of principal terms of the Subscription Agreement. Further details of terms of the Subscription Agreement are set out in the “Letter from the Board” contained in the Circular.

(i) The Subscription

Pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, the Company conditionally agreed to allot and issue to the Subscriber, and the Subscriber conditionally agreed to subscribe for, 453,074,433 Subscription Shares at the Subscription Price of HK$6.18 per Subscription Share. The total consideration payable in cash by the Subscriber is approximately HK$2,800 million.

(ii) Rights and ranking of the Subscription Shares

The Subscription Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Shares in issue as at the date of allotment and issue of the Subscription Shares, including the right to receive all future dividends and distributions which may be declared, made or paid by the Company with a record date falling on or after the date of allotment and issue of the Subscription Shares.

(iii) Conditions of the Subscription Agreement

Completion of the Subscription is conditional upon (a) the passing at the EGM of the resolution to approve the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver by the Independent Shareholders; (b) the Executive granting the Whitewash Waiver; and (c) the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange granting the listing of, and permission to deal in, the Subscription Shares. Neither the Company nor the Subscriber may waive any of the conditions above. As at the Latest Practicable Date, none of the above conditions had been fulfilled.

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  1. Evaluation of the Subscription Price

The Subscription Price is HK$6.18 per Subscription Share. As stated in the sub-section headed “Subscription Price” in the section headed “The Subscription” in the “Letter from the Board” contained in the Circular, the Subscription Price was arrived at after arm’s length negotiations between the Company and the Subscriber after taking into account the prevailing market prices of the Shares.

(i) Comparison of the Subscription Price to market price

The Subscription Price of HK$6.18 per Share represents:

  • (a) a premium of approximately 6.6% over the closing price of HK$5.80 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange on 26 September 2016, being the Last Trading Day;

  • (b) a premium of approximately 3.3% over the average closing price of HK$5.98 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange for the last five trading days up to and including the Last Trading Day;

  • (c) a premium of approximately 7.1% over the average closing price of HK$5.77 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange for the last ten trading days up to and including the Last Trading Day;

  • (d) a premium of approximately 8.6% over the average closing price of HK$5.69 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange for the last thirty trading days up to and including the Last Trading Day; and

  • (e) a premium of approximately 18.8% over the closing price of HK$5.20 per Share as quoted on the Stock Exchange on 13 October 2016, being the Latest Practicable Date.

These premiums are compared with the discounts and/or premiums for comparable issues set out in the sub-section headed “Market comparables on subscription of new shares” below.

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(ii) Analysis of historical share price performance

The chart below illustrates the daily closing prices per Share and trading volume for the period from 1 September 2015 up to and including the Latest Practicable date (the “ Review Period ”):

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HK$ per Share Number of Shares ('000)
7 140,000
Subscription Price = HK$6.18
6 120,000
5 100,000
4 80,000
3 60,000
2 40,000
1 20,000
0 0
Trading volume ( in thousands) Closing Share price Subscription Price
Sep-15 Oct-15 Nov-15 Dec-15 Jan-16 Feb-16 Mar-16 Apr-16 May-16 Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Sep-16 Oct-16
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Source: Bloomberg

As shown in the chart above, during the Review Period, the closing Share prices fluctuated between HK$3.95 per Share and HK$6.08 per Share. The Subscription Price has been, at all time during the Review Period, at premiums over the closing Share prices. The Subscription Price represents a premium of 1.6% over the highest closing Share price and a premium of approximately 56.5% over the lowest closing Share price during the Review Period.

During the period from 1 September 2015 to 31 December 2015, the closing Share prices showed an upward trend in general. The Share price closed at HK$6.00 per Share on 31 December 2015, representing an increase of approximately 46.3% from HK$4.10 per Share on 1 September 2015. The Company published a number of announcements during this period in relation to, among other things, certain unaudited monthly operation data of the Group, acquisitions of a number of property projects located in Xian, Jinan, Nanjing, Chengdu and Shanghai, the change of the chief executive officer, chief financial officer and joint company secretary of the Company, the redemption of the outstanding 12.5% senior notes due 2017 in an aggregate principal amount of US$400 million and the cessation of the strategic cooperation with Yurun Holdings Group Company Limited.

The closing Share prices showed a downward trend after 31 December 2015 and reached a low of HK$4.44 per Share on 12 February 2016. The closing Share price then resumed its upward trend and reached a high of HK$5.91 per Share on 18 March 2016. From 31 December 2015 to 18 March 2016, the Company announced that the Group acquired certain property projects located in Shanghai, Suzhou and Zhengzhou.

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The closing Share price then gradually fell from HK$5.91 per Share on 18 March 2016 to HK$4.51 per Share on 16 June 2016. During this period, the Company published a number of announcements in relation to, among other things, the annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015, the acquisition of a number of property projects located in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Huizhou and Shenzhen, and completion of the partial redemption of the 9.375% senior notes due 2018 in an aggregate principal amount of US$200 million.

Since 16 June 2016, the closing Share prices had been on an upward trend in general. On 1 August 2016, the Company published a profit warning announcement, in which the profits attributable to Shareholders for the six month months ended 30 June 2016 was expected to record a significant decline as compared with the same period in 2015, despite an expected significant increase in revenue and gross profit of the Group. In the same month, the Company completed the redemption of the remaining outstanding 9.375% senior notes due 2018 in an aggregate principal amount of US$300 million and announced the proposed public offering of domestic corporate bonds of a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company in the PRC with a total principal amount of up to RMB4 billion as well as the acquisition of a property project located in Hainan. On 30 August 2016, before trading hours, the Company published the interim results announcement for the six months ended 30 June 2016. The Share price closed at HK$5.45 per Share on 30 August 2016, representing an increase of approximately 20.8% from HK$4.51 per Share on 16 June 2016.

On 18 September 2016, the Company announced to acquire a total of 42 property projects located in 16 cities in China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing and Hangzhou, from Legend Holdings Corporation and its subsidiary, at a consideration of approximately RMB13,788.4 million. The closing Share price rose to HK$5.87 per Share on 19 September 2016, representing an increase of approximately 7.1% from HK$5.48 per Share on 15 September 2016. On 21 September 2016, after trading hours, it was announced that the subscription by the Group of approximately 16.96% of the issued share capital of Jinke Property Group Co., Ltd. (“ Jinke Property ”) was accepted for a total consideration of approximately RMB4,000.0 million. Jinke Property is a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and is a diversified comprehensive enterprise focusing on real estate development. The Share price closed at HK$6.08 per Share on 22 September 2016.

The Announcement was published on 26 September 2016 (after trading hours). The Share price closed at HK$5.93 per Share on 27 September 2016, representing an increase of approximately 2.2% from HK$5.80 per Share on the Last Trading Day.

The Share price closed at HK$5.20 per Share as at the Latest Practicable Date. The Subscription Price represents a premium of approximately 18.8% over the closing Share price as at the Latest Practicable Date.

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(iii) Liquidity of the Shares

The following table sets out the average daily trading volume of the Shares for each month or period and the percentages such average daily trading volumes to the total issued share capital and the public float of the Company during the Review Period:

Approximate
percentage of
Approximate average daily
percentage of trading volume
average daily to total number
Approximate trading volume of Shares held
average daily to total number by public
Total trading Number of trading volume of Shares in issue Shareholders
volume for the trading days of for the as at the Latest as at the Latest
Month/period month/period the Shares month/period Practicable Date Practicable Date
(Note 1) (Note 2) (Note 3) (Note 4)
(Number of Shares (Number of Shares
in thousands) (Number of days) in thousands)
2015
September 596,128 19 31,375 0.92% 1.74%
October 376,222 20 18,811 0.55% 1.04%
November 206,736 21 9,845 0.29% 0.55%
December 231,141 22 10,506 0.31% 0.58%
2016
January 228,901 20 11,445 0.34% 0.64%
February 172,548 18 9,586 0.28% 0.53%
March 285,821 21 13,611 0.40% 0.76%
April 180,003 20 9,000 0.26% 0.50%
May 165,954 21 7,903 0.23% 0.44%
June 152,854 21 7,279 0.21% 0.40%
July 395,832 20 19,792 0.58% 1.10%
August 455,964 22 20,726 0.61% 1.15%
September 402,019 21 19,144 0.56% 1.06%
From 1 October
2016 to the
Latest
Practicable Date 152,628 8 19,078 0.56% 1.06%

Source: Bloomberg and the website of the Stock Exchange

Notes:

  1. Number of trading days of the Shares represents number of trading days during the month/period which excludes any trading day on which trading of the Shares on the Stock Exchange was suspended for the whole trading day.

  2. Average daily trading volume is calculated by dividing the total trading volume for the month/period by the number of trading days during the month/period.

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  1. Based on 3,403,842,316 Shares in issue, being the total issued share capital of the Company as at the Latest Practicable Date.

  2. Based on 1,800,252,865 Shares held by the public Shareholders, excluding those held by the Subscriber Concert Group and the Directors, as at the Latest Practicable Date.

As illustrated in the table above, the average daily trading volume for the respective month/period during the Review Period ranged from approximately 7,279,000 Shares to approximately 31,375,000 Shares, representing approximately 0.21% to 0.92% of the total number of Shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date and approximately 0.40% to 1.74% of the total number of Shares held by public Shareholders as at the Latest Practicable Date, respectively. The trading of the Shares was not active in general during the Review Period. On this basis, independent investors may find the placement of new Shares, even with a reasonable discount to the prevailing market price, less attractive.

(iv) Market comparables on subscription of new shares

We have identified from the website of the Stock Exchange, on a best efforts basis, an exhaustive list of 11 share issue transactions (the “ Comparable Issues ”) announced since 1 September 2015 and up to the Last Trading Day by companies listed on the Stock Exchange involving (a) subscription of new shares of the listed companies by subscribers for cash; and (b) the application of whitewash waivers by the subscribers. We have excluded those (a) which have subsequently lapsed; (b) announced by listed companies which, as at the date of announcement and/or currently, were/are under prolonged suspension of trading of the shares; (c) involving issue of other securities at the same time; and (d) involving open offers or rights issues of new shares, which are extended to all shareholders.

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It should be noted that the subject companies involved in the Comparable Issues may have different principal activities, market capitalisation, profitability and financial positions as compared to those of the Company. The circumstances surrounding such subscriptions may also be different from those relating to the Company. As a result, the Comparable Issues only provide the Shareholders with a general reference for assessing the fairness and reasonableness of the Subscription Price. The table below sets out the details of the Comparable Issues:

Premium/ (discount) of subscription price to the Premium/ (discount) of subscription price to the Premium/ (discount) of subscription price to the
Average Average Potential
Closing share Average closing share closing share dilution of
price as at the closing share price for the price for the shareholding
last day of price for the 5 10 trading 30 trading to the existing
trading trading days days days public
immediately immediately immediately immediately shareholders
Date of Stock prior to the prior to the prior to the prior to the upon
announcement Company name code announcement announcement announcement announcement completion
% % % % %
12 October SRE Group Ltd (Note 1) 1207 (75.0) (74.2) (72.8) (71.4) 72.5
2015
10 December China Jiuhao Health 419 (86.2) (87.7) (87.9) (84.1) 50.7
2015 Industry Corporation Ltd.
(now known as Huayi
Tencent Entertainment Co.
Ltd.) (Note 2)
15 December Huscoke Resources 704 (63.0) (63.8) (64.4) (65.2) 60.7
2015 Holdings Ltd
16 December FDG Electric Vehicles Ltd 729 (3.9) (5.0) (8.2) 4.9
2015
16 February Varitronix International Ltd. 710 (3.4) (5.2) (2.8) (4.4) 54.7
2016 (Note 3)
19 February Sino Credit Holdings Ltd. 628 (55.5) (56.5) (54.5) (51.2) 72.3
2016
29 February Hang Fat Ginseng Holdings 911 (86.5) (92.3) (96.7) (98.1) 60.9
2016 Co Ltd. (Note 4)
13 April 2016 Artini China Co. Ltd. 789 (26.7) (23.7) (22.8) (27.0) 48.7
17 May 2016 New Times Energy 166 (3.1) (0.9) (3.4) 0.2 53.8
Corporation Ltd.
21 July 2016 Hua Lien International 969 (50.0) (51.5) (50.8) (46.4) 67.3
(Holding) Co. Ltd. (Note 5)
29 August China City Railway 1522 (9.4) (8.5) (8.6) (4.7) 31.8
2016 Transportation Technology
Holdings Company Limited
Maximum (0.9) (2.8) 0.2 72.5
Minimum (86.5) (92.3) (96.7) (98.1) 4.9
Average (41.7) (42.6) (42.7) (41.9) 52.6
26 September The Company 6.6 3.3 7.1 8.6 11.8
2016

Source: The website of the Stock Exchange

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Notes:

  1. SRE Group Ltd published an announcement in relation to a memorandum of understanding in relation to a possible subscription of shares involving a possible application for whitewash waiver on 15 September 2015. Accordingly, we have taken 12 September 2015 (i.e. the last day of trading of the shares immediately prior to the aforesaid announcement) as the last trading day for our assessment, including calculation of the average closing share prices of different periods prior to and including 11 October 2015.

  2. China Jiuhao Health Industry Corporation Ltd (“ China Jiuhao ”) published an announcement dated 10 December 2015 in relation to, among other things, subscription of shares and application for whitewash waiver. As set out in the aforesaid announcement, there was a distribution to shareholders of China Jiuhao of cash and shares in Eternity Investment Limited as detailed in the circular of China Jiuhao dated 23 June 2015. Such distribution was completed in October 2015 and the subscribers to the aforesaid subscription were not entitled to the distribution. The comparison of the subscription price to historical trading prices as set out in the table above was based on the theoretical ex-entitlement closing prices of China Jiuhao as set out in its announcement dated 10 December 2015.

  3. As set out in the circular of Varitronix International Ltd. (“ Varitronix ”) dated 22 March 2016, the subscription price took into account the waiver by the subscriber of all its rights and interests to participate in the special dividend as well as the final dividend. The comparison of the subscription price to historical trading prices as set out in the table above was based on the theoretical price reduced by the amount of the special dividend and final dividend as set out in the circular of Varitronix dated 22 March 2016.

  4. Hang Fat Ginseng Holdings Co. Ltd. published an announcement in relation to a non-legally binding memorandum of understanding in relation to a possible subscription of shares involving a possible application for whitewash waiver after trading hours on 15 February 2016. Accordingly, we have taken 12 February 2016 (i.e. the last day of trading of the shares immediately prior to the aforesaid announcement) as the last trading day for our assessment, including calculation of the average closing share prices of different periods prior to and including 12 February 2016.

  5. Hua Lien International (Holding) Co. Ltd. published an announcement in relation to a memorandum of understanding in relation to a possible subscription of shares involving a possible application for whitewash waiver after trading hours on 25 May 2016. Accordingly, we have taken 23 May 2016 (i.e. the last day of trading of the shares immediately prior to the aforesaid announcement) as the last trading day for our assessment, including calculation of the average closing share prices of different periods prior to and including 23 May 2016.

As set out in the table above, the Comparable Issues generally involved subscriptions of new shares at discounts to their respective historical trading prices. The Subscription Price represents (i) a premium of approximately 6.6% over the closing price on the Last Trading Day; (ii) a premium of approximately 3.3% over the average closing price for the last five trading days up to and including the Last Trading Day; (iii) a premium of approximately 7.1% over the average closing price for the last ten trading days up to and including the Last Trading Day; and (iv) a premium of approximately 8.6% over the average closing price for the last thirty trading days up to and including the Last Trading Day. These premiums are more favourable than all the discounts and/or premiums of the Comparable Issues shown in the table above.

As set out in the sub-section headed “Dilution effect on shareholding interests of the public Shareholders” below, the shareholding of the existing public Shareholders would be reduced from approximately 52.89% as at the Latest Practicable Date to approximately 46.67% upon Completion (assuming that no outstanding Share Options are exercised and no other Shares are allotted and issued

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on or before Completion), representing a dilution effect of approximately 11.8%. The dilution impact of shareholding to the existing public shareholders upon completion of the Comparable Issues ranged from approximately 4.9% to approximately 72.5% with an average of approximately 52.6%. As such, the dilution impact of the Subscription is within the range of the dilution impact and is much lower than the average dilution impact of the Comparable Issues. Please refer to the sub-section headed “Dilution effect on shareholding interests of the public Shareholders” below for our further analysis on the potential dilution impact.

(v) Peer comparison

As mentioned in the sub-section headed “Background of the Group” above, the Group is principally engaged in property development in the PRC. Based on the closing Share price of HK$5.80 and the number of issued Shares of 3,403,842,316 on the Latest Practicable Date, the market capitalisation of the Company was approximately HK$17.7 billion. Accordingly, we have researched, on a best efforts basis, for companies (the “ Comparable Companies ”) (a) listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange; (b) having over 70% of their revenue generated from property development in the PRC in their respective latest financial year; and (c) with closing market capitalisations ranging between HK$15 billion and HK$28 billion on the Latest Practicable Date. To the best of our knowledge, the Comparable Companies set out in the table below represent all the companies comparable to the Company based on the above criteria.

The table below sets out the comparison of historical price to earnings ratio(s)(“ P/E(s) ”) and price to book ratio(s)(“ P/B(s) ”) of the Company and the Comparable Companies:

Market
capitalisation
on the Latest
Practicable Historical Historical
Comparable Companies Date P/E P/B
(HK$’million) (times) (times)
(Note 1) (Note 2)
Shenzhen Investment Limited (stock code:
604) 26,211 6.90 0.77
Sino-Ocean Group Holding Ltd. (stock code:
3377) 25,472 15.8 0.52
China Jinmao Holdings Group Ltd. (stock
code: 817) 22,944 6.10 0.68
Goldin Properties Holdings Ltd. (stock code:
283) 20,793 38.00 1.27
Logan Property Holdings Co. Ltd. (stock code:
3380) 17,981 5.10 0.94
Agile Group Holdings Ltd. (stock code: 3383) 16,804 14.10 0.43
Hopson Development Holdings Ltd. (stock
code: 754) 16,269 7.30 0.30

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Market
capitalisation
on the Latest
Practicable Historical Historical
Comparable Companies Date P/E P/B
(HK$’million) (times) (times)
(Note 1) (Note 2)
Shui On Land Ltd. (stock code: 272) 15,893 34.90 0.37
Maximum 38.00 1.27
Minimum 5.10 0.30
Average 16.03 0.66
The Company 17,700 7.50 0.95
(Note 3) (Note 4)

Source: Bloomberg and the website of the Stock Exchange

Notes:

  1. Calculated based on the market capitalisations of the respective Comparable Companies on the Latest Practicable Date divided by the profit attributable to owners of the respective Comparable Companies in their latest twelve months.

  2. Calculated based on the market capitalisations of the respective Comparable Companies on the Latest Practicable Date dividend by the equity attributable to owners of the respective Comparable Companies as extracted from their respective latest published annual or interim results.

  3. Calculated based on the Subscription Price and the profit attributable to owners of the Company for the twelve months ended 30 June 2016, using an exchange rate of RMB1 to HK$1.16.

  4. Calculated based on the Subscription Price and the equity attributable to owners of the Company as at 30 June 2016, using an exchange rate of RMB1 to HK$1.16.

As set out in the table above, (i) the historical P/Es of the Comparable Companies ranged from approximately 5.10 times to approximately 38.00 times, with an average of approximately 16.03 times; and (ii) the historical P/Bs of the Comparable Companies ranged from approximately 0.30 time to approximately 1.27 times, with an average of approximately 0.66 time. The implied P/E of the Subscription of approximately 7.50 times is within the range of the historical P/Es of the Comparable Companies while the implied P/B of the Subscription based on the Subscription Price of approximately 0.95 time is higher than the average of the historical P/Bs of the Comparable Companies.

Based on the reasons for and benefits of the Subscription as set out in the sub-section headed “Reasons for and benefits of the Subscription” above and our analysis on the Subscription Price as set out in the sub-section headed “Evaluation of the Subscription Price” above, we consider the Subscription Price to be fair and reasonable.

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5. Other alternative financing methods

To optimise the capital structure of the Group, the Directors have also considered the alternative of equity financing, including a private placement of Shares to independent third party investors or a rights issue or open offer to the existing Shareholders.

A private placement, as far as the Independent Shareholders are concerned, has a similar dilutive potential as an issue to a connected person. However, private placements are normally made at a discount to the prevailing market prices whereas the Subscription is priced at a premium to the Share closing price on the Last Trading Day. As regards a rights issue or open offer, the Directors considered such factors as (i) the price of a rights issue or open offer would normally involve a substantial discount to market, based on the discounts involved for recent rights issues and open offers of companies listed on the Stock Exchange; and (ii) the likely costs involved (including the amount of underwriting commissions and other administrative and legal expenses). On this basis, the Directors did not consider a rights issue or open offer as appropriate means of raising additional fund.

6. Financial effects on the Group

(i) Net assets value

As set out in the 2016 Interim Report, equity attributable to owners of the Company (the “ NAV ”) was approximately RMB19,128.4 million as at 30 June 2016. Upon Completion, the Directors expect the NAV increase by approximately the amount of the net proceeds from the Subscription of approximately HK$2,795 million. Accordingly, the Subscription is expected to have a positive impact on the NAV.

As at the Latest Practicable Date, the number of Shares in issue was 3,403,842,316 Shares. Accordingly, the NAV per Share based on the NAV as at 30 June 2016 was approximately RMB5.62 (equivalent to approximately HK$6.52 based on an exchange rate of RMB1 to HK$1.16). Assuming there is no change to the Group’s NAV as at 30 June 2016 other than the net proceeds from the Subscription, the NAV per Share is expected to decrease upon Completion, given that the Subscription Price is lower than the NAV per Share as at 30 June 2016. However, we consider the decrease in the NAV per Share is acceptable in light of the benefits of the Subscription as a whole, as set out in the sub-section headed “Reasons for and benefits of the Subscription” above.

(ii) Net gearing ratio

Upon Completion, the Subscription is expected to lower the net gearing ratio of the Group. As a result, the Subscription is expected to improve the gearing and capital structure of the Group.

(iii) Working capital

Since the Subscription will facilitate the Group to raise net proceeds of approximately HK$2,795 million, the liquidity and cash position of the Group will be improved upon Completion. Accordingly, the cash position and therefore the working capital of the Group are expected to improve upon Completion.

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Shareholders should note that the aforesaid analyses are for illustrative purpose only and do not purport to represent the financial position of the Group upon Completion.

7. Dilution effect on shareholding interests of the public Shareholders

The following table summarises the effect of the Subscription on the shareholding structure of the Company (i) as at the Latest Practicable Date; (ii) immediately upon Completion (assuming there is no change to the issued share capital of the Company other than the issue of the Subscription Shares); and (iii) immediately upon Completion and the exercise in full of the outstanding Share Options. Further details on (i) the effect of the Subscription on the shareholding structure; and (ii) the accompanying notes to the shareholding table are set out in the section headed “Effect on shareholding structure of the Company” in the “Letter from the Board” contained in the Circular.

Shareholders
Subscriber
Concert
Group
The Subscriber
Mr. Sun
Other Directors
Public
Shareholders
Existing
shareholders
Holders of
Share Options
As at the
Latest Practicable Date
Immediately upon
Completion (assuming that
there is no change to the
issued share capital of the
Company other than the
issue of the Subscription
Shares)
Immediately upon
Completion and the exercise
in full of the outstanding
Share Options
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
1,589,549,451
46.70
2,042,623,884
52.96
2,042,623,884
51.56
10,090,000
0.30
10,090,000
0.26
11,390,000
0.29
1,599,639,451
47.00
2,052,713,884
53.22
2,054,013,884
51.85
3,950,000
0.11
3,950,000
0.11
47,250,000
1.19
1,800,252,865
52.89
1,800,252,865
46.67
1,800,252,865
45.44




60,116,440
1.52
3,403,842,316
100.00
3,856,916,749
100.00
3,961,633,189
100.00
As at the
Latest Practicable Date
Immediately upon
Completion (assuming that
there is no change to the
issued share capital of the
Company other than the
issue of the Subscription
Shares)
Immediately upon
Completion and the exercise
in full of the outstanding
Share Options
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
Number of
Shares
Approximate
%
1,589,549,451
46.70
2,042,623,884
52.96
2,042,623,884
51.56
10,090,000
0.30
10,090,000
0.26
11,390,000
0.29
1,599,639,451
47.00
2,052,713,884
53.22
2,054,013,884
51.85
3,950,000
0.11
3,950,000
0.11
47,250,000
1.19
1,800,252,865
52.89
1,800,252,865
46.67
1,800,252,865
45.44




60,116,440
1.52
3,403,842,316
100.00
3,856,916,749
100.00
3,961,633,189
100.00
51.85
1.19
45.44
1.52
100.00

As illustrated above, the shareholding to the existing public Shareholders would be reduced from approximately 52.89% as at the Latest Practicable Date to approximately 46.67% immediately upon Completion and to approximately 45.44% immediately upon Completion and the exercise in full of the outstanding Share Options.

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There will be certain extent of dilution to the shareholding interest of the existing public Shareholders as a result of the Subscription. However, taking into account (i) the benefits to be derived by the Group from the Subscription as set out in the sub-section headed “Reasons for and benefits of the Subscription” above; (ii) that the Subscription Price is considered to be fair and reasonable as set out in this letter above; (iii) that the dilution impact of the Subscription is within the range of the dilution impact and is lower than the average dilution impact of the Comparable Issues; and (iv) that the Subscription is expected to improve the NAV, the gearing and capital structure and the working capital of the Group, we consider that the dilution effect to the shareholding interest of the existing public Shareholders as a result of the Subscription is acceptable.

8. The Whitewash Waiver as a condition of the Subscription

Shareholders should note that the Subscription is conditional on, among other things, (i) the Independent Shareholders having approved the Whitewash Waiver at the EGM; and (ii) the Executive having granted to the Subscriber Concert Group the Whitewash Waiver, which cannot be waived. The approval of the Whitewash Waiver by the Independent Shareholders will be therefore necessary for the Group to proceed to Completion to raise additional capital to optimise its capital structure. The Whitewash Waiver is needed to accommodate the amount of capital to be raised under the Subscription Agreement.

Shareholders should note that if the Whitewash Waiver is not approved by the Independent Shareholders, the Subscription Agreement will not become unconditional and the Company will not proceed with the Subscription. In other words, a general offer obligation on the part of the Subscriber Concert Group will not arise if it fails to obtain the Whitewash Waiver.

RECOMMENDATION

Having considered the principal factors and reasons discussed above, we consider that the terms of the Subscription Agreement and the Whitewash Waiver are fair and reasonable so far as the Independent Shareholders are concerned and are in the interests of the Company and the Shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, we advise the Independent Shareholders, as well as the Independent Board Committee to recommend the Independent Shareholders, to vote in favour of the ordinary resolution to be proposed at the EGM to approve the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver.

Your faithfully, For and on behalf of Quam Capital Limited Noelle Hung Managing Director

Ms. Noelle Hung is a licensed person and a responsible officer of Quam Capital registered with the SFC to carry out Type 6 (advising on corporate finance) regulated activity under the SFO. She has over 15 years of experience in corporate finance.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

APPENDIX I

SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION

The consolidated financial information of the Group for each of the three years ended 31 December 2013, 2014 and 2015 and the six months ended 30 June 2016 are disclosed in the following documents which have been published on the respective websites of the Stock Exchange (www.hkexnews.hk) and the Company (www.sunac.com.cn) :

  • (i) annual report of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2013 published on 11 April 2014 (pages 64 to 150);

  • (ii) annual report of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2014 published on 16 April 2015 (pages 58 to 140);

  • (iii) annual report of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2015 published on 18 April 2016 (pages 71 to 154); and

  • (iv) interim report of the Company for the six months ended 30 June 2016 published on 6 September 2016 (pages 46 to 84).

The following is a summary of the audited consolidated financial information of the Group for each of the three years 31 December 2013, 2014 and 2015 and the unaudited consolidated financial information of the Group for the six months ended 30 June 2015 and 2016, as extracted from the relevant annual reports and interim report of the Company.

Six months ended

30 June
2016
2015
(Unaudited) (Unaudited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
Revenue
10,586,085
5,442,722
Cost of sales
(9,179,970) (4,824,671)
Gross profit
1,406,115
618,051
Other income and gains
1,551,361
2,220,585
Selling and marketing costs
(318,512)
(284,602)
Administrative expenses
(421,530)
(298,842)
Other expenses and losses
(54,573)
(102,379)
Operating profit
2,162,861
2,152,813
Year ended 31 December
2015
2014
2013
(Audited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
23,010,943
25,071,959
30,836,714
(20,153,678) (20,730,079) (23,660,207)
2,857,265
4,341,880
7,176,507
4,111,990
1,020,451
222,522
(661,054)
(697,299)
(615,453)
(775,015)
(680,743)
(520,137)
(265,628)
(119,817)
(145,473)
5,267,558
3,864,472
6,117,966

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Six months ended
30 June
2016
2015
(Unaudited) (Unaudited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
Finance income
98,507
83,095
Finance costs
(1,578,739)
(698,577)
Share of post-taxes (losses)/profits of
investments accounted for using
equity method, net
(235,504)
451,871
Profit before income tax
447,125
1,989,202
Income tax expense
(344,355)
(731,539)
Profit for the period
102,770
1,257,663
Other comprehensive income
for the period


Total comprehensive income
for the period
102,770
1,257,663
Attributable to:
- Owners of the Company
72,935
951,399
- Holders of perpetual capital
securities
2,361

- Non-controlling interests
27,474
306,264
102,770
1,257,663
Earnings per share attributable to
owners of the Company (expressed
in RMB per share):
- Basic earnings per share
0.02
0.28
- Diluted earnings per share
0.02
0.28
Year ended 31 December
2015
2014
2013
(Audited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
123,521
123,422
74,529
(2,520,575) (1,267,380)
(580,277)
1,693,207
2,181,283
72,231
4,563,711
4,901,797
5,684,449
(955,308) (1,669,168) (2,190,622)
3,608,403
3,232,629
3,493,827



3,608,403
3,232,629
3,493,827
3,297,828
3,222,070
3,178,403



310,575
10,559
315,424
3,608,403
3,232,629
3,493,827
0.97
0.96
0.96
0.96
0.95
0.95

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APPENDIX I

FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

ASSETS
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment
Investment properties
Intangible assets
Investments accounted for using the
equity method
Prepayments for investments
Deferred income tax assets
Total non-current assets
CURRENT ASSETS
Properties under development
Completed properties held for sale
Trade and other receivables
Amounts due from related
companies
Prepayments
Restricted cash
Cash and cash equivalents
Total current assets
Total assets
EQUITY
Equity attributable to owners of
the Company
Share capital
Other reserves
Retained earnings
Perpetual capital securities
Non-controlling interests
Total equity
30 June 31 December 31 December 31 December
2016
2015
2014
2013
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
63,158
68,959
61,815
65,381


239,000
252,000
238,089
230,269
148,905
234,234
17,728,984
15,260,581
12,048,789
7,908,864
3,230,375
4,722,036
944,991

1,663,467
1,502,429
1,451,953
1,304,554
22,924,073
21,784,274
14,895,453
9,765,033
48,923,225
34,142,659
35,700,545
40,694,597
15,148,069
15,727,129
13,682,451
17,411,712
2,080,084
970,481
2,474,809
1,213,763
20,138,851
11,660,049
17,999,418
9,755,363
5,209,953
4,166,080
2,568,194
2,505,811
11,809,911
4,371,010
4,384,145
2,594,666
28,337,573
22,687,280
20,657,285
13,414,017
131,647,666
93,724,688
97,466,847
87,589,929
154,571,739
115,508,962
112,362,300
97,354,962
291,369
291,329
289,963
285,055
4,154,527
4,104,442
3,203,001
3,113,917
14,682,553
14,609,618
12,859,974
10,206,331
19,128,449
19,005,389
16,352,938
13,605,303
6,825,361



661,345
414,781
4,629,695
4,606,015
26,615,155
19,420,170
20,982,633
18,211,318
30 June 31 December 31 December 31 December
2016
2015
2014
2013
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
63,158
68,959
61,815
65,381


239,000
252,000
238,089
230,269
148,905
234,234
17,728,984
15,260,581
12,048,789
7,908,864
3,230,375
4,722,036
944,991

1,663,467
1,502,429
1,451,953
1,304,554
22,924,073
21,784,274
14,895,453
9,765,033
48,923,225
34,142,659
35,700,545
40,694,597
15,148,069
15,727,129
13,682,451
17,411,712
2,080,084
970,481
2,474,809
1,213,763
20,138,851
11,660,049
17,999,418
9,755,363
5,209,953
4,166,080
2,568,194
2,505,811
11,809,911
4,371,010
4,384,145
2,594,666
28,337,573
22,687,280
20,657,285
13,414,017
131,647,666
93,724,688
97,466,847
87,589,929
154,571,739
115,508,962
112,362,300
97,354,962
291,369
291,329
289,963
285,055
4,154,527
4,104,442
3,203,001
3,113,917
14,682,553
14,609,618
12,859,974
10,206,331
19,128,449
19,005,389
16,352,938
13,605,303
6,825,361



661,345
414,781
4,629,695
4,606,015
26,615,155
19,420,170
20,982,633
18,211,318
9,765,033
40,694,597
17,411,712
1,213,763
9,755,363
2,505,811
2,594,666
13,414,017
87,589,929
97,354,962
285,055
3,113,917
10,206,331
13,605,303

4,606,015
18,211,318

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APPENDIX I

FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

LIABILITIES
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings
Derivative financial instruments
Deferred income tax liabilities
Total non-current liabilities
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
Advanced proceeds from customers
Amounts due to related companies
Current income tax liabilities
Borrowings
Total current liabilities
Total liabilities
Total equity and liabilities
30 June 31 December 31 December 31 December
2016
2015
2014
2013
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
38,150,191
27,214,240
20,544,113
20,871,569
10,209



5,317,308
4,379,412
5,886,751
6,483,025
43,477,708
31,593,652
26,430,864
27,354,594
10,919,393
10,943,950
11,615,723
16,900,347
20,118,326
13,420,386
12,270,841
13,647,124
22,176,869
18,212,922
20,713,919
6,894,723
6,615,962
7,333,489
6,508,638
6,512,135
24,648,326
14,584,393
13,839,682
7,834,721
84,478,876
64,495,140
64,948,803
51,789,050
127,956,584
96,088,792
91,379,667
79,143,644
154,571,739
115,508,962
112,362,300
97,354,962
30 June 31 December 31 December 31 December
2016
2015
2014
2013
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
38,150,191
27,214,240
20,544,113
20,871,569
10,209



5,317,308
4,379,412
5,886,751
6,483,025
43,477,708
31,593,652
26,430,864
27,354,594
10,919,393
10,943,950
11,615,723
16,900,347
20,118,326
13,420,386
12,270,841
13,647,124
22,176,869
18,212,922
20,713,919
6,894,723
6,615,962
7,333,489
6,508,638
6,512,135
24,648,326
14,584,393
13,839,682
7,834,721
84,478,876
64,495,140
64,948,803
51,789,050
127,956,584
96,088,792
91,379,667
79,143,644
154,571,739
115,508,962
112,362,300
97,354,962
27,354,594
16,900,347
13,647,124
6,894,723
6,512,135
7,834,721
51,789,050
79,143,644
97,354,962

There were no audit qualifications issued by the auditors of the Company for the years ended 31 December 2013, 2014 and 2015.

The Group did not have any items which are exceptional because of size, nature or incidence for each of the years ended 31 December 2013, 2014 and 2015 and the six months ended 30 June 2016.

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APPENDIX I

AUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The following is the full text of the audited consolidated financial statements of the Group for the year ended 31 December 2015 as extracted from the annual report of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2015:

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

Note
ASSETS
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment
7
Investment properties
8
Intangible assets
9
Investments accounted for using the equity method
10
Prepayment for equity investments
15
Deferred income tax assets
11
Current assets
Properties under development
12
Completed properties held for sale
13
Trade and other receivables
14
Amounts due from related companies
37(d)
Prepayments
15
Restricted cash
16
Cash and cash equivalents
17
Total assets
EQUITY AND LIABILITY
Equity attributable to owners of the Company
Share capital
18
Other reserves
20
Retained earnings
Non-controlling interests
Total equity
As at 31
2015
RMB’000
68,959

230,269
15,260,581
4,722,036
1,502,429
21,784,274
34,142,659
15,727,129
970,481
11,660,049
4,166,080
4,371,010
22,687,280
93,724,688
115,508,962
291,329
4,104,442
14,609,618
19,005,389
414,781
19,420,170
December
2014
RMB’000
61,815
239,000
148,905
12,048,789
944,991
1,451,953
14,895,453
35,700,545
13,682,451
2,474,809
17,999,418
2,568,194
4,384,145
20,657,285
97,466,847
112,362,300
289,963
3,203,001
12,859,974
16,352,938
4,629,695
20,982,633

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Note
Liabilities
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings
22
Deferred income tax liabilities
11
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
21
Advanced proceeds from customers
Amounts due to related companies
37(d)
Current income tax liabilities
Borrowings
22
Total liabilities
Total equity and liabilities
As at 31
2015
RMB’000
27,214,240
4,379,412
31,593,652
10,943,950
13,420,386
18,212,922
7,333,489
14,584,393
64,495,140
96,088,792
115,508,962
December
2014
RMB’000
20,544,113
5,886,751
26,430,864
11,615,723
12,270,841
20,713,919
6,508,638
13,839,682
64,948,803
91,379,667
112,362,300

The notes on pages 48 to 127 are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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APPENDIX I

FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

Note
Revenue
6
Cost of sales
23
Gross profit
Selling and marketing costs
23
Administrative expenses
23
Other income and gains
26
Other expenses and losses
27
Operating profit
Finance income
28
Finance expenses
28
Finance expenses — net
28
Share of post-tax profits of investments accounted for
using equity method, net
10
Profit before income tax
Income tax expenses
29
Profit for the year
Other comprehensive income for the year
Total comprehensive income for the year
Profit and total comprehensive income attributable to:
— Owners of the Company
— Non-controlling interests
Earnings per share attributable to owners of the
Company (expressed in RMB per share):
30
— Basic earnings per share
— Diluted earnings per share
Year ended 31 December
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
23,010,943
25,071,959
(20,153,678)
(20,730,079)
2,857,265
4,341,880
(661,054)
(697,299)
(775,015)
(680,743)
4,111,990
1,020,451
(265,628)
(119,817)
5,267,558
3,864,472
123,521
123,422
(2,520,575)
(1,267,380)
(2,397,054)
(1,143,958)
1,693,207
2,181,283
4,563,711
4,901,797
(955,308)
(1,669,168)
3,608,403
3,232,629


3,608,403
3,232,629
3,297,828
3,222,070
310,575
10,559
3,608,403
3,232,629
0.97
0.96
0.96
0.95

The notes on pages 48 to 127 are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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APPENDIX I

FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

Attributable to owners of the Company Attributable to owners of the Company Attributable to owners of the Company Attributable to owners of the Company
Non-
Share Other Retained controlling Total
Note capital reserves earnings Total interests equity
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Balance at 1 January 2014 285,055 3,113,917 10,206,331 13,605,303 4,606,015 18,211,318
Total comprehensive income 3,222,070 3,222,070 10,559 3,232,629
Disposal of a subsidiary 13,121 13,121
Employees share option schemes:
— Value of employee services 20, 25 35,456 35,456 35,456
— Proceeds from shares issued 20, 18 4,908 120,882 125,790 125,790
Statutory reserve 568,427 (568,427)
Dividends relating to 2013 (635,681) (635,681) (635,681)
4,908 89,084 (568,427) (474,435) 13,121 (461,314)
Balance at 31 December 2014 289,963 3,203,001 12,859,974 16,352,938 4,629,695 20,982,633
Total comprehensive income 3,297,828 3,297,828 310,575 3,608,403
Transactions with non-controlling
interests 34 (93,853) (93,853) (2,556,016) (2,649,869)
Dividends to non-controlling
interests (1,699,837) (1,699,837)
Non-controlling interests arising on
business combination 35(c) (30,040) (30,040)
Disposal of subsidiaries 36(e) (239,596) (239,596)
Employees share option schemes:
— Value of employee services 20, 25 47,395 47,395 47,395
— Proceeds from shares issued 20, 18 1,366 44,129 45,495 45,495
Statutory reserve 1,548,184 (1,548,184)
Dividends relating to 2014 40 (644,414) (644,414) (644,414)
1,366 901,441 (1,548,184) (645,377) (4,525,489) (5,170,866)
Balance at 31 December 2015 291,329 4,104,442 14,609,618 19,005,389 414,781 19,420,170

The notes on pages 48 to 127 are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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APPENDIX I

FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

Note
Cash flows from operating activities
Cash generated from operations
31
Income tax paid
Net cash generated from operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Cash paid for business combinations, net
35
Disposal of subsidiaries
36
Prepayments of consideration for equity acquisitions
Receiving of returned prepayments for equity acquisitions
Interest received on prepayments for equity acquisitions
Proceeds from disposal of an associate
10.2
Equity investments in joint ventures and associates
Dividend received from joint ventures
Loans granted to joint ventures and associates
Loan repayments received from joint ventures and
associates
Interest received from joint ventures and associates
Purchases of property, plant and equipment (“PP&E”) and
intangible assets
7
Proceeds from disposals of PP&E
Proceeds from disposal of investment properties
8
Net cash used in investing activities
Year ended 31 December
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
17,670,853
19,452,340
(1,728,822)
(2,734,976)
15,942,031
16,717,364
(6,491,835)

1,372,011
(582,419)
(4,079,258)
(5,734,526)
2,856,238
4,789,535
122,640
190,333
191,373

(2,558,789)
(3,064,609)
248,970
26,667
(6,448,164)
(6,065,146)
2,028,725
1,306,614
65,142
271,404
(16,133)
(26,020)
2,195
3,184
175,000

(12,531,885)
(8,884,983)

Net cash used in investing activities

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APPENDIX I

FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Note
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issue of ordinary shares
Proceeds from issue of senior notes, net
Proceeds from issue of corporate bonds
22
Proceeds from borrowings
22
Repayments of borrowings
22
Dividends paid to Company’s shareholders
41
Dividend paid to non-controlling interests
Loans from non-controlling interests
Loan repayments to non-controlling interests
Acquisition of additional interests in subsidiaries
34(b)
Interest paid
Restricted cash guaranteed for bank borrowings
Net cash used from financing activities
Net increase in cash and equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
Effects of exchange rate difference
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year
17
Year ended 31 December
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
45,495
125,790

2,423,236
5,964,000

28,628,153
16,762,741
(26,247,463)
(13,013,609)
(646,367)
(635,681)
(1,713,829)

631,456

(2,380,263)
(1,449,024)
(2,824,927)

(2,741,312)
(2,913,717)
(337,898)
(1,882,476)
(1,622,955)
(582,740)
1,787,191
7,249,641
20,657,285
13,414,017
242,804
(6,373)
22,687,280
20,657,285

The notes on pages 48 to 127 are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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APPENDIX I FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 31 December 2015

1 GENERAL INFORMATION

Sunac China Holdings Limited (the “Company”) and its subsidiaries (together, the “Group”) are principally engaged in property development and property management services business in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”).

The Company is a limited liability company incorporated in Cayman Islands. The address of its registered office is Landmark Square, 3rd Floor, 64 Earth Close, P.O. Box 30592, Grand Cayman KY1-1203, Cayman Islands. The Company has its primary listing on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

These financial statements are presented in Renminbi (“RMB”), unless otherwise stated.

2 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these consolidated financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

2.1 Basis of preparation

The consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with all applicable Hong Kong Financial Reporting Standards (“HKFRS”). The consolidated financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, as modified by the revaluation of available-for-sale financial assets and investment properties, which are carried at fair value.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with the HKFRS requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires management to exercise its judgment in the process of applying the Group’s accounting policies. The areas involving a higher degree of judgment or complexity, or areas where assumptions and estimates are significant to the consolidated financial statements are disclosed in Note 5.

2.1.1 Going concern

The Group meets its day-to-day working capital requirements through its bank facilities. The current economic conditions continue to create uncertainty particularly over (a) the level of demand for the Group’s developed properties; and (b) the availability of bank finance for the foreseeable future. The Group’s forecasts and projections, taking account of reasonably possible changes in trading performance, show that the Group should be able to operate within the level of its current facilities. After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The Group therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its consolidated financial statements.

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APPENDIX I

2.1.2 Changes in accounting policy and disclosures

  • (a) New and amended standards adopted by the Group

The following amendments to standards have been adopted by the Group for the first time for the financial year beginning on or after 1 January 2015:

Amendment to HKAS 19 on contributions from employees or third parties to defined benefit plans. The amendment distinguishes between contributions that are linked to service only in the period in which they arise and those linked to service in more than one period. The amendment allows contributions that are linked to service, and do not vary with the length of employee service, to be deducted from the cost of benefits earned in the period that the service is provided. Contributions that are linked to service, and vary according to the length of employee service, must be spread over the service period using the same attribution method that is applied to the benefits.

Amendments from annual improvements to HKFRSs — 2010-2012 Cycle, on HKFRS 8, ‘Operating segments’, HKAS 16, ‘Property, plant and equipment’ and HKAS 38, ‘Intangible assets’ and HKAS 24, ‘Related party disclosures’.

Amendments from annual improvements to HKFRSs — 2011-2013 Cycle, on HKFRS 3, ‘Business combinations’, HKFRS 13, ‘Fair value measurement’ and HKAS 40, ‘Investment property’.

The adoption of the improvements made in the 2010-2012 Cycle has required additional disclosures in the segment note. Other than that, the remaining amendments are not material to the Group.

  • (b) New Hong Kong Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622)

In addition, the requirements of Part 9 “Accounts and Audit” of the new Hong Kong Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) come into operation during the financial year, as a result, there are changes to presentation and disclosures of certain information in the consolidated financial statements.

(c) New standards and interpretations not yet adopted

A number of new standards and amendments to standards and interpretations are effective for annual periods beginning after 1 January 2015 and have not been applied in preparing these consolidated financial statements. None of these is expected to have a significant effect on the consolidated financial statements of the group, except the following set out below:

HKFRS 9, ‘Financial instruments’, addresses the classification, measurement and recognition of financial assets and financial liabilities. The complete version of HKFRS 9 was issued in July 2014. It replaces the guidance in HKAS 39 that relates to the classification and measurement of financial instruments. HKFRS 9 retains but simplifies the mixed measurement model and establishes three primary measurement categories for financial assets: amortised cost, fair value through OCI and fair value through P&L. The basis of classification depends on the entity’s business model and the contractual cash flow characteristics of the financial asset. Investments in equity instruments are

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required to be measured at fair value through profit or loss with the irrevocable option at inception to present changes in fair value in OCI not recycling. There is now a new expected credit losses model that replaces the incurred loss impairment model used in HKAS 39. For financial liabilities there were no changes to classification and measurement except for the recognition of changes in own credit risk in other comprehensive income, for liabilities designated at fair value through profit or loss. HKFRS 9 relaxes the requirements for hedge effectiveness by replacing the bright line hedge effectiveness tests. It requires an economic relationship between the hedged item and hedging instrument and for the ‘hedged ratio’ to be the same as the one management actually use for risk management purposes.

Contemporaneous documentation is still required but is different to that currently prepared under HKAS 39. The standard is effective for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018. Early adoption is permitted. The Group is yet to assess HKAS 9’s full impact.

HKFRS 15, ‘Revenue from contracts with customers’ deals with revenue recognition and establishes principles for reporting useful information to users of financial statements about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from an entity’s contracts with customers. Revenue is recognised when a customer obtains control of a good or service and thus has the ability to direct the use and obtain the benefits from the good or service. The standard replaces HKAS 18 ‘Revenue’ and HKAS 11 ‘Construction contracts’ and related interpretations. HKFRS 15 is effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018 and earlier application is permitted. The group is assessing the impact of HKAS 15.

There are no other HKFRSs or HK(IFRIC) interpretations that are not yet effective that would be expected to have a material impact on the Group.

2.2 Subsidiaries

2.2.1 Consolidation

A subsidiary is an entity (including a structured entity) over which the Group has control. The Group controls an entity when the Group is exposed to, or has rights to, variable returns from its involvement with the entity and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over the entity. Subsidiaries are consolidated from the date on which control is transferred to the Group. They are deconsolidated from the date that control ceases.

(a) Business combinations

The Group applies the acquisition method to account for business combinations. The consideration transferred for the acquisition of a subsidiary is the fair values of the assets transferred, the liabilities incurred to the former owners of the acquiree and the equity interests issued by the Group. The consideration transferred includes the fair value of any asset or liability resulting from a contingent consideration arrangement. Identifiable assets acquired and liabilities and contingent liabilities assumed in a business combination are measured initially at their fair values at the acquisition date.

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The Group recognises any non-controlling interest in the acquiree on an acquisition-by-acquisition basis. Non-controlling interests in the acquiree that are present ownership interests and entitle their holders to a proportionate share of the entity’s net assets in the event of liquidation are measured at either fair value or the present ownership interests’ proportionate share in the recognised amounts of the acquiree’s identifiable net assets. All other components of non-controlling interests are measured at their acquisition date fair value, unless another measurement basis is required by HKFRS.

Acquisition related costs are expensed as incurred.

If the business combination is achieved in stages, the acquisition date carrying value of the acquirer’s previously held equity interest in the acquiree is re-measured to fair value at the acquisition date; any gains or losses arising from such re-measurement are recognised in profit or loss.

Any contingent consideration to be transferred by the Group is recognised at fair value at the acquisition date. Subsequent changes to the fair value of the contingent consideration that is deemed to be an asset or liability is recognised in accordance with HKAS 39 either in profit or loss or as a change to other comprehensive income. Contingent consideration that is classified as equity is not remeasured, and its subsequent settlement is accounted for within equity.

The excess of the consideration transferred, the amount of any non-controlling interest in the acquiree and the acquisition-date fair value of any previous equity interest in the acquiree over the fair value of the identifiable net assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. If the total of consideration transferred, non-controlling interest recognised and previously held interest measured is less than the fair value of the net assets of the subsidiary acquired in the case of a bargain purchase, the difference is recognised directly in the income statement.

Intra-group transactions, balances and unrealised gains on transactions between group companies are eliminated. Unrealised losses are also eliminated unless the transaction provides evidence of an impairment of the transferred asset. When necessary, amounts reported by subsidiaries have been adjusted to conform with the group’s accounting policies.

(b) Changes in ownership interests in subsidiaries without change of control

Transactions with non-controlling interests that do not result in loss of control are accounted for as equity transactions — that is, as transactions with the owners in their capacity as owners. The difference between fair value of any consideration paid and the relevant share acquired of the carrying value of net assets of the subsidiary is recorded in equity. Gains or losses on disposals to non-controlling interests are also recorded in equity.

(c) Disposal of subsidiaries

When the Group ceases to have control, any retained interest in the entity is re-measured to its fair value at the date when control is lost, with the change in carrying amount recognised in profit or loss. The fair value is the initial carrying amount for the purposes of subsequently accounting for the

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retained interest as an associate, joint ventures or financial asset. In addition, any amounts previously recognised in other comprehensive income in respect of that entity are accounted for as if the Group had directly disposed of the related assets or liabilities. This may mean that amounts previously recognised in other comprehensive income are reclassified to income statement.

2.2.2 Separate financial statements

Investments in subsidiaries are accounted for at cost less impairment. Cost also includes direct attributable costs of investment. The results of subsidiaries are accounted for by the Company on the basis of dividend and receivable.

Impairment testing of the investments in subsidiaries is required upon receiving dividends from these investments if the dividend exceeds the total comprehensive income of the subsidiary in the period the dividend is declared or if the carrying amount of the investment in the separate financial statements exceeds the carrying amount in the consolidated financial statements of the investee’s net assets including goodwill.

2.3 Associates

An associate is an entity over which the Group has significant influence but not control, generally accompanying a shareholding of between 20% and 50% of the voting rights. Investments in associates are accounted for using the equity method of accounting. Under the equity method, the investment is initially recognised at cost, and the carrying amount is increased or decreased to recognise the investor’s share of the profit or loss of the investee after the date of acquisition. The group’s investments in associates include goodwill identified on acquisition. Upon the acquisition of the ownership interest in an associate, any difference between the cost of the associate and the group’s share of the net fair value of the associate’s identifiable assets and liabilities is accounted for as goodwill.

If the ownership interest in an associate is reduced but significant influence is retained, only a proportionate share of the amounts previously recognised in other comprehensive income is reclassified to profit or loss where appropriate.

The Group’s share of post-acquisition profit or loss is recognised in the profit or loss, and its share of post-acquisition movements in other comprehensive income is recognised in other comprehensive income with a corresponding adjustment to the carrying amount of the investment. When the Group’s share of losses in an associate equals or exceeds its interest in the associates, including any other unsecured receivables, the Group does not recognise further losses, unless it has incurred legal or constructive obligations or made payments on behalf of the associates.

The Group determines at each reporting date whether there is any objective evidence that the investment in the associates is impaired. If this is the case, the Group calculates the amount of impairment as the difference between the recoverable amount of the associates and its carrying value and recognises the amount adjacent to “share of profit investments accounted for using equity method” in the income statement.

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Profits and losses resulting from upstream and downstream transactions between the Group and its associates are recognised in the Group’s financial statements only to the extent of unrelated investor’s interests in the associates. Unrealised losses are eliminated unless the transaction provides evidence of an impairment of the asset transferred. Accounting policies of associates have been changed where necessary to ensure consistency with the policies adopted by the Group.

Gains or losses on dilution of equity interest in associates are recognised in the income statement.

2.4 Joint arrangements

The Group has applied HKFRS 11 to all joint arrangements. Under HKFRS 11 investments in joint arrangements are classified as either joint operations or joint ventures depending on the contractual rights and obligations each investor. The Group has assessed the nature of its joint arrangements and determined them to be joint ventures. Joint ventures are accounted for using the equity method.

Under the equity method of accounting, interests in joint ventures are initially recognised at cost and adjusted thereafter to recognise the Group’s share of the post-acquisition profits or losses and movements in other comprehensive income. The Group’s investments in joint ventures include goodwill identified on acquisition. Upon the acquisition of the ownership interest in a joint venture, any difference between the cost of the joint venture and the Group’s share of the net fair value of the joint venture’s identifiable assets and liabilities is accounted for as goodwill. When the Group’s share of losses in a joint venture equals or exceeds its interests in the joint ventures (which includes any long-term interests that, in substance, form part of the group’s net investment in the joint ventures), the Group does not recognise further losses, unless it has incurred obligations or made payments on behalf of the joint ventures.

Unrealised gains on transactions between the Group and its joint ventures are eliminated to the extent of the Group’s interest in the joint ventures. Unrealised losses are also eliminated unless the transaction provides evidence of an impairment of the asset transferred. Accounting policies of the joint ventures have been changed where necessary to ensure consistency with the policies adopted by the Group.

2.5 Segment reporting

Operating segments are reported in a manner consistent with the internal reporting provided to the chief operating decision-maker. The chief operating decision-maker, who is responsible for allocating resources and assessing performance of the operating segments, has been identified as the executive directors of the Company that makes strategic decisions.

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2.6 Foreign currency translation

(a) Functional and presentation currency

Items included in the financial statements of each of the Group’s entities are measured using the currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates (the “functional currency”). The consolidated financial statements are presented in RMB, which is the Company’s functional and the Group’s presentation currency.

(b) Transactions and balances

Foreign currency transactions are translated into the functional currency using the exchange rates prevailing at the dates of the transactions or valuation where items are re-measured. Foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from the settlement of such transactions and from the translation at year-end exchange rates of monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are recognised in the income statement, except when deferred in other comprehensive income as qualifying cash flow hedges and qualifying net investment hedges.

Foreign exchange gains and losses that relate to borrowings and cash and cash equivalents are presented in the income statement within ‘finance income or expenses’. All other foreign exchange gains and losses are presented in the income statement within ‘other gains — net’.

Translation differences on non-monetary financial assets and liabilities such as equities held at fair value through profit or loss are recognised in profit or loss as part of the fair value gain or loss.

(c) Group companies

The results and financial position of all the Group entities (none of which has the currency of a hyperinflationary economy) that have a functional currency different from the presentation currency are translated into the presentation currency as follows:

  • (i) assets and liabilities for each balance sheet presented at the closing rate at the date of that balance sheet;

  • (ii) income and expenses for each income statement are translated at average exchange rates (unless this average is not a reasonable approximation of the cumulative effect of the rates prevailing on the transaction dates, in which case income and expenses are translated at the rate on the dates of the transactions); and

  • (iii) all resulting exchange differences are recognised in other comprehensive income.

Goodwill and fair value adjustments arising on the acquisition of a foreign entity are treated as assets and liabilities of the foreign entity and translated at the closing rate. Currency translation differences arising are recognised in other comprehensive income.

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2.7 Property, plant and equipment

Property, plant and equipment are stated at historical cost less depreciation and any impairment losses. Historical cost includes expenditure that is directly attributable to the acquisition of the items.

Subsequent costs are included in the asset’s carrying amount or recognised as a separate asset, as appropriately when it is probable that future economic benefits associated with the item will flow to the Group and the cost of the item can be measured reliably. The carrying amount of the replaced part is derecognised. All other repairs and maintenance are charged to the profit or loss during the year in which they are incurred.

Depreciation on property, plant and equipment is calculated using the straight-line method to allocate their costs to their residual values over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Vehicles 5 years Furniture and office equipment 5 years Leasehold improvements Shorter of 5 years or the lease periods

The assets’ residual values and useful lives are reviewed, and adjusted if appropriate, at the end of each reporting period.

An asset’s carrying amount is written down immediately to its recoverable amount if the asset’s carrying amount is greater than its estimated recoverable amount.

Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing the proceeds with the carrying amount and are recognised within “Other gains — net” in the income statement.

2.8 Investment properties

Investment properties, principally comprising properties that are held for long-term rental yields and are not occupied by the Group. Investment property is initially measured at cost, including related development costs. After initial recognition at cost, investment properties are carried at fair value, representing open market value determined at each reporting date by external valuers. Fair value is based on active market prices, adjusted, if necessary, for any difference in the nature, location or condition of the specific asset. If the information is not available, the Group uses alternative valuation method such as recent prices on less active markets or discounted cash flow projections. These valuations are reviewed annually at each balance sheet date by independent valuers. Changes in fair values are recorded in the profit or loss as part of a valuation gain or loss in “Other gains — net”.

2.9 Goodwill

Goodwill arises on the acquisition of subsidiaries represents the excess of the consideration transferred, the amount of any non-controlling interest in the acquiree and the acquisition-date fair value of any previous equity interest in the acquiree over the fair value of the identified net assets acquired.

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For the purpose of impairment testing, goodwill acquired in a business combination is allocated to each of cash generating units (“CGUs”), or groups of CGUs, that is expected to benefit from the synergies of the combination. Each unit or group of units to which the goodwill is allocated represents the lowest level within the entity at which the goodwill is monitored for internal management purposes. Goodwill is monitored at the operating segment level.

Goodwill impairment reviews are undertaken annually or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate a potential impairment. The carrying value of the CGU containing the goodwill is compared to the recoverable amount, which is the higher of value in use and the fair value less costs to sell. Any impairment is recognised immediately as an expense and is not subsequently reversed.

2.10 Land use rights

All land in the PRC is state-owned and no individual land ownership right exists. The Group acquired the rights to use certain land and the premiums paid for such rights are recorded as land use rights.

Land use rights which are held for development for sale are inventories and measured at lower of cost and net realisable value.

2.11 Impairment of non-financial assets

Assets that have an indefinite useful life, for example goodwill, are not subject to amortisation and are tested annually for impairment. Assets that are subject to amortisation are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. An impairment loss is recognised for the amount by which the asset’s carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount. The recoverable amount is the higher of an asset’s fair value less costs to sell and value in use. For the purposes of assessing impairment, assets are grouped at the lowest levels for which there are separately identifiable cash flows (CGUs). Non-financial assets other than goodwill that suffered impairment are reviewed for possible reversal of the impairment at each reporting date.

2.12 Financial assets

2.12.1 Classification

The Group classifies its financial assets in the following categories: loans and receivables and available for sale. The classification depends on the purpose for which the financial assets were acquired. Management determines the classification of its financial assets at initial recognition.

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(a) Loans and receivables

Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial assets with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted in an active market. They are included in current assets, except for the amounts that are settled or expected to be settled more than 12 months after the end of the reporting period. These are classified as non-current assets. The Group’s loans and receivables comprise trade and other receivables, amounts due from related companies, restricted cash and cash and cash equivalent in the balance sheet.

(b) Available-for-sale financial assets

Available-for-sale financial assets are non-derivatives that are either designated in this category or not classified in any of the other categories. They are included in non-current assets unless the investment matures or management intends to dispose of it within 12 months of the end of the reporting period.

2.12.2 Recognition and measurement

Regular way purchases and sales of financial assets are recognised on the trade-date — the date on which the Group commits to purchase or sell the asset. Investments are initially recognised at fair value plus transaction costs for all financial assets not carried at fair value through profit or loss. Financial assets are derecognised when the rights to receive cash flows from the investments have expired or have been transferred and the Group has transferred substantially all risks and rewards of ownership. Loans and receivables are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Changes in the fair value of monetary and non-monetary securities classified as available for sale are recognised in other comprehensive income.

2.12.3 Offsetting financial instruments

Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amount reported in the balance sheet when there is a legally enforceable right to offset the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously. The legally enforceable right must not be contingent on future events and must be enforceable in the normal course of business and in the event of default, insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company or the counterparty.

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2.13 Impairment of financial assets carried at amortized cost

(a) Assets carried at amortised cost

The Group assesses at the end of each reporting period whether there is objective evidence that a financial asset or group of financial assets is impaired. A financial asset or a group of financial assets is impaired and impairment losses are incurred only if there is objective evidence of impairment as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the asset (a “loss event”) and that loss event (or events) has an impact on the estimated future cash flows of the financial asset or group of financial assets that can be reliably estimated.

Evidence of impairment may include indications that the debtors or a group of debtors is experiencing significant financial difficulty, default or delinquency in interest or principal payments, the probability that they will enter bankruptcy or other financial reorganisation, and where observable data indicate that there is a measurable decrease in the estimated future cash flows, such as changes in arrears or economic conditions that correlate with defaults.

For loans and receivables category, the amount of the loss is measured as the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows (excluding future credit losses that have not been incurred) discounted at the financial asset’s original effective interest rate. The carrying amount of the asset is reduced and the amount of the loss is recognized in the profit or loss. If a loan has a variable interest rate, the discount rate for measuring any impairment loss is the current effective interest rate determined under the contract. As a practical expedient, the Group may measure impairment on the basis of an instrument’s fair value using an observable market price.

If, in a subsequent period, the amount of the impairment loss decreases and the decrease can be related objectively to an event occurring after the impairment was recognized (such as an improvement in the debtor’s credit rating), the reversal of the previously recognized impairment loss is recognized in the profit or loss.

(b) Assets classified as available-for-sale financial assets

The Group assesses at the end of each reporting period whether there is objective evidence that a financial asset or a group of financial assets is impaired.

2.14 Properties under development

Properties under development are stated at the lower of cost and net realisable value. Net realisable value takes into account the price ultimately expected to be realised, less applicable variable selling expenses and anticipated cost to completion.

Development cost of property comprises construction costs, land use rights cost, capitalised borrowing costs and professional fees incurred during the development period. On completion, the properties are transferred to completed properties held for sale.

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2.15 Completed properties held for sale

Completed properties remaining unsold as at the balance sheet dates are stated at the lower of cost and net realisable value.

Cost comprises development costs attributable to the unsold properties.

Net realisable value is determined by reference to the sale proceeds of properties sold in the ordinary course of business, less applicable variable selling expenses, or by management estimates based on prevailing marketing conditions.

2.16 Trade and other receivables

Trade receivables are amounts due from customers for properties sold or services performed in the ordinary course of business. If collection of trade and other receivables is expected in one year or less (or in the normal operating cycle of the business if longer), they are classified as current assets. If not, they are presented as non-current assets.

Trade and other receivables are recognised initially at fair value and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less allowance for impairment.

2.17 Cash and cash equivalents

In the consolidated statement of cash flows, cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.

2.18 Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity.

Incremental costs directly attributable to the issue of new shares or options are shown in equity as a deduction, net of tax, from the proceeds.

2.19 Trade payables

Trade payables are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less (or in the normal operating cycle of the business if longer). If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities.

Trade payables are recognised initially at fair value and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

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2.20 Borrowings

Borrowings are recognised initially at fair value, net of transaction costs incurred. Borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost; any difference between the proceeds (net of transaction costs) and the redemption value is recognised in the profit or loss over the period of the borrowings using the effective interest method.

Fees paid on the establishment of loan facilities are recognised as transaction costs of the loan to the extent that it is probable that some or all of the facility will be drawn down. In this case, the fee is deferred until the draw-down occurs. To the extent there is no evidence that it is probable that some or all of the facility will be drawn down, the fee is capitalised as a pre-payment for liquidity services and amortised over the period of the facility to which it relates.

Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the Group has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least 12 months after the end of the reporting period.

2.21 Borrowing costs

General and specific borrowing costs directly attributable to the acquisition, construction or production of qualifying assets, which are assets that necessarily take a substantial period of time to get ready for their intended use or sale, are added to the cost of those assets, until such time as the assets are substantially ready for their intended use or sale.

Investment income earned on the temporary investment of specific borrowings pending their expenditure on qualifying assets is deducted from the borrowing costs eligible for capitalisation.

All other borrowing costs are recognised in profit or loss in the period in which they are incurred.

2.22 Current and deferred income tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the income statement.

(a) Current income tax

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of the tax laws enacted or substantively enacted at the balance sheet date in the countries where the Company’s subsidiaries and associates operate and generate taxable income. Management periodically evaluates positions taken in tax returns with respect to situations in which applicable tax regulation is subject to interpretation. It establishes provisions where appropriate on the basis of amounts expected to be paid to the tax authorities.

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(b) Deferred income tax

Inside basis differences

Deferred income tax is recognised, using the liability method, on temporary differences arising between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts in the consolidated financial statements. However, deferred tax liabilities are not recognised if they arise from the initial recognition of goodwill, the deferred income tax is not accounted for if it arises from initial recognition of an asset or liability in a transaction other than a business combination that at the time of the transaction affects neither accounting nor taxable profit or loss. Deferred income tax is determined using tax rates (and laws) that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date and are expected to apply when the related deferred income tax asset is realised or the deferred income tax liability is settled.

Deferred income tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that future taxable profit will be available against which the temporary differences can be utilised.

Outside basis differences

Deferred income tax liabilities are provided on taxable temporary differences arising from investments in subsidiaries, associates and joint arrangements, except for deferred income tax liability where the timing of the reversal of the temporary difference is controlled by the Group and it is probable that the temporary difference will not reverse in the foreseeable future. Generally the Group is unable to control the reversal of the temporary difference for associates. Only where there is an agreement in place that gives the Group the ability to control the reversal of the temporary difference not recognised.

Deferred income tax assets are recognised on deductible temporary differences arising from investments in subsidiaries, associates and joint arrangements only to the extent that it is probable the temporary difference will reverse in the future and there is sufficient taxable profit available against which the temporary difference can be utilised.

(c) Offsetting

Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are offset when there is a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets against current tax liabilities and when the deferred income taxes assets and liabilities relate to income taxes levied by the same taxation authority on either the taxable entity or different taxable entities where there is an intention to settle the balances on a net basis.

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2.23 Employee benefits

(a) Employee leave entitlement

Employee entitlements to annual leave are recognised when they accrue to employees. A provision is made for the estimated liability for annual leave as a result of services rendered by employees up to the balance sheet date.

Employee entitlements to sick leave and maternity leave are not recognised until the time of leave.

(b) Retirement benefits

In accordance with the rules and regulations in the PRC, the PRC based employees of the Group participate in various defined contribution retirement benefit plans organised by the relevant municipal and provincial governments in the PRC under which the Group and the PRC based employees are required to make monthly contributions to these plans calculated as a percentage of the employees’ salaries.

The municipal and provincial governments undertake to assume the retirement benefit obligations of all existing and future retired PRC based employees’ payable under the plans described above. Other than the monthly contributions, the Group has no further obligation for the payment of retirement and other post-retirement benefits of its employees. The assets of these plans are held separately from those of the Group in independently administrated funds managed by the governments.

2.24 Share-based payments

(a) Equity-settled share-based payment transactions

The Group operates a number of equity-settled, share-based compensation plans, under which the entity receives services from employees as consideration for equity instruments (options) of the group. The fair value of the employee services received in exchange for the grant of the options is recognised as an expense. The total amount to be expensed is determined by reference to the fair value of the options granted:

  • including any market performance conditions (for example, an entity’s share price);

  • excluding the impact of any service and non-market performance vesting conditions (for example, profitability, sales growth targets and remaining an employee of the entity over a specified time period); and

  • including the impact of any non-vesting conditions (for example, the requirement for employees to save or holding shares for a specified period of time).

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At the end of each reporting period, the group revises its estimates of the number of options that are expected to vest based on the non-marketing performance and service conditions. It recognises the impact of the revision to original estimates, if any, in the income statement, with a corresponding adjustment to equity.

In addition, in some circumstances employees may provide services in advance of the grant date and therefore the grant date fair value is estimated for the purposes of recognising the expense during the period between service commencement period and grant date.

When the options are exercised, the Company issues new shares. The proceeds received net of any directly attributable transaction costs are credited to share capital (and share premium).

(b) Share-based payment transactions among group entities

The grant by the Company of options over its equity instruments to the employees of subsidiary undertakings in the group is treated as a capital contribution. The fair value of employee services received, measured by reference to the grant date fair value, is recognised over the vesting period as an increase to investment in subsidiary undertakings, with a corresponding credit to equity in the parent entity accounts.

2.25 Provisions

Provisions for legal claims are recognised when: the Group has a present legal or constructive obligation as a result of past events; it is probable that an outflow of resources will be required to settle the obligation; and the amount has been reliably estimated. Provisions are not recognised for future operating losses.

Where there are a number of similar obligations, the likelihood that an outflow will be required in settlement is determined by considering the class of obligations as a whole. A provision is recognised even if the likelihood of an outflow with respect to any one item included in the same class of obligations may be small.

Provisions are measured at the present value of the expenditures expected to be required to settle the obligation using a pre-tax rate that reflects current market assessment of the time value of money and the risks specific to the obligation. The increase in the provision due to passage of time is recognised as interest expense.

2.26 Revenue recognition

Revenue is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, and represents amounts receivable for goods supplied, stated net of discounts returns and value added taxes. The Group recognises revenue when the amount of revenue can be reliably measured; when it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity; and when specific criteria have been met for each of the Group’s activities, as described below. The Group bases its estimates of return on historical results, taking into consideration the type of customer, the type of transaction and the specifics of each arrangement.

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(a) Sales of properties

Revenue from sales of properties is recognised when the risks and rewards of properties are transferred to the purchasers, which is when the construction of relevant properties has been completed and the properties have been delivered to the purchasers and recoverability of related receivables is reasonably assured. Deposits and instalments received on properties sold prior to the date of revenue recognition are included in the consolidated balance sheets as “Advanced proceeds from customers” within current liabilities.

(b) Rental income

Rental income from investment property is recognised in the profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.

(c) Property management

Property management services income is recognised when the services are provided, the total amount of revenue and costs arising from provision of the services can be estimated reliably, and it is probable that the economic benefits associated with the transaction will flow in.

(d) Interest income

Interest income is recognised using the effective interest method. When a loan or receivable is impaired, the Group reduces the carrying amount to its recoverable amount, being the estimated future cash flow discounted at the original effective interest rate of the instrument, and continues unwinding the discount as interest income. Interest income on impaired loan or receivables is recognised using the original effective interest rate.

(e) Dividend income

Dividend income is recognised when the right to receive payment is established.

2.27 Government grants

Grants from the government are recognised at their fair value where there is a reasonable assurance that the grant will be received and the Group will comply with all attached conditions.

Government grants relating to costs are deferred and recognised in the profit or loss over the year necessary to match them with the costs that they are intended to compensate.

Government grants relating to property, plant and equipment are included in non-current liabilities as deferred government grants and are credited to the profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the expected lives of the related assets.

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2.28 Leases

Leases in which a significant portion of the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lesser are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases (net of any incentives received from the lesser) are charged to the profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the year of the lease.

2.29 Dividend distribution

Dividend distributions to the Company’s shareholders is recognised as liabilities in the Group’s and the Company’s financial statements in the period in which the dividends are approved by the Company’s shareholders or directors, where appropriate.

2.30 Insurance contracts

An insurance contract is a contract under which one party (the issuer) accepts significant insurance risk from another party (the policyholder) by agreeing to compensate the policyholder if a specific uncertain future event (the insured event) adversely affects the policyholder. Insurance risk is a pre-existing risk transferred from the policyholder to the insurer, and is significant only if an insured event could cause an insurer to pay significant additional benefits in any scenario, excluding scenarios that lack commercial substance (i.e. have no discernible effect on the economics of the transaction).

The Group regards its financial guarantee contracts provided in respect of mortgage facilities for certain property purchasers and financial guarantee contracts provided to its related parties as insurance contracts.

The Group assesses at each reporting date whether its guarantee insurance liabilities are adequate, using current estimates of future cash flows under its insurance contracts. If that assessment shows that the carrying amount of its insurance liabilities is inadequate in the light of the estimated future cash flow, the entire deficiency is recognised in the profit or loss.

3 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

3.1 Financial risk factors

The Group’s activities expose it to a variety of financial risks: market risk (including currency risk, fair value interest rate risk, cash flow interest rate risk and price risk), credit risk and liquidity risk. The Group’s overall risk management programme focuses on the unpredictability of financial markets and seeks to minimise potential adverse effects on the Group’s financial performance.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Risk management is carried out by a central treasury department (Group treasury) under policies approved by the board of directors. Group treasury identifies, evaluates and hedges financial risks in close co-operation with the Group’s operating units. The board provides written principles for overall risk management, as well as written policies covering specific areas, such as foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, credit risk, use of derivative financial instruments and non-derivative financial instruments, and investment of excess liquidity.

(a) Market risk

(i) Foreign exchange risk

The Group’s normal operating activities are principally conducted in RMB since all of the operating entities are based in the PRC. The foreign currency balances as at 31 December 2015 were primarily related to bank deposits, borrowings and the senior notes denominated in United States dollar (“USD”) or Hong Kong dollar (“HKD”). The Group currently does not have a foreign currency hedging policy.

The carrying amount of the Group’s foreign currency denominated monetary assets and liabilities are as follows:

**31 ** December **31 ** December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Assets
HKD 262,113 13,025
USD 1,896,504 3,195,901
2,158,617 3,208,926
Liabilities
HKD 176,436 1,599,828
USD 18,872,365 11,457,816
19,048,801 13,057,644

As at 31 December 2015, if RMB strengthened/weakened by 5% against the HK dollar with all other variables held constant, the post-tax profit for the year would have been RMB4 million lower/higher (2014: RMB60 million higher/lower).

As at 31 December 2015, if RMB strengthened/weakened by 5% against the US dollar with all other variables held constant, the post-tax profit for the year would have been RMB849 million higher/lower (2014: RMB310 million higher/lower).

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  • (ii) Price risk

The Group is not exposed to equity securities price or commodity price risk.

  • (iii) Cash flow and fair value interest rate risk

As the Group has no significant interest-bearing assets, the Group’s income and operating cash flows are substantially independent from changes in market interest rates.

The Group’s interest rate risk arises from long-term borrowings. Borrowings issued at variable rates expose the Group to cash flow interest-rate risk which is partially offset by cash held at variable rates. Borrowings issued at fixed rates expose the Group to fair value interest-rate risk. In 2015, the Group’s borrowings were denominated in RMB, HKD and USD. (2014: RMB, USD and HKD).

The Group has not used any interest rate swaps to hedge its exposure to interest rate risk.

The table below sets out the Group’s exposure to interest rate risks. Included in the table are the liabilities at carrying amounts, categorised by maturity dates.

RMB million
Borrowings
At 31 December 2015
At 31 December 2014
Floating rates
Less
than
1 year
1 to 5
years
5,751
12,182
5,406
9,258
Sub-
total
17,933
14,664
Fixed rates
Less
than
1 year
1 to 5
years
8,833
15,033
8,434
11,286
Sub-
total
23,866
19,720
Total
41,799
34,384

As at 31 December 2015, if the interest rates on borrowings had been 100 basis points higher/lower with all other variables held constant, the post-tax profit for the year would have been lower/higher by RMB72.2 million (2014: lower/higher by RMB40.5 million) and the capitalised interest for the year would have been higher/lower by RMB69.3 million. (2014: higher/lower by RMB76.2million) respectively.

The Group’s management team centrally authorises all loans entered into by operating entities and sets a benchmark interest rate within which the entity management teams can negotiate loans with their local lenders prior to obtaining central approval from the Group management. The interest rate benchmark is reassessed annually by the Group management team.

The Group also analyses its interest rate exposure monthly by considering refinancing, renewal of existing positions and alternative financing.

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(b) Credit risk

The Group has no significant concentrations of credit risk. The maximum extent of the Group’s credit exposure in relation to financial assets is represented by the aggregate balance of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, trade and other receivable, amount due from related parties included in the consolidated balance sheets. Cash transactions are limited to high-credit-quality banks. The Group has policies in place to ensure that sales of properties are made to customers with an appropriate financial strength and appropriate percentage of down payment. Credit is granted to customers with sufficient financial strength. It also has continuous monitoring procedures to ensure the collection of the receivables as scheduled and follow up action is taken to recover overdue debts, if any.

Certain customers of the Group have arranged bank financing for their purchases of the properties. The Group entities have provided guarantees to secure obligations of such customers for repayments, normally up to the time when the customers obtain the legal certificates of the property ownership. Detailed disclosure of these guarantees is made in Note 33(a).

(c) Liquidity risk

Management aims to maintain sufficient cash to meet funding requirement for operations and monitor rolling forecasts of the Group’s cash on the basis of expected cash flow. The directors of the Company have prepared cash flow projections for the year ending 31 December 2016. Key assumptions used in the preparation of the cash flow projections for the year ending 31 December 2016 include: (1) proceeds from pre-sales in 2016 is expected to be maintained at the same level as that of 2015; (2) construction payments match receipt of the relevant proceeds from pre-sales; (3) available project loan facility is expected to be no less than that of 2015 and (4) no breach of debt covenants is anticipated in 2016.

The Group has a number of alternative plans to mitigate the potential impacts on anticipated cash flows should there be significant adverse changes in economic environment. These include adjusting and further slowing down the construction progress as appropriate to ensure available resources for the development of properties for sale, implementing cost control measures, accelerating sales with more flexible pricing and issuing senior notes. The Group, will base on its assessment of the relevant future costs and benefits, pursue such options as are appropriate. The directors consider that the Group will be able to maintain sufficient financial resources to meet its operation needs.

Due to the dynamic nature of the underlying businesses, the Group’s central treasury department maintains flexibility in funding by its ability to move cash and cash equivalents between different entities through entrusted loan arrangements.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

The table below analyses the Group’s financial liabilities into relevant maturity grouping based on the remaining period at the balance sheet date to the contractual maturity date. The amounts disclosed in the table are the contractual undiscounted cash flows.

In RMB million
Less than
1 year
Between
1 and
2 years
Between
2 and
5 years
At 31 December 2015
Borrowings and interest payments
16,840
10,701
21,155
Trade and other payables (Note 21)
10,272


Amounts due to related companies
(Note 37(d))
18,213


At 31 December 2014
Borrowings and interest payments
16,215
6,081
17,559
Trade and other payables (Note 21)
11,116


Amounts due to related companies
(Note 37(d))
20,714

Total
48,696
10,272
18,213
39,855
11,116
20,714

Note:

  • The interest payments on borrowings are calculated based on borrowings held as at 31 December 2015 and 2014 without taking into account future borrowings. Floating-rate interest is estimated using the current interest rate at 31 December 2015 and 2014 respectively.

  • Trade and other payables in this analysis do not include the taxes payables and payroll and welfare payables.

3.2 Capital management

The Group’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern in order to provide returns for shareholders and benefits for other stakeholders and to maintain an optimal capital structure to reduce the cost of capital.

In order to maintain or adjust the capital structure, the Group may adjust the amount of dividends paid to equity holders, return capital to equity holders, issue new shares or sell assets to reduce debt.

Consistent with others in the industry, the Group monitors capital on the basis of the gearing ratio. This ratio is calculated as net debt divided by total equity. Net debt is calculated as total borrowings (including current and non-current borrowings as shown in the consolidated balance sheet) less cash and cash equivalents (including restricted cash).

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

The gearing ratios of the Group as at 31 December 2015 and 2014 were as follows:

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Total borrowings (Note 22) 41,798,633 34,383,795
Less: Restricted cash (Note 16) 4,371,010 (4,384,145)
Cash and cash equivalents (Note 17) 22,687,280 (20,657,285)
Net debts 14,740,343 9,342,365
Total equity 19,420,170 20,982,633
Gearing ratio 75.9% 44.5%

The directors of the Company are of the view that the Group’s gearing ratio is healthy.

4 FAIR VALUE ESTIMATION

The carrying value less impairment provisions of trade and other receivables and the nominal value of trade and other payables approximate their fair values due to their short maturities.

The fair value of financial liabilities for disclosure purposes is estimated by discounting the future contractual cash flows at the current market interest rate that is available to the Group for similar financial instruments. See Note 22 for disclosures of the financial liabilities that are not measured at fair value but fair value disclosures are required.

  • (a) Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1).

  • (b) Inputs other than quoted prices included within level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly (that is, as prices) or indirectly (that is, derived from prices) (level 2).

  • (c) Inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on observable market data (that is, unobservable inputs) (level 3).

5 CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES AND JUDGEMENTS

Estimates and judgments are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances.

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The Group makes estimates and assumptions concerning the future. The resulting accounting estimates will, by definition, seldom equal the related actual results. The estimates and assumptions that may have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next financial year are addressed below.

(A) PRC corporate income taxes and deferred taxation

The Group’s subsidiaries that operate in the PRC are subject to income tax in the PRC. Significant judgement is required in determining the provision for income tax and withholding tax on undistributed earnings of PRC subsidiaries. There are many transactions and calculations for which the ultimate determination is uncertain during the ordinary course of business. Where the final tax outcome of these matters (including the effect of change in the dividend policies of PRC subsidiaries) is different from the amounts that were initially recorded, such difference is made.

Deferred tax assets relating to certain temporary differences and tax losses are recognised when management considers to be probable that future taxable profit will be available against which the temporary differences or tax losses can be utilised. The outcome of their actual utilisation may be different.

(B) PRC land appreciation taxes

The Group is subject to land appreciation taxes (“LAT”) in numerous jurisdictions. However, since the implementation and settlement of these taxes varies among various tax jurisdictions in cities of the PRC, significant judgement is required in determining the amount of the land appreciation and its related taxes. The Group recognised these land appreciation taxes based on management’s best estimates according to its understanding of the interpretation of tax rules by various tax authorities. The final tax outcome could be different from the amounts that were initially recorded, and these differences will impact the income taxes and deferred income tax provisions in the years in which such taxes have been finalised with local tax authorities.

(C) Estimated net realizable value of properties under development and completed properties held for sale

The Group assesses the carrying amounts of properties under development and completed properties held for sale based on the net realisable value of these properties, taking into account costs to completion based on past experience and net sales value based on prevailing market conditions. Provision is made when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amounts may not be realised. The assessment requires the use of judgement and estimates. If the estimated future selling prices had been 5% lower, the Group would have recognised further impairment against properties under development and completed properties held for sale and the net profit for the year ended 31 December 2015 would have decreased by RMB17 million (2014: RMB109 million).

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(D) Estimated impairment of goodwill

The Group tests at least annually whether goodwill has suffered any impairment, in accordance with the accounting policy stated in Note 2.9. The recoverable amounts of CGUs have been determined based on fair value less costs of disposals calculations method. These calculations require the use of estimates.

6 SEGMENT INFORMATION

The executive directors of the Company review the Group’s internal reporting in order to assess performance and allocate resources of the Group. The executive directors of the Company have determined the operating segments based on these reports. The executive directors assess the performance of property development, property investment business and property management business of the Group respectively. The performance of such operating segments is assessed based on a measure of profit/(loss) before income tax.

Segment assets primarily consist of all assets excluding deferred income tax assets and segment liabilities primarily consist of all liabilities excluding deferred income tax liabilities and current income tax liabilities.

The analysis of the Group’s profit/(loss) before income tax by segment is as follows:

**Year ** ended 31 December 2015 ended 31 December 2015
Property
Property management
development and others Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Total segment revenue 22,511,143 561,416 23,072,559
Inter-segment revenue (61,616) (61,616)
Revenue from external customers 22,511,143 499,800 23,010,943
Segment gross profit 2,810,857 46,408 2,857,265
Selling and marketing costs (633,674) (27,380) (661,054)
Administrative expenses (715,095) (59,920) (775,015)
Other income and gains 4,109,545 2,445 4,111,990
Other expenses and losses (258,404) (7,224) (265,628)
Finance income 123,521 123,521
Finance costs (2,514,592) (5,983) (2,520,575)
Share of profit of investments accounted for
using equity method, net 1,693,207 1,693,207
Profit/(loss) before income tax 4,615,365 (51,654) 4,563,711

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

**As ** **at 31 December ** 2015
Property
Property Management
development and others Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Total segment assets 113,644,985 361,548 114,006,533
Total segment liabilities 83,840,268 535,623 84,375,891
**Year ** ended 31 December 2014
Property
Property management
development and others Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Total segment revenue 24,719,336 417,762 25,137,098
Inter-segment revenue (65,139) (65,139)
Revenue from external customers 24,719,336 352,623 25,071,959
Segment gross profit 4,326,524 15,356 4,341,880
Selling and marketing costs (671,986) (25,313) (697,299)
Administrative expenses (629,161) (51,582) (680,743)
Other income and gains 1,017,918 2,533 1,020,451
Other expenses (117,859) (1,958) (119,817)
Finance income 123,422 123,422
Finance costs (1,267,380) (1,267,380)
Share of profit of investment accounted for using
equity method, net 2,181,283 2,181,283
Profit/(loss) before income tax 4,962,761 (60,964) 4,901,797

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

**As ** **at 31 December ** 2014
Property
Property management
development and others Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
**Total ** **segment ** assets 110,725,396 184,951 110,910,347
**Total ** **segment ** liabilities 78,651,367 332,911 78,984,278

Reportable segments’ assets and liabilities are reconciled to total assets and liabilities as follows:

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Total segment assets 114,006,533 110,910,347
Deferred income tax assets 1,502,429 1,451,953
Total assets per balance sheet 115,508,962 112,362,300
Total segment liabilities 84,375,891 78,984,278
Deferred income tax liabilities 4,379,412 5,886,751
Current income tax liabilities 7,333,489 6,508,638
Total liabilities per balance sheet 96,088,792 91,379,667

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7 PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Furniture
and office Leasehold
Vehicles equipment improvements Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
At 1 January 2014
Cost 62,879 31,049 22,331 116,259
Accumulated depreciation (26,284) (16,688) (7,906) (50,878)
Net book amount 36,595 14,361 14,425 65,381
Year ended 31 December 2014
At 1 January 2014 36,595 14,361 14,425 65,381
Additions 20,982 1,804 2,837 25,623
Disposal of subsidiaries (1,118) (545) (55) (1,718)
Disposals (2,512) (293) (2,805)
Depreciation charges (13,389) (7,182) (4,095) (24,666)
At 31 December 2014 40,558 8,145 13,112 61,815
At 31 December 2014
Cost 72,762 31,387 25,040 129,189
Accumulated depreciation (32,204) (23,242) (11,928) (67,374)
Net book amount 40,558 8,145 13,112 61,815
Year ended 31 December 2015
At 1 January 2015 40,558 8,145 13,112 61,815
Additions 5,320 4,920 5,378 15,618
Acquisition of subsidiaries 6,462 5,130 12,470 24,062
Disposal of subsidiaries (2,254) (724) (2,978)
Disposals (365) (580) (901) (1,846)
Depreciation charges (11,188) (8,934) (7,590) (27,712)
At 31 December 2015 38,533 7,957 22,469 68,959
At 31 December 2015
Cost 74,295 44,666 38,834 157,795
Accumulated depreciation (35,762) (36,709) (16,365) (88,836)
Net book amount 38,533 7,957 22,469 68,959

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Depreciation expense of RMB4 million (2014: RMB3 million) has been charged to “cost of sales”, RMB2 million (2014: RMB1 million) in “selling and marketing costs” and RMB22 million (2014: RMB21 million) in “administrative expenses”.

8 INVESTMENT PROPERTIES

Commercial properties and car parks at fair value

Opening balance at 1 January
Net losses from fair value adjustment
Disposals
Closing balance at 31 December
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
239,000
252,000

(13,000)
(239,000)


239,000

The Group measures its investment properties at fair value. In February 2015, the Group disposed all investment properties to an independent third party at the price of RMB175 million, resulting in an after tax net loss of RMB81.3 million (Note 27).

9 INTANGIBLE ASSETS

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Goodwill (Note (a)) 228,699 147,985
Others 1,570 920
230,269 148,905
(A)
Goodwill
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
At beginning of year 147,985 233,694
Acquisition of subsidiaries (Note 35(a)) 80,714
Impairment charges (Note 27) (85,709)
At end of year 228,699 147,985

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Goodwill was generated from business combination and allocated to each project or a group of projects, which is expected to benefit from the synergies of the combination. Each project or a group of projects is identified as a CGU. Management reviews the business performance and monitors the goodwill on individual CGU basis. The recoverable amount of a CGU is determined based on fair value less costs of disposal calculations. A post-tax discount rate of 14% was used for the analysis of each CGU in the operating entities as at 31 December 2015 (2014: 15%).

There is no individual CGU, for which the carrying amount of goodwill is significant in comparison with the total carrying amount of goodwill. The goodwill mainly attributed to the segment of property development.

10 INVESTMENTS ACCOUNTED FOR USING THE EQUITY METHOD

The amounts recognised in the balance sheet are as follows:

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Joint ventures (“JVs”) 10,691,975 7,927,863
Associates 4,568,606 4,120,926
Total 15,260,581 12,048,789

The share of profits/(losses) from investment recognised in the income statement were as follows:

JVs
Associates
Total
2015
RMB’000
1,501,411
191,796
1,693,207
2014
RMB’000
1,043,884
1,137,399
2,181,283

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10.1 Investments in JVs

An analysis of the movement of investments in JVs is as follows:

At beginning of year
Investments in new JVs (Note (a))
Additional investments in existing JVs
JVs changing to subsidiaries (Note 35)
Investment in JVs owned by newly acquired subsidiaries (Note 35)
JVs changed from subsidiaries (Note 36)
Disposal of interests in a joint venture (“JV”)
Share of profit of JVs, net
Share of JVs’ declared dividends
At end of year
2015
RMB’000
7,927,863
2,225,123
236,000
(1,153,375)
67,840
1,231,459
(49,995)
1,501,411
(1,294,351)
10,691,975
2014
RMB’000
4,925,337
1,985,309





1,043,884
(26,667)
7,927,863

Note:

  • (a) In June 2015, the Group acquired a 51% equity interest of Nanjing Foshouhu Architectural Art Development Co., Ltd. (“Nanjing Foshouhu”) at the consideration of RMB77 million. Upon the completion of the acquisition, Nanjing Foshouhu became a JV of the Company, the fair value of the net assets acquired amounted to was RMB131 million and a net gain of RMB54 million was resulted.

According to a new project acquisition plan, the Group targeted to obtain 69% equity interest in a project development company named Wuhan Tazihu Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan Tazihu”) by equity acquisitions from third parties. As of 31 December 2015, the Group has completed the acquisition of 46% equity interest of Wuhan Tazihu at a consideration of RMB487 million, which lower than the relevant fair value acquired at the transaction date, resulting in a net gain of RMB72 million attributed to the Group, and Wuhan Tazihu has become a JV of the Group.

  • (b) All joint ventures are non-listed companies. A JV named Summer Sky Investments Limited is incorporated in Hong Kong, all remaining JVs of the Group are incorporated in the PRC.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

  • (c) As at 31 December 2015 and 2014, the Group had interests in the following principal JVs:
Equity interest % Equity interest %
Registered **owned by ** the Group
capital 31 December 31 December
Name of JVs (RMB million) 2015 2014 Principal activities
Beijing Franshion Sunac Real Estate
Development Co., Ltd. 100 49% 49% Real estate development
Beijing Sunac Hengyu Real Estate
Co., Ltd. 2,500 51% 51% Real estate development
Beijing Zhuzong Zhongbang Real
Estate Co., Ltd. 1,000 48% 48% Real estate development
Beijing Xiangyuan Da Dao Industrial
Co., Ltd. 167 40% 40% Real estate development
*Tianjin Greentown National Game
Village Construction and
Development Co., Ltd. 2,500 39.2% Real estate development
Tianjin TEDA City Development
Co., Ltd. 340 47% 47% Real estate development
Shanghai Poly Hongrong Real Estate
Co., Ltd. 2,000 49% 24.5% Real estate development
Shanghai Long Xiang Real Estate
Development Co., Ltd. 30 50% 25% Real estate development
Hangzhou Wangjiangfu Real Estate
Co., Ltd. 650 50% 50% Real estate development
China Energy Conservation Lvjian
(Hangzhou) Technology
Development Co., Ltd. 600 65% 65% Real estate development
*Wuhan Tazihu Real Estate Co., Ltd. 80 46% Real estate development
Summer Sky Investments Co. Ltd. 0 49% 49% Real estate development
  • New JVs of the Group acquired in 2015.

The above table lists the principal JVs of the Group. To give details of other JVs would, in the view of the directors, result in particulars of excessive length.

The Group’s control over decisions about the relevant activities requires unanimous consent with other business partners in the JVs in accordance with the JVs’ articles of associations.

(d) Summarised financial information of material JVs

Set out below is the summarised financial information for two major JVs.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Summarised balance sheets

Summarised assets and liabilities
Current assets
Non-current assets
Current liabilities
Net assets
Included in the above assets and liabilities:
Cash and cash equivalents
Financial liabilities, excluding trade and other
payables and provisions
— Current
— Non-current
Summarised profit or loss and other
comprehensive income
Revenue
Net profit/(loss)
Total comprehensive income
Included in the above profit or loss:
Depreciation and amortisation
Interest income
Interest expense
Income tax expense
JV - A
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
1,767,748
4,840,497
97,868
76,146
1,678,338
3,290,683
187,278
1,625,960
1,214,027
775,893




2,725,759
7,431,265
761,318
1,617,279
761,318
1,617,279
342
395
33,451
14,208


439,591
997,128
JV - B
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
3,794,958
6,733,256
22,620
24,063
918,793
4,828,393
2,898,785
1,928,926
52,031
415,489




5,343,504

972,653
(37,313)
972,653
(37,313)
196
171
6,591
4,280


504,108
(11,944)
JV - B
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
3,794,958
6,733,256
22,620
24,063
918,793
4,828,393
2,898,785
1,928,926
52,031
415,489




5,343,504

972,653
(37,313)
972,653
(37,313)
196
171
6,591
4,280


504,108
(11,944)
415,489


(37,313)
(37,313)
171
4,280

(11,944)

The information above reflects the amounts presented in the financial statements of the JVs, adjusted for differences in accounting policies between the Group and the JVs, and not the Company’s shares of those amounts.

(e) Reconciliation of summarised financial information

Reconciliation of the above financial information presented to the carrying amount of the Group’s interests in the JVs:

JV - A JV - A JV - B JV - B
2015 2014 2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Net assets of JVs 187,278 1,625,960 2,898,785 1,928,926
The Group’s equity interest shares 49% 49% 49% 49%
Carrying amount 91,766 796,720 1,420,405 945,174

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Aggregate information of JVs that are not individually material:

Aggregate carrying amount of the Group’s interests in these JVs
The Group’s share of post-tax profits, net
The Group’s shares of total comprehensive income
2015
RMB’000
9,179,804
651,765
651,765
2014
RMB’000
6,185,969
269,701
269,701

As at 31 December 2015, there were no contingent liabilities relating to the Group’s interests in the JVs (2014: Nil), except that disclosed in Note 33.

10.2 Investments in associates

An analysis of the movement of equity investments in associates is as follows:

At beginning of year
Investment in a new associate
An associate changing to a subsidiary (Note (a), 35)
Disposal of an associate (Note (a))
Share of profit of associates, net
Shares of associates’ declared dividends
At end of year
2015
RMB’000
4,120,926
1,593,075
(86,975)
(18,406)
191,796
(1,231,810)
4,568,606
2014
RMB’000
2,983,527



1,137,399
4,120,926

All associates of the Group are incorporated in the PRC and are non-listed companies. No associate was individually material to the Group for the year.

As at 31 December 2015, there were no contingent liabilities relating to the Group’s interests in the associates (2014: Nil), except that disclosed in Note 33.

  • (a) In 2015 the Group completed a series of equity transactions with Greentown China Holdings Limited and its certain subsidiaries (“Greentown Group”), independent third parties of the Company, which included (i) an addition of 50% equity interest of an previously 50% owned associate named Shanghai Forest Golf Villa Development Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Forest Golf”) and (ii) a disposal of a 45% owned associate named Beijing Xingye Wanfa Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (“Xingye Wanfa”).

Details of the above transaction (i) is disclosed in Note 35. For the transaction (ii), on 30 June 2015, the Group disposed its owned 45% equity interest of Beijing Xingye Wanfa at the equity consideration of RMB191.37 million, resulted in a gain of RMB173 million (Note 26).

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As at 31 December 2015 and 2014, the Group had interests in the following principal associates:

Equity interest attributable to the Group

Registered
capital
(RMB 31 December 31 December
Name of associates million) 2015 2014 Principal activities
Beijing Poly Sunac Real Estate
Development Co., Ltd 2,000 49.5% 49.5% Real estate development
Tianjin Poly Sunac Investment
Co., Ltd. 2,000 49% 49% Real estate development
Shanghai Fuyuan Binjiang
Development Co., Ltd. 1,320 47% Real estate development
Shanghai Gezhouba Greentown
Sunac Real Estate Co., Ltd. 100 49% 24.5% Real estate development
Wuxi Taihu Greentown Real
Estate Co., Ltd. 300 39% 19.5% Real estate development

11 DEFERRED INCOME TAX

31
Deferred income tax assets (hereafter “DTA”):
— to be recovered within 12 months
— to be recovered after more than 12 months
Deferred income tax liabilities (hereafter “DTL”):
— to be settled within 12 months
— to be settled after more than 12 months
Deferred tax liabilities — net
December
2015
31
RMB’000
892,312
610,117
1,502,429
1,327,584
3,051,828
4,379,412
2,876,983
December
2014
RMB’000
971,309
480,644
1,451,953
521,655
5,365,096
5,886,751
4,434,798

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APPENDIX I

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The movement on DTA and DTL during the year, without taking into consideration of offsetting of balance within the same tax jurisdiction, is as follows:

(A) DTA

Deferred Impairment Impairment
DTA on expenses provision
unpaid for tax Deductible for
LAT purpose tax loss properties Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
At 1 January 2014 936,397 59,713 227,572 80,872 1,304,554
Credited/(charged) to profit or loss 55,409 (4,829) 62,120 50,844 163,544
Disposal of subsidiaries (2,386) (13,759) (16,145)
At 31 December 2014 991,806 52,498 275,933 131,716 1,451,953
Credited/(charged) to profit or loss 46,703 (36,644) 75,449 28,108 113,616
Acquisition of subsidiaries
(Note 35) 77,887 4,851 79,327 162,065
Disposal of subsidiaries (Note 36) (41,327) (934) (149,922) (33,022) (225,205)
At 31 December 2015 1,075,069 19,771 280,787 126,802 1,502,429

DTA are recognised for tax losses carry-forwards to the extent that the realisation of the related benefit through the future taxable profits is probable. The Group did not recognise DTA of RMB227 million (2014: RMB127 million) in respect of accumulated losses amounting to RMB907 million (2014: RMB510 million) that can be carried forward against future taxable income. Accumulated losses amounting to, RMB24 million, RMB72 million, RMB35 million, RMB398 million and RMB378 million, as at 31 December 2015 will expire in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively.

As of 31 December 2015, the Group has deductible temporary differences of RMB370 million (2014: RMB437 million) in respect of which no DTA have been recognised as it is not probable that taxable profit will be available against which the deductible temporary differences can be utilised.

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(B) DTL

Deferred

LAT
Deferred corporate income tax
Acquisition
of
subsidiaries
Fair value
gains on
acquisitions
Fair value
gains of
investment
properties
Prepaid
LAT
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
At 1 January 2014
3,991,073
2,156,721
6,683
70,923
(Credited)/charged to profit or
loss

(283,086)
(3,250)
29,651
Transfer to LAT payable
(434,496)



At 31 December 2014
3,556,577
1,873,635
3,433
100,574
(Credited)/charged to profit or
loss

(247,385)
(3,433)
(89,342)
Transfer to LAT payable
(548,959)



Acquisition of subsidiaries
900,701
883,869

127,491
Disposal of subsidiaries
(2,173,341)
(434,163)

(17,734)
At 31 December 2015
1,734,978
2,075,956

120,989
Dividend
tax for
PRC
entities
RMB’000
257,625
94,907

352,532
94,957



447,489
Total
RMB’000
6,483,025
(161,778)
(434,496)
5,886,751
(245,203)
(548,959)
1,912,061
(2,625,238)
4,379,412

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APPENDIX I

12 PROPERTIES UNDER DEVELOPMENT

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Comprising:
Land use rights costs 23,865,555 24,735,044
Other development costs 5,936,959 7,433,155
Capitalised finance costs 4,390,220 3,637,130
34,192,734 35,805,329
Less: Provision for loss on realisable value (50,075) (104,784)
34,142,659 35,700,545
Including: To be completed within 12 months 10,910,407 12,157,060
To be completed after 12 months 23,232,252 23,543,485
34,142,659 35,700,545

The properties under developments (“PUDs”) are all located in the PRC.

As at 31 December 2015, PUDs with net carrying amount of RMB17,550 million (2014: RMB23,879 million) were pledged as collateral for the Group’s borrowings (Note 22).

13 COMPLETED PROPERTIES HELD FOR SALE

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Completed properties held for sale 16,413,728 14,406,993
Less: Provision for loss on realisable value (686,599) (724,542)
15,727,129 13,682,451

The completed properties held for sale are all located in the PRC.

As at 31 December 2015, certain completed properties held for sale with net carrying amount of RMB6,291 million (2014: RMB8,303 million) were pledged as collaterals for the Group’s borrowings (Note 22).

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14 TRADE AND OTHER RECEIVABLES

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Receivables from non-controlling interests 334,024 1,392,778
Trade receivables (Note (b)) 92,011 368,868
Notes receivables 200 4,110
Receivables from a disposal of PUD 335,000
Other receivables
— Deposits 212,349 166,587
— Payments on behalf of customers 132,291 140,171
— Interests 22,810
— Others 204,474 94,973
998,159 2,502,487
Less: Bad debt provision for other receivables (27,678) (27,678)
970,481 2,474,809

Notes:

(a) As at 31 December 2015 and 2014, the carrying amounts of trade and other receivables were all denominated in RMB and approximated their fair value.

(b) At 31 December 2015, the ageing analysis at the trade receivable is performed based on the date of the revenue recognition. The ageing analysis of trade receivables at respective balance sheet dates is as follows:

31
Within 90 days
90 - 180 days
181 - 365 days
Over 365 days
December
2015
31
RMB’000
55,160

34,521
2,330
92,011
December
2014
RMB’000
243,987
52,477
72,404
368,868

Trade receivables are analysed as follows:

31
Fully performing and under credit terms
Past due but not impaired
December
2015
31
RMB’000
79,384
12,627
92,011
December
2014
RMB’000
351,422
17,446
368,868

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During the year ended 31 December 2015, the Group granted a credit period of 90-365 days to certain customers.

As the Group normally holds collateral of the properties before collection of full contract amount and transfer of the legal titles to the customers, the Directors are of the view that the past due trade receivables would be recovered and no provision was made as at 31 December 2015.

15 PREPAYMENTS

31
Non-current
Prepayments for equity investment
Current
Prepaid taxes
— LAT
— Business tax and surcharge
— Corporate income tax
Prepayments for land use rights acquisition
Prepayments for project development costs
December
2015
31
RMB’000
4,722,036
1,214,360
697,978
725,876
1,465,969
61,897
4,166,080
December
2014
RMB’000
944,991
985,483
699,397
499,671
342,109
41,534
2,568,194

As at 31 December 2015 and 2014, the carrying amounts of the Group’s prepayments were all denominated in RMB.

16 RESTRICTED CASH

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Guarantee deposits as reserve for bank loans 3,070,505 3,038,476
Restricted cash from property presale proceeds 1,287,734 1,276,274
Others 12,771 69,395
4,371,010 4,384,145

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APPENDIX I

17 CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

**31 ** December **31 ** December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Denominated in RMB 20,528,663 17,448,359
Denominated in USD 1,896,504 3,195,901
Denominated in HKD 262,113 13,025
22,687,280 20,657,285

The conversion of RMB denominated balances into foreign currencies, and the remittance of foreign currencies-denominated bank balances and cash out of the PRC are subject to restrictive foreign exchange control rules and regulations.

The Group earns interest on cash at bank, at floating bank deposit rates and there was no bank overdraft in the Group.

18 SHARE CAPITAL

Ordinary shares of HK$0.1 each, issued
and fully paid:
As at 1 January 2014
Proceeds from shares issued upon exercise of
employees’ share options
As at 31 December 2014
Proceeds from shares issued upon exercise of
employees’ share options
As at 31 December 2015
Number of
shares
(thousands)
10,000,000
3,320,311
61,885
3,382,196
17,253
3,399,449
Shares capital
Equivalent to
HK$’000
RMB’000
1,000,000

332,032
285,055
6,188
4,908
338,220
289,963
1,725
1,366
339,945
291,329
Shares capital
Equivalent to
HK$’000
RMB’000
1,000,000

332,032
285,055
6,188
4,908
338,220
289,963
1,725
1,366
339,945
291,329
285,055
4,908
289,963
1,366
291,329

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APPENDIX I

19 SHARE OPTION SCHEMES

(I) Post-IPO share option scheme

A Post-IPO Share Option Scheme was approved and adopted by all shareholders of the Company on the annual general meeting held on 29 April 2011 (the “Post-IPO Option Scheme Adoption Date”). As at 31 December 2014, all the share options have been granted within the Post-IPO Share Option Scheme. The options are not conditional on the employees’ performance target before an option can be exercised. The Post-IPO share options, once vested, shall be exercisable within a period of six years from the Post-IPO Scheme Adoption Date or the most recent anniversary of the Post-IPO Scheme Adoption Date.

(II) 2014 share option scheme

A share option scheme (“2014 Share Option Scheme”) was approved and adopted by the shareholders of the Company at the annual general meeting held on 19 May 2014 (the “2014 Share Option Scheme Adoption Date”).The maximum number of shares in respect of which options (“2014 Options”) may be granted should not exceed 166,374,246 shares, representing 5% of the total number of shares in issue as at the 2014 Share Option Scheme Adoption Date. The options are to be granted during a grant period of three years from the 2014 Share Option Scheme Adoption Date. Such options will vest in accordance with the following schedule: 30% upon the grant, an additional 30% upon the first anniversary of the 2014 Share Option Scheme Adoption Date and additional 40% upon the second anniversary. The options are not conditional on the employees’ performance target before an option can be exercised. The subscription price for each grant should be at least the higher of (1) the closing price of the shares as stated in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s daily quotations sheets on the grant dates, (2) the average of the closing prices of the shares as stated in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s daily quotation sheets for the five business days immediately preceding the grant date, and (3) the nominal value of the shares of the Company. The 2014 share options, once vested, shall be exercisable within a period of five years from the 2014 Share Option Scheme Adoption Date or the most recent anniversary of the 2014 Share Option Scheme Adoption Date.

The weighted-average fair value of options granted during the period determined using the Binomial valuation model was HK$2.23 per option (2014: HK$1.36). The significant inputs into the model were weighted average share price of HK$7.27 at the grant date (2014: HK$4.07), exercise price of HK$7.27 (2014: HK$4.07), volatility of 44.91% (2014: 44.53%), dividend yield of 2.1% (2014: 1.66%), an expected option life of five years, and an annual risk-free interest rate of 1.129% (2014: 1.272%). The expected volatility is determined by calculating the historical volatility of the price of listed companies with similar business to the Group. The expected dividend yield is determined by the Directors based on the expected future performance and dividend policy of the Group. The total expense recognised in the profit or loss for share options granted to directors and employees for the year ended 31 December 2015 was RMB47.40 million (2014: RMB35.46 million) (Note 25).

The Group has no legal or constructive obligation to repurchase or settle all above mentioned options in cash.

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Movement in the share options and their related weighted-average exercise prices are as follows:

2015 2015 2014 2014
Average Average
price in price in
HK$ per Options HK$ per Options
share (thousand) share (thousand)
At beginning of year 3.95 99,434 3.23 130,669
Granted 7.27 33,267 4.07 33,267
Exercised 3.34 (17,253) 2.56 (61,885)
Expired 2.78 (2,457)
Abandoned 5.11 (4,578) 2.33 (160)
At end of year 5.00 110,870 3.95 99,434

As at 31 December 2015, 52,640 thousand shares in Post-IPO Share Option Scheme and 26,214 thousand shares in the 2014 Share Option Scheme were exercisable (2014: 55,004 thousand shares in the Post-IPO Share Option Scheme and 8,782 thousand shares in the 2014 Share Option Scheme).

Share options outstanding at the end of the year have the following expiry date and exercise prices:

Exercise price Number of share options Number of share options
in HK$ per (thousands)
Expiry date share option 2015 2014
28 April 2017 1.48 13,058 18,785
28 April 2018 2.33 12,611 18,326
28 April 2019 6.32 24,313 30,254
5 June 2019 4.07 28,042 32,069
9 July 2020 7.27 32,846
110,870 99,434

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20 RESERVES

Note
Year ended 31 December 2014
At 1 January 2014
Employees share option scheme:
— Value of employee services
25
— Proceeds from shares issued
Dividend relating to 2013
Statutory reserve (a)
At 31 December 2014
Year ended 31 December 2015
At 1 January 2015
Transaction with non-controlling interests
34
Employees share option scheme:
— Value of employee services
25
— Proceeds from shares issued
Statutory reserve
Dividend relating to 2014
40
At 31 December 2015
Share
premium
RMB’000
3,070,058

120,882
(635,681)

2,555,259
2,555,259


44,129

(644,414)
1,954,974
Other
reserves
RMB’000
43,859
35,456


568,427
647,742
647,742
(93,853)
47,395

1,548,184

2,149,468
Total
RMB’000
3,113,917
35,456
120,882
(635,681)
568,427
3,203,001
3,203,001
(93,853)
47,395
44,129
1,548,184
(644,414)
4,104,442

(a) Statutory reserves

In accordance with the relevant government regulations in the PRC and the provisions of the articles of association of the PRC companies now comprising the Group, 10% of its net profit as shown in the accounts prepared under PRC accounting regulations is required to be appropriated to statutory reserve, until the reserve reaches 50% of the registered capital. Appropriation of statutory reserve must be made before distribution of dividends to equity holders. This reserve shall only be used to make up losses; to expand the entities’ production operation; or to increase the capital of the entities. Upon approval by a resolution of equity holders, the entities may convert this reserve into share capital, provided that the unconverted remaining amount of reserve is not less than 25% of the registered capital.

The PRC entities of the Group directly owned by the Group’s entities outside the PRC are required, in accordance with relevant rules and regulations concerning foreign investment enterprise established in the PRC and the Articles of Association of these companies, to make appropriations from net profit to the reserve fund and staff and workers’ bonus and welfare fund, after offsetting

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accumulated losses from prior years, and before profit distributions are made to investors. The percentage of profits to be appropriated to the above funds is solely determined by the board of directors of the PRC entities now comprising the Group. For those which are wholly foreign owned enterprises in the PRC, no less than 10% of the profit of each year to the reserve fund is mandatory. The appropriation of the statutory reserve ceases when the accumulated statutory reserve balance reaches 50% of their registered capital.

21 TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Trade payables (Note (a)) 7,303,339 6,258,615
Payables for acquisition consideration 1,031,517 48,026
Amount due to non-controlling interests 206,777 3,217,086
Notes payables 193,495 765,284
Interests payable 416,012 307,188
Advanced deed tax from customers 243,707 284,214
Other taxes payable 462,031 312,936
Payroll and welfare payables 210,160 186,778
Deposits payable 386,874 34,754
Others 490,038 200,842
10,943,950 11,615,723

(a) At 31 December 2015, the ageing analysis at the trade payable is performed based on the date of the liability recognition on accrual basis. The ageing analysis of the Group’s trade payables is as follows:

31
Within 90 days
90-180 days
180-365 days
Over 365 days
December
2015
31
RMB’000
4,628,637
581,236
354,035
1,739,431
7,303,339
December
2014
RMB’000
3,382,318
285,542
744,725
1,846,030
6,258,615

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APPENDIX I

22 BORROWINGS

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Non-current
Secured,
— Bank borrowings 23,094,089 16,608,622
— Other borrowings 1,520,000 5,150,000
— Senior notes (Note (a)) 8,389,829 7,869,165
33,003,918 29,627,787
Unsecured,
— Corporate bonds (Note (b)) 5,967,000
38,970,918 29,627,787
Less: Current portion of long-term borrowings (Note (c) (i)) (11,756,678) (9,083,674)
27,214,240 20,544,113
Current
Secured,
— Bank borrowings 1,481,715 1,514,708
— Other borrowings 1,300,000 3,195,300
2,781,715 4,710,008
Unsecured,
— Other borrowings 46,000 46,000
2,827,715 4,756,008
Current portion of long-term borrowings (Note (c) (i)) 11,756,678 9,083,674
14,584,393 13,839,682
Total borrowings 41,798,633 34,383,795

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APPENDIX I

(A) Senior notes

The Company issued senior notes (“Senior notes”) on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, payable semi-annually in arrears. The issued dates, principals and interest rates are shown as below:

Issue dates Principal Interest rate
USD million
19 October 2012 400 12.5%
5 April 2013 500 9.375%
5 December 2014 400 8.75%
1,300

According to the terms of the Senior Notes, at any time and from time to time on or after 16 October 2015, 5 April 2016 and 5 December 2017 respectively, the Company may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to the percentage of principal amount set forth below plus accrued and unpaid interests, if any, to (but not including) the redemption date if redeemed during the twelve month period beginning on 16 October, 5 April and 5 December of each of the years indicated below respectively.

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The redemption prices are shown as below:

Redemption time Redemption time Redemption prices
(i) USD400 million:
Prior to 16 October 2015 112.5%
16 October 2015 to 15 October 2016 (Note (i)) 106.3%
16 October 2016 and beyond 103.1%
(ii) USD500 million:
Prior to 5 April 2016
— Redemption up to 35% 109.4%
— Redemption in whole but not in part (Note (ii)) 100%+
applicable premium
5 April 2016 to 31 December 2016 104.7%
2017 and beyond 102.3%
(iii) USD400 million:
Prior to 5 December 2017
— Redemption up to 35% 108.75%
— Redemption in whole but not in part (Note (iii)) 100%+
customary make-whole
premium
5 December 2017 to 31 December 2017 104.4%
2018 and beyond 102.2%

Note (i): The Company announced on 4 December 2015 that it had informed the trustee, DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited, that all the outstanding 12.5% senior notes would be redeemed in full on 6 January 2016 (the “Redemption Date”) at a redemption price equal to 106.25% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to (but not including) the Redemption Date. The Company had reclassified this part to current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.

Note (ii): The applicable premium is the greater of (1) 1% of the principal amount and (2) the excess of the present value of 104.7% of the principal plus the scheduled interest cost amount for the period from the redemption date to 5 April 2016 over the principal amount at the redemption date and the fair value of the above early redemption option is not material on initial recognition and as at 31 December 2015.

Note (iii): The customary make-whole premium is the greater of (1) 1% of the principal amount and (2) the excess of the present value of 104.4% of the principal plus the accrued and unpaid interest amount for the period from the redemption date to 5 December 2017 over the principal amount at the redemption date and the fair value of the above early redemption option is not material on initial recognition and as at 31 December 2015.

These early redemption options are regarded as embedded derivatives not closely related to the host contract. The directors are of the view that the fair value of the above early redemption option is not material on initial recognition and as at 31 December 2015.

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APPENDIX I

(B) Corporate bonds

The Company issued corporate bonds (the “Corporate Bond”) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, payable annually in arrears. The issued dates, principals and interest rates are shown as below:

Issue dates
15 August 2015 (“Type 1 Bond”)
15 August 2015 (“Type 2 Bond”)
1 September 2015 (“Type 3 Bond”)
Principal
Interest rate
RMB’000
2,500,000
4.50%
2,500,000
5.70%
1,000,000
4.48%
6,000,000

According to the terms of the Corporate Bond, Type 1 Bond has a term of five years and after the end of the third year the issuer has the option to raise the coupon rate and the investors are entitled to sell back the bonds, and its coupon rate was fixed at 4.5% with an issue size of RMB2.5 billion, while Type 2 Bond has a term of five years and its coupon rate was fixed at 5.7% with an issue size of RMB2.5 billion. Type 3 Bond has a term of five years with the issuer’s option to raise the coupon rate after the end of the third year and the investors’ entitlement to sell back the bonds, and its coupon rate was fixed at 4.48% with an issue size of RMB1 billion. The underwriting fee of the Corporate Bond was charged at 0.6% of the issue size. The net proceeds, after deducting the direct issuance costs, amounted to approximately RMB5,964 billion.

The options embedded in the Type 1 Bond and Type 3 Bond host contracts are not closely related to the host contracts, and the fair value of which is not material on initial recognition date and as at 31 December 2015.

(C) Long-term borrowings

  • (i) As at 31 December 2015, included in long-term borrowing, RMB2,766 million (2014: RMB7,081 million) of borrowings for property development projects will be due for repayment upon an aggregated 20% - 80% pre-sale status in term of gross floor area of the respective projects were achieved. Based on the management’s sales forecast, RMB491 million (2014: RMB1,756 million) of borrowings will be due for repayment in the year ending 31 December 2016 and are included in current liabilities.

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  • (ii) The Group’s long-term borrowings as at 31 December 2015 were repayable as follows:
**31 ** December **31 ** December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Between 1 and 2 years 8,514,824 4,683,192
Between 2 and 5 years 18,699,416 15,860,921
27,214,240 20,544,113

The weighted-average effective interest rates for the year ended 31 December 2015 was 7.6% (2014: 9.12%).

  • (iii) Fair value of financial liabilities is not measured at fair value on a recurring basis (but fair value disclosures are required).

The carrying amounts of bank borrowings, borrowings from other financial institution are approximate their fair values. The fair values of senior notes as at 31 December 2015 amounted to RMB8,941 million, which were calculated based on the market price of the traded senior notes at the balance sheet date. The fair values of Corporate bonds as at 31 December 2015 amounted to RMB6,222 million, which were calculated based on the active market price at the balance sheet date. The fair values of senior notes are within level 2 of the fair value hierarchy and the fair values of corporate bonds are within level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

  • (D) The exposure of the Group’s borrowings with variable interest rates to interest-rate changes and the contractual re-pricing dates are as follows:
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
6 months or less 12,201,428 11,248,010
6 -12 months 5,731,950 3,096,336
Over 12 months 320,000
17,933,378 14,664,346
  • (E) As at 31 December 2015, the Group’s borrowings of RMB35,786 million (2014: RMB34,338 million) were secured or joint secured by the Group’s properties under development and completed properties held for sale with total carrying amount of RMB23,841 million (2014: RMB32,182 million), and the Group’s certain equity interests of certain subsidiaries.

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  • (F) Movement in borrowings
Year ended 31 December 2015
At 1 January 2015
Additions
Disposal of subsidiaries (Note 36)
Acquisition of subsidiaries (Note 35)
Repayments
Amortization of financial costs
Exchange loss
At 31 December 2015
Year ended 31 December 2014
At 1 January 2014
Additions
Disposal of subsidiaries
Repayments
Amortization of financial costs
Exchange loss
At 31 December 2014
RMB’000
34,383,795
34,592,153
(7,495,095)
5,420,790
(26,247,463)
136,753
1,007,700
41,798,633
28,706,290
19,185,977
(556,000)
(13,013,609)
59,071
2,066
34,383,795

(G) The carrying amounts of the Group’s borrowings are denominated in the following currencies:

**31 ** December **31 ** December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
RMB 22,749,832 21,326,151
HKD 18,872,365 1,599,828
USD 176,436 11,457,816
41,798,633 34,383,795

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23 EXPENSES BY NATURE

2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Costs of completed properties sold 18,384,161 18,495,001
Business tax and related surcharges 1,266,692 1,389,572
Staff costs (Note 25) 616,745 625,892
Impairment provision for properties 45,433 533,518
Advertisement and promotion costs 337,126 333,366
Consulting expenses 145,516 81,613
Depreciation and amortisation 27,938 24,684
Auditors’ remunerations
— Audit services 8,764 5,100
— Non-audit services 14,613 300

24 BUSINESS TAX AND RELATED SURCHARGES

The PRC companies of the Group are subject to business tax on their revenues at the following rates:

Type Tax rate Tax base
a) Business tax 5% — Sales of properties
5% — Rental income
5% — Property management services revenue
b) Urban construction and 7% — Business tax paid
maintenance tax
c) Education surcharge 3% — Business tax paid
d) Local education surcharge 0%-2% — Business tax paid
e) Anti-flood fund 0%-2% — Business tax paid

25 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT EXPENSES

2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Wages and salaries 458,109 486,033
Pension costs 67,392 52,199
Staff welfare 43,849 52,204
Share options granted to directors and employees (Note 19) 47,395 35,456
616,745 625,892

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APPENDIX I

26 OTHER INCOME AND GAINS

Gains from disposals of subsidiaries (Note 36)
Gains from business combinations (Note 35)
Gain on disposal of an associate (Note 10.2)
Gain from arrangement of assignment of debt (Note 35(a) (i))
Gains from acquisition of JVs (Note 10.1)
Interest income (Note (a))
Others
(a)
Details of interest income are as follows:
Interest income from related companies (Note 37)
Other interest income
27
OTHER EXPENSES AND LOSSES
Loss from disposal of a subsidiary (Note 36)
Losses from disposal of investment properties (Note 8)
Impairment provision for goodwill
Losses of valuation of investment properties
Others
2015
RMB’000
1,857,061
702,875
172,967
150,000
126,622
1,000,644
101,821
4,111,990
2015
RMB’000
590,089
410,555
1,000,644
2015
RMB’000
147,791
81,284


36,553
265,628
2014
RMB’000
1,496



2,833
974,683
41,439
2014
RMB’000
1,496



2,833
974,683
41,439
1,020,451
2014
RMB’000
784,350
190,333
974,683
2014
RMB’000


85,709
13,000
21,108
119,817
2014
RMB’000
784,350
190,333
974,683
119,817

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APPENDIX I

28 FINANCE INCOME AND COSTS

Interest expenses
Other finance costs
Less: Capitalised finance costs
Exchange loss
Finance income:
— Interest income on bank deposits
Net finance costs
2015
RMB’000
2,908,656
39,763
(1,227,932)
1,720,487
800,088
2,520,575
(123,521)
2,397,054
2014
RMB’000
3,035,959

(1,776,914)
1,259,045
8,335
1,267,380
(123,422)
1,143,958

The capitalisation rate used to determine the amount of the interests incurred eligible for capitalisation in 2015 was 7.6% (2014: 9.12%).

29 INCOME TAX EXPENSES

Corporate income tax (“CIT”)
— Current income tax
— Deferred income tax
LAT
2015
RMB’000
1,667,990
(358,819)
1,309,171
(353,863)
955,308
2014
RMB’000
1,158,896
(325,322)
833,574
835,594
1,669,168

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APPENDIX I

(A) CIT

The tax on the Group’s profit before tax differs from the theoretical amount that would arise using the weighted-average tax rate applicable to profits of the consolidated entities as follows:

Profit before income tax
Income tax calculated at the applicable income tax rates in
respective countries or regions
LAT
Share of profits of investments accounted for using equity method
Other income and gains not subject to tax
Tax on losses for which no DTA were recognised
Tax on temporary differences for which no DTA were recognised
Utilisation of tax losses with no DTA recognition
Tax write-back on temporary differences with no DTA recognition
Non-deductible expenses
Dividends tax for PRC subsidiaries, JVs and associates
2015
RMB’000
4,563,711
1,586,767
88,466
(415,435)
(158,270)
94,541
7,452

(18,388)
29,079
94,959
1,309,171
2014
RMB’000
4,901,797
1,277,790
(208,898)
(524,350)
(1,471)
96,127
82,536
(4,085)
(17,056)
38,074
94,907
833,574

Hong Kong profits tax has been provided at the rate of 16.5% (2014: 16.5%) on the estimated assessable profit for the year. Taxation on overseas profits has been calculated on the estimated assessable profit for the year at the rates of taxation prevailing in the countries or regions in which the Group operates.

Pursuant to the applicable rules and regulations of Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (“BVI”), the Company and the BVI subsidiaries of the Group are not subject to any income tax in those jurisdictions.

The income tax provision of the Group in respect of operations in the PRC has been calculated at the applicable tax rate of 25%.

In accordance with the PRC Corporate Income Tax Law, a 10% withholding income tax is levied on dividends declared to foreign investors from the enterprises with foreign investments established in the PRC. The Group is therefore liable to withholding taxes on dividends distributable by those subsidiaries established in the PRC in respect of their earnings generated from 1 January 2008.

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APPENDIX I

(B) LAT

PRC LAT is levied at progressive rates ranging from 30% to 60% on the appreciation of land value, being the proceeds of sales of properties less deductible expenditures including lease charges for land use rights and all property development expenditures. LAT is included in the income statement as income tax expense.

30 EARNINGS PER SHARE

(A) Basic

Basic earnings per share are calculated by dividing the profit attributable to owners of the Company by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares in issue during the year.

Profit attributable to owners of the parent company (RMB’000)
Weighted-average number of ordinary shares in issue (thousand)
2015
3,297,828
3,394,387
2014
3,222,070
3,350,372

(B) Diluted

Diluted earnings per share are calculated by adjusting the weighted-average number of ordinary shares outstanding to assume conversion of all dilutive potential ordinary shares. The Company has one category of dilutive potential ordinary shares: share options. For the share options, a calculation is done to determine the number of shares that could have been acquired at fair value (determined as the average annual market share price of the Company’s shares) based on the monetary value of the subscription rights attached to outstanding share options. The number of shares calculated as above is compared with the number of shares that would have been issued assuming the exercise of the share options.

Profit attributable to owners of the parent company (RMB’000)
Weighted-average number of ordinary shares in issue (thousand)
Adjusted for share options (thousand)
Weighted-average number of ordinary shares for
diluted earnings
per share (thousand)
2015
3,297,828
3,394,387
34,558
3,428,945
2014
3,222,070
3,350,372
34,455
3,384,827

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

31 CASH USED IN OPERATIONS

Note
Profit before income taxes
Adjustments for:
— Finance costs
28
— Gain from disposal of subsidiaries
26
— Loss from disposal of a subsidiary
27
— Gain from disposal of JVs and associates
26
— Gain from business combination
26
— Gain from acquisition of JVs and associates
26
— Gain on disposal of PP&E
— Loss of valuation of investment properties
27
— Losses from disposals of investment properties
27
— Impairment provision for goodwill
27
— Amortisation of intangible assets
— Depreciation
7
— Share of profits from JVs and associates
10
— Interest income
26
— Value of employee services
25
Changes in working capital
— Restricted cash from pre-sale of properties
— Properties under development and completed
properties held for sale, net
— Trade and other receivables and prepayments
— Advanced proceeds from customers
— Trade and other payables
— Amount due from/to related companies
Cash generated from operations
2015
RMB’000
4,563,711
2,520,575
(1,857,061)
147,791
(172,967)
(702,875)
(126,622)
(349)

81,284

226
27,712
(1,693,207)
(1,000,644)
47,395
45,164
10,939,546
1,303,393
(3,801,252)
(2,697,565)
10,046,598
17,670,853
2014
RMB’000
4,901,797
1,267,380
(1,496)



(2,833)
(379)
13,000

85,709
17
24,666
(2,181,283)
(974,683)
35,456
92,997
5,951,656
(1,029,139)
328,687
(1,709,915)
12,650,703
19,452,340

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APPENDIX I

32 COMMITMENTS

  • (A) Property development expenditures at the balance sheet date but not yet incurred is as follows:
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Property development expenditures
Contracted but not provided for 4,643,498 4,673,875
Authorised but not contracted 19,770,172 30,217,687
24,413,670 34,891,562
(B) Investments
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Investment in new JVs
Contracted but not provided for 247,228 1,547,994
24,660,898 36,439,556

(C) Operating lease commitments

The future aggregate minimum lease rental expense in respect of certain office buildings under non-cancellable operating leases contracts are payable in the following periods:

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
No later than 1 year 6,352 6,310
Later than 1 year and no later than 5 years 19,749 15,201
Later than 5 years 5,198
26,101 26,709

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APPENDIX I

33 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

(A) Guarantee on mortgage facilities

The Group and the Company had the following contingent liabilities in respect of financial guarantees on mortgage facilities:

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Guarantees in respect of mortgage facilities for certain
purchasers of the Group’s property units 4,879,760 5,090,815

The Group has arranged bank financing for certain purchasers of the Group’s property units and provided guarantees to secure obligations of such purchasers for repayments. Such guarantees terminate upon the earlier of (i) the transfer of the real estate ownership certificate to the purchaser which will generally occur within an average period of six months of the properties delivery dates; or (ii) the satisfaction of mortgage loans by the purchasers of the properties.

Pursuant to the terms of the guarantees, upon default of mortgage payments by these purchasers, the Group is responsible to repay the outstanding mortgage principal together with accrued interest and penalties owed by the defaulting purchasers to the banks and the Group is entitled to take over the legal title and possession of the related properties. The Group’s guarantee period starts from the date of grant of the mortgage. The directors consider that the likelihood of default of payments by purchasers is minimal.

In addition, the Group had provided guarantees for approximately RMB10.36 billion (2014: RMB9.57 billion) in its portion of equity interests in certain JVs and associates for their borrowings.

34 TRANSACTIONS WITH NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS

(A) Transfer of equity interests of project entities among subsidiaries of the company

On 30 June 2015, Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng Investment Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin Ao Cheng”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated in the PRC, completed the acquisition from Shanghai Sunac Greentown Investment Holdings Ltd. (“SG Shanghai”), a 50% owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated in the PRC, of the equity interests of a bunch of SG Shanghai’s subsidiaries, JVs and associates and certain debts owing by these entities to Shanghai Sunac Greentown at the equity interest consideration of RMB3,654 million.

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On the same day, Lead Sunny Investment Ltd. (“Lead Sunny”), another wholly owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated in BVI, completed an acquisition from Sunac Greentown Investment Holdings Ltd. (“SG BVI”), a 50% owned subsidiary of the Company incorporated in BVI, of the entire equity interest of SG BVI’s wholly owned subsidiary, Elegant Trend Limited (“Elegant Trend”), and certain debts owing by Elegant Trend to SG BVI at the equity interest consideration of RMB5,676 million.

The total consideration of RMB9,330 million for the above transactions were settled between subsidiaries of the Company and the total carrying value of the related non-controlling interests of RMB8,445 million as at the transaction date effectively resulted in an increase in non-controlling interest of RMB442.5 million and a decrease in the equity attributable to the owners of the Company of RMB442.5 million. Further, SG Shanghai enjoyed a tax benefit from the above mentioned domestic transactions according to the PRC tax laws and regulations, which resulted in an increase of RMB87.5 million to the equity owners of the Company and the non-controlling interests respectively. In summary, these transactions had a result of RMB355 million net decrease of equity attributable to the owners of the Company and a total increase of RMB530 million to the non-controlling interests.

(B) Equity transactions with Greentown Group

In July 2015, the Group completed the acquisitions of 25% equity interest of Hangzhou Sunac Greentown, 50% equity interest of SG BVI and 50% of SG Shanghai, from Greentown Group at total consideration of RMB2,825 million. Upon the completion of these transactions, all the three subsidiaries became wholly owned by the Company. As at the transaction date, the carrying value of the related non-controlling interests was RMB3,086 million. These transactions with non-controlling interests of existing subsidiaries resulted in a total increase of RMB261 million in the equity attributable to the owners of the Company.

Together with the above transactions, the Group also completed certain acquisitions of additional equity interests in existing associates from, and disposal of subsidiaries, to Greentown Group. Further details are disclosed in Note 10, Note 35 and Note 36, respectively.

35 BUSINESS COMBINATION

2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Gain from business combinations
Step-acquisitions (Note (a)) 218,325
Acquisition of subsidiaries (Note (b)) 484,550
702,875

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APPENDIX I

(A) Step-acquisitions

During the year ended 31 December 2015, the Group completed the step-acquisitions in Shanghai Forest Golf, Beijing Zhongtou Sunac and another three entities (the “Three Entities”) as follows:

Shanghai
Forest Golf
(Note (i))
Cash consideration for the additional equity interest
991,582
Re-measurement of previously held interests
454,730
1,446,312
Less: Fair value of net identifiable assets and
liabilities of the acquirees
(1,380,046)
66,266
Breakdown into: Goodwill
66,266
Acquisition gains

Re-measurement:
Re-measurement of previously held interests
454,730
Less: Book value of previously held interests
(Note 10.1 & 10.2)
(316,848)
Gains/(losses) on re-measurement
137,882
Gains credited to income statement
137,882
Beijing
Zhongtou
Sunac &
Three
Entities
(Note (ii))
368,269
991,365
1,359,634
(1,357,766)
1,868
14,448
12,580
991,365
(923,502)
67,863
80,443
Total
1,359,851
1,446,095
2,805,946
(2,737,812)
68,134
80,714
12,580
1,446,095
(1,240,350)
205,745
218,325

Notes:

(i) On 30 June 2015, the Group completed the acquisition from Greentown Group of the 50% equity interest in Shanghai Forest Golf, previously which was an 50% owned associate of the Group, at a consideration of RMB104.54 million, together with a series of assets transfers and debt assignments among Shanghai Forest Golf, the Group and Greentown Group (Note 26). Upon completion of this transaction, Shanghai Forest Golf became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (Note 10.2).

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Prior to the transaction, Shanghai Forest Golf held 39.82% equity interest in Shanghai Haochuan Property Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Haochuan”), the remaining 60.18% equity interest was held by the Group and which was treated as a JV of the Company. Upon the completion of the acquisition of Shanghai Forest Golf, Shanghai Haochuan became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The directors of the Company are of the view that the consideration for the acquisition of Shanghai Forest Golf has also taken into account the value of the control take-over in Shanghai Haochuan, the assessment of the financial impact from the business combination was made for Shanghai Forest Golf and Shanghai Haochuan on a combination basis.

  • (ii) On 23 October 2015, the Group acquired an additional 50% equity interest of a previously 50% owned JV of the Company, Beijing Zhongtou Sunac Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“Beijing Zhongtou Sunac”), at a consideration of RMB5 million. Upon completion of the transaction, Beijing Zhongtou Sunac became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

On 31 December 2015, the Company acquired an additional 49% equity interest of three previously 51% owned jointly controlled entities of the Company, namely Shanghai Ronglv Huiyi Real Estate Co., Ltd. Shanghai Ronglv Qiwei Real Estate Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Rongding Real Estate Co., Ltd. (collectively the “Three Entities”) from third parties, at a respective consideration of RMB100 million, RMB233.81 million and RMB29.456 million, respectively. Upon completion of these transactions, the Three Entities became wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company.

(B) Acquisitions of subsidiaries

In 2015, the major acquisitions of new subsidiaries are summarized as follows:

Subsidiaries Subsidiaries
acquired Subsidiaries acquired
related to acquired relating to a
projects in from Titan new project
Chengdu Group in Shanghai Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
(Note (i)) (Note (ii)) (Note (iii))
Fair value of total interests acquired 3,479,589 280,514 3,375,740 7,135,843
Cash considerations for acquisition of
— equity interest 2,225,200 10,000 2,894,528 5,129,728
— debt due to shareholders 980,353 60,000 481,212 1,521,565
3,205,553 70,000 3,375,740 6,651,293
Gains from acquisition of new
subsidiaries 274,036 210,514 484,550

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APPENDIX I

Note:

  • (i) Subsidiaries acquired related to projects in Chengdu

In October 2015, the Group acquired the entire equity interests of a company named Chengdu Guojia Zhidi Co., Ltd. (“Chengdu Guojia”) and its respective debts due to shareholders at a total amount equivalent to RMB3,205.55 million. Chengdu Guojia is incorporated in Chengdu, the PRC and is engaged in property project development business.

  • (ii) Subsidiaries acquired from Titan Group

In September 2015, the Group acquired the entire equity interest of Sichuan Hongling Sichuan Hongling Investment Co., Ltd. (“Sichuan Hongling”), respectively from Xian Titan Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. (“Xian Titan”) and its subsidiaries (together “Titan Group”), which are independent third parties of the Company, at the consideration of RMB10 million.

In December 2015, the Group acquired entire equity interest of Tianmao Property (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. from Titan Group and its respective amounts due to the shareholders at a total amount of RMB60 million.

  • (iii) Subsidiaries acquired relating to a new project in Shanghai (“Target Project”)

In September 2015, the Group acquired of 62.145% equity interest of Shanghai Fengdan Lishe Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (“Fengdan”) at the consideration of RMB1,976 million. Fengdan owned a 50% equity interest in a JV named Shanghai Huafeng Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (“Huafeng”) which has the development right of the Target Project.

Further, in November 2015, the Group completed an acquisition of entire equity interest of Shanghai Lingwu Investment Management Co., Ltd. (“Lingwu”), which owns a 35% equity interest in Shanghai Huaxia Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. (“Huaxia”), at the consideration of RMB1,400 million. Huaxia owns the remaining 50% interest in Huafeng. According to the agreement with the seller of Lingwu, the Group only takes the rights and obligations in Lingwu in relation to its interest share in the Target Project owned by Huaxia.

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  • (C) The fair value of the identifiable assets and liabilities and cash and cash equivalent impact arising from the acquisitions of subsidiaries in above transactions are summarized as follows:
Shanghai
Forest Golf&
Shanghai
Haochuan
Other step
acquisitions
RMB’000
RMB’000
(1)
Fair value of net assets
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment
19,230
1,396
Intangible assets
312

Investments in JVs (Notes 10.1)

54,340
Deferred income tax assets
90,324
30,541
Current assets
Properties under development
3,495,000
6,372,000
Completed properties held for sale
1,655,774

Trade and other receivables
650,065
313,194
Amounts due from related
companies
2,446,595
2,176,525
Prepayments


Restricted cash
86
20,602
Cash and cash equivalents
122,080
74,477
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings
(2,400,000)
(2,520,000)
Deferred income tax liabilities
(893,184)
(49,451)
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
(2,252,897)
(190,629)
Advanced proceeds from customers
(296,042)
(3,950,855)
Amounts due to related companies
(1,073,256)
(450,100)
Borrowings

(520,000)
Current income tax liabilities
(184,041)
(4,274)
Net assets
1,380,046
1,357,766
Less: Non-controlling interests


Fair value of the net assets
acquired
1,380,046
1,357,766
(2)
Cash effect
Consideration settled by cash
(991,582)
(21,212)
Cash and cash equivalents in the
subsidiaries acquired
122,080
74,477
Net cash impact on acquisition
(869,502)
53,265
Chengdu
Guojia
New
subsidiaries
acquired
from Titan
Group
RMB’000
RMB’000
2,875
506
51



20,095
21,105
4,507,373
1,558,115
4,422,427

256,161
322,459
2,807,587



13,439

499,065
11,795
(112,000)
(172,790)
(820,377)
(149,049)
(1,461,141)
(790,121)
(3,397,990)
(489,506)
(1,827,168)
(32,000)
(1,196,000)

(234,808)

3,479,589
280,514


3,479,589
280,514
(3,205,553)
(70,000)
499,065
11,795
(2,706,488)
(58,205)
Fengdan&
Shanghai
Lingwu
RMB’000
55

13,500

476

2,302
300,000
3,497,962

35,335


(145,581)

(358,343)

(6)
3,345,700
30,040
3,375,740
(2,946,240)
35,335
(2,910,905)
Total
RMB’000
24,062
363
67,840
162,065
15,932,964
6,078,201
1,544,181
7,730,707
3,497,962
34,127
742,752
(5,204,790)
(1,912,061)
(4,840,369)
(8,134,393)
(3,740,867)
(1,716,000)
(423,129)
9,843,615
30,040
9,873,655
(7,234,587)
742,752
(6,491,835)

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APPENDIX I

36 DISPOSAL OF SUBSIDIARIES

During the year ended 31 December 2015, the Group disposed four subsidiaries as follows:

Consideration
Carrying value of the respective equity
interest disposed by the Group
Gains/(losses) on the disposal
Fair value of the remaining equity interest
held by the Group at disposal
Carrying value of the remaining equity
interest held by the Group at disposal
Gains/(losses) on re-measurement
Shanghai
Huazhe
Bund
Tianjin
Sunac
Huikai
Wuxi Hubin
Real Estate
Suzhou
Rongding
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
(Note (a))
(Note (b))
(Note (c))
(Note (d))
1,970,285
209,600

24,500
(840,895)
(77,588)

(24,476)
1,129,390
132,012

24

905,985

325,474

(310,350)
(147,791)
(325,474)

595,635
(147,791)

The following table set out a summary of the financial impacts:

Shanghai Tianjin
Huazhe Sunac Wuxi Suzhou
Bund Huikai Hubin Rongding Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Gains from disposal of subsidiaries 1,129,390 727,647 24 1,857,061
Loss from disposal of a subsidiary (147,791) (147,791)

Note:

(a) On 30 June 2015, the Group disposed its entire 51% equity interest of Shanghai Huazhe Bund Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Huazhe Bund”) to Greentown Group at a consideration of RMB1,970.29 million.

(b) In October 2015, Sunac Real Estate Group Co., Ltd transferred 20% equity interest in Tianjin Sunac Huikai Property Management Co., Ltd. (“Tianjin Sunac Huikai”), a previously wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, to an independent third party at the consideration of RMB209.6 million. Upon the completion of the transaction, Tianjin Sunac Huikai became a JV of the Company according to the updated Articles of Association.

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  • (c) On 9 November 2015, the board of directors of Wuxi Sunac Greentown Hubin Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“Wuxi Hubin”), which is a previously 51% owned subsidiary of the Company, resolved to change the rules of voting rights over the decisions in Wuxi Hubin to unanimous consent by shareholders. Wuxi Hubin was changed from a subsidiary of the Company to a JV.

  • (d) In February 2015, the Group transferred its 49% equity interest of Suzhou Rongding Real Estate Co., Ltd (“Suzhou Rongding”) to an independent third party, at the consideration of RMB24.5 million. Upon the completion of the disposal, Suzhou Rongding became a 51% owned JV of the Company according to its Articles of Association.

  • (e) The cash impact arising from the disposals in above transactions are summarized as follows:

Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment
Deferred income tax assets
Current assets
Properties under development
Completed properties held for sale
Trade and other receivables
Amounts due from related companies
Restricted cash
Cash and cash equivalents
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings
Deferred income tax liabilities
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
Advanced proceeds from customers
Amount due to related parties
Borrowings
Current income tax liabilities
Net assets/(liabilities)
Less: Non-controlling interests
The carrying value of assets and liabilities
deconsolidated at the date of disposal
Cash effect
Cash consideration received
Cash disposed
Shanghai
Huazhe
Bund
RMB’000
1,623
85,793
7,101,570
103,123
338,877
57,912
234,492
495,384
(1,616,095)
(2,399,302)
(669,761)
(2,299,738)


(160,724)
1,273,154
(432,259)
840,895
1,970,285
(495,384)
1,474,901
Tianjin
Sunac
Huikai
RMB’000





6,369,962

200
(4,990,000)

(31,054)

(831,523)

(129,647)
387,938

387,938
10,000
(200)
9,800
Wuxi
Hubin
Suzhou
Rongding
RMB’000
RMB’000
1,355

139,412

3,214,611
640,262
753,193

186,319
60
440,550

105,504

128,605
8,585
(419,000)

(225,936)

(685,491)
(3,853)
(883,859)

(2,270,134)
(295,104)
(470,000)

(60,001)

(44,872)
349,950
192,663

147,791
349,950

24,500
(128,605)
(8,585)
(128,605)
15,915
Total
RMB’000
2,978
225,205
10,956,443
856,316
525,256
6,868,424
339,996
632,774
(7,025,095)
(2,625,238)
(1,390,159)
(3,183,597)
(3,396,761)
(470,000)
(350,372)
1,966,170
(239,596)
1,726,574
2,004,785
(632,774)
1,372,011

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APPENDIX I

37 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

(A) Name and relationship with related parties

Name Relationship with the Company

Sunac International Largest shareholder of the Company

Mr. Sun Hongbin The controlling shareholder of Sunac International and the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company

(B) Transactions with related parties

In addition to the related party information disclosed elsewhere in the consolidated financial statements, the Group had the following significant transactions entered into the ordinary course of business between the Group and the related parties:

(1) Cash advance

— Cash paid to JVs and associates
— Cash received from JVs and associates
Years ended 31 December
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
(16,704,027)
(8,538,358)
22,231,186
16,430,529
5,527,159
7,892,171
Years ended 31 December
2015
2014
RMB’000
RMB’000
(16,704,027)
(8,538,358)
22,231,186
16,430,529
5,527,159
7,892,171
7,892,171

(2) Interest income

Years ended 31 December Years ended 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Interest income from JVs 578,520 775,516
Interest income from associates 11,569 8,834
590,089 784,350

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(C) Compensation of key management personnel

**Years ended ** 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Salaries and other short-term benefits 24,177 21,528
Share-option scheme 19,142 35,456
43,319 56,984
(D) Related parties balances
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
(1) Amounts due from related parties —
JVs
— Amounts with interest free 5,763,589 8,420,552
— Amounts bearing interest 4,536,783 7,337,671
— Interest receivable 978,818 746,931
11,279,190 16,505,154
Associates
— Amounts with interest free 260,304 1,420,043
— Amounts bearing interest 34,765
— Interest receivable 85,790 74,221
380,859 1,494,264
11,660,049 17,999,418
(2) Amounts due to related parties —
JVs 13,513,680 14,070,108
Associates 4,699,242 6,643,811
18,212,922 20,713,919

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The amounts due from JVs and associates have no fixed repayment date, bearing interest rate at 4.35% to 12% per annum for the period ended 31 December 2015.

The amounts due to JVs and associates are unsecured, interest-free and repayable on demand.

38 SUBSIDIARIES

The following is a list of the principal subsidiaries at 31 December 2015 and 2014:

Nominal value
of issued and
Date of fully paid share Equity interests held
incorporation/ capital/registered 31 December 2015 31 December 2014
Name establishment capital **Directly ** Indirectly Directly Indirectly Principal activities
Incorporated in the British
Virgin Islands:
Sunac Real Estate Investment 2 January 2007 USD10,000 100% 100% Investment holding
Holdings Ltd.
Qiwei Real Estate Investment 6 June 2007 USD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Holdings Ltd.
Yingzi Real Estate Investment 31 August 2007 USD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Holdings Ltd.
Jujin Real Estate Investment 6 September 2007 USD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Holdings Ltd.
Zhuoyue Real Estate 13 September 2007 USD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Investment Holdings Ltd.
Dingsheng Real Estate 6 September 2007 USD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Investment Holdings Ltd.
Elegant Trend Limited 17 July 2013 HKD15.6 100% 50% Investment holding
Sunac Greentown Investment 25 April 2013 RMB3,277 100% 50% Investment holding
Holdings Limited million
Ease Success Holdings Limited 2 January 2013 USD50,000 100% 100% Investment holding
Lead Sunny Investments 27 February 2013 USD50,000 100% 100% Investment holding
Limited
Incorporated in Hong Kong:
Jujin Property Investment 14 September 2007 HKD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Holdings Ltd.
Dingsheng Property Investment 14 September 2007 HKD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Holdings Ltd.
Zhuoyue Property Investment 20 September 2007 HKD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Holdings Ltd.
Pacific Max Investment 14 February 2013 HKD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Limited
World Lucky Investment 27 February 2013 HKD1 100% 100% Investment holding
Limited
Wisdom Collection Holdings 13 July 2013 HKD10,000 100% 50% Investment holding
(Hong Kong) Limited

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Nominal value
of issued and
Date of fully paid share Equity interests held
incorporation/ capital/registered 31 December 2015 31 December 2014
Name establishment capital **Directly ** Indirectly Directly Indirectly Principal activities
Incorporated in the Liberta:
Wisdom Collection Holdings 17 July 2013 HKD780 100% 50% Investment Holding
(International) Inc.
Incorporated in the Cayman
Islands:
Titan International Investment 29 November 2015 USD1 100% Investment Holding
Group Limited
Incorporated in the PRC:
Tianjin Sunac Real Estate 6 February 2007 RMB460 million 100% 100% Investment holding
Investment Management Co
Ltd.
Tianjin Qiwei Real Estate 20 July 2007 RMB225 million 100% 100% Investment holding
Investment Management Co
Ltd.
Tianjin Yingzihuijin Property 26 September 2007 RMB220 million 100% 100% Investment holding
Management Ltd.
Tianjin Jujin Property 31 October 2007 RMB200 million 100% 100% Investment holding
Management Ltd.
Tianjin Dingsheng Juxian 31 October 2007 RMB200 million 100% 100% Investment holding
Property Management Ltd.
Tianjin Zhuoyue Property 31 October 2007 USD15 million 100% 100% Investment holding
Management Ltd.
Sunac Real Estate Group 31 January 2003 RMB 10,000 100% 100% Real estate
Co.,Ltd. million development
Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng 25 February 2003 RMB222 million 100% 100% Real estate
Investment Co., Ltd. development
Tianjin Sunac Mingxiang 6 April 2010 RMB1,421 100% 100% Real estate
Investment Development million development
Co., Ltd.
Tianjin Xiangchi Investment 25 September 2006 RMB160 million 100% 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Tianjin Sunac Dingsheng Zhidi 4 January 2011 HKD1,700 100% 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. million development
Tianjin Sunac Huijie Zhidi 21 January 2011 HKD700 million 100% 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Sunac Property Management 21 March 2010 RMB10 million 100% 100% Property management
Service Group Co., Ltd.
Sunac Zhidi (Tianjin) Business 21 March 2010 RMB5 million 100% 100% Property management
Operation Management Co.,
Ltd.
Tianjin Rongxing Investment 7 February 2013 RMB100 million 90% 90% Real estate
Limited development
Tianjin Changsheng Real 5 May 2014 RMB30 million 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. development

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Nominal value
of issued and
Date of fully paid share Equity interests held
incorporation/ capital/registered 31 December 2015 31 December 2014
Name establishment capital **Directly ** Indirectly **Directly ** Indirectly Principal activities
Tianjin Mingze Real Estate 5 May 2014 RMB30 million 100% 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Tianjin Tengyao Real Estate 6 May 2014 RMB30 million 100% 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Tianjin Rongyao Investment 7 March 2013 RMB500 million 54% 54% Real estate
limited development
Tianjin Rongzheng Investment 12 July 2013 RMB504 million 100% 100% Real estate
Limited development
Tianjin Yijun Investment Co., 1 July 2012 RMB30 million 80% 40% Real estate
Ltd. development
Wuxi Sunac Real Estate Co., 27 February 2004 RMB204million 100% 100% Real estate
Ltd. development
Wuxi Sunac City Construction 11 May 2005 RMB448 million 100% 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Suzhou Chunshen Lake 8 February 2005 RMB140 million 100% 100% Real estate
Property Development Co., development
Ltd.
Yixing Sunac Dongjiu Real 9 March 2010 RMB1,100 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Co.,Ltd. million development
Wuxi Greentown Real Estate 1 July 2012 RMB175 million 85% 42.5% Real estate
Development Co., Ltd. development
Wuxi Sunac Investment Co. 28 July 2010 RMB 5 million 100% 100% Real estate
Ltd. development
Chongqing Sunac Jiye Real 24 April 2004 RMB180 million 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Limited development
Chongqing Yatai Shiye Real 2 January 2011 RMB280 million 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. development
Chongqing Sunac Shangfeng 21 February 2011 RMB1,200 100% 100% Real estate
Real Estate Co., Ltd. million development
Chongqing Sunac Shijin Real 12 December 2012 HKD1,229 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. million development
Chongqing Sunac Property 21 March 2010 RMB5 million 100% 100% Property management
Management Co., Ltd.
Chongqing APEV Property 30 September 2012 RMB0.5 million 100% 100% Property management
Management Co., Ltd.
Chongqing Sunac Business 21 March 2010 RMB0.5 million 100% 100% Property management
Operation Management Co.,
Ltd.
Chongqing Sunac Qiyang Real 18 September 2013 HKD2,280 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. million development
Chongqing Jiandao Culture 29 September 2014 RMB5 million 100% 100% Media
Media Co., Ltd.
Sichuan Hongling Investment 7 September 2015 RMB10 million 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Chengdu Guojia Zhide Real 22 October 2015 RMB1,375 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. million development

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Nominal value
of issued and
Date of fully paid share Equity interests held
incorporation/ capital/registered 31 December 2015 31 December 2014
Name establishment capital **Directly ** Indirectly **Directly ** Indirectly Principal activities
Chengdu Yongping Real Estate 22 October 2015 RMB20 million 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Chengdu Zhongyi Real Estate 22 October 2015 RMB200 million 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Chengdu Guojia Zhongyu Real 22 October 2015 RMB50 million 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. development
Chengdu Hejia Real Estate 22 October 2015 RM8 million 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Wuhan Sunac Jiye Investment 13 August 2015 RMB10 million 100% Real estate
Holdings Limited development
Xian Xixu Real Estate Co., 6 September 2015 RMB80 million 100% Real estate
Ltd. development
Tianmao Real Estate (Nanjing) 4 December 2015 RMB1 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Beijing Sunac Hengji Real 27 September 2011 RMB100 million 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. development
Beijing Sunac Construction 16 August 2010 RMB10 million 100% 100% Real estate
Investment Real Estate Co., development
Ltd
Beijing Sunac Jiye Real estate 1 June 2011 RMB400 million 100% 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Beijing Ruifeng Xingye Real 26 March 2014 RMB10 million 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Development Co., development
Ltd.
Beijing Zhongtou Sunac Real 23 October 2015 RMB 10 million 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. development
Shanghai Sunac Greentown 9 August 2012 RMB2,000 100% 50% Investment holding
Investment Holdings million
Limited
Shanghai Lvshun Real Estate 1 July 2012 RMB1,000 100% 50% Real estate
Development Co., Ltd. million development
Shanghai Ronglv Ruijiang 28 August 2014 RMB50 million 100% 75.5% Real estate
Real Estate Co.,Ltd. development
Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng 10 February 2015 RMB100 million 100% Real estate
Investment Co., Ltd. development
Shanghai Fengdan Lishe Real 25 September 2015 RMB10 million 62% Real estate
Estate Development Co., development
Ltd.
Shanghai Mingsheng 26 August 2015 RMB100 million 100% Investment Holding
Investment Limited
Shanghai Gurong Real Estate 26 June 2015 RMB10 million 90% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Shanghai Mingxiang 10 September 2015 RMB10 million 100% Investment Holding
Investment Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Lingwu Investment 23 November 2015 RMB12 million 100% Investment Holding
Mangement Co., Ltd.

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Nominal value
of issued and
Date of fully paid share Equity interests held
incorporation/ capital/registered 31 December 2015 31 December 2014
Name establishment capital **Directly ** Indirectly **Directly ** Indirectly Principal activities
Shanghai Sunac Real Estate 18 December 2014 RMB2,000 100% 100% Real estate
Development Co., Ltd. million development
Shanghai Forest Golf Villa 18 December 2002 RMB196 million 100% 50% Real estate
Development Co., Ltd. development
Shanghai Haochuan Property 19 June 2002 RMB50 million 100% 50% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Hangzhou Sunac Greentown 20 December 2012 USD102 million 100% 75% Real estate
Real Estate Development development
Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Yingzi Investment 27 August 2013 RMB10 million 100% 100% Real estate
Limited development
Hangzhou Guorong Zhidi Co., 9 August 2013 RMB460 million 60% 60% Real estate
Ltd. development
Hangzhou Fuyang Sunac Real 7 March 2014 RMB630 million 100% 100% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. development
Hangzhou Rongxinheng 27 August 2013 RMB10 million 100% 100% Investment Holding
Investment Limited
Hangzhou Dinghui Investment 30 June 2014 RMB2 million 100% 100% Investment Holding
Management Co., Ltd.
Suzhou Greentown Yuyuan 1 July 2012 RMB250 million 100% 50% Real estate
Real Estate Development development
Co., Ltd.
Suzhou Rongding Real Estate 26 December 2014 RMB8million 100% 100% Real estate
Co., Ltd. development
Suzhou Ronglv Fanting Real 5 December 2014 RMB50 million 100% 50% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. development
Changzhou Greentown Real 15 January 2013 RMB838 million 97% 48.5% Real estate
Estate Co., Ltd. development
New Richport Property 17 July 2013 RMB2,250 100% 50% Real estate
Development Shanghai Co., million development
Ltd.
Everbright Property 17 July 2013 RMB135 million 100% 50% Real estate
Development Shanghai Co., development
Ltd.
Fung Seng Estate Development 17 July 2013 RMB85 million 100% 50% Real estate
(Shanghai) Co., Ltd. development
Sunac (Shenzhen) Real Estate 9 March 2015 RMB10 million 100% Investment Holding
Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Chuangrun Real 13 March 2015 RMB10 million 100% Investment Holding
Estate Co., Ltd.

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APPENDIX I

39 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS BY CATEGORY

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Loans and receivables
Trade and other receivables 970,481 2,474,809
Restricted cash 4,371,010 4,384,145
Cash and cash equivalents 22,687,280 20,657,285
Amounts due from related companies 11,660,049 17,999,418
39,688,820 45,515,657
31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Financial liabilities at amortized costs
Borrowings 41,798,633 34,383,795
Amounts due to related companies 18,212,922 20,713,919
Trade and other payables 10,271,759 11,116,009
70,283,314 66,213,723

Note: Trade and other payables in this analysis do not include the taxes payables and payroll and welfare payables.

40 DIVIDENDS

The dividends paid in 2015 and 2014 were RMB646.4 million (RMB0.19 per share) and RMB635.7 million (RMB0.191 per share) respectively. A dividend in respect of the year ended 31 December 2015 of RMB0.194 per share, amounting to a total dividend of RMB660 million, is to be proposed at the annual general meeting. These financial statements did not reflect this dividend payable.

Year ended 31 December Year ended 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
Interim dividend paid of RMB0 (2014: Nil) per ordinary share
Proposed final dividend of RMB0.194 (2014: RMB0.190) per
ordinary share 659,566 644,414

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APPENDIX I

41 EVENTS AFTER THE BALANCE SHEET DATE

  • (1) Acquisition of interests in Huafeng

Subsequent to the equity transaction as disclosed in Note 35(b) (iii), the Group completed the following equity acquisitions relating to the Target Project which is developed by Huafeng:

  • (a) On 4 January 2016, the Group effectively acquired an 9.4% interest in Huafeng at a consideration of RMB752 million from Shanghai Pudong Development (Group) Company Limited (“Shanghai Pudong Development”), another ultimate equity owner of Huafeng. According to the agreement, Shanghai Pudong Development is entrusted to hold this acquired equity interest in Huafeng on behalf of the Group.

  • (b) On 15 January 2016, the Group proposed to acquire the remaining 37.855% equity interest and debts in Shanghai Fengdan Lishe Estate Development Co., Ltd. (“Fengdan”) at a consideration of RMB1,324.9 million. This transaction has yet to be approved by the shareholders of the Company in compliance with relevant rules and regulation.

In summary, upon completion of the above trasnaction, the Group will have an effective totaling 76.9% interest in Huafeng.

  • (2) Acquisition of equity interest and debts in Suzhou Xinyou Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“Suzhou Xinyou”)

On 13 January 2016, the Group acquired 95% equity interest of Suzhou Xinyou from a third party at the equity consideration of RMB183.65 million and an amount of RMB854.58 million due by Suzhou Xinyou to the seller. The total consideration of which is RMB1,038.23 million. Upon completion of the acquisition, Suzhou Xinyou became a subsidiary of the Company.

  • (3) Acquisition of equity interests and debts in Suzhou Der Taihu Bay Properties Co., Ltd. (“Suzhou Der Taihu Bay”) and Suzhou Der Taihu Town Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“Suzhou Der Taihu Town”)

On 1 February 2016, the Group entered into agreeements with third parties (the “Sellers”), pursuant to which, the Group agreed to acquire from the Sellers 100% equity interest of Suzhou Der Taihu Bay at the equity consideration of RMB404.46 million and an amount of RMB685.54 million due by Suzhou Der Taihu Bay to the Sellers. The total consideration of which is RMB1,090 million, and 100% equity interest of Suzhou Der Taihu Town at the equity consideration of RMB28.31 million and an amount of RMB51.69 million due by Suzhou Der Taihu Town to the Sellers. The total consideration of which is RMB80 million. Total consideration for the two transactions was RMB1,170 million. Up to the date of this report, the acquisitions have yet to be completed. Upon completion of the transactions, Suzhou Der Taihu Bay and Suzhou Der Taihu Town will become subsidiaries of the Company.

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  • (4) Acquisition of 70% equity interests and debts in Zhongmu Meisheng Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“Zhongmu Meisheng”)

On 25 February 2016, the Group entered into an equity acquisition agreement with a third party, pursuant to which the Group agreed to acquire 70% equity interest of Zhengzhou Meisheng from the third party at the equity consideration of RMB708.4 million, and an amount of RMB45.52 million due by Zhongmu Meisheng to the seller. The total consideration of which is RMB753.92 million. Up to the date of this report, the acquisition has yet to be completed. Upon completion of the transaction, Zhongmu Meisheng will become a subsidiary of the Company.

(5) Entered into the cooperation agreement in Shanghai Projects

On 18 March 2016, Shanghai Sunac Property Development Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Sunac”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into the cooperation agreement with an independent third party Shanghai Moke Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Moke”), pursuant to which, Shanghai Sunac and Shanghai Moke will cooperate in the development of two property projects (the “Target projects”) in Shanghai through a new jointly invested project company (the “Project company”). Shanghai Sunac and Shanghai Moke will initially hold 40% and 60% equity interests of the Project company respectively. The Project company will acquire the Target projects from Shanghai Moke at the total consideration of RMB4,031.6 million, which is to be fully financed from Shanghai Sunac and Shanghai Moke on 80%:20% basis in form of shareholders’ loans by two equal amount batches, i.e. the total loan amounts to be provided by Shanghai Sunac and Shanghai Moke are RMB3,225.3 million and RMB806.3 million respectively. A 50% of the consideration is to be made within five business days after entering into the cooperation agreement. Within two business days after (i) the expiry of the 270-day period after entering into the cooperation agreement or (ii) within 5 business days before the remaining Target projects have completed the transfer registration (whichever is earlier), the Project company will pay the remaining 50% consideration amount to Shanghai Moke and the Target projects will be transferred to the Project company. Then Shanghai Sunac will acquire an additional 40% equity interest of the Project company from Shanghai Moke at the consideration of RMB40 million plus the interest cost, which is estimated not exceeding RMB72.6 million, being the interest accrued on the payables in the amount of RMB1,612 million by Shanghai Sunac in the second shareholder’s loan to the Project company, which Shanghai Moke shall receive at an interest rate of 6% per annum for the period commencing from the fifth business day after the date of the cooperation agreement up till the day when Shanghai Sunac has fully paid the second shareholder’s loan. In summary, the total investment amount attributable to the Group will be no exceeding RMB3,337.9 million.

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APPENDIX I

42 BALANCE SHEET AND RESERVE MOVEMENT OF THE COMPANY

31 December 31 December
2015 2014
RMB’000 RMB’000
ASSETS
Non-current assets
Investments in subsidiaries 12,930,894 8,419,621
Current assets
Amounts due from subsidiaries 8,096,001 5,463,734
Other receivables 345 1,905
Cash and cash equivalents 3,245,867 28,728
11,342,213 5,494,367
Total assets 24,273,107 13,913,988
EQUITY AND LIABILITIES
Equity attributable to owners of the Company
Share capital 291,329 289,963
Other reserves Note (a) 3,572,997 4,125,887
Accumulated losses Note (a) (2,451,763) (1,309,349)
Total equity 1,412,563 3,106,501
Liabilities
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings 8,778,815 9,262,956
Current liabilities
Borrowings 5,726,528 1,378,905
Other payables 192,303 156,435
Amounts due to subsidiaries 8,162,898 9,191
14,081,729 1,544,531
Total liabilities 22,860,544 10,807,487
Total equity and liabilities 24,273,107 13,913,988

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Note (a) Reserve movement of the Company

Share Other Accumulated
premium reserves losses Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Year ended 31 December 2014
At 1 January 2014 3,070,058 1,535,172 (600,520) 4,004,710
Loss for the year (708,829) (708,829)
Employees share option scheme:
— Value of employee services 35,456 35,456
— Proceeds from shares issued 120,882 120,882
Dividends relating to 2013 (635,681) (635,681)
At 31 December 2014 2,555,259 1,570,628 (1,309,349) 2,816,538
Year ended 31 December 2015
At 1 January 2015 2,555,259 1,570,628 (1,309,349) 2,816,538
Loss for the year (1,142,414) (1,142,414)
Employees share option scheme:
— Value of employee services 47,395 47,395
— Proceeds from shares issued 44,129 44,129
Dividends relating to 2014 (644,414) (644,414)
At 31 December 2015 1,954,974 1,618,023 (2,451,763) 1,121,234

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APPENDIX I

43 BENEFITS AND INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS

  • (A) Directors and chief executive’s emoluments

The Directors’ and senior management’s emoluments are set out below:

Employer’s
contribution Compensation
Share retirement for loss of
Discretionary options benefit Other office as
Name of Director Fees Salary bonuses expenses scheme benefits director Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Year ended 31 December
2015:
Directors:
Sun Hongbin 1,200 1,053 473 2,726
Wang Mengde 932 967 1,851 34 51 3,835
Li Shaozhong 757 416 1,592 34 51 2,850
Chi Xun 819 1,095 1,690 34 51 3,689
Shang Yu 736 620 1,690 34 51 3,131
Jing Hong 894 1,429 1,690 44 55 4,112
Zhu Jia
Poon Chiu Kwoh 242 242
Li Qin 242 242
Ma Lishan 242 242
Tse Chi Wai 242 242
Year ended 31 December
2014:
Directors:
Sun Hongbin 1,200 638 847 2,685
Wang Mengde 881 602 1,494 34 55 3,066
Li Shaozhong 552 357 1,299 18 28 2,254
Chi Xun 720 568 1,299 31 48 2,666
Shang Yu 734 516 1,299 37 52 2,638
Jing Hong 801 819 1,299 40 48 3,007
Zhu Jia
Hu Xiaoling (i)
Poon Chiu Kwoh 237 237
Li Qin 237 237
Ma Lishan 237 237
Tse Chi Wai 237 237

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For the year ended 31 December 2015 and 2014, no housing allowance, estimated money value of other benefits, remunerations paid or receivable in respect of accepting office as director, emoluments paid or receivable in respect of director’s other services in connection with the management of the affairs of the company or its subsidiary undertaking were provided by the Group to directors or chief executive.

Notes:

  • (i) Resigned on 12 August 2014.

  • (B) The five individuals whose emoluments were the highest in the Group included five directors (2014: Five) for the year ended 31 December 2015, whose emoluments are reflected in the analysis presented above.

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APPENDIX I

UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The following is the full text of the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Group for the six months ended 30 June 2016 as extracted from the interim report of the Company for the six months ended 30 June 2016:

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

As at 30 June 2016

Note
ASSETS
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment
7
Intangible assets
7
Investments accounted for using the equity method
8
Prepayments for investments
12
Deferred income tax assets
Total non-current assets
CURRENT ASSETS
Properties under development
9
Completed properties held for sale
10
Trade and other receivables
11
Amounts due from related companies
32
Prepayments
12
Restricted cash
13
Cash and cash equivalents
Total current assets
Total assets
EQUITY
Equity attributable to owners of the Company
Share capital
14
Other reserves
15
Retained earnings
Perpetual capital securities
16
Non-controlling interests
Total equity
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
63,158
68,959
238,089
230,269
17,728,984
15,260,581
3,230,375
4,722,036
1,663,467
1,502,429
22,924,073
21,784,274
48,923,225
34,142,659
15,148,069
15,727,129
2,080,084
970,481
20,138,851
11,660,049
5,209,953
4,166,080
11,809,911
4,371,010
28,337,573
22,687,280
131,647,666
93,724,688
154,571,739
115,508,962
291,369
291,329
4,154,527
4,104,442
14,682,553
14,609,618
19,128,449
19,005,389
6,825,361

661,345
414,781
26,615,155
19,420,170
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
63,158
68,959
238,089
230,269
17,728,984
15,260,581
3,230,375
4,722,036
1,663,467
1,502,429
22,924,073
21,784,274
48,923,225
34,142,659
15,148,069
15,727,129
2,080,084
970,481
20,138,851
11,660,049
5,209,953
4,166,080
11,809,911
4,371,010
28,337,573
22,687,280
131,647,666
93,724,688
154,571,739
115,508,962
291,369
291,329
4,154,527
4,104,442
14,682,553
14,609,618
19,128,449
19,005,389
6,825,361

661,345
414,781
26,615,155
19,420,170
21,784,274
34,142,659
15,727,129
970,481
11,660,049
4,166,080
4,371,010
22,687,280
93,724,688
115,508,962
291,329
4,104,442
14,609,618
19,005,389

414,781
19,420,170

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Note
LIABILITIES
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings
18
Derivative financial instruments
19
Deferred income tax liabilities
Total non-current liabilities
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
17
Advanced proceeds from customers
Amounts due to related companies
32
Current income tax liabilities
Borrowings
18
Total current liabilities
Total liabilities
Total equity and liabilities
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
38,150,191
27,214,240
10,209

5,317,308
4,379,412
43,477,708
31,593,652
10,919,393
10,943,950
20,118,326
13,420,386
22,176,869
18,212,922
6,615,962
7,333,489
24,648,326
14,584,393
84,478,876
64,495,140
127,956,584
96,088,792
154,571,739
115,508,962
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
(Unaudited)
(Audited)
RMB’000
RMB’000
38,150,191
27,214,240
10,209

5,317,308
4,379,412
43,477,708
31,593,652
10,919,393
10,943,950
20,118,326
13,420,386
22,176,869
18,212,922
6,615,962
7,333,489
24,648,326
14,584,393
84,478,876
64,495,140
127,956,584
96,088,792
154,571,739
115,508,962
31,593,652
10,943,950
13,420,386
18,212,922
7,333,489
14,584,393
64,495,140
96,088,792
115,508,962

The notes on pages 134 to 167 form an integral part of this interim condensed consolidated financial information.

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APPENDIX I

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT 0F COMPREHENSIVE INCOME For the six months ended 30 June 2016

Six months ended 30 June Six months ended 30 June
Note 2016 2015
(Unaudited) (Unaudited)
RMB’000 RMB’000
Revenue 6 10,586,085 5,442,722
Cost of sales (9,179,970) (4,824,671)
Gross profit 1,406,115 618,051
Other income and gains 22 1,551,361 2,220,585
Selling and marketing costs (318,512) (284,602)
Administrative expenses (421,530) (298,842)
Other expenses and losses 23 (54,573) (102,379)
Operating profit 2,162,861 2,152,813
Finance income 24 98,507 83,095
Finance costs 24 (1,578,739) (698,577)
Share of post-taxes (losses)/profits of investments
accounted for using equity method, net 8 (235,504) 451,871
Profit before income tax 447,125 1,989,202
Income tax expense 25 (344,355) (731,539)
Profit for the period 102,770 1,257,663
Other comprehensive income for the period
Total comprehensive income for the period 102,770 1,257,663
Attributable to:
— Owners of the Company 72,935 951,399
— Holders of perpetual capital securities 16 2,361
— Non-controlling interests 27,474 306,264
102,770 1,257,663
Earnings per share attributable to owners of the
Company (expressed in RMB per share): 26
— Basic earnings per share 0.02 0.28
— Diluted earnings per share 0.02 0.28

The notes on pages 134 to 167 form an integral part of this interim condensed consolidated financial information.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY For the six months ended 30 June 2016

Note
Balance at 1 January 2016
Total comprehensive income for the period
ended 30 June 2016
Transactions with owners, recognised
directly in equity
Non-controlling interests arising on
business combination
30
Capital contributions from non-controlling
interests
Transactions with non-controlling interests
29
Issue of perpetual capital securities
16
Employees share option schemes:
— Value of employee services
15
— Proceeds from shares issued
14, 15
Balance at 30 June 2016
Balance at 1 January 2015
Total comprehensive income for the period
ended 30 June 2015
Transactions with owners, recognised
directly in equity
Transactions with non-controlling interests
Dividends to non-controlling interests
Disposal of a subsidiary
Employees share option schemes:
— Value of employee services
15
— Proceeds from shares issued
14, 15
Balance at 30 June 2015
Unaudited
Attributable to owne rs of the Company
Retained
earnings
Total
RMB’000
RMB’000
14,609,618 19,005,389
72,935
72,935





11,953



36,546

1,626

50,125
14,682,553 19,128,449
12,859,974 16,352,938
951,399
951,399

(354,985)





11,296

43,764

(299,925)
13,811,373 17,004,412
Perpetual
capital
securities
RMB’000
(Note 16)

2,361



6,823,000


6,823,000
6,825,361








Non-
controlling
interests
RMB’000
414,781
Total
equity
RMB’000
19,420,170
Share
capital
RMB’000
(Note 14)
291,329






40
40
291,369
289,963





1,310
1,310
291,273
Other
reserves
RMB’000
(Note 15)
4,104,442
Retained
earnings
RMB’000
14,609,618
72,935 27,474 102,770


11,953

36,546
1,586





84,398
122,900
11,792


84,398
122,900
23,745
6,823,000
36,546
1,626
50,085 219,090 7,092,215
4,154,527 14,682,553 661,345 26,615,155
3,203,001 12,859,974 4,629,695 20,982,633
951,399 306,264 1,257,663
(354,985)


11,296
42,454




530,043
(1,699,837)
(432,259)

175,058
(1,699,837)
(432,259)
11,296
43,764
(301,235) (1,602,053) (1,901,978)
2,901,766 13,811,373 3,333,906 20,338,318

The notes on pages 134 to 167 form an integral part of this interim condensed consolidated financial information.

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APPENDIX I

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS For the six months ended 30 June 2016

Note
Cash flows from operating activities
Income tax paid
Net cash (used in)/generated from operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Cash paid for business combinations, net
30
Disposal of subsidiaries, net
31
Prepayments for current year equity investments
Payments for previous year equity investments
Withdrawal of prepayment for equity transactions
Interest received on prepayment of equity acquisitions
Equity investments in joint ventures and associates
Dividend received from joint ventures
Proceeds from disposal of investment in a joint venture
Loan to a joint ventures and associates
Collection of loans from joint ventures and associates
Interest received from joint ventures and associates
Cash advanced from joint venture partner
Proceeds from disposal of investment properties
Loan to a business partner relating to a joint arrangement
11(b)
Others
Net cash used in investing activities
Unaudited Six months
ended 30 June
2016
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
(1,016,199)
1,395,598
(1,768,938)
(984,736)
(2,785,137)
410,862
(2,808,357)
80,264
(264,891)
292,730
(3,086,922)
(4,701,321)
(317,601)


1,939,479
44,910
35,124
(2,463,990)
(1,546,326)
261,403

60,000

(5,861,957)
(659,039)
3,420,184
2,150,288
15,906
72,231

350,000

175,000
(332,637)

(9,845)
50,825
(11,343,797)
(1,760,745)

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Note
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from issue of ordinary shares
Proceed from issue of private domestic bonds
18(e)
Proceeds from issuance of perpetual capital securities
16
Proceeds from borrowings
18(e)
Repayments of borrowings
18(e)
Payment for other financial costs
24
Dividend paid to non-controlling interests
Repayment of loans from non-controlling interests
Loans from non-controlling interests
Loans to non-controlling interests
Acquisitions of additional interests in subsidiaries
Interest paid
Restricted cash guaranteed for bank borrowings
Restricted cash guaranteed for joint ventures’ borrowings
Contribution from non-controlling interests
Others
Net cash generated from/(used in) financing activities
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
Effect of exchange difference
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
Unaudited Six months
ended 30 June
2016
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
1,626
43,764
14,947,300

6,873,000

22,442,033
11,354,825
(15,445,788)
(13,898,156)
(224,073)


(956,092)
(158,074)
(1,153,361)

252,582
(139,976)
(80,000)
(11,619)
(1,055,396)
(1,182,659)
(1,369,313)
(6,288,430)
(10,258)
(1,000,000)

44,900

(20,011)

19,838,229
(6,871,405)
5,709,295
(8,221,288)
22,687,280
20,657,285
(59,002)
(1,044)
28,337,573
12,434,953

The notes on pages 134 to 167 form an integral part of this interim condensed consolidated financial information.

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APPENDIX I

NOTES TO THE CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM FINANCIAL INFORMATION (UNAUDITED)

For the six months ended 30 June 2016

1 GENERAL INFORMATION

Sunac China Holdings Limited (the “Company”) and its subsidiaries (together, the “Group”) are principally engaged in property development and property management services in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”).

The Company is a limited company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. The address of its registered office is Landmark Square, 3rd Floor, 64 Earth Close, P.O. Box 30592, Grand Cayman KY1-1203, Cayman Islands.

The Company has its primary listing on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

This condensed consolidated interim financial information is presented in Renminbi (“RMB”), unless otherwise stated. This condensed consolidated interim financial information had been approved for issue by the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) on 29 August 2016.

2 BASIS OF PREPARATION

This condensed consolidated interim financial information for the six months ended 30 June 2016 has been prepared in accordance with Hong Kong Accounting Standards (“HKAS”) 34, “Interim financial reporting”. The condensed consolidated interim financial information should be read in conjunction with the annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015, which have been prepared in accordance with Hong Kong Financial Reporting Standards (“HKFRS”).

2.1 Going-concern basis

The Group meets its day-to-day working capital requirements through its bank facilities and other financing facilities. The current economic conditions continue to create uncertainty particularly over (a) the level of demand for the Group’s products; and (b) the availability of bank finance and other finance for the foreseeable future. The Group’s forecasts and projections, taking account of reasonably possible changes in trading performance, show that the Group should be able to operate within the level of its current facilities. After making enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The Group therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its consolidated financial statements. Further information on the Group’s borrowings is given in Note 18.

3 ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The accounting policies applied are consistent with those of the annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015, as described in those annual financial statements except for the adoption of amendments to HKFRSs effective for the financial year ending 31 December 2016.

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  • (A) A mendments to HKFRS effective for the financial year ending 31 December 2016 do not have a material impact on the group

Taxes on income in the interim periods are accrued using the tax rate that would be applicable to expected total annual earnings.

  • (B) Impact of standards issued but not yet applied by the entity

(i) HKFRS 9 Financial instruments

HKFRS 9 Financial Instruments addresses the classification, measurement and derecognition of financial assets and financial liabilities, introduces new rules for hedge accounting and a new impairment model for financial assets. The standard does not need to be applied until 1 January 2018 but is available for early adoption.

(ii) HKFRS 15 Revenue from contracts with customers

The HKICPA has issued a new standard for the recognition of revenue. This will replace HKAS 18 which covers revenue arising from the sale of goods and the rendering of services and HKAS 11 which covers construction contracts.

The new standard is based on the principle that revenue is recognised when control of a good or service transfers to a customer.

The standard permits either a full retrospective or a modified retrospective approach for the adoption. The new standard is effective for first interim periods within annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018, and will allow early adoption.

Management is currently assessing the effects of applying the new standard on the Group’s financial statements and is not able to estimate the effect of the new rules at this stage. The Group will make more detailed assessments of the effect over the next twelve months. The Group does not expect to adopt the new standard before 1 January 2018.

4 ESTIMATES

The preparation of the interim financial information requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the application of accounting policies and the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, income and expense. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

In preparing this condensed consolidated interim financial information, the significant judgements made by management in applying the Group’s accounting policies and the key sources of estimation uncertainty were the same as those that applied to the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015.

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APPENDIX I

5 FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

  • 5.1 Financial risk factors

The Group’s activities expose it to a variety of financial risks: market risk (including currency risk, fair value interest rate risk, cash flow interest rate risk and price risk), credit risk and liquidity risk.

The interim condensed consolidated financial information do not include all financial risk management information and disclosures required in the annual financial statements, and should be read in conjunction with the Group’s annual financial statements as at 31 December 2015.

There have been no significant changes in the risk or in any risk management policies since 31 December 2015.

5.2 Fair value estimation

The table below analyses financial instruments carried at fair value, by valuation method. The different levels have been defined as follows:

  • Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (level 1).

  • Inputs other than quoted prices included within level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly (that is, as prices) or indirectly (that is, derived from prices) (level 2).

  • Inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on observable market data (that is, unobservable inputs) (level 3).

The following table presents the Group’s financial liabilities that are measured at fair value at 30 June 2016 (2015: Nil).

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Liabilities
Derivative financial instruments 10,209 10,209

During the six months ended 30 June 2016, there were no reclassifications of financial liabilities and no transfers between different levels.

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The financial instruments classified as level 2 include currency derivative contracts entered into with certain commercial banks. The contracts do not qualify for hedge accounting, so that they are classified as derivative financial instrument on the balance sheet and with fair value changes recognised in the profit or loss.

  • 5.3 Valuation techniques used to derive level 2 fair values

The currency derivative contracts have been fair valued using the option pricing model.

5.4 Fair value of financial liabilities measured at amortised cost

The carrying amounts of bank borrowings, borrowings from other financial institutions are approximate their fair values. The fair values of senior notes as at 30 June 2016 amounted to RMB4,998 million (31 December 2015: RMB8,941 million), which were calculated based on the market price of the traded senior notes at the balance sheet date. The fair values of corporate bonds, private domestic corporate bonds and asset-backed securities as at 30 June 2016 amounted to RMB6,140 million, RMB15,393 million, RMB1,119 million respectively (31 December 2015: RMB6,222 million for corporate bonds), which were calculated based on the active market price at the balance sheet date. The fair values of senior notes, private domestic corporate bonds and assets-backed securities are within level 2 of the fair value hierarchy and the fair values of corporate bonds are within level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

The fair value of the following financial assets and liabilities approximate their carrying amount:

  • Cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash

  • Trade and other receivables

  • Amounts due from related companies

  • Trade and other payables

  • Amounts due to related companies

6 SEGMENT INFORMATION

The executive directors review the Group’s internal reporting in order to assess performance and allocate resources. The executive directors have determined the operating segments based on these reports.

The executive directors assess the performance of property development business and property management service business respectively. The performance of the operating segments is assessed based on a measure of profit/(loss) before income tax.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

The analysis of the Group’s profit before income tax by segment is as follows:

**Six months ended 30 ** **Six months ended 30 ** June 2016 June 2016
Property
development Property
and management
investment and others Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Total segment revenue 10,330,591 277,518 10,608,109
Inter-segment revenue (22,024) (22,024)
Revenue from external customers 10,330,591 255,494 10,586,085
Profit/(loss) before income tax 462,596 (15,471) 447,125
**As at 30 June ** 2016
Property
development Property
and management
investment and others Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Total segment assets 152,577,978 330,294 152,908,272
Total segment liabilities 115,574,749 448,565 116,023,314
**Six months ended 30 ** June 2015
Property
development Property
and management
investment and others Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Total segment revenue 5,224,665 237,541 5,462,206
Inter-segment revenue (19,484) (19,484)
Revenue from external customers 5,224,665 218,057 5,442,722
Profit/(loss) before income tax 2,031,267 (42,065) 1,989,202

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

As at 31 December
Property
development
and
investment
Property
management
and others
RMB’000
RMB’000
Total segment assets
113,644,985
361,548
Total segment liabilities
83,840,268
535,623
2015
Total
RMB’000
114,006,533
84,375,891

7 PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS

Intangible assets Intangible assets
Property,
plant and Computer
equipment Goodwill software Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Six months ended 30 June 2016
Net book value or valuation
As at 1 January 2016 68,959 228,699 1,570 230,269
Additions 13,723
Disposals (3,878)
Depreciation and amortization (16,102) (111) (111)
Acquisition of subsidiaries (Note 30) 484 7,903 28 7,931
Disposal of a subsidiary (Note 31) (28)
As at 30 June 2016 63,158 236,602 1,487 238,089

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Intangible assets Intangible assets
Property,
plant and Computer
equipment Goodwill software Total
RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000 RMB’000
Six months ended 30 June 2015
Net book value or valuation
As at 1 January 2015 61,815 147,985 920 148,905
Additions 8,047
Disposals (1,404)
Depreciation and amortization (10,959) (187) (187)
Acquisition of subsidiaries 19,230 66,266 312 66,578
Disposal of subsidiaries (1,623)
As at 30 June 2015 75,106 214,251 1,045 215,296

8 INVESTMENTS ACCOUNTED FOR USING THE EQUITY METHOD

The investment amounts recognised in the balance sheet were as follows:

Joint ventures
Associates
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
13,090,324
10,691,975
4,638,660
4,568,606
17,728,984
15,260,581
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
13,090,324
10,691,975
4,638,660
4,568,606
17,728,984
15,260,581
15,260,581

The amounts of the shares of the results of the investees recognised in the profit/(loss) using the equity method were as follows:

Six months ended 30 June Six months ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Joint ventures (305,558) 464,081
Associates 70,054 (12,210)
(235,504) 451,871

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APPENDIX I

8.1 Investments in joint ventures

The following table analyses, on an aggregate basis, the movement of the carrying amount of the Group’s investments in the joint ventures, and the shares of results of these joint ventures.

Six months ended 30 June Six months ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
At beginning of period 10,691,975 7,927,863
Additions:
- Capital contributions to joint ventures established by the Group 682,500 202,500
- Acquisition of joint ventures (Note (a)) 1,693,430 1,284,371
- Further investments in existing joint ventures (Note (b)) 589,008 33,500
- Subsidiaries becoming joint ventures 40,901 325,474
- Interest in joint ventures owned by a newly acquired subsidiary 37,758
Disposals:
- Disposal of investments in joint ventures (49,870)
- Joint ventures becoming subsidiaries (28,417) (229,873)
Share of (losses)/profits of joint ventures, net (305,558) 464,081
Dividends from joint ventures (261,403) (875,685)
At end of period 13,090,324 9,132,231

Notes:

  • (a) During the six months ended 30 June 2016, the Company acquired equity interests in 8 joint ventures, which resulted in total gain of RMB415.1 million from the difference between the consideration and the fair value of equity interests acquired.

  • (b) During the six months ended 30 June 2016, the Group increased its investments in two existing joint ventures through equity acquisitions at total consideration of RMB543.35 million and resulted in a net gain of RMB45.66 million.

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8.2 Investments in associates

The following table analyses, on an aggregate basis, the movement of the carrying amount of the Group’s investments in the associates, and its share of results of these associates.

**Six months ** ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
At beginning of period 4,568,606 4,120,926
Share of profits/(losses) of associates, net 70,054 (12,210)
Investments in a new associate 977,375
An associate becoming a subsidiary (86,975)
Disposal of an associate (18,406)
Dividends from associates (1,009,507)
At end of period 4,638,660 3,971,203

9 PROPERTIES UNDER DEVELOPMENT (“PUD”)

Land use rights
Construction costs and capitalized expenditures
Capitalized finance costs
Less: Provision for loss on realisable value
To be completed within 12 months
To be completed after 12 months
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
37,931,207
23,865,555
6,297,070
5,936,959
4,740,656
4,390,220
(45,708)
(50,075)
48,923,225
34,142,659
18,820,047
10,910,407
30,103,178
23,232,252
48,923,225
34,142,659

The PUD are all located in the PRC.

As at 30 June 2016, certain PUD amounted to RMB30,208 million were pledged as collateral for the Group’s borrowings (31 December 2015: RMB17,550 million) (Note 18).

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APPENDIX I

10 COMPLETED PROPERTIES HELD FOR SALE

Completed properties held for sale, gross
Less: Provision for loss on realisable value
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
15,910,637
16,413,728
(762,568)
(686,599)
15,148,069
15,727,129

The completed properties held for sale are all located in the PRC.

As at 30 June 2016 certain completed properties held for sale amounting to RMB4,164 million (31 December 2015: RMB6,291 million) were pledged as collateral for the Group’s borrowings (Note 18).

11 TRADE AND OTHER RECEIVABLES

Amounts due from non-controlling interests and
their related parties
Trade receivables (Note (a))
Amounts due from a business partner relating to a joint
arrangement (Note (b))
Notes receivables
Other receivables
— Payments on behalf of customers
— Deposits
— Interests receivable
— Others
Less: Bad debt provision for other receivables
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
663,491
334,024
126,848
92,011
332,637


200
229,806
132,291
535,176
212,349
59,612
22,810
181,578
204,474
2,129,148
998,159
(49,064)
(27,678)
2,080,084
970,481

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

As at 30 June 2016 and 31 December 2015, the carrying amounts of the Group’s trade and other receivables were all denominated in RMB and the carrying amounts of trade and other receivables approximated their fair values.

Notes:

  • (a) In the six months ended 30 June 2016, the Group provided a credit period of 90-365 days to certain customers having good credit standing.

  • (b) According to a cooperation agreement entered into in March 2016 the Group and two independent third parties target to obtain and share a land use right in Tianjin, the PRC. As of 30 June 2016, the Group has made a total payment of RMB1,319.21 million for the land use right tendering, in which, RMB332.64million was paid on behalf of one business partner and therefore was recorded as a receivable. In connection with this cooperation, the business partner has already made a guarantee deposit amounted to RMB500 million to the Group.

Taking into account of the credit terms agreed in the property sale contract, the ageing analysis of trade receivables primarily arising from sales of properties is as follows:

Within 90 days
90 - 180 days
181 - 365 days
Over 365 days
As at
30 June
2016
31
RMB’000
101,960
1,166
16,416
7,306
126,848
December
2015
RMB’000
55,160

34,521
2,330
92,011

As the Group normally holds collateral of the properties before collection of the outstanding balances and passing the titles to the property purchasers, the Directors are of the view that the Group has no material bad debt risk on the trade receivables and no provision was made as at 30 June 2016 (31 December 2015: Nil).

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12 PREPAYMENTS

Non-current -
Prepayments for investments (Note(a))
Current -
Prepaid taxes
— Land appreciation tax
— Corporate income tax
— Business tax and surcharge
Prepayments for land use rights acquisition
Prepayments for project development costs
As at
30 June
2016
31
RMB’000
3,230,375
1,412,850
756,629
976,482
1,968,134
95,858
5,209,953
December
2015
RMB’000
4,722,036
1,214,360
725,876
697,978
1,465,969
61,897
4,166,080
  • (a) As at 30 June 2016, the prepayments for investments included primarily the following two items:

  • (i) In May 2016, the Company proposed to acquire from Top Spring International Holdings Limited, an independent third party, the equity interests of seven project entities and certain receivables from the target entities to the seller at a total consideration equivalent to RMB4,225 million. As at 30 June 2016, the Group has made a prepayment of RMB2,000 million for the proposed acquisition and the transaction has been approved by the shareholders on 16 August 2016.

  • (ii) As at 30 June 2016, the Group had prepayments totalling RMB1,048 million for future cooperation in target real estate projects located in Xi’an, the PRC.

The carrying amounts of the Group’s prepayments were all denominated in RMB.

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13 RESTRICTED CASH

Guarantee deposits for bank loans
Restricted cash from presales of properties (Note (a))
Others (Note(b))
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
9,358,935
3,070,505
1,426,377
1,287,734
1,024,599
12,771
11,809,911
4,371,010
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
9,358,935
3,070,505
1,426,377
1,287,734
1,024,599
12,771
11,809,911
4,371,010
4,371,010

Note (a): In certain subsidiaries of the Company, a portion of the proceeds from pre-sale of properties is saved as guarantee bank deposits in accordance with the municipal regulations and is released in line with certain development progress milestones.

Note (b): The Group paid deposits as guarantee for the Group’s certain joint ventures’ bank borrowings.

14 SHARE CAPITAL

Ordinary shares of HK$0.1 each, issued and fully
paid
As at 31 December 2015
Shares issued upon exercise of employees’ share
options (Note (a))
As at 30 June 2016
Number of
shares
(thousands)
10,000,000
3,399,449
477
3,399,926
Share capital Share capital
HK$’000
Equivalent
to RMB’000
1,000,000

339,945
291,329
48
40
339,993
291,369
291,329
40
291,369

Note (a): As disclosed in details in the Company’s annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015, the Company adopted a Post-IPO Share Option Scheme on 29 April 2011 and a 2014 Share Option Scheme on 19 May 2014 respectively. On 20 June 2016, the Company granted 39,920,000 share options within the 2014 Share Option Scheme.

The total expense recognised in the profit or loss for share options granted to directors and employees for the six months ended 30 June 2016 was RMB36.55 million (2015: RMB11.29 million).

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

The weighted-average fair value of options granted during the period determined using the Binomial valuation model was HK$1.65 per option (2015: HK$2.23). The significant inputs into the model were weighted-average share price of HK$4.56 at the grant date (2015: HK$7.27), exercise price of HK$4.62 (2015: HK$7.27), volatility of 53.12% (2015: 44.91%), dividend yield of 2.6% (2015: 2.1%), an expected option life of five years, and an annual risk-free interest rate of 0.827% (2015: 1.129%). The expected volatility is determined by calculating the historical volatility of the price of listed companies with similar business to the Group. The expected dividend yield is determined by the Directors based on the expected future performance and dividend policy of the Group.

For the six months ended 30 June 2016, 477,600 shares in connection with the 2014 Share Option Scheme were exercised by the employees, which resulted in an increase of RMB0.04 million in the share capital and RMB1.586 million in share premium (Note 15).

As at 30 June 2016, 49,901 thousand shares of the Post-IPO Share Option Scheme and 49,241 thousand shares of the 2014 Share Option Scheme were exercisable (31 December 2015: 52,640 thousand shares in the Post-IPO Share Option Scheme and 26,214 thousand shares in the 2014 Share Option Scheme).

15 RESERVES

Note
Six months ended 30 June 2016
At 1 January 2016
Transactions with non-controlling interests
29
Employees share option schemes:
— Value of employee services
— Exercise of employees’ share options
14
At 30 June 2016
Six months ended 30 June 2015
At 1 January 2015
Transactions with non-controlling interests
Employees share option schemes:
— Value of employee services
— Exercise of employees’ share options
At 30 June 2015
Share
premium
RMB’000
1,954,974


1,586
1,956,560
2,555,259


42,454
2,597,713
Other
reserves
RMB’000
2,149,468
11,953
36,546

2,197,967
647,742
(354,985)
11,296

304,053
Total
RMB’000
4,104,442
11,953
36,546
1,586
4,154,527
3,203,001
(354,985)
11,296
42,454
2,901,766

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APPENDIX I

16 PERPETUAL CAPITAL SECURITIES

During six months ended 30 June 2016, certain wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company (the “Instrument issuers”) issued three perpetual bonds, among which, one of these perpetual bonds contracts were guaranteed by Sunac Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. (the “Sunac Real Estate”), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and secured using the equity interests of the Instrument issuers. Another perpetual bonds contract was guaranteed by Sunac Real Estate and secured by the equity investments owned by the joint ventures of the Instrument issuers. The perpetual bonds have no maturity date. The Instrument issuers may elect to defer interest payment, and are not subject to any limit as to the number of times interest payment can be deferred. The perpetual bonds are callable by the Instrument issuers.

The compensation for default under the uncontrollable condition was limited to RMB50 million according to the contracts and was classified as financial liabilities. The aggregate net proceeds of the perpetual bonds, deducting the compensation, amounted to RMB6,823 million. As the perpetual bonds only impose contractual obligations on the Group to repay principal or to pay any distribution under certain circumstances, which are at Group’s discretion, they have in substance offered the Group an unconditional right to avoid delivering cash or other financial asset to settle contractual obligation. Therefore, the net proceeds of the perpetual bonds are classified as capital instruments presented in the equity of the Group. The accrual of respective nominal interests according to the bond terms are treated as distribution to the holders of these perpetual capital instruments.

17 TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES

Trade payables
Deposits received
Notes payables
Payables for acquisition consideration
Amount due to non-controlling interests and their related parties
Other taxes payable
Interests payable
Advanced deed tax from customers
Payroll and welfare payables
Others
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
6,934,092
7,303,339
1,370,243
386,874
235,592
193,495
582,279
1,031,517
267,886
206,777
242,906
462,031
847,901
416,012
193,503
243,707
62,110
210,160
182,881
490,038
10,919,393
10,943,950
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
6,934,092
7,303,339
1,370,243
386,874
235,592
193,495
582,279
1,031,517
267,886
206,777
242,906
462,031
847,901
416,012
193,503
243,707
62,110
210,160
182,881
490,038
10,919,393
10,943,950
10,943,950

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

The ageing analysis of the Group’s trade payables is as follows:

Within 90 days
90-180 days
180-365 days
Over 365 days
18
BORROWINGS
Non-current
Secured,
— Banks borrowings
— Other borrowings
— Senior notes (Note (A))
— Asset-backed securities (Note (D))
Unsecured,
— Corporate bonds (Note (B))
— Private domestic corporate bonds (Note (C))
Less: Current portion of long-term borrowings (Note (E))
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
2,310,618
4,628,637
580,678
581,236
1,952,204
354,035
2,090,592
1,739,431
6,934,092
7,303,339
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
18,126,690
23,094,089
8,138,780
1,520,000
4,614,288
8,389,829
905,456

31,785,214
33,003,918
5,970,600
5,967,000
14,951,050

20,921,650
5,967,000
52,706,864
38,970,918
(14,556,673)
(11,756,678)
38,150,191
27,214,240

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

Current
Secured,
— Banks borrowings
— Other borrowings
— Asset-backed securities (Note (D))
Unsecured,
— Other borrowings
Current portion of long-term borrowings (Note (E))
Total borrowings
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
7,936,353
1,481,715
1,922,100
1,300,000
187,200

10,045,653
2,781,715
46,000
46,000
10,091,653
2,827,715
14,556,673
11,756,678
24,648,326
14,584,393
62,798,517
41,798,633
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
7,936,353
1,481,715
1,922,100
1,300,000
187,200

10,045,653
2,781,715
46,000
46,000
10,091,653
2,827,715
14,556,673
11,756,678
24,648,326
14,584,393
62,798,517
41,798,633
2,781,715
46,000
2,827,715
11,756,678
14,584,393
41,798,633

(A) Senior notes

The Company issued senior notes (“Senior Notes”) on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, payable semi-annually in arrears. As at 30 June 2016, the issue dates, principals and interest rates of the outstanding Senior Notes were shown as below:

Issue dates Principal Interest rate
USD million
Senior Note 1 5 April 2013 500 9.375%
Senior Note 2 5 December 2014 400 8.75%
900

According to the terms of the Senior Notes, at any time and from time to time on or after 5 April 2016 and 5 December 2017 respectively, the Company may redeem the Senior Notes, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to the percentage of principal amount set forth below plus accrued and unpaid interests, if any, to (but not including) the redemption date if redeemed during the twelve month period beginning on 5 April and 5 December of each of the years indicated below respectively.

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APPENDIX I

The redemption prices are shown as below:

Redemption time Redemption prices
Senior Note 1:
Prior to 5 April 2016
— Redemption up to 35% 109.4%
— Redemption in whole but not in part (Note (i)) 100%+applicable premium
5 April 2016 to 31 December 2016 104.7%
2017 and thereafter 102.3%
Senior Note 2:
Prior to 5 December 2017
— Redemption up to 35% 108.75%
— Redemption in whole but not in part (Note (ii)) 100%+ customary make-whole premium
5 December 2017 to 31 December 2017 104.4%
2018 and thereafter 102.2%

Notes:

(i) The Company announced on 8 June 2016 that it had redeemed an aggregate principal amount of US$200 million of outstanding 9.375% Senior Notes.

The Company announced on 6 July 2016 that it had informed the trustee, DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited, that all the remaining outstanding 9.375% Senior Notes of an aggregate principal amount of US$300 million would be redeemed in full on 5 August 2016 (the “Redemption Date”) at a redemption price equal to 104.69% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to (but not including) the Redemption Date. On 5 August 2016 the Company announced that it had completed this redemption. The Company had reclassified this part to current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet.

  • (ii) The customary make-whole premium is the greater of (1) 1% of the principal amount and (2) the excess of the present value of 104.4% of the principal plus the accrued and unpaid interest amount for the period from the redemption date to 5 December 2017 over the principal amount at the redemption date.

These early redemption options are regarded as embedded derivatives not closely related to the host contract. The directors are of the view that the fair value of the above early redemption option is not material as at 31 December 2015 and 30 June 2016.

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(B) Corporate bonds

The Company issued corporate bonds (the “Corporate Bonds”) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and payable annually in arrears. The issue dates, principals and interest rates are shown as below:

Issue dates
15 August 2015 (“Type 1 Bond”)
15 August 2015 (“Type 2 Bond”)
1 September 2015 (“Type 3 Bond”)
Principal
Interest rate
RMB’000
2,500,000
4.50%
2,500,000
5.70%
1,000,000
4.48%
6,000,000

According to the terms of the Corporate Bonds, Type 1 Bond has a term of five years and after the end of the third year the issuer has the option to raise the coupon rate and the investors are entitled to sell back the bonds, and its coupon rate was fixed at 4.5% with an issue size of RMB2.5 billion. Type 2 Bond has a term of five years and its coupon rate was fixed at 5.7% with an issue size of RMB2.5 billion. Type 3 Bond has a term of five years with the issuer’s option to raise the coupon rate after the end of the third year and the investors’ entitlement to sell back the bonds, and its coupon rate was fixed at 4.48%. The underwriting fee of the Corporate Bond was charged at 0.6% of the issue size.

The options embedded in the Type 1 Bond and Type 3 Bond host contracts are not closely related to the host contracts, and the directors are of the view that the fair value of the above early redemption option is not material as at 31 December 2015 and 30 June 2016.

(C) Private domestic corporate bonds

During the six months ended 30 June 2016, the Company issued private domestic corporate bonds on Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The details are shown as below:

Issue date
21 January 2016
22 January 2016
7 March 2016
3 May 2016
13 June 2016
Principal
amount
Interest
rate
Maturity
RMB’000
1,500,000
5.20%
4years
5,000,000
6.39%
7years
3,500,000
5.40%
5years
2,700,000
5.85%
6years
2,300,000
5.45%
6years
15,000,000

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The net proceeds after deducting the direct issuance costs, amounted to RMB14,947.3 million. All the private domestic corporate bonds are with the issuer’s option to raise the coupon rate and the investors’ option to sell back the bonds at the end of the second, third or fifth years.

The options embedded are not closely related to the host contracts. The directors are of the view that the fair value of the embedded options is not material as at the time of initial recognition and 30 June 2016.

(D) Asset-backed securities

Sunac Property Management Service Group Co., Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company engaged in property management services in the PRC, entered into asset-backed special agreement with a third-party financing institution in the form of asset securitisation. Asset-backed securities are backed by the right of receipt of the property management service fee with a principal amount of RMB1,158 million and have respective fixed repayment dates, bearing interest rate ranging from 4.5% to 5.7% per annum. The securities were guaranteed by Sunac Real Estate.

(E) Long-term borrowings

As at 30 June 2016, RMB7,057 million (31 December 2015: RMB2,766 million) of borrowings for property development projects will be due for full repayment upon an aggregated 20%~80% pre-sale status in term of gross floor area of the respective projects were achieved. Based on the management’s sales forecast, RMB3,804 million (31 December 2015: RMB491 million) of borrowings will be due for repayment during the twelve months ending 30 June 2017 and therefore were included in current liabilities as at 30 June 2016.

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APPENDIX I

Movements in borrowings are analysed as follows:

Six months ended 30 June 2016
Opening amount as at 1 January 2016
Additions in borrowings
Disposal of a subsidiary (Note 31)
Acquisition of subsidiaries (Note 30)
Repayments of borrowings
Adjustment of financial costs using effective interest rate
Exchange loss
Closing amount as at 30 June 2016
Six months ended 30 June 2015
Opening amount as at 1 January 2015
Additions in borrowings
Disposal of a subsidiary
Acquisition of subsidiaries
Repayments of borrowings
Adjustment of financial costs using effective interest rate
Exchange loss
Closing amount as at 30 June 2015
RMB’000
41,798,633
37,389,333
(1,988,000)
656,800
(15,445,788)
70,507
317,032
62,798,517
34,383,795
11,354,825
(1,616,095)
900,000
(13,898,156)
45,389
3,390
31,173,148

As at 30 June 2016, the Group’s borrowings totalling RMB41,831 million (31 December 2015: RMB35,786 million) were secured or jointly secured using the Group’s properties under development and completed properties held for sale totalling RMB34,372 million (31 December 2015: RMB23,841 million) and the Group’s equity interests in certain subsidiaries, and certain restricted cash.

19 DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

As at 30 June 2016, the currency derivative contracts comprised various contracts with nominal amount totalling USD600 million (2015: Nil), the settlement dates of which are between January and April 2019. The derivative contracts were not designated as hedging instruments. According to the contracts, the Group will be able to buy USD nominal amount at the agreed strike price with CNY on the settlement date.

Derivatives are initially recognised at fair value on the date a derivative contract is entered into and are subsequently remeasured at their fair values. The change of fair value is recognised immediately in profit or loss.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

20 EXPENSES BY NATURE

**Six months ** ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Costs of completed properties delivered 8,399,468 4,319,723
Business tax and other levies 489,503 294,961
Staff costs 305,237 215,753
Advertisement and promotion costs 148,513 159,281
Provision for decline in value of properties 71,602 142,855
Impairment of receivables 30,004
Depreciation and amortisation 16,213 11,146

21 BUSINESS TAX AND VALUE-ADDED TAX

From 1 January 2016 to 30 April 2016, sales of properties and property management service income of the PRC companies of the Group were subject to business tax of 5%.

In accordance with the Circular on the full implementation of Levying Value-added Tax (“VAT”) in place of Business Tax (Caishui No.36, 2016) (the “Circular”) jointly issued by the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation of the PRC, taxpayers providing taxable services included in the Circular would be subject to VAT and no longer to business tax starting from 1 May 2016. Since 1 May 2016, the Group has applied the provisions stipulated in the Circular.

22 OTHER INCOME AND GAINS

**Six months ** ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Gains from business combination (Note 30) 560,379 137,882
Gains from investments in joint ventures (Note 8) 460,758
Interest income 421,642 608,249
Gain on disposal of a subsidiary (Note 31) 11,536 1,129,390
Gain on disposal of a joint venture 22,705 172,967
Gain on the debts assignment 150,000
Government grants 8,647 530
Others 65,694 21,567
1,551,361 2,220,585

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23 OTHER EXPENSES AND LOSSES

**Six months ** **Six months ** ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Fair value loss on derivative financial instruments 30,253
Loss on disposal of investment properties 81,284
Others 24,320 21,095
54,573 102,379

24 FINANCE INCOME AND FINANCE COSTS

Six months ended 30 June Six months ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Interest expenses 1,645,474 1,362,173
Other finance costs 224,073
Less: Capitalised finance costs (666,843) (668,030)
1,202,704 694,143
Exchange loss 376,035 4,434
1,578,739 698,577
Finance income:
— Interest income on bank deposits (98,507) (83,095)
Net finance costs 1,480,232 615,482

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

25 INCOME TAX EXPENSES

Six months ended 30 June Six months ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Corporate income tax (“CIT”) charge
— Current income tax 520,973 899,165
— Deferred income tax (273,679) (197,116)
247,294 702,049
Land appreciation tax (“LAT”) 97,061 29,490
344,355 731,539

(A) CIT

The income tax provision of the Group in respect of operations in the PRC has been calculated at the applicable tax rate of 25% and the estimated assessable profits for the six months ended 30 June 2016 based on existing legislations, interpretations and practices.

Hong Kong profits tax has been provided at the rate of 16.5% (2015: 16.5%) on the estimated assessable profit for the year. Taxation on overseas profits has been calculated on the estimated assessable profit for the period at the rates of taxation prevailing in the countries in which the group operates.

No Hong Kong profits tax has been provided as the Group has no profit derived in Hong Kong.

Pursuant to the applicable rules and regulations of Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (“BVI”), the Company and the BVI subsidiaries of the Group are not subject to any income tax in those jurisdictions.

Income tax expense is recognised based on management’s estimate of the weighted-average annual income tax rate expected for the full financial year. The estimated average annual tax rate used for the six months ended 30 June 2016 was 25% (2015: 25%).

In accordance with the PRC Corporate Income Tax Law, a 10% withholding income tax is levied on dividends declared to foreign investors from the enterprises with foreign investments established in the Mainland China. The Group is therefore liable to withholding taxes on dividends distributable by those subsidiaries established in Mainland China in respect of their earnings generated from 1 January 2008.

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(B) LAT

PRC LAT is levied at progressive rates ranging from 30% to 60% on the appreciation of land value, being the proceeds of sales of properties less deductible expenditures including lease charges for land use rights and all property development expenditures. LAT is included in the profit or loss as income tax expense.

26 EARNINGS PER SHARE

(A) Basic

Basic earnings per share are calculated by dividing the profit attributable to owners of the Company by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares in issue during the period.

**Six months ** ended 30 June
2016 2015
Profit attributable to owners of the Company (RMB’000) 72,935 951,399
Weighted-average number of ordinary shares in issue (thousand) 3,399,661 3,389,687

(B) Diluted

Diluted earnings per share are calculated by adjusting the weighted-average number of ordinary shares outstanding to assume conversion of all dilutive potential ordinary shares. The Company has one category of dilutive potential ordinary shares: share options. For the share options, a calculation is done to determine the number of shares that could have been acquired at fair value (determined as the average annual market share price of the Company’s shares) based on the monetary value of the subscription rights attached to outstanding share options. The number of shares calculated as above is compared with the number of shares that would have been issued assuming the exercise of the share options.

**Six months ** ended 30 June
2016 2015
Profit attributable to owners of the Company (RMB’000) 72,935 951,399
Weighted-average number of ordinary shares in issue (thousand) 3,399,661 3,389,687
Adjusted for share options (thousand) 24,775 46,074
3,424,436 3,435,761

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APPENDIX I

27 COMMITMENTS

(A) Property development expenditures for existing property projects

— Contracted but not provided for
— Authorised but not contracted for
(B)
Commitments on equity investments
— Contracted but not provided for
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
10,779,507
4,643,498
32,424,065
19,770,172
43,203,572
24,413,670
As at
30 June
2016
31 December
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
5,730,932
247,228

(C) Operating lease commitments

The future aggregate minimum lease rental expense in respect of certain office buildings under non-cancellable operating leases contracts are payable in the following periods:

**As ** at
30 June **31 ** December
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
No later than 1 year 10,124 6,352
Later than 1 year and no later than 5 years 27,433 19,749
Later than 5 years 3,845
41,402 26,101

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28 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

(A) Guarantee on mortgage facilities

The Group had the following contingent liabilities in respect of financial guarantees on mortgage facilities:

**As ** at
30 June **31 ** December
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Guarantees in respect of mortgage facilities for certain purchasers
of the Group’s property units 7,649,572 4,879,760

The Group has arranged bank financing for certain purchasers of the Group’s property units and provided guarantees to secure obligations of such purchasers for repayments. Such guarantees terminate upon the earlier of (i) the transfer of the real estate ownership certificate to the purchaser which will generally occur within an average period of six months of properties delivery dates; or (ii) the satisfaction of mortgage loans by the purchasers of the properties.

Pursuant to the terms of the guarantees, upon default of mortgage payments by these purchasers, the Group is responsible to repay the outstanding mortgage principal together with accrued interest and penalties owed by the defaulting purchasers to the banks and the Group is entitled to take over the legal title and possession of the related properties. The Group’s guarantee period starts from the date of grant of the mortgage. The directors consider that the likelihood of default of payments by purchasers is minimal and therefore the financial guarantee measured at fair value is immaterial.

  • (B) As at 30 June 2016, the Group provided guarantees amounted to RMB10.21 billion for borrowings of certain joint ventures and associates (31 December 2015: RMB10.36 billion). The directors consider that the likelihood of default in payments is minimal and the financial guarantees measured at fair value is immaterial.

29 TRANSACTIONS WITH NON-CONTROLLING INTERESTS

  • (A) In January 2016, the Group completed the acquisition of additional 15% equity interest of a 85% owned subsidiary, Wuxi Greentown Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. This transaction resulted in a decrease in non-controlling interest of RMB29.37 million and an increase in net assets attributable to the owners of the Company of RMB11.95 million.

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  • (B) As at 1 January 2016, Shanghai Fengdan Lishe Estate Development Co., Ltd. (“Fengdan”) was a 62.145% owned subsidiary of the Company. In May 2016, the Group acquired an additional 37.855% equity interest and debts due to non-controlling interests of Fengdan at a total consideration of RMB1,324.9 million. This transaction resulted in an increase in non-controlling interest of RMB41.16 million. Currently Fengdan invested in a property project in Shanghai through a joint venture. The excess of the consideration over the carrying value of the non-controlling interests of Fengdan was considered as attributable to the land use right acquisition costs.

30 BUSINESS COMBINATION

Acquisitions of subsidiaries

During the six months ended 30 June 2016, the major acquisitions of new subsidiaries are summarized as follows:

Wuhan
Xinghaiyuan
Suzhou Der
Taihu Bay
Chongqing
Hezhong
Lianyi
Others
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
(Note (i))
(Note (ii))
(Note (iii))
(Note (iv))
Fair value of total interests acquired
432,375
1,771,577
37,889
1,350,112
Less: Previously held interest


28,417

Cash considerations for acquisition of
— equity interest
233,573
724,459
17,375
241,249
— debt due to shareholders

685,541

1,108,863
198,802
361,577
(7,903)

Breaking down into: Goodwill


7,903

Acquisition gains
198,802
361,577

Total
RMB’000
3,591,953
28,417
1,216,656
1,794,404
552,476
7,903
560,379

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Note:

  • (i) Acquisition of Wuhan Xinghaiyuan Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (“Wuhan Xinghaiyuan”)

In February 2016, the Group acquired 90% equity interest of a company named Wuhan Xinghaiyuan at a total consideration equivalent to RMB233.58 million.

  • (ii) Acquisition of Suzhou Der Taihu Bay Properties Co., Ltd. (“Suzhou Der Taihu Bay”)

In February 2016, the Group acquired the entire equity interest of a company named Suzhou Der Taihu Bay and its respective debts due to shareholders at a total amount equivalent to RMB1,410 million.

  • (iii) Acquisition of Chongqing Hezhong Lianyi Investment Co., Ltd. (“Chongqing Hezhong Lianyi”)

In January 2016, the Group acquired an additional 25% equity interest of a previously 75% owned JV of the Company, Chongqing Hezhong Lianyi, at a consideration of RMB17.375 million. Upon completion of the transaction, Chongqing Hezhong Lianyi became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

(iv) Acquisition of other companies

During the six months ended 30 June 2016, the Company acquired equity interests of other five project companies from third parties, at a total consideration of RMB1,350 million. Upon completion of these transactions, these five entities became subsidiaries of the Company. At the acquisition date, the projects of these five companies had yet come into the development phase and the acquisitions of these entities were regarded as assets deals.

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

The fair value of the identifiable assets and liabilities and cash and cash equivalent impact arising from the acquisitions of subsidiaries in above transactions are summarized as follows:

Wuhan
Xinghaiyuan
Suzhou Der
Taihu Bay
Chongqing
Hezhong
Lianyi
RMB’000
RMB’000
RMB’000
(1)
Fair value of net assets
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment



Intangible assets



Investments in joint ventures
(Notes 8.1)


37,758
Deferred income tax assets

212

Current assets
Properties under development
1,451,000
2,909,000

Trade and other receivables
25,048
22

Amounts due from related
companies


205,800
Cash and cash equivalents

14
931
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings
(448,800)


Deferred income tax liabilities
(113,183)
(1,137,158)

Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
(433,648)
(507)

Advanced proceeds from customers



Amounts due to related companies


(206,600)
Current income tax liabilities

(6)

Net assets
480,417
1,771,577
37,889
Less: Non-controlling interests
(48,042)


Fair value of the net assets
acquired
432,375
1,771,577
37,889
(2)
Cash effects
Consideration settled by cash
(100,000)
(1,403,055)
(9,500)
Cash and cash equivalents in the
subsidiaries acquired

14
931
Net cash impact on acquisitions
(100,000)
(1,403,041)
(8,569)
Others
RMB’000
484
28


1,907,945
350,039

53,365
(208,000)

(596,321)
(119,873)

(1,199)
1,386,468
(36,356)
1,350,112
(1,350,112)
53,365
(1,296,747)
Total
RMB’000
484
28
37,758
212
6,267,945
375,109
205,800
54,310
(656,800)
(1,250,341)
(1,030,476)
(119,873)
(206,600)
(1,205)
3,676,351
(84,398)
3,591,953
(2,862,667)
54,310
(2,808,357)

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31 DISPOSAL OF A SUBSIDIARY

In May 2016, the Group disposed of 45% equity interest of Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng Investment Co., Ltd. (“Shanghai Ruifeng”) to a third party at a consideration of RMB45 million. After the disposal, Shanghai Ruifeng become a 55% owned joint venture of the Group.

  • (a) The financial impacts arising from the disposal in above transaction are summarized as follows:
RMB’000
Consideration satisfied by cash 45,000
Fair value of the remaining equity interest held by the Group at disposal (Note 8) 40,901
Carrying value of the equity owned by the Group (74,365)
Gain on the disposal (Note 22) 11,536
  • (b) Carrying value of the equity owned by the Group
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment
Deferred income tax assets
Prepayments
Investment in a jointly controlled entity
Current assets
Properties under development
Trade and other receivables
Amounts due from related companies
Cash and cash equivalents
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
Amounts due to related companies
Current income tax liabilities
Net assets
Less: Non-controlling interests
Carrying value of the equity owned by the Group
RMB’000
28
1,050
5,457,151
14,454
545
6,800
2,062,241
309,891
(1,988,000)
(1,281,470)
(4,510,613)
2,288
74,365

74,365

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(c) Cash effect

Cash consideration received as of 30 June 2016
Cash disposed
RMB’000
45,000
(309,891)
(264,891)

32 Related party transactions

(A) Name and relationship with related parties

Name Relationship Sunac International Largest shareholder of the Company Mr. Sun Hongbin The controlling shareholder of Sunac International and the chairman of the Board

(B) Transactions with related parties

In addition to the related party information disclosed elsewhere in the condensed consolidated interim financial information, the Group had the following significant transactions entered into the ordinary course of business between the Group and the related parties:

(i) Funds advance

Cash paid to joint ventures and associates
Cash received from joint ventures and associates
(ii)
Interest income
Interest income from joint ventures
Interest income from associates
Six months ended 30 June
2016
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
(18,544,036)
(9,629,189)
16,920,082
9,702,255
(1,623,954)
73,066
Six months ended 30 June
2016
2015
RMB’000
RMB’000
397,480
402,873

5,474
397,480
408,347

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF THE GROUP

(C) Compensation of key management personnel

**Six months ** ended 30 June ended 30 June
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Salaries and other short-term benefits 6,868 5,065
Share-based payments 8,991 2,836
15,859 7,901
(D) Related parties balances
**As ** at
30 June **31 ** December
2016 2015
RMB’000 RMB’000
Amounts due from joint ventures
Interest free 13,277,310 5,763,589
Interest bearing 5,315,883 4,536,783
Interest receivable 1,182,112 978,818
19,775,305 11,279,190
Amounts due from associates
Interest free 242,991 260,304
Interest bearing 34,765 34,765
Interest receivable 85,790 85,790
363,546 380,859
20,138,851 11,660,049
Amounts due to joint ventures 18,619,269 13,513,680
Amounts due to associates 3,557,600 4,699,242
22,176,869 18,212,922

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The amounts due from joint ventures and associates have no fixed repayment date, bearing interest rate at 4.35% to 11% per annum for the six months ended 30 June 2016.

The amounts due to joint ventures and associates are unsecured, interest-free and repayable on demand.

33 DIVIDENDS

No interim dividend for the six months ended 30 June 2016 was proposed by the Board (Six months ended 30 June 2015: Nil).

34 EVENTS AFTER THE BALANCE SHEET DATE

  • (a) On 14 August 2016, Sunac Real Estate issued domestic corporate bonds with two types (“Type A Bonds” and”Type B Bonds”), of which the Type A Bonds, having a term of five years with Sunac Real Estate’s option to raise the coupon rate after the end of the third year and the investors’ entitlement to sell back the bonds, shall have a coupon rate of 3.44% with an issue size of RMB1.2 billion; while the Type B Bonds, having a term of seven years with Sunac Real Estate’s option to raise the coupon rate after the end of the fifth year and the investors’ entitlement to sell back the bonds, shall have a coupon rate of 4.0% with an issue size of RMB2.8 billion.

  • (b) On 22 August 2016, Hainan Sunac Properties Co., Ltd. (“Hainan Sunac”), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into an equity acquisition with a third party, pursuant to which Hainan Sunac agreed to acquire 50% equity interest of Hangzhou Heming Investment Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Yuecheng Investment Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou Rongyue Investment Co., Ltd. (collectively, the “Target Companies”) from a third party at the equity consideration of RMB1,954.72 million, and an amount of RMB99.12 million due by Target Companies. The Target Companies engage in developing a project in Qionghai City of Hainan Province. Up to the date of this report, the acquisition has yet to be completed. Upon completion of the transaction, the Target Companies will become joint ventures of the Company.

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INDEBTEDNESS STATEMENT

(i) Borrowings and debts

As at the close of business on 31 August 2016, being the latest practicable date for the purpose of this statement of indebtedness prior to the printing of this circular, the Group had outstanding borrowings of approximately RMB74,445.3 million, of which RMB49,486.3 million were secured or jointly secured by properties under development, completed properties held for sale and certain equity interests of the Company’s subsidiaries (including those legally transferred as collateral).

The Group’s contingent liabilities at the close of 31 August 2016 are as follows:

RMB million
Guarantees in respect of mortgage facilities for certain purchasers
of the Group’s properties 6,006.6
Guarantees in respect of borrowings owed by joint ventures and
associates of the Group 10,502.9

(ii) General

Save as disclosed as above and apart from intra-group liabilities and normal trade payables in the normal course of business, as at the close of business on 31 August 2016, the Group did not have any debt securities issued and outstanding, and authorised or otherwise created but unissued, bank overdrafts, charges or debentures, mortgages, loans or other similar indebtedness or any finance lease commitments, hire purchase commitments, liabilities under acceptances (other than normal trade bills), acceptance credits or any guarantees.

The Directors have confirmed that there have been no material changes in the indebtedness and contingent liabilities of the Group since 31 August 2016 up to the Latest Practicable Date.

FINANCIAL AND TRADING PROSPECTS OF THE GROUP

The Group will continue to insist on the strategy of regional in-depth development to further consolidate and develop its market position and influence in the existing regions and cities. On the other hand, the Group will continue to focus on the development and management of high-end properties and focus on building high-end premium properties for customers in a persistent way.

Through the Subscription, the Company will expand its working capital and broaden its shareholders’ equity base, thereby optimizing its capital structure and enhancing its ability to resist financial risks so as to further support the healthy and sustained development of the Company.

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MATERIAL CHANGE

Based on the monthly unaudited operation data announced by the Company since 31 December 2015, being the date to which the latest published audited financial statements of the Company were made up, the Group has achieved an increase in sales amount. Despite the increase in revenue, the Group recorded a significant decrease in profit attributable to the owners of the Company primarily due to, among other things, the increase in foreign exchange loss and the increase in expensed finance cost, which was disclosed in the Company’s interim report for the six months ended 30 June 2016.

As at 30 June 2016, the borrowings and net gearing ratio of the Group were approximately RMB62,798.5 million and 85.1%, compared with approximately RMB41,798.6 million and 75.9% as at 31 December 2015, respectively. Net gearing ratio was calculated as net debt divided by total equity, and net debt was calculated as total borrowings (including current and long-term borrowings) less cash and cash equivalents (including restricted cash). The increase in borrowings and net gearing ratio were mainly attributable to the addition of a relatively large number of borrowings to support the real estate development activities with the aim of enlarging the business scale of the Group during the six months ended 30 June 2016. In August 2016, the Company proposed to issue non-guaranteed domestic bonds and the total issue size of which was determined to be RMB4 billion with terms of five and seven years. On 5 August 2016, the Company completed the redemption of the outstanding 9.375% senior notes due 2018 at a total redemption price of US$323,437,500. Borrowings of the Group further increased to approximately RMB74,445.3 million as at 31 August 2016.

As disclosed in the Company’s circular dated 29 July 2016, the Company entered into a major transaction in relation to an acquisition of six property projects located in Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Huizhou and Hangzhou at a total consideration of RMB4,225,230,000, being financed by the Group’s internal resources. Based on the relevant pro forma financial information, the net assets of the Group is expected to increase by approximately RMB406.5 million.

As disclosed in the Company’s announcement dated 22 August 2016, the Company entered into a discloseable transaction in relation to an acquisition of 50% equity and debt interests in companies which operated a property project located in Hainan at a total consideration of RMB2,053,835,000, being financed by the Group’s internal resources.

As disclosed in the Company’s announcement dated 18 September 2016, the Company entered into a major transaction in relation to an acquisition of a total of 42 property projects located in 16 cities in China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing and Hangzhou, from Legend Holdings Corporation and its subsidiary, at a consideration of approximately RMB13,788.4 million, being financed by the Group’s internal resources.

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As disclosed in the Company’s announcement dated 21 September 2016, the Company entered into a discloseable transaction in relation to a subscription of approximately 16.96% of the issued share capital of Jinke Property Group Co., Ltd. at a total consideration of approximately RMB4,000.0 million, being financed by the Group’s internal resources.

Save as disclosed above, the Directors confirm that there had been no material change in the financial or trading position of the Group since 31 December 2015, being the date to which the latest published audited financial statements of the Company were made up, up to the Latest Practicable Date.

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

The following is the text of a letter and summary of valuations prepared for the purpose of incorporation in this circular received from DTZ Cushman & Wakefield Limited, an independent property valuer, in connection with its opinion of value of the property interests of Sunac China Holdings Limited as at 31 August 2016.

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17 October 2016

The Directors Sunac China Holdings Limited 10/F, Building C7 Magnetic Plaza Binshuixi Road Nankai District Tianjin The People’s Republic of China

Dear Sirs,

Instructions, Purpose & Valuation Date

In accordance with your instructions for us to value the property interests of Sunac China Holdings Limited (the “Company”) and its subsidiaries (together referred to as the “Group”) in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”) (as more particularly described in the attached valuation summary), we confirm that we have inspected the properties, made relevant enquiries and obtained such further information as we consider necessary for the purpose of providing you with our opinion of the values of such property interests as at 31 August 2016.

Definition of Market Value

Our valuations of each of the properties represent its Market Value. The definition of Market Value adopted in The HKIS Valuation Standards 2012 Edition follows the International Valuation Standards published by the International Valuation Standards Council (“IVSC”). Market Value is defined by the IVSC as “the estimated amount for which an asset or liability should exchange on the valuation date between a willing buyer and a willing seller in an arm’s length transaction, after proper marketing and where the parties had each acted knowledgeably, prudently and without compulsion”.

Valuation Basis and Assumptions

In valuing the properties, we have complied with the requirements set out in Chapter 5 and Practice Note 12 of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities published by The Stock Exchange of the Hong Kong Limited, The Codes on Takeovers and Mergers issued by the Securities and Futures Commission and The HKIS Valuation Standards 2012 Edition published by the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors.

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Our valuations exclude an estimated price inflated or deflated by special terms or circumstances such as atypical financing, sale and leaseback arrangement, special considerations or concessions granted by anyone associated with the sale, or any element of special value.

In the course of our valuation of the properties in the PRC, we have relied on the information and advice given by the Group and its legal adviser, Jincheng Tongda & Neal Law Firm (金城同達律 師事務所) regarding the title to each of the properties and the interests of the Group in the properties.

No allowance has been made in our valuations for any charges, mortgages or amounts owing on the properties nor for any expenses or taxation which may be incurred in effecting a sale. Unless otherwise stated, it is assumed that the properties are free from encumbrances, restrictions and outgoings of an onerous nature which could affect their values.

For the purpose of compliance with Rule 11.3 of The Code on Takeovers and Mergers and as advised by the Group, the potential tax liabilities which may arise from the sale of the properties include:

  • (a) business tax at a rate of 5% of consideration for the property in the PRC;

  • (b) profits tax on the profit from the sale at rate of 25% for the property in the PRC; and

  • (c) land value appreciation tax for the property in the PRC at progressive tax rates as follows:

For the portion of appreciation in property value Progressive tax rate

not more than 50% 30%
more than 50% but not more than 100% 40%
more than 100% but not more than 200% 50%
more than 200% 60%

For the properties in Group A, they are held by the Group sale purpose. The Group advises that the potential tax liabilities estimated to be approximately RMB8,943 million would arise if such properties were to be sold at the amount of the valuation. The above amount is for indicative purpose and is calculated based on prevailing rules and information available as at the Latest Practicable Date.

For the properties in Groups B to D, they are continued to be held by the Group and with no intention for disposal. Hence, the likelihood of any potential tax liability of these properties being crystallized is remote.

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Method of Valuation

In valuing properties in Group A, which are held by the Group for sale in the PRC, we have used the direct comparison approach assuming sale of these properties in its existing state with the benefit of vacant possession by making reference to comparables sales transactions as available in the relevant market.

In valuing properties in Group B, C and D, which are held by the Group under development, for future development and contracted to be acquired by the Group for future development in the PRC, we have valued them on the basis that they will be developed and completed in accordance with the latest development proposals provided to us by the Group (if any). We have assumed that all consents, approvals and licenses from relevant government authorities for the development proposals have been or will be obtained without onerous conditions or delays. We have also assumed that the design and construction of the developments are in compliance with the local planning and other relevant regulations and have been or will be approved by the relevant authorities. In arriving at our valuations, we have adopted the direct comparison approach by making reference to comparable sales evidence as available in the relevant market and have also taken into account the expended construction costs as well as the costs that will be expended to complete the developments. The “market value when completed” represents our opinion of the aggregate selling prices of the development assuming that it were completed as at the valuation date.

Sources of Information

We have been provided by the Group with extracts of documents in relation to the titles to the properties. However, we have not inspected the original documents to ascertain any amendments which may not appear on the copies handed to us.

In the course of our valuation, we have relied to a very considerable extent on the information given to us by the Group and its legal adviser, Jincheng Tongda & Neal Law Firm (金城同達律師事 務所) regarding the title to each of the properties and the interests of the Group in the properties. We have accepted advice given by the Group on such matters as planning approvals or statutory notices, easements, tenure, identification of land and buildings, completion date of buildings, number of car parking spaces, particulars of occupancy, site and floor areas, interest attributable to the Group and all other relevant matters.

For the properties in Group B, C and D, the respective planning or other regulatory consents which have been obtained in accordance with the information provided by the Group, such as Planning Permit for Construction Use of Land, Planning Permits for Construction Works and Permit for Commencements of Construction Works are set out in the notes of the respective valuation certificates of these properties.

Dimensions, measurements and areas included in the valuation report are based on information provided to us and are therefore only approximations. We have had no reason to doubt the truth and accuracy of the information provided to us by the Group which is material to the valuations. We were also advised by the Group that no material facts have been omitted from the information provided.

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APPENDIX II

Title Investigation

We have been provided with extracts of documents relating to the titles of the properties in the PRC, but no searches have been made in respect of the properties. We have not searched the original documents to verify ownership or to ascertain any amendment which may not appear on the copies handed to us. We are also unable to ascertain the title of the properties in the PRC and we have therefore relied on the advice given by the Group regarding the Group’s interests in the PRC properties.

Site Inspection

Our DTZ PRC Office valuers, Ivan Zhang and Powell Li of Beijing Office, May Fan of Chengdu Office, Taowei Liu of Chongqing Office, Andy He of Guangzhou Office, Delly Chen, Simon Dong, Sammie Tse, Tom Zhen, Leo Li and Grace Zhang of Hangzhou Office, Louis Xing, Kevin Li and Kelly Song of Nanjing Office, Nicola Zhou, Jenny Liang, Rick Sun, Eric Fan, Shirline Qi, David Zhu and Jack Sun of Shanghai Office, Candy Gan of Shenzhen Office, Robert Liang, Nina Niu, Stella Su, Lisa Li, Darren Lv of Tianjin Office, Frank Wang of Wuhan Office, have inspected the exterior and, wherever possible, the interior of the Properties in between August 2016 and September 2016. However, no structural survey has been made, but in the course of our inspection, we did not note any serious defects. We are not, however, able to report whether the Properties are free of rot, infestation or any other structural defects. No tests were carried out to any of the services. Moreover, we have not carried out any soil investigations to determine the suitability of the soil conditions and the services etc. for any future development. Our valuations are prepared on the assumption that these aspects are satisfactory and that no extraordinary expenses or delays will be incurred during the construction period.

Unless otherwise stated, we have not been able to carry out detailed on-site measurements to verify the site and floor area of the Properties and we have assumed that the areas shown on the copies of documents handed to us are correct.

Currency

Unless otherwise stated, all sums stated in our valuations are in Renminbi, the official currency of the PRC.

We enclose herewith a summary of our valuations.

Yours faithfully,

for and on behalf of

DTZ Cushman & Wakefield Limited

Andrew K. F. Chan

Registered Professional Surveyor (General Practice) Registered China Real Estate Appraiser MSc., M.H.K.I.S. Regional Director

Note: Mr. Andrew K. F. Chan is a Registered Professional Surveyor who has over 29 years of experience in the valuation of properties in the PRC.

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 257.00 161.00 94.00 321.00 752.00 505.00 246.78 195.00
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 54% 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 257.00 161.00 94.00 321.00 752.00 505.00 457.00 195.00
Year of completion 2012-2015 2005-2013 2006-2012 2013 2012-2015 2013-2014 2015 2014-2015
GFA(1) (sq.m.) 26,138.61 138,364.77 19,455.63 57,203.87 92,651.21 43,427.94 32,333.04 25,126.81
Type of property Residential and commercial Residential, commercial and apartment Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial
Expiry date of land use term 8 Mar 2049 to 8 Mar 2079 8 Mar 2054 to 19 May 2077 27 Oct 2073 25 May 2051 to 25 May 2081 30 May 2081 24 Aug 2080 22 Oct 2083 15 Dec 2049 to 15 Dec 2079
Land use Residential, Commercial, Composite Commercial, Residential Residential Residential, Commercial Residential Residential Residential Residential
District Haidian Nankai Hexi Binhai New Jinnan Nankai Beichen Binhai New
City Beijing Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin
Holding entity (subsidiaries of Property name
the Company)
West Chateau
Beijing Sunac Hengji
Real Estate Co., Ltd. Magnetic
Tianjin Sunac Ao
Capital
Cheng Investment Co.,
Ltd. Mind-Land
Sunac Real Estate
International
Group Co., Ltd.
Glorious
Tianjin Sunac
Mansion
Dingsheng Zhidi Co.,
Ltd. Central
Tianjin Sunac Huijie
Academy
Zhidi Co., Ltd.
PL Du Pantheon Tianjin Sunac Mingxiang Investment Development Co., Ltd. Bay Island
Tianjin Rongyao Real
Estate Development Co., Ltd. Top Mansion of
Tianjin Rongzheng
the Dongting
Investment Limited
Property No. A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 1,369.00 182.00 495.00 539.00 820.00 1,057.00 91.00 846.00 1,083.00 356.00 467.00
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 1,369.00 182.00 495.00 539.00 820.00 1,057.00 91.00 846.00 1,083.00 356.00 467.00
Year of completion 2005-2015 2013-2014 2014 2008-2013 2015 2010-2016 2015-2016 2014-2015 2012-2015 2015 2015
GFA(1) (sq.m.) 334,153.67 45,931.31 134,144.81 50,311.58 122,993.03 88,138.72 22,276.45 107,862.88 76,627.92 60,413.94 73,227.06
Type of property Residential, commercial and office Residential, commercial and apartment Residential, commercial and apartment Residential, commercial and apartment Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential, commercial and office Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial
Expiry date of land use term 28 Aug 2043 to 9 Apr 2063 30 Jul 2061 27 Mar 2063 12 Aug 2045 to 12 Aug 2055 29 Sep 2053 to 29 Sep 2063 4 Mar 2050 to 4 Mar 2080 4 Mar 2050 to 4 Mar 2080 23 Jun 2051 to 23 Jun 2081 28 Mar 2045 to 28 Mar 2075 Nov 2052 to Nov 2082 14 Jan 2083
Land use Composite Residential Residential Residential, Commercial Residential, Commercial Residential, Commercial Residential, Commercial Residential, Commercial Residential, Commercial Commercal, Residential Residential
District Jingkai Nanan Yubei Jingkai Banan Jinjiang Jinjiang Qingyang Shuangliu Shuangliu Longquanyi
City Chongqing Chongqing Chongqing Chongqing Chongqing Chengdu Chengdu Chengdu Chengdu Chengdu Chengdu
Holding entity (subsidiaries of Property name
the Company)
Olympic Garden Chongqing Sunac Jiye Real Estate Development Co.,Ltd Eton Manor
Chongqing Sunac
Shangfeng Real Estate Co., Ltd. Guardian Manor Chongqing Sunac Shijin Real Estate Co., Ltd. Asia Pacific
Chongqing Sunac
Enterprise
Yatai Shiye Real
Valley
Estate Co., Ltd.
The European
Chongqing Sunac
Garden for City
Qiyang Real Estate
-West
Co., Ltd.
Sky Villa
Chengdu Guojia Zhide
Real Estate Co., Ltd. Sky Villa
Chengdu Guojia Zhide
Condominiums
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Guanghua
Chengdu Guojia Zhide
Center
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Villa Royale
Chengdu Zhongyi Real
Estate Co., Ltd. Residence du
Chengdu Guojia
Lac
Zhongyu Real Estate
Co., Ltd. Resicence Du
Chengdu Yongping
Paradis
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Property No. A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 A15 A16 A17 A18 A19

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 232.00 41.00 96.00 4,733.00 528.00 810.00
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 232.00 41.00 96.00 4,733.00 528.00 810.00
Year of completion 2016 2012-2013 2008-2014 2012-2016 2009-2014 2014
GFA(1) (sq.m.) 25,250.55 4,986.78 1,654.96 160,022.41 34,558.66 25,961.00
Type of property Residential and commercial Residential Residential Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial
Expiry date of land use term 21 Aug 2082 31 Jan 2080 29 Jun 2073 to 27 Feb 2076 15 Jul 2045 to 30 Apr 2069 30 May 2043 to 20 Jul 2076 23 May 2054
Land use Residential Residential Residential Composite Office, Education, Municipal, Greenery, Residential, Commercial, Hotel, Cultural Commercial, office and residential
District Wuhou Pudong Minhang Huangpu Putuo Pudong
City Chengdu Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai
Holding entity (subsidiaries of the Company) Sichuan Hongling Investment Co., Ltd. Shanghai Lvshun Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Shanghai Greentown Woods Golf Villas Development Co,. Ltd. New Richport Property Development Shanghai Co., Ltd.; Everbright Property Development Shanghai Co., Ltd.; Fung Seng Estate Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Shanghai Haochuan Property Co., Ltd. Shanghai Li Te Man Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Property name Fairview House Shanghai Magnolia Garden Shanghai Rose Garden Shanghai One Sino Park Central Garden Grand Pujian Residence
Property No. A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 766.30 951.00 168.00 451.00 312.00 135.00 7.00 925.20 143.00 1,351.00 388.00
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 97% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 60% 100% 100% 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 790.00 951.00 168.00 451.00 312.00 135.00 7.00 1,542.00 143.00 1,351.00 388.00
Year of completion 2014-2015 2013 2011-2015 2011-2015 2007-2015 2006-2014 2014 2016 2016 2016 2013-2014
GFA(1) (sq.m.) 145,338.07 37,377.71 68,163.35 65,948.40 185,435.68 65,491.92 305.14 97,672.30 11,841.60 105,971.42 51,562.09
Type of property Residential and commercial Residential Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential, commercial and apartment Residential and commercial Residential Commercial, office and apartment Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential
Expiry date of land use term 27 Feb 2081 to 22 Oct 2083 11 Jan 2050 to 11 Jan 2080 31 Jan 2048 to 31 Jan 2078 1 Apr 2080 28 Nov 2044 to 19 March 2084 30 Dec 2073 5 Jan 2083 7 Nov 2049 6 Jul 2054 to 5 Jul 2084 1 Sep 2084 31 Dec 2050 to 13 Dec 2080
Land use Residential Residential, Commercial Commercial, Residential Residential Commercial, Residential Residential Residential Commercial Wholesale, Residential Residential Residential, Travelling
District Wujin Suzhou Industrial Binjiang Yixing Binhu Huishan New City Yuhang Binjiang Fuyang Xihu Fuyang
City Changzhou Suzhou Wuxi Wuxi Wuxi Wuxi Hangzhou Hangzhou Hangzhou Hangzhou Hangzhou
Holding entity (subsidiaries of the Company) Changzhou Greentown Real Estate Co., Ltd. Suzhou Greentown Yuyuan Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Wuxi Greentown Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Yixing Sunac Dongjiu Real Estate Co.,Ltd. Wuxi Sunac Real Estate Co., Ltd. Wuxi Sunac City Construction Co., Ltd. Hangzhou Sunac Greentown Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Hangzhou Guorong Zhidi Co., Ltd. Hangzhou Fuyang Sunac Real Estate Co., Ltd. Hangzhou Yingzi Investment Limited Top Spring Zhiye (Fuyang) Co., Ltd.
Property name Magnolia Square Suzhou Majestic Mansion Wuxi Magnolia Garden Royal Garden Swan Lake Dream of City Melodious Manor In Hangzhou Fuchun Chateau Riverside City Shuixieshan
Property No. A26 A27 A28 A29 A30 A31 A32 A33 A34 A35 A36

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 117.00 21,991.28
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 117.00 22,842.00
Year of completion 2014
GFA(1) (sq.m.) 29,664.18 2,667,989.47
Type of property Commercial and apartment
Expiry date of land use term 7 Mar 2051 to 7 Mar 2081
Land use Residential, Commercial
District Huidong
Holding entity Property
(subsidiaries of
No.
Property name
the Company)
City
A37
Hidden Bay
Hui Dong Lai Hai
Huizhou
Tian Properties Co., Ltd. Sub-total of Group A Notes: (1)
All areas are stated in approximations.
(2)
All values are stated in approximations.

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state attributable to the Group Interest
as at the
attributable
Valuation
to the Group
Date
(%) (RMB million) 100%
511.00
80%
738.40
54%
518.40
75%
2,429.25
100%
754.00
100%
275.00
100%
531.00
100%
1,628.00
100%
664.00
100%
5,224.00
100%
1,649.00
Market
Market
value(2) as
value(2) in
if completed
existing state
Construction
as at the
as at the
Construction
cost to be
Valuation
Valuation
cost incurred
incurred
Date
Date
(RMB million) (RMB million) (RMB million) (RMB million) 108.15
409.01
1,208.00
511.00
410.88
17.06
1,164.00
923.00
341.05
828.58
2,455.00
960.00
101.77
1,231.41
4,882.00
3,239.00
49.94
615.99
1,848.00
754.00
41.25
253.73
731.00
275.00
90.68
402.45
1,192.00
531.00
413.34
1,032.45
3,432.00
1,628.00
138.77
442.18
1,444.00
664.00
903.14
2,678.87
10,404.00
5,224.00
316.21
163.11
2,169.00
1,649.00
Scheduled year of completion of construction 2016 2018 2019 2017 2017 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2016
Year of commencement of construction 2015 2010 2014 2016 2015 2014 2014 2014 2015 2013 2014
Planned GFA(1) (sq.m.) 136,926.10 106,486.00 254,726.40 264,750.92 198,162.71 57,693.59 189,068.27 575,726.35 225,834.44 301,852.62 57,866.00
Site area(1) (sq.m.) 268,424.70 17,160.60 248,119.40 261,353.10 469,927.00 205,254.26 99,893.44 99,609.00 56,766.61 114,826.00 10,239.20
Type of property Residential and commercial Commercial, office and apartment Residential, commercial and apartment Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential Commercial and apartment
Expiry date of land use term 30 May 2081 23 Nov 2049 22 Oct 2083 13 Jun 2077 29 Sep 2053 to 29 Sep 2063 28 Mar 2045 to 28 Mar 2075 Nov 2052 to Nov 2082 14 Jan 2083 12 Oct 2084 15 Jul 2045 to 30 Apr 2069 12 Sep 2053 to 12 Sep 2063
Land use Residential Commercial Residential Residential, Commercial Residential, Commercial Residential, Commercial Commercal, Residential Residential Residential Composite Commercial, Office
District Jinnan Binhai New Beichen Dongli Banan Shuangliu Shuangliu Longquanyi Xindu Huangpu Hongkou
City Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin Chongqing Chengdu Chengdu Chengdu Chengdu Shanghai Shanghai
Holding entity Property
(subsidiaries of
Name
the Company)
Central
Tianjin Sunac Huijie Zhidi
Academy
Co., Ltd.
Binhai Center
Tianjin Yijun Investment
Co., Ltd. Bay Island
Tianjin Rongyao Real
Estate Development Co., Ltd. Sunac City
Tianjin Sunac Yuanhao
Real Estate Co., Ltd. The European
Chongqing Sunac Qiyang
Garden for
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
City -West Villa Royale
Chengdu Zhongyi Real
Estate Co., Ltd. Residence du
Chengdu Guojia Zhongyu
Lac
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Resicence Du
Chengdu Yongping Real
Paradis
Estate Co., Ltd.
Kaixuan
Chengdu Tianhe Ruitong
Dongan
Investment Co., Ltd.
Shanghai One
New Richport Property
Sino Park
Development Shanghai
Co., Ltd.; Everbright Property Development Shanghai Co., Ltd.; Fung Seng Estate Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. The Bund 188 Shanghai Ronglv Qiwei Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Property No. B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state attributable to the Group Interest
as at the
attributable
Valuation
to the Group
Date
(%) (RMB million) 100%
4,822.00
100%
3,509.00
100%
692.00
100%
1,227.00
100%
593.00
97%
734.29
100%
2,149.00
95%
1,332.85
100%
162.00
100%
122.00
100%
467.00
100%
1,781.00
Market
Market
value(2) as
value(2) in
if completed
existing state
Construction
as at the
as at the
Construction
cost to be
Valuation
Valuation
cost incurred
incurred
Date
Date
(RMB million) (RMB million) (RMB million) (RMB million) 142.46
1,808.57
8,302.00
4,822.00
693.49
473.43
4,872.00
3,509.00
52.84
339.25
1,402.00
692.00
86.87
521.45
2,419.00
1,227.00
131.40
235.37
1,057.00
593.00
143.55
962.25
2,156.00
757.00
517.40
327.76
3,088.00
2,149.00
129.42
518.99
2,608.00
1,403.00
58.03
7.83
195.00
162.00
16.75
183.25
400.00
122.00
78.27
278.57
970.00
467.00
31.81
847.08
3,775.00
1,781.00
Scheduled year of completion of construction 2018 2017 2017 2017 2017 2018 2017 2017 2016 2018 2017 2019
Year of commencement of construction 2015 2014 2016 2016 2016 2014 2015 2016 2014 2015 2014 2016
Planned GFA(1) (sq.m.) 224,643.15 178,903.26 55,552.00 147,133.78 58,803.00 263,055.84 180,514.00 133,111.24 20,648.00 50,000.00 83,594.19 176,664.00
Site area(1) (sq.m.) 129,669.00 66,169.60 21,253.40 62,210.30 16,052.04 413,224.80 104,401.20 74,472.83 733,888.60 561,749.10 98,024.00 53,770.00
Type of property Residential, commercial and apartment Residential Commercial Residential and commercial Commercial and apartment Residential and commercial Residential Residential Commercial Residential Residential Residential and commercial
Expiry date of land use term 30 May 2043 to 20 Jul 2076 28 Jul 2084 23 Apr 2055 to 23 Apr 2065 27 Aug 2082 19 Dec 2053 27 Feb 2081 to 22 Oct 2083 11 May 2085 6 Mar 2081 28 Nov 2044 to 19 March 2084 30 Dec 2073 6 Jul 2054 to 6 Jul 2084 11 Oct 2056 to 11 Oct 2086
Land use Office, Education, Municipal, Greenery, Residential, Commercial, Hotel, Cultural Residential Office, Commercial Composite Composite Residential Residential Residential Commercial, Residential Residential Wholesale, Residential Residential
District Putuo Baoshan Pudong Pukou Gulou Wujin Gaoxin Gusu Binhu Huishan New City Fuyang Jianggan
City Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Nanjing Nanjing Changzhou Suzhou Suzhou Wuxi Wuxi Hangzhou Hangzhou
Holding entity Property
(subsidiaries of
Name
the Company)
Central
Shanghai Haochuan
Garden
Property Co., Ltd.
Daning North
Shanghai Ronglv Huiyi
Magnolia
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Mansion Puxing
Shanghai Huan Jian
Project
Investment Co., Ltd.
Nanjing
Tianmao Real Estate
Glorious
(Nanjing) Co., Ltd.
Garden Top Spring
Nanjing Top Spring
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Property
Development Co., Ltd. Magnolia
Changzhou Greentown
Square
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Shishan
Suzhou Rongding Real
Majestic
Estate Co., Ltd.
Mansion Shihu Fairy
Suzhou Xinyou Real
Land
Estate Co., Ltd.
Swan Lake
Wuxi Sunac Real Estate
Co., Ltd. Dream of City Wuxi Sunac City Construction Co., Ltd. Fuchun
Hangzhou Fuyang Sunac
Chateau
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Jiuzhangtai
Hangzhou Xinrong
Shengyao Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Property No. B12 B13 B14 B15 B16 B17 B18 B19 B20 B21 B22 B23

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state attributable to the Group Interest
as at the
attributable
Valuation
to the Group
Date
(%) (RMB million) 100%
716.00
100%
530.00
33,759.19
Market
Market
value(2) as
value(2) in
if completed
existing state
Construction
as at the
as at the
Construction
cost to be
Valuation
Valuation
cost incurred
incurred
Date
Date
(RMB million) (RMB million) (RMB million) (RMB million) 159.31
551.19
1,598.00
716.00
297.42
253.09
1,074.00
530.00
5,454.20
15,382.91
64,845.00
35,288.00
Scheduled year of completion of construction 2017 2014
Year of commencement of construction 2015 2012
Planned GFA(1) (sq.m.) 134,694.00 126,305.77 4,202,715.63
Site area(1) (sq.m.) 17,727.72 254,655.10 4,458,841.00
Type of property Commercial, office and apartment Apartment
Expiry date of land use term 22 Dec 2064 7 Mar 2051 to 7 Mar 2081
Land use Industrial Residential, Commercial
Holding entity Property
Property
(subsidiaries of
No.
Name
the Company)
City
District
B24
Smart Venture
Shenzhen Panye
Shenzhen
Longhua
Valley
Technology Development
Co., Ltd. B25
Hidden Bay
Hui Dong Lai Hai Tian
Huizhou
Huidong
Properties Co., Ltd. Sub-total of Group B Notes: (1)
All areas are stated in approximations.
(2)
All values are stated in approximations.

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 816.00 348.00 558.90 2,459.25 1,213.20 566.40 817.00 353.00 384.00
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100% 80% 54% 75% 60% 80% 100% 100% 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 816.00 435.00 1,035.00 3,279.00 2,022.00 708.00 817.00 353.00 384.00
Site area(1) Planned GFA(1) (sq.m.)
(sq.m.)
98,379.00
413,246.79
17,160.60
103,201.00
248,119.40
218,615.50
261,353.10
403,919.68
285,566.10
470,420.09
142,854.00
506,290.22
469,927.00
708,611.57
16,833.23
112,590.21
11,858.25
91,205.44
Type of property Residential and commercial Commercial and office Residential, commercial and office Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential, commercial and apartment Residential, commercial and office Residential and commercial
Expiry date of land use term 31 May 2056 to 31 May 2086 23 Nov 2049 22 Oct 2083 13 Jun 2077 7 Jul 2086 11 Jul 2086 29 Sep 2053 to 29 Sep 2063 28 Apr 2049 to 28 Apr 2079 21 Aug 2082
Land use Residential, Wholesale, Education Commercial Residential Residential, Commercial Residential Residential Residential, Commercial Commercal, Residential Residential
District Wanbolin Binhai New Beichen Dongli Beichen Zhongyuan Banan Tianfu New Wuhou
City Taiyuan Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin Tianjin Zhengzhou Chongqing Chengdu Chengdu
Holding entity (subsidiaries of Property name
the Company)
Xuefu Yihao
Taiyuan Sunac
Huifeng Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Binhai Center
Tianjin Yijun
Investment Co., Ltd. Bay Island
Tianjin Rongyao Real
Estate Development Co., Ltd. Sunac City
Tianjin Sunac Yuanhao
Real Estate Co., Ltd. Tianjin
Tianjin Qirun Real
Glorious
Estate Development
Garden
Co., Ltd.
One Guanland
Zhengzhou Qianshan
Real Estate Co., Ltd. The European
Chongqing Sunac
Garden for City
Qiyang Real Estate
-West
Co., Ltd.
Nano Residence Chengdu Hejia Real Estate Co., Ltd. Dianxin Road
Sichuan Hongling
Project
Investment Co., Ltd.
Property No. C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 847.00 670.00 1,920.60 886.58 98.00 2,909.00 144.00
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100% 100% 60% 97% 100% 100% 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 847.00 670.00 3,201.00 914.00 98.00 2,909.00 144.00
Site area(1) Planned GFA(1) (sq.m.)
(sq.m.)
114,826.00
44,008.54
129,669.00
29,762.97
43,598.50
126,100.00
413,224.80
325,638.00
26,905.20
110,757.32
71,842.20
407,471.42
297,534.61
29,831.58
Type of property Commercial Office Residential Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential, commercial and apartment Residential
Expiry date of land use term 15 Jul 2045 to 30 Apr 2069 30 May 2043 to 20 Jul 2076 22 Jun 2086 27 Feb 2081 to 22 Oct 2083 15 Feb 2054 to 15 Feb 2084 28 Oct 2054 to 28 Oct 2084 1 Apr 2080
Land use Composite Office, Education, Municipal, Greenery, Residential, Commercial, Hotel, Cultural Residential Residential Commercial, Residential, Accommodation & Catering Residential, Wholesale Residential
District Huangpu Putuo Songjiang Wujin Wujiang Wuzhong Yixing
City Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Changzhou Suzhou Suzhou Wuxi
Holding entity (subsidiaries of the Company) New Richport Property Development Shanghai Co., Ltd.; Everbright Property Development Shanghai Co., Ltd.; Fung Seng Estate Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Shanghai Haochuan Property Co., Ltd. Shanghai Sunac Tianheng Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Changzhou Greentown Real Estate Co., Ltd. Suzhou Der Taihu City Properties Co., Ltd. Suzhou Der Taihu Bay Properties Co., Ltd. Yixing Sunac Dongjiu Real Estate Co.,Ltd.
Property name Shanghai One Sino Park Central Garden Songjiang Sijing Project Magnolia Square Taihu Town Suzhou The One Park Royal Garden
Property No. C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 415.00 694.00 845.60 2,110.00 317.00 2,582.00 1,305.90 969.00 855.27 658.00
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100% 100% 80% 100% 100% 100% 90% 95% 51% 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 415.00 694.00 1,057.00 2,110.00 317.00 2,582.00 1,451.00 1,020.00 1,677.00 658.00
Site area(1) Planned GFA(1) (sq.m.)
(sq.m.)
100,539.20
293,912.00
61,871.00
221,496.00
18,844.00
75,891.39
302,599.18
278,900.42
20,680.10
53,894.00
56,746.74
236,426.00
26,855.70
339,763.20
74,013.09
274,388.61
62,097.10
266,973.00
32,571.37
92,536.07
Type of property Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential Residential Residential, commercial and apartment Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential, commercial and office
Expiry date of land use term 30 Dec 2086 8 Mar 2054 to 19 May 2077 11 Oct 2056 to 11 Oct 2086 31 Dec 2050 to 13 Dec 2080 24 Apr 2083 14 Jan 2056 to 14 Jan 2086 14 Oct 2084 12 Jan 2056 to 12 Jan 2086 17 Feb 2056 to 17 Feb 2086 26 Mar 2056 to 26 Mar 2086
Land use Residential Residential, Commercial Residential Residential, Travelling Residential Commercial, Residential Residential Commercial, Residential Residential, Wholesale Residential, Commercial
District Huishan New City Nankai Jianggan Fuyang Yuhang Zhengwu Jiangan Chancheng Nanhai Qingxi
City Wuxi Hangzhou Hangzhou Hangzhou Hangzhou Hefei Wuhan Foshan Foshan Dongguagn
Holding entity (subsidiaries of Property name
the Company)
Baiqugang
Wuxi Sunac Real
Project
Estate Development
Co., Ltd. The Times
Hangzhou Rongyu
Real Estate Co., Ltd. Wealth Mansion Hangzhou Ronghui Qianjiang Real Estate Co., Ltd. Shuixieshan
Top Spring Zhiye
(Fuyang) Co., Ltd. Xijiantang
Hangzhou Lima Real
Estate Development Co., Ltd. Hefei One
Hefei Sunac Xinling
Central
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Wuhan Dream
Wuhan Xinghai
Of Mansion
Yuantou Real Estate
Development Co., Ltd. Lake Mansion
Foshan Rongteng Real
Estate Co., Ltd. Majestic
Foshan Rongxing Real
Mansion
Estate Co., Ltd.
Qingxi Manor
Donguan Rongsheng
Real Estate Development Co., Ltd.
Property No. C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 109.00 25,851.70
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) 109.00 30,722.00
Site area(1) Planned GFA(1) (sq.m.)
(sq.m.)
254,655.10
321,882.15
3,661,123.57
6,557,733.18
Type of property Residential, commercial and apartment
Expiry date of land use term 7 Mar 2051 to 7 Mar 2081
Land use Residential, Commercial
District Huidong
Holding entity Property
(subsidiaries of
No.
Property name
the Company)
City
C27
Hidden Bay
Hui Dong Lai Hai
Huizhou
Tian Properties Co., Ltd. Sub-total of Group C Notes: (1)
All areas are stated in approximations.
(2)
All values are stated in approximations.

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APPENDIX II SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATION OF THE GROUP

Market value(2) in existing state in existing state attributable to the Group as at the Valuation Date (RMB million) No Commercial Value(3) No Commercial Value(4) No Commercial Value(5) No Commercial Value(6) No Commercial Value(7) No Commercial Value(8) No Commercial Value(9) No Commercial Value(10)
Interest attributable to the Group (%) 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Market value(2) in existing state as at the Site area(1) Planned GFA(1)
Valuation Date
(sq.m.)
(sq.m.)
(RMB million)
129,777.00
455,974.00 No Commercial
Value(3) 46,893.00
96,042.00 No Commercial
Value(4) 37,517.39
37,517.39 No Commercial
Value(5) 97,278.83
340,475.91 No Commercial
Value(6) 150,680.00
484,441.00 No Commercial
Value(7) 23,768.00
47,536.00 No Commercial
Value(8) 84,095.00
168,190.00 No Commercial
Value(9) 86,178.16
386,300.00 No Commercial
Value(10)
Type of property Residential, commercial, office and apartment Residential Residential, commercial and apartment Residential and commercial Residential and commercial Residential Residential Residential and commercial
Land use term Residential: 70 years Commercial: 40 years 70 years Residential: 70 years Commercial: 40 years Residential: 70 years Wholesale & Retail: 40 years Residential: 70 years Commercial: 40 years 70 years 70 years 70 years
District
Land use
Dongli
Residential and
commercial Zhengdong New Residential Gaoxin
Residential,
Commercial Wuxiang New
Residential,
Wholesale & Retail Liangxi
Residential and
commercial Gaoxin
Residential
Yinzhou
Residential
Yinzhou
Residential
City Tianjin Zhengzhou Chengdu Nanning Wuxi Ningbo Ningbo Wuhan
Holding entity (subsidiaries of the Company) Tianjin Sunac Yuanhao Real Estate Co., Ltd. Henan Quanjie Real Estate Co., Ltd. Chengdu Sunac Renyuan Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Nanning Sunac Zhenghe Real Estate Co., Ltd. Shanghai Sunac Zhansheng Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. Ningbo Sunac Gaoxing Real Estate Co., Ltd. Ningbo Sunac Yingzhou Real Estate Co., Ltd. Wuhan Sunac Jinyuan Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Property name Jinbindadao Project North Longhu No.13 Land Plot Xinchuan Project Nahuangdadao Project Xigangchang Land Plot Gaoxinqu GX08 Project Peiluo Changfang Land Plot Dongxihu Project
Property No. D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8

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Market value(2) in existing state Market value(2)
attributable to
Holding entity
in existing
Interest
the Group as at
Property
(subsidiaries of
state as at the
attributable to
the Valuation
No.
Property name
the Company)
City
District
Land use
Land use term
Type of property
Site area(1) Planned GFA(1)
Valuation Date
the Group
Date
(sq.m.)
(sq.m.)
(RMB million)
(%)
(RMB million)
D9
Shunde Daliang
Shenzhen Chuangrun
Foshan
Shunde Daliang
Residential and
Residential: 70
Residential and
10,914.00
52,585.00 No Commercial
100%
No Commercial
Project
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
South
commercial
years
commercial
Value(11)
Value(11)
Commercial: 40 years D10
Chancheng Foxi
Foshan Ronghong
Foshan
Chancheng
Residential and
Residential: 70
Residential and
72,963.00
321,643.00 No Commercial
100%
No Commercial
Project
Real Estate Co., Ltd.
recreational
years
commercial
Value(12)
Value(12)
Recreational: 40 years Sub-total of Group D
740,064.38
2,390,704.30 No Commercial
No Commercial
Value
Value
Notes: (1)
All areas are stated in approximations.
(2)
All values are stated in approximations.
(3)
We have ascribed no commercial value to the property as a valid State-owned Land Use Rights Certificate has not been obtained by the Group and the consideration has
not been settled in full. Had the Group obtained a valid State-owned Land Use Rights Certificate for the property, the market value of the property in its existing statte as at the valutaion date would be RMB6,100,000,000 (100% interest attributable to the Group: RMB6,100,000,000). (4)
We have ascribed no commercial value to the property as a valid State-owned Land Use Rights Certificate has not been obtained by the Group and the consideration has
not been settled in full. Had the Group obtained a valid State-owned Land Use Rights Certificate for the property, the market value of the property in its existing statte as at the valutaion date would be RMB2,554,000,000 (100% interest attributable to the Group: RMB2,554,000,000). (5)
We have ascribed no commercial value to the property as a valid State-owned Land Use Rights Certificate has not been obtained by the Group and the consideration has
not been settled in full. Had the Group obtained a valid State-owned Land Use Rights Certificate for the property, the market value of the property in its existing statte as at the valutaion date would be RMB945,000,000 (100% interest attributable to the Group: RMB945,000,000). (6)
We have ascribed no commercial value to the property as a valid State-owned Land Use Rights Certificate has not been obtained by the Group and the consideration has
not been settled in full. Had the Group obtained a valid State-owned Land Use Rights Certificate for the property, the market value of the property in its existing statte as at the valutaion date would be RMB1,798,000,000 (100% interest attributable to the Group: RMB1,798,000,000).

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1. RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT

This circular, for which the Directors collectively and individually accept full responsibility, includes particulars given in compliance with the Listing Rules and the Takeovers Code for the purpose of giving information with regard to the Group.

The Directors jointly and severally accept full responsibility for accuracy of the information contained in this circular (other than the information relating to the Subscriber Concert Group) and confirm, having made all reasonable enquiries, that to the best of their knowledge, opinions expressed in this circular have been arrived at after due and careful consideration and there are no other facts not contained in this circular, the omission of which would make any statement in this circular misleading.

Directors, having made all reasonable enquiries, confirm that to the best of their knowledge and belief, the information contained in this circular (other than the information relating to the Subscriber Concert Group) is accurate and complete in all material respects and not misleading or deceptive, and there are no other matters the omission of which would make any statement herein or this circular misleading.

The sole director of the Subscriber, Mr. Sun Hongbin, accepts full responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in this circular relating to the Subscriber Concert Group and confirms, having made all reasonable enquiries, that to the best of his knowledge, opinions expressed in this circular have been arrived at after due and careful consideration and there are no other facts not contained in this circular, the omission of which would make any statement in this circular misleading.

2. SHARE CAPITAL

The authorised and issued share capital of the Company (i) as at the Latest Practicable Date; and (ii) immediately upon completion of the Subscription (assuming there is no other change to the authorised and issued share capital of the Company) is set out as follows:

(i) As at the Latest Practicable Date

Authorised:
10,000,000,000
Shares
Issued and fully paid:
3,403,842,316
Shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date
HK$
1,000,000,000
340,384,231.60

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  • (ii) Immediately upon completion of the Subscription

  • (a) Assuming no issue or buy-back of Shares from the Latest Practicable Date up to and including the date of completion of the Subscription

Authorised:
10,000,000,000
Shares
Issued and fully paid:
3,403,842,316
Shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date
453,074,433
Subscription Shares to be allotted and issued under
the Subscription
3,856,916,749
Shares in issue immediately after completion of the
Subscription
HK$
1,000,000,000
340,384,231.60
45,307,443.30
385,691,674.90
  • (b) Assuming all Share Options outstanding as at the Latest Practicable Date are fully exercised on or before completion of the Subscription
Authorised:
10,000,000,000
Shares
Issued and fully paid:
3,403,842,316
Shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date
453,074,433
Subscription Shares to be allotted and issued under
the Subscription
104,716,440
Shares to be issued upon exercise of all Share Options
outstanding as at the Latest Practicable Date
3,961,633,189
Shares in issue immediately after completion of the
Subscription
HK$
1,000,000,000
340,384,231.60
45,307,443.30
10,471,644.00
396,163,318.90

Since 31 December 2015 (being the end of the last financial year of the Company) up to the Latest Practicable Date, in aggregate 4,393,700 Shares have been issued pursuant to the exercise of Share Options granted under the Share Option Schemes.

All the Shares currently in issue rank pari passu in all respects with each other, including, as to dividends, voting rights and return of capital.

The Subsciption Shares, when alloted and fully paid, will rank pari passu in all respects among themselves and with the Shares then in issue, including as to voting rights, return on capital and the rights to any dividends or distributions made or declared on or after the date of allotment of the Subscription Shares.

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Save for the Share Options, as at the Latest Practicable Date, there were no outstanding options, warrants or conversion rights in issue or similar rights which are convertible or exchangeable into or confer any right to subscribe for Shares.

3. MARKET PRICES

The table below shows the closing price of the Shares on the Stock Exchange on (i) the last trading day of each of the calendar months during the Relevant Period; (ii) the Last Trading Day; and (iii) the Latest Practicable Date:

Closing price
Date of the Shares
(HK$)
31 March 2016 5.22
29 April 2016 4.98
31 May 2016 4.83
30 June 2016 4.80
29 July 2016 4.87
31 August 2016 5.39
26 September 2016 (being the Last Trading Day) 5.80
30 September 2016 5.58
13 October 2016 (being the Latest Practicable Date) 5.20

The highest and lowest closing prices of the Shares as recorded on the Stock Exchange during the Relevant Period were HK$6.08 per Share on 22 September 2016 and 23 September 2016 and HK$4.51 per Share on 13 May 2016, 24 May 2016 and 16 June 2016, respectively.

4. DISCLOSURE OF INTERESTS

(a) Director’s interest in the securities of the Company

As at the date of the Latest Practicable Date, save as disclosed below, none of the Directors or the chief executive of the Company or their respective associates had or was deemed to have any interests and short positions in the shares, underlying shares, debentures or relevant securities (as defined in Note 4 of Rule 22 of the Takeovers Code) of the Company or any associated corporation (within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO) which were required (i) to be notified to the Company and the Stock Exchange pursuant to Divisions 7 and 8 of Part XV of the SFO (including interests and short positions which they were taken or deemed to have under such provisions of the SFO); or (ii) pursuant to section 352 of the SFO to be entered in the register referred to therein; or (iii) to be

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notified to the Company and the Stock Exchange pursuant to the Model Code for Securities Transactions by Directors of Listed Issuers (the “ Model Code ”) contained in the Listing Rules, to be notified to the Company and the Stock Exchange:

(i) Interest in shares of the Company and/or associated corporation

Approximate
Relevant company percentage of
(including Number of shares interest in
associated of the relevant the relevant
Name of Director Capacity corporations) company (1) company
Mr. Sun Interest in a controlled The Company 2,042,623,884 (L)(5) 52.96%(2)
corporation (3)
Beneficial interest The Company 10,090,000 (L) 0.26%(2)
Beneficial interest The Subscriber (4) 1 (L) 100%
Mr. Wang Mengde Beneficial interest The Company 3,300,000 (L) 0.09%(2)
Mr. Jing Hong Beneficial interest The Company 650,000 (L) 0.02%(2)

Notes:

  • (1) The letter “L” denotes the person’s long position in such shares.

  • (2) Based on 3,403,842,316 Shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date and assuming the issue of 453,074,433 Subscription Shares pursuant to the Subscription Agreement was completed.

  • (3) Mr. Sun is the sole director of the Subscriber and is solely and beneficially interested in the entire issued share capital of the Subscriber. Mr. Sun is deemed to be interested in the Shares held by the Subscriber pursuant to the SFO.

  • (4) The Subscriber is the holding company of the Company and therefore an “associated corporation” of the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the SFO.

  • (5) As at the Latest Practicable Date, the Subscriber was interested in (i) 1,589,549,451 existing Shares and (ii) 453,074,433 Subscription Shares pursuant to the Subscription Agreement.

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(ii) Interest in the underlying shares of the Company

As at the Latest Practicable Date, the following Directors had personal interest in the Share Options to subscribe for the Shares granted under the Share Option Schemes:

Number of
outstanding Exercise
Share price for
Name of Directors Options Date of grant Share Exercise period
(HK$)
Mr. Sun 1,300,000 5 June 2014 4.07 See Note (4)
Mr. Wang Mengde 2,300,000 30 September 2011 1.484 See Note (1)
1,300,000 21 May 2012 2.33 See Note (2)
1,600,000 2 May 2013 6.32 See Note (3)
1,200,000 5 June 2014 4.07 See Note (4)
1,300,000 9 July 2015 7.27 See Note (5)
2,000,000 20 June 2016 4.62 See Note (6)
9,700,000
Mr. Jing Hong 2,150,000 30 September 2011 1.484 See Note (1)
1,200,000 21 May 2012 2.33 See Note (2)
1,300,000 2 May 2013 6.32 See Note (3)
1,100,000 5 June 2014 4.07 See Note (4)
1,200,000 9 July 2015 7.27 See Note (5)
2,000,000 20 June 2016 4.62 See Note (6)
8,950,000
Mr. Chi Xun 2,400,000 30 September 2011 1.484 See Note (1)
1,200,000 21 May 2012 2.33 See Note (2)
1,300,000 2 May 2013 6.32 See Note (3)
1,100,000 5 June 2014 4.07 See Note (4)
1,200,000 9 July 2015 7.27 See Note (5)
2,000,000 20 June 2016 4.62 See Note (6)
9,200,000

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Number of
outstanding Exercise
Share price for
Name of Directors Options Date of grant Share Exercise period
(HK$)
Mr. Shang Yu 1,150,000 30 September 2011 1.484 See Note (1)
1,200,000 21 May 2012 2.33 See Note (2)
1,300,000 2 May 2013 6.32 See Note (3)
1,100,000 5 June 2014 4.07 See Note (4)
1,200,000 9 July 2015 7.27 See Note (5)
1,500,000 20 June 2016 4.62 See Note (6)
7,450,000
Mr. Li Shaozhong 2,300,000 30 September 2011 1.484 See Note (1)
1,200,000 21 May 2012 2.33 See Note (2)
1,300,000 2 May 2013 6.32 See Note (3)
1,100,000 5 June 2014 4.07 See Note (4)
1,100,000 9 July 2015 7.27 See Note (5)
1,000,000 20 June 2016 4.62 See Note (6)
8,000,000

Notes:

  • (1) The exercise period of these Share Options is from 30 September 2011 to 28 April 2017. These Share Options were vested in accordance with the following vesting dates: (i) 30% of the Share Options were vested on the date of grant (i.e. 30 September 2011); (ii) an additional 30% of the Share Options were vested on 29 April 2012; and (iii) the remaining 40% of the Share Options were vested on 29 April 2013.

  • (2) The exercise period of these Share Options is from 21 May 2012 to 28 April 2018. These Share Options were vested in accordance with the following vesting dates: (i) 30% of the Share Options were vested on the date of grant (i.e. 21 May 2012); (ii) an additional 30% of the Share Options were vested on 29 April 2013; and (iii) the remaining 40% of the Share Options were vested on 29 April 2014.

  • (3) The exercise period of these Share Options is from 2 May 2013 to 28 April 2019. These Share Options were vested in accordance with the following vesting dates: (i) 30% of the Share Options were vested on the date of grant (i.e. 2 May 2013); (ii) an additional 30% of the Share Options were vested on 29 April 2014; and (iii) the remaining 40% of the Share Options were vested on 29 April 2015.

  • (4) The exercise period of these Share Options is from 5 June 2014 to 4 June 2019. These Share Options were vested in accordance with the following vesting dates: (i) 30% of the Share Options were vested on the date of grant (i.e. 5 June 2014); (ii) an additional 30% of the Share Options were vested on 5 June 2015; and (iii) the remaining 40% of the Share Options were vested on 5 June 2016.

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  • (5) The exercise period of these Share Options is from 9 July 2015 to 8 July 2020. These Share Options were or shall be vested in accordance with the following vesting dates: (i) 30% of the Share Options were vested on the date of grant (i.e. 9 July 2015); (ii) an additional 30% of the Share Options were vested on 9 July 2016; and (iii) the remaining 40% of the Share Options shall be vested on 9 July 2017.

  • (6) The exercise period of these Share Options is from 20 June 2016 to 19 June 2021. These Share Options were or shall be vested in accordance with the following vesting dates: (i) 30% of the Share Options were vested on 20 June 2016; (ii) an additional 30% of the Share Options shall be vested on 20 June 2017; and (iii) the remaining 40% of the Share Options shall be vested on 20 June 2018.

(b) Substantial shareholders’ and other persons’ interests in Shares and underlying Shares

As at the Latest Practicable Date, other than the interests disclosed above in respect of certain directors and chief executive of the Company, the interests and short positions of persons in the shares and underlying shares of the Company as recorded in the register required to be kept by the Company under Section 336 of the SFO, or who were, directly or indirectly, interested in 5% or more of the nominal value of any class of share capital or relevant securities (as defined in Note 4 to Rule 22 of the Takeovers Code) of the Company were as follows:

Approximate
% of
shareholding
Name of shareholder Capacity Number of Shares (1) (2)
The Subscriber Beneficial interest 2,042,623,884 (L)(3) 52.96%

Notes:

  • (1) The letter “L” denotes the person’s long position in such shares.

  • (2) Based on 3,403,842,316 Shares in issue as at the Latest Practicable Date and assuming the issue of 453,074,433 Subscription Shares pursuant to the Subscription Agreement was completed.

  • (3) As at the Latest Practicable Date, the Subscriber was interested in (i) 1,589,549,451 existing Shares and (ii) 453,074,433 Subscription Shares pursuant to the Subscription Agreement.

5. ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURE UNDER THE TAKEOVERS CODE

  • (a) There was no agreement, arrangement or understanding pursuant to which the Subscription Shares to be acquired by the Subscriber Concert Group would be transferred, charged or pledged to any other persons as at the Latest Practicable Date.

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  • (b) Save as disclosed in the section headed “Shareholding structure of the Company” in the “Letter from the Board” of this circular and “4. Disclosure of interests” in this appendix, none of the Directors, the sole director of the Subscriber and members of the Subscriber Concert Group held, owned, controlled, had direction over or were interested in any other Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options, derivatives or relevant securities (as defined in Note 4 of Rule 22 of the Takeovers Code) of the Company as at the Latest Practicable Date.

  • (c) Save for the Subscription and the entering into of the Subscription Agreement, none of the Directors, the sole director of the Subscriber and members of the Subscriber Concert Group had dealt for value in any Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Company during the Relevant Period.

  • (d) Save that the Subscriber was solely and beneficially owned by Mr. Sun, none of the Company and the Directors were interested in or owned or controlled any shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Subscriber nor had any of them dealt for value in any shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Subscriber during the Relevant Period.

  • (e) None of the subsidiaries of the Company, or pension fund or any member of the Group or the advisers to the Company as specified in class (2) of the definition of associate in the Takeovers Code (excluding exempt principal traders) owned or controlled any Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Company as at the Latest Practicable Date nor had any of them dealt for value in any Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Company during the period beginning from the date of the Announcement and ending on the Latest Practicable Date.

  • (f) No fund managers (other than exempt fund managers) connected with the Company managed any Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Company on a discretionary basis as at the Latest Practicable Date nor had any of them dealt for value in any Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Company which were managed on a discretionary basis during the period beginning from the date of the Announcement and ending on the Latest Practicable Date.

  • (g) As at the Latest Practicable Date, save as disclosed in paragraph 5(m) below, no other persons who owned or controlled any Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Company had irrevocably committed themselves to vote for or against the Subscription and/or the Whitewash Waiver or to accept or reject the Subscription, and no irrevocable commitment were received by the Subscriber Concert Group to vote for or against the Subscription and/ or the Whitewash Waiver.

  • (h) As at the Latest Practicable Date, save for the Subscription Agreement, no agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any compensation arrangement) existed between any member of the Subscriber Concert Group and any of the Directors, recent Directors, Shareholders or recent Shareholders having any connection with or dependence upon the Subscription and/or the Whitewash Waiver.

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  • (i) As at the Latest Practicable Date, none of the members of the Subscriber Concert Group had borrowed or lent any Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options, derivatives or any relevant securities (as defined in the Note 4 to Rule 22 of the Takeovers Code) of the Company.

  • (j) As at the Latest Practicable Date, no person had any arrangement of the kind referred to in Note 8 to Rule 22 of the Takeovers Code with the Company or any person who is an associate of the Company by virtue of classes (1), (2), (3) and (4) of the definition of associate in the Takeovers Code or any member of the Subscriber Concert Group.

  • (k) As at the Latest Practicable Date, neither the Company nor the Directors had borrowed or lent any Shares, convertible securities, warrants, options or derivatives of the Company.

  • (l) It is the intention of the Subscriber to continue the existing business of the Group and the employment of the employees of the Group. The Subscriber has no intention to redeploy the fixed assets of the Group or to introduce major changes to the business of the Group.

  • (m) As at the Latest Practicable Date, each of Mr. Wang Mengde and Mr. Jing Hong intended to vote for the resolution in relation to the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver at the EGM in respect of his own beneficial shareholdings. Mr. Sun will abstain from voting on the resolution to approve the Subscription and the Whitewash Waiver at the EGM. The other Directors of the Company, namely Mr. Li Shaozhong, Mr. Chi Xun, Mr. Shang Yu, Mr. Zhu Jia, Mr. Poon Chiu Kwok, Mr. Li Qin, Mr. Ma Lishan and Mr. Tse Chi Wai, had no beneficial interest in any Shares as at the Latest Practicable Date which would not confer any voting rights to any of them at the EGM.

  • (n) As at the Latest Practicable Date, save for the Subscription Agreement, there was no agreement or arrangement to which any member of the Subscriber Concert Group was a party which related to the circumstances in which it may or may not invoke or seek to invoke a pre-condition or a condition to the Subscription /or the Whitewash Waiver.

  • (o) As at the Latest Practicable Date, (i) the principal members of the Subscriber Concert Group were the Subscriber and Mr. Sun; (ii) the sole director of the Subscriber was Mr. Sun; (iii) the registered office of the Subscriber was at 3rd Floor, Omar Hodge Building, Wickhams Cay 1, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands; and (iv) the correspondence addresses of the Subscriber and Mr. Sun were 10/F, C7, Magnetic Plaza, West Binshui Road, Nankai District, Tianjin.

6. ARRANGEMENTS AFFECTING DIRECTORS AND DIRECTORS’ INTEREST IN CONTRACTS AND ASSETS

  • (a) No benefit has been or will be given to any Director as compensation for loss of office or otherwise in connection with the Subscription and/or the Whitewash Waiver.

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  • (b) As at the Latest Practicable Date, save for the Subscription Agreement which was conditional upon the Whitewash Waiver being granted and the Independent Shareholders’ approval at the EGM, there was no other agreement or arrangement between any of the Directors and any other person which was conditional on or dependent upon the outcome of the Subscription and/or the Whitewash Waiver or otherwise connected with the Subscription and/or the Whitewash Waiver.

  • (c) As at the Latest Practicable Date, save for the Subscription Agreement, there was no material contract entered into by the Subscriber in which any Director had a material personal interest.

  • (d) As at the Latest Practicable Date, none of the Directors had any interest, direct or indirect, in any asset which had been, since 31 December 2015 (being the date to which the latest published audited financial statements of the Group were made up), acquired or disposed of by or leased to any member of the Group or were proposed to be acquired or disposed of by or leased to any member of the Group.

  • (e) As at the Latest Practicable Date, save for the Subscription Agreement, there was no contract or arrangement subsisting in which any Director was materially interested and which was significant in relation to the business of the Group.

7. DIRECTORS’ SERVICE CONTRACTS

As at the Latest Practicable Date, (i) none of the Directors had any service contract with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or associated companies in force which (a) (including both continuous and fixed term contracts) have been entered into or amended within 6 months before the date of the Announcement; (b) are continuous contracts with a notice period of 12 months or more; or (c) are fixed term contracts with more than 12 months to run irrespective of the notice period; and (ii) none of the Directors had any existing or proposed service contracts with any member of the Group which does not expire or is not determinable by such member of the Group within one year without payment of compensation (other than statutory compensation).

8. DIRECTORS’ COMPETING INTEREST

As at the Latest Practicable Date, none of the Directors and their respective close associates (as defined in the Listing Rules) was interested in any business apart from the Group’s businesses which competes or may compete, directly or indirectly, with the business of the Group.

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9. LITIGATION

As at the Latest Practicable Date, none of the members of the Group was engaged in any litigation, arbitration or claim of material importance and so far as the Directors were aware, no litigation, arbitration or claim of material importance was pending or threatened by or against any member of the Group or to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries was, or might become, a party.

10. MATERIAL CONTRACTS

The following contracts (being contracts entered into outside the ordinary course of business carried on by the Group) have been entered into by members of the Group within the two years immediately preceding the date of the Announcement and up to the Latest Practicable Date:

  • (a) the Subscription Agreement;

  • (b) the subscription agreement dated September 2016 entered into between Tianjin Jujin Property Management Ltd. (天津聚金物業管理有限公司) (“ Jujin Property ”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Jinke Property Group Co., Ltd. (金科地產 集團股份有限公司) (“ Jinke Property ”), pursuant to which Jujin Property agreed to subscribe for 907,029,478 shares in Jinke Property at a subscription price of RMB4.41 per share, representing a total consideration of RMB3,999,999,997.98;

  • (c) the two framework agreements dated 16 September 2016 entered into between Sunac Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. (“ Sunac Real Estate ”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as purchaser and Legend Holdings Corporation (“ Legend Holdings ”) and (as the case may be) Raycom Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (“ Raycom ”) as sellers, pursuant to which the sellers conditionally agreed to sell, and the purchaser conditionally agreed to purchase the relevant equity interests and debts of 41 target companies which mainly own interests in 42 property projects (details of which are set out in the joint announcement of the Company and Legend Holdings dated 18 September 2016) at the total consideration of approximately RMB13,788,430,000 (subject to adjustments pursuant to the terms of the framework agreements);

  • (d) the equity transfer framework agreement dated 22 August 2016 entered into between Hainan Sunac Properties Co., Ltd. (海南融創基業房地產有限公司) (“ Hainan Sunac ”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Hangzhou Jinhan Investment Co., Ltd. (杭州金翰投資有限公司) (“ Hangzhou Jinhan ”), pursuant to which Hainan Sunac agreed to acquire and Hangzhou Jinhan agreed to dispose of 50% equity and debt interests in each of the Target Companies, of which (i) the consideration for the equity interests was RMB1,954,717,510; and (ii) the relevant outstanding shareholder’s borrowings owed by the relevant Target Companies to Hangzhou Jinhan was RMB99,117,490. Therefore, the aggregate consideration for the Acquisition was RMB2,053,835,000.

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  • (e) the framework agreement dated 19 May 2016 (as supplemented by two supplemental agreements both dated 22 July 2016) entered into between the Company and Top Spring International Holdings Limited, pursuant to which the Company agreed to (a) acquire the entire equity interest in six target companies and (b) settle the inter-company loans among the six target companies and/or the project companies owned by such target companies, which are holding interests in property development projects in Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Huizhou and Hangzhou in the PRC, at a total adjusted consideration of RMB4,225,230,000;

  • (f) the cooperation agreement dated 18 March 2016 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Property Development Co., Ltd. (“ Shanghai Sunac ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Shanghai Moke Real Estate Co. Ltd (上海摩克房地產有限公司) (“ Shanghai Moke ”) in connection with the formation of a joint venture and the acquisition of two target projects. Pursuant to the cooperation agreement, the equity interests of the joint venture will ultimately be held as to 80% and 20% by Shanghai Sunac and Shanghai Moke, respectively, and the joint venture will be responsible for the development of the two target projects. The aggregate amount payable by Shanghai Sunac under the cooperation agreement is approximately RMB3,305,347,400 together with accrued interest;

  • (g) the cooperation agreement dated 25 February 2016 entered into between Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng Investment Co., Ltd (“ Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as purchaser, Sunac Real Estate, as guarantor of the purchaser, Zhengzhou Meisheng Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. (鄭州美盛房地產開發有限公司) (“ Zhengzhou Meisheng ”) as vendor and Henan Zhaoteng Investment Co. Ltd (河南省兆騰投資有限公司) , as guarantor of the vendor, pursuant to which, Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng agreed to acquire and Zhengzhou Meisheng agreed to dispose of 70% equity and debt interests in Zhongmu Meisheng Real Estate Co., Ltd (中牟美盛置業有限公司) (“ Zhongmu Meisheng ”) at a total consideration of RMB753,916,863.21;

  • (h) the two equity transfer agreements dated 1 February 2016 entered into between Shanghai Sunac as purchaser and Der Group Co. Ltd. (“ Der Group ”) and Mr. HE Yonggang as vendors (collectively the “ Suzhou Vendors ”), pursuant to which (i) Shanghai Sunac agreed to acquire and the Suzhou Vendors agreed to dispose of the entire equity and debt interests in Suzhou Der Taihu Bay Properties Co., Ltd. (“ Suzhou Der Taihu Bay ”), of which the consideration for (a) the equity interests amounted to RMB404,459,419; and (b) the entire outstanding shareholder ’s loan owed by Suzhou Der Taihu Bay to the Suzhou Vendors amounted to RMB685,540,581, representing an aggregate consideration of RMB1,090,000,000 (“ Acquisition I ”); and (ii) Shanghai Sunac agreed to acquire and the Suzhou Vendors agreed to dispose of the entire equity and debt interests in Suzhou Der Taihu Town Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“ Suzhou Der Taihu Town ”), of which the consideration for (a) the equity interests amounted to RMB28,308,318; and (b) the entire outstanding shareholder ’s loan owed by Suzhou Der Taihu Town to the Suzhou Vendors amounted to RMB51,691,682, representing an aggregate consideration of RMB80,000,000 (“ Acquisition II ”). As such, the total consideration for the transactions contemplated under Acquisition I and Acquisition II is RMB1,170,000,000;

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  • (i) the equity transfer agreement dated 15 January 2016 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng Investment Co., Ltd. (上海融創睿豐投資有限公司) (“ Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as purhcaser and Beijing Fengdan Investment Management Co., Ltd. (北京楓丹投資管理有限公司) (“ Beijing Fengdan ”) as vendor in relation to the acquisition of 12.5% equity interest in Shanghai Fengdan Lishe Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (上海楓丹麗舍房地產開發有限公司) (“ Shanghai Fengdan ”) and the outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to Beijing Fengdan at a total consideration of RMB437,500,000;

  • (j) the equity transfer agreement dated 15 January 2016 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng as purhcaser and Shenzhen Zhongshan Xingye Trading Co., Ltd. (深圳市仲山興業 貿易有限公司) (“ Shenzhen Zhongshan ”) as vendor in relation to the acquisition of 5% equity interest in Shanghai Fengdan and the outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to Shenzhen Zhongshan at a total consideration of RMB175,000,000;

  • (k) the equity transfer agreement dated 15 January 2016 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng as purhcaser and Shenzhen Hua Shun Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (深圳市華順數 碼科技有限公司) (“ Shenzhen Hua Shun ”) as vendor in relation to the acquisition of 12.5% equity interest in Shanghai Fengdan and the outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to Shenzhen Hua Shun at a total consideration of RMB437,500,000;

  • (l) the equity transfer agreement dated 15 January 2016 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng as purhcaser and Shenzhen SZITIC Property Development Co., Ltd. (深圳深國投 房地產開發有限公司) (“ SZITIC Property ”) as vendor in relation to the acquisition of 7.855% equity interest in Shanghai Fengdan and the outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to SZITIC Property at a total consideration of RMB274,925,000;

  • (m) the equity transfer agreement dated 13 January 2016 entered into between Shanghai Sunac and Jiangsu Youyi Hesheng Property Development Co., Ltd. (“ Jiangsu Youyi ”) for an aggregate consideration of RMB1,038,234,731, pursuant to which (i) Shanghai Sunac agreed to acquire and Jiangsu Youyi agreed to dispose of, 95% equity interest in Suzhou Xinyou Real Estate Co. Ltd. (蘇州新友置地有限公司) (“ Suzhou Xinyou ”), for RMB183,652,145, and (ii) Shanghai Sunac agreed to repay on behalf of Suzhou Xinyou the entire outstanding shareholder’s loan in the amount of RMB854,582,586 owing by it to Jiangsu Youyi;

  • (n) the agreement dated 4 January 2016 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng and Shanghai Pudong Development Group Limited (上海浦東發展(集團)有限公司) (“ Shanghai Pudong Development ”), pursuant to which Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng agreed to acquire 9.4% interest in Shanghai Huafeng for a consideration of RMB752,000,000 and Shanghai Pudong Development was entrusted to hold the 9.4% indirect interest in Shanghai Huafeng on behalf of Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng;

  • (o) the supplemental agreement dated 30 November 2015 entered into between, among others, Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng and Sunac Real Estate, which are both wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company and Xian Titan Real Estate Group Co., Ltd (“ Xian Titan ”), pursuant to

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which the parties thereto agreed to amend and supplement the cooperative agreement dated 2 September 2015 with respect to the acquisition of Jinan Lihao Properties Co., Ltd. (濟南立皓置業有限公司) and Jinan Liyuan Properties Co., Ltd. (濟南立遠置業有限公司);

  • (p) the supplemental agreement dated 30 November 2015 entered into between, among others, Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng, Sunac Real Estate and Xian Titan, pursuant to which the parties thereto agreed to amend and supplement the cooperative agreement dated 2 September 2015 with respect to the acquisition of Tianmao Properties (Nanjing)., Ltd. (天茂置業(南京)有 限公司), Titan International Investment Group Limited and Nanjing Titan Technology Investment Development Co., Ltd. (南京天朗科技投資發展有限公司);

  • (q) equity transfer agreement dated 29 October 2015 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Real Estate Development Co., Ltd (“ Shanghai Sunac Real Estate ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as purchaser, and Shanghai Yuehua Kangjian Investment Management Co., Ltd (“ Shanghai Yuehua ”) as vendor, pursuant to which Shanghai Sunac Real Estate agreed to, or would procure its designated wholly-owned subsidiary to, acquire and Shanghai Yuehua agreed to dispose of, the entire equity interest in Shanghai Lingwu Investment Management Co., Ltd. (“ Shanghai Lingwu ”) and the outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Lingwu to Shanghai Yuehua at a total consideration of RMB1,400,000,000;

  • (r) the cooperative agreement dated 2 September 2015 entered into between, among others, Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng and Beijing Sunac Construction Investment Real Estate Co., Ltd (“ Sunac Zhidi ”), which are both wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company, and Xian Titan, pursuant to which Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng and Xian Titan agreed to cooperate to establish a joint venture company in Xian, the PRC (the “ Joint Venture ”) with a registered capital of RMB100 million, and was contributed as to 80% by Tianjian Sunac Ao Cheng and 20% by Xian Titan. Upon establishment of the Joint Venture, it (i) shall acquire the equity interest in the two property projects under development in Xian, the PRC held by Xian Titan for a total consideration of RMB187.9 million; (ii) can acquire and develop the projects to be developed by Xian Tital or its affiliated companies in Xian, the PRC by participating in the process of tender, auction and listing; and (iii) shall cooperate with Xian Titan in the acquisition and development of the reserve projects in Xian to be participated or intended to be acquired by Xian Titan or its affiliated companies and subsidiaries in the future by way of joint injection of funds for the establishment of project companies of which Xian Titan and the Joint Venture shall hold no more than 30% and no less than 70% equity interest in such project companies, respectively. Further, pursuant to the cooperative agreement, Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng agreed to acquire (by itself or through its designated company) the 100% equity interest in the project companies of Xian Titan with property projects located in Jinan, Nanjing and Chengdu of the PRC for a total consideration of RMB496.17 million;

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  • (s) the equity transfer agreement dated 26 August 2015 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng as purchaser and Shenzhen Shenshangzhi Management Co., Ltd. (“ SZ Shenshangzhi ”) as vendor, pursuant to which Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng agreed to acquire and SZ Shenshangzhi agreed to dispose of 14% equity interest in Shanghai Fengdan and the outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to SZ Shenshangzhi at a total consideration of RMB329,000,000;

  • (t) the equity transfer agreement dated 26 August 2015 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng as purchaser and China Resources SZITIC Investment Ltd. (“ CR SZITIC Investment ”) as vendor, pursuant to which Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng agreed to acquire and CR SZITIC Investment agreed to dispose of 10.29% equity interest in Shanghai Fengdan and the outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to CR SZITIC Investment at a total consideration of RMB241,815,000;

  • (u) the acquisition agreement dated 24 July 2015 entered into between, among others, Ease Success Holdings Limited (“ Ease Success ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as purchaser, and Marvel Leader Investments Limited (“ Marvel Leader ”) as vendor, pursuant to which Ease Success conditionally agreed to acquire and Marvel Leader conditionally agreed to dispose of (i) the entire issued shares in Joyview Group Limited (“ Joyview ”) which in turn indirectly owned 80% equity interest in Chengdu Guojia Zhide Zhiye Co., Ltd. (成都國嘉志得置業有限公司) (“ Chengdu Guojia ”) and (ii) the outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Joyview to Marvel Leader, at a total consideration of RMB2,755,553,457.92;

  • (v) the acquisition agreement dated 24 July 2015 entered into between, among others, Chongqing Sunac Foundation Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. (“ Chongqing Sunac Foundation ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as purchaser, and Sichuan Guojia Real Estate Co. Ltd. (“ Sichuan Guojia ”) as vendor, pursuant to which Chongqing Sunac Foundation conditionally agreed to acquire and Sichuan Guojia conditionally agreed to dispose of 20% equity interest in Chengdu Guojia and the outstanding shareholder’s loan and interest owing by Chengdu Guojia to Sichuan Guojia at a total consideration of RMB450,000,000;

  • (w) framework agreement dated 15 May 2015 between the Company and Greentown China Holdings Limited (“ Greentown China ”) pursuant to which it is conditionally agreed that the Group would transact with the Greentown China and its subsidiaries (the “ Greentown Group ”) in relation to the following proposed transactions: (i) disposal of 50% equity interests by Shanghai Greentown Forest Golf Villa Development Co., Ltd (“ Shanghai Forest Golf ”), and assignment of shareholder’s loan of Zhejiang Jinying Realty Co., Ltd (“ Zhejiang Jinying ”) by Sunac Zhidi to Greentown Real Estate Group Co., Ltd (“ Greentown Real Estate ”); (ii) disposal of 45% equity interests in and assignment of shareholder’s loan of Beijing Xingye Wanfa Real Estate Development Co., Ltd (“ Beijing Xingye Wanfa ”) by Sunac Zhidi to Greentown Real Estate; (iii) disposal of the return on investment of 51% equity interests in Shanghai Huazhe Bund held by Shanghai Sunac Greentown Investment Holdings Limited (上海融創綠城投資控股有限公司) (“ Shanghai Sunac Greentown ”) to Greetown Real Estate; (iv) acquisition of 50% equity interests in

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Shanghai Forest Golf by Sunac Zhidi from Greentown Real Estate; (v) acquisition of 25% equity interests in Hangzhou Sunac Greentown Real Estate Development Co., Ltd (“ Hangzhou Sunac Greentown ”) by Zhuo Yue Property Investment Holdings Limited (“ Zhuo Yue Property ”) from On Centuary Investment Limited (“ On Centuary Investment ”); (vi) development of the Tianjin National Game Village Project on a joint venture basis in the proportion of 49:51 by the Company and Greentown China; (vii) acquisition of 50% equity interests in Shanghai Sunac Greentown by Shanghai Sunac Real Estate from Greentown Investment; and (viii) acquisition of 50% issued share capital of Sunac Greentown by the Company from Greentown China;

  • (x) the equity transfer agreement dated 16 February 2015 entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng Investment Co., Ltd (“ Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng ”) (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company) as the purchaser and Beijing Fengdan Investment Management Co., Ltd. (“ Beijing Fengdan ”) as the seller with respect to the acquisition of 12.5% equity interests in Shanghai Fengdan Lishe Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. (“ Shanghai Fengdan ”) and outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to Beijing Fengdan for a total consideration of RMB437,500,000;

  • (y) the equity transfer agreement dated 16 February 2015 and entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng as the purchaser and Shenzhen Zhongshan Xingye Trading Co., Ltd. (“ Shenzhen Zhongshan ”) as the seller with respect to the acquisition of 5% equity interests in Shanghai Fengdan and outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to Shenzhen Zhongshan for a total consideration of RMB175,000,000;

  • (z) the equity transfer agreement dated 16 February 2015 and entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng as the purchaser and Shenzhen Hua Shun Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (“ Shenzhen Hua Shun ”) as the seller with respect to the acquisition of 12.5% equity interests in Shanghai Fengdan and outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to Shenzhen Hua Shun for a total consideration of RMB437,500,000;

  • (aa) the equity transfer agreement dated 16 February 2015 and entered into between Shanghai Sunac Ruifeng as the purchaser and Shenzhen SZITIC Property Development Co., Ltd. (“ Shenzhen SZITIC ”) as the seller with respect to the acquisition of 7.855% equity interests in Shanghai Fengdan and outstanding shareholder’s loan owing by Shanghai Fengdan to Shenzhen SZITIC for a total consideration of RMB274,925,000;

  • (ab) share sale and purchase agreement dated 30 December 2014 (the “ Offshore SP Agreement ”) entered into among Lead Sunny Investments Limited (“ Lead Sunny ”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as purchaser, Sunac Greentown Investment Holdings Limited (“ Sunac Greentown ”), a non wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, as vendor and the Company as the purchaser’s guarantor in relation to the acquisition of the entire issued share capital and debt in Elegant Trend Limited (the “ Offshore Target Company ”) held by Sunac Greentown at a total consideration of approximately RMB6,401,740,000 (the “ Offshore Transaction ”) which was subject to adjustment (Note: as disclosed in the Company’s announcement dated 4 May 2015, the consideration was adjusted to RMB6,433,049,608.3);

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  • (ac) equity sale and purchase framework agreement (the “ Equity Framework Agreement ”) dated 30 December 2014 entered into by and among Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng as purchaser and Shanghai Sunac Greentown as vendor in relation to the sale and purchase of the entire or certain equity interests in 15 Onshore Target Companies (as defined in the announcement of the Company dated 31 December 2014) at a total consideration of approximately RMB5,614,920,000 which was subject to adjustment (Note: as disclosed in the Company’s announcement dated 4 May 2015, the consideration was adjusted to RMB5,498,989,189.52);

  • (ad) debt undertaking framework agreement (the “ Debt Framework Agreement ”, together with the Equity Framework Agreement, the “ Onshore Framework Agreements ”) dated 30 December 2014 entered into between Tianjin Sunac Ao Cheng and Shanghai Sunac Greentown in relation to the assignment of certain debt due and owing by the Onshore Target Companies (as defined in the announcement of the Company dated 31 December 2014) to Shanghai Sunac Greentown at a total consideration of approximately RMB3,529,380,000 which was subject to adjustment (Note: as disclosed in the Company’s announcement dated 4 May 2015, the consideration was adjusted to RMB3,465,188,197.26); and

  • (ae) equity transfer agreement dated 7 November 2014 entered into among Shanghai Ronglv Ruijiang Real Estate Company Ltd, a non-wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, as the purchaser, Shanghai Shenjiang Cross-strait Development and Construction Investment (Group) Company Limited (“ Shanghai Shenjiang Cross-strait ”), as the vendor, pursuant to which the purchaser agreed to acquire the 47% equity interest in Shanghai Fuyuan Binjiang Development Company Limited (“ Shanghai Fuyuan Binjiang ”) for a total consideration of RMB1,574,986,146.76, comprising of (i) a transfer price of RMB977,374,550.83 in relation to the 47% equity interest in Shanghai Fuyuan Binjiang; and (ii) a debt amount of RMB597,611,595.93 owing by Shanghai Fuyuan Binjiang to Shanghai Shenjiang Cross-strait.

11. EXPERTS AND CONSENTS

The following are the qualificatons of the experts who have given opinion or advice which are contained in this circular:

Name Qualification Quam Capital Limited a corporation licensed to carry out type 6 (advising on corporate finance) regulated activities under the SFO DTZ Cushman & Wakefield an independent professional valuer Limited

As at the Latest Practicable Date, each of the experts named above:

  • (i) had no shareholding in any member of the Group and did not have any right, whether legally enforceable or not, to subscribe for or to nominate persons to subscribe for securities in any member of the Group;

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  • (ii) had no direct or indirect interest in any assets which had been, since 31 December 2015 (being the date to which the latest published audited consolidated financial statements of the Group were made up), acquired, disposed of by, or leased to any member of the Group, or were proposed to be acquired, disposed of by, or leased to any member of the Group; and

  • (iii) has given and has not withdrawn its written consent to the issue of this circular with the inclusion of its letter and the reference to its name included herein in the form and context in which it appears.

12. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

  • (a) The registered office of the Company is at Landmark Square, 3rd floor, 64 Earth Close, P.O. box 30592, Grand Cayman KY1-1203, Cayman Islands.

  • (b) The principal place of business of the Company in Hong Kong is at 36/F, Tower Two, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

  • (c) The Cayman Islands principal share registrar and transfer office of the Company is Royal Bank of Canada Trust Company, (Cayman) Limited at 4th Floor, Royal Bank House, 24 Shedden Road, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-1110, Cayman Islands.

  • (d) The Hong Kong branch share registrar and transfer office of the Company is Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at Shops 1712-1716, 17/F, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

  • (e) The Independent Financial Adviser is Quam Capital Limited whose address is at 19th Floor, China Building, 29 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong.

13. DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION

Copies of the following documents are avaialble for inspection (i) at the principal place of business of the Company in Hong Kong at 36/F, Tower Two, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong during normal busienss hours on any Business Day; (ii) on the website of the SFC (www.sfc.hk); and (iii) on the Company’s website (www.sunac.com.cn) from the date of this circular up to and including the date of the EGM:

  • (a) the memorandum and articles of association of the Company;

  • (b) the memorandum and articles of association of the Subscriber;

  • (c) the annual reports of the Company for the years ended 31 December 2014 and 2015 and the interim report of the Company for the six months ended 30 June 2016;

  • (d) the letter from the Board, the text of which is set out in the section headed “Letter from the Board” in this circular;

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  • (e) the letter from the Independent Board Committee, the text of which is set out in the section headed “Letter from the Independent Board Committee” in this circular;

  • (f) the letter from Quam Capital Limited, the text of which is set out in the section headed “Letter from Quam Capital” in this circular;

  • (g) the full property valuation report of the Group (including the valuation certificates) prepared by DTZ Cushman & Wakefield Limited, a summary of which is set out in Appendix II to this circular;

  • (h) the material contracts referred to in the paragraph headed “10. Material Contracts” in this appendix;

  • (i) the written consents referred to in the paragraph headed “11. Experts and Consents” in this appendix; and

  • (j) this circular.

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SUNAC CHINA HOLDINGS LIMITED 融創中國控股有限公司

(incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 01918)

NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an extraordinary general meeting (the “ Meeting ”) of Sunac China Holdings Limited (the “ Company ”) will be held at Conference Hall, 16/F, Building A, Far East International Plaza, No. 319 Xianxia Road, Shanghai, the PRC on 2 November 2016 (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing (with or without amendments) the following resolution as ordinary resolution:

THAT :

  • (1) the subscription agreement (the “ Subscription Agreement ”) dated 26 September 2016 entered into between the Company as issuer and Sunac International Investment Holdings Ltd as subscriber (the “ Subscriber ”) (a copy of which has been produced to this meeting marked “A” and signed by the chairman of this meeting for the purpose of identification) in relation to the subscription by the Subscriber of 453,074,433 new ordinary shares (the “ Subscription Share(s) ”) of HK$0.1 each in the Company at the subscription price of HK$6.18 per Subscription Share (the “ Subscription ”) and the transactions contemplated thereby be and are hereby approved, confirmed and ratified;

  • (2) the specific mandate for the allotment and issue of the Subscription Shares, credited as fully paid, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Subscription Agreement be and is hereby approved;

  • (3) any one director of the Company (“ Director(s) ”) or (if affixing of seal is required) any two Directors be authorised for and on behalf of the Company, among others, to execute, perfect, deliver (including under seal where applicable) all such other documents and deeds, and to do or authorise doing all such acts, matters and things, as he may in his absolute discretion consider necessary, expedient or desirable to give effect to and implement and/or complete all matters in connection with:

  • (a) the Subscription, the Subscription Agreement and all other transactions contemplated thereunder, and the closing and implementation thereof;

  • (b) securing the fulfilment of the conditions precedent of completion of the Subscription; and

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  • (c) the approval of any amendments or variations to the Subscription Agreement or the granting of waivers of any matters contemplated thereby that are, in the Director’s opinion, not fundamental to the transactions contemplated thereby and are in the best interests of the Company, including without limitation the signing (under the common seal of the Company where required or expedient) of any supplemental or ancillary agreements and instruments and the giving of any undertakings and confirmations for any such purposes; and

  • (4) subject to the Executive (as defined in the circular of the Company dated 17 October 2016 (the “ Circular ”)) granting the Whitewash Waiver (as defined in the Circular) to the Subscriber and the satisfaction of any conditions attached to the Whitewash Waiver granted, the waiver pursuant to Note 1 on dispensations from Rule 26 of the Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the “ Takeovers Code ”) waiving any obligation on the part of the Subscriber to make a general offer under the Takeovers Code for all the issued securities of the Company (other than those owned, controlled or agreed to be acquired by the Subscriber, Mr. Sun Hongbin and parties acting in concert with any of them) which would otherwise arise as a result of the subscription of Subscription Shares by the Subscriber pursuant to the Subscription Agreement be and is hereby approved and any one or more Directors be and is/are hereby authorised to do all things and acts and sign all documents which they consider desirable or expedient to implement and/or give full effect to any matters relating to or in connection with the Whitewash Waiver.”

By order of the Board Sunac China Holdings Limited WANG Mengde Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

Hong Kong, 17 October 2016

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Registered office: Headquarters and principal place
Landmark Square of business in the PRC:
3rd Floor 10/F, Building C7
64 Earth Close Magnetic Plaza
P.O. Box 30592 Binshuixi Road, Nankai District
Grand Cayman KY1-1203 Tianjin 300381
Cayman Islands The PRC
Principal place of business in Hong Kong:
36/F, Tower Two, Times Square
1 Matheson Street
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong

Notes:

  • (i) A shareholder entitled to attend and vote at the above Meeting is entitled to appoint another person as his/her proxy to attend and, subject to the provisions of the articles of association of the Company, to vote on his/her behalf. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company. If more than one proxy is so appointed, the appointment shall specify the number and class of shares in respect of which each proxy is so appointed.

  • (ii) In the case of joint holders, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, will be accepted to the exclusion of the vote(s) of the other joint holder(s) and for this purpose seniority shall be determined as that one of the persons so present whose name stands first on the register of shareholders in respect of such share shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof.

  • (iii) In order to be valid, a form of proxy in the prescribed form must be deposited at the Hong Kong share registrar of the Company, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17/F, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed (or a certified copy thereof) not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the above Meeting or any adjournment thereof. The completion and return of the form of proxy shall not preclude shareholders of the Company from attending and voting in person at the above Meeting (or any adjourned meeting thereof) if they so wish.

  • (iv) The transfer books and register of shareholders will be closed from 31 October 2016 (Monday) to 2 November 2016 (Wednesday), both days inclusive, in order to determine the entitlement of shareholders to attend the above Meeting, during which period no share transfers can be registered. All transfers accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged with the Hong Kong share registrar of the Company, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong not later than 4:30 p.m. on 28 October 2016 (Friday).

  • (v) As at the date of this notice, the executive directors of the Company are Mr. SUN Hongbin, Mr. WANG Mengde, Mr. JING Hong, Mr. CHI Xun, Mr. SHANG Yu and Mr. LI Shaozhong; the non-executive director of the Company is Mr. ZHU Jia; and the independent non-executive directors of the Company are Mr. POON Chiu Kwok, Mr. LI Qin, Mr. MA Lishan and Mr. TSE Chi Wai.

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