{"id":17177,"date":"2021-08-26T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/26\/cifi-group-announces-2021-interim-results\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:20:00","slug":"cifi-group-announces-2021-interim-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/26\/cifi-group-announces-2021-interim-results\/","title":{"rendered":"CIFI Group Announces 2021 Interim Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p><b>Revenue grew by 58.0% year on year to RMB36.4 billion and&#13;<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Interim dividend amounted to HK12 cents per share<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Rental income grew significantly by 79% year on year to&#13;<br \/>\nRMB391 million<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Contracted sales increased by 53% year on year to RMB157.03&#13;<br \/>\nbillion for the first seven months, representing 59% of full year target<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Net debt-to-equity ratio and weighted average cost of indebtedness improved to 60.4% and 5.1% respectively<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Results Highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Revenue and net profit increased continuously and declared&#13;<br \/>\ndividend for seven consecutive years since IPO<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognised&#13;<br \/>\nrevenue increased by 58.0% year on year to RMB36.4 billion. Rental income grew&#13;<br \/>\nsignificantly by 79.0% year on year to RMB391 million.<\/li>\n<li>Core&#13;<br \/>\nnet profit to equity owners of the Company increased by 4.8% year on year to RMB3.35&#13;<br \/>\nbillion.<\/li>\n<li>Gross&#13;<br \/>\nprofit margin and core net profit margin stood at 20.7% and 9.2% respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Core&#13;<br \/>\nreturn on average equity was 22.3%, maintaining the industry&#8217;s leading level.<\/li>\n<li>Proposed&#13;<br \/>\ninterim dividend of RMB10.0 cents or equivalent to HK12 cents per share (2020&#13;<br \/>\nInterim results: RMB9.8 cents or equivalent to HK11 cents per share). Achieved&#13;<br \/>\nsustainable earnings growth since IPO, with accumulated dividends of HK$1.96&#13;<br \/>\nper share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Ensuring the achievement of annual sales targets with&#13;<br \/>\nabundant quality land bank<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proactive&#13;<br \/>\nimplementation and deepening of diversified channels to acquire lands, deep cultivation&#13;<br \/>\nin advantageous regions and expansion in potential cities.<\/li>\n<li>For&#13;<br \/>\nthe first seven months of 2021, the Group achieved contracted sales of RMB157.03&#13;<br \/>\nbillion, increased by 53% year on year, representing 59% of its 2021 full year&#13;<br \/>\ncontracted sales target of RMB265 billion. The contracted average selling price&#13;<br \/>\nwas approximately RMB17,800 per sq.m. <sup>(excluding car parks and storage spaces)<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>Achieved&#13;<br \/>\na cash collection ratio of over 90% from contracted sales, maintaining the&#13;<br \/>\nindustry&#8217;s leading level.<\/li>\n<li>Since&#13;<br \/>\nthe beginning of 2021, the Group has strategically entered 8 new cities, including&#13;<br \/>\nYancheng, Luan, Xuancheng, Liaocheng, Dezhou, Rizhao, Putian and Zhuzhou.<\/li>\n<li>Its&#13;<br \/>\nhigh-quality land bank has covered 85 cities in different geographical regions,&#13;<br \/>\nover 90% of which was located at first-, second- and prosperous third-tier&#13;<br \/>\ncities with sustained economic recovery. The Group expects the saleable resources&#13;<br \/>\nin the second half of the year to be approximately RMB260 billion. Management&#13;<br \/>\nis confident of completing its 2021 contracted sales target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Continued to optimize a healthy debt structure and debt&#13;<br \/>\nmaturity<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carried&#13;<br \/>\nout the major financing transactions, optimized the debt maturity structure and&#13;<br \/>\nreduced financing costs through increasing the issuance of green US Dollar Bonds,&#13;<br \/>\nwhich was expected to be sufficient to meet our needs of refinancing.<\/li>\n<li>Abundant&#13;<br \/>\ncash on hand, reaching RMB52.41 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Net&#13;<br \/>\ndebt-to-equity ratio and weighted average cost of indebtedness improved to 60.4%&#13;<br \/>\nand 5.1% respectively, comparing with those as at the end of 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Diversified&#13;<br \/>\nreal estate plus business layout with continuous implementation to drive growth<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By&#13;<br \/>\nthe end of July, CIFI Commercial has entered 16 cities, and opened 9 shopping&#13;<br \/>\nmalls, with a total GFA of 630,000 sq.m., and over 30 commercial complexes&#13;<br \/>\nreserved in total laid a solid foundation for achieving rapid rental income&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth in the next three years.<\/li>\n<li>As&#13;<br \/>\nof August, LingYu International, a long-term leasing apartment business&#13;<br \/>\ncompany, has entered more than 10 cities, focusing on 6 core cities, with nearly&#13;<br \/>\n80,000 rooms. It was ranked TOP3 in the development category of long-term leasing&#13;<br \/>\nbrands.<\/li>\n<li>Recently,&#13;<br \/>\nCIFI has signed benchmarking projects under entrusted development, including&#13;<br \/>\nthe headquarters of the world&#8217;s top 500 companies and commercial complexes, as&#13;<br \/>\nwell as residential projects.<\/li>\n<li>Successfully&#13;<br \/>\nobtained the Wuzhou Hospital project in Chaoyang District, Beijing, which will converge&#13;<br \/>\nBeijing&#8217;s outstanding medical rehabilitation resources to create the features of&#13;<br \/>\nintensive rehabilitation. Accordingly, a duel project layout of &#8220;medical&#13;<br \/>\ncare + elderly care&#8221; has been completed in Beijing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Recognized by international and onshore credit rating agencies <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standard&#13;<br \/>\n&amp; Poor, Fitch and Moody&#8217;s maintained the Company&#8217;s credit ratings at &#8220;BB&#8221; (with&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Stable&#8221; outlook), &#8220;BB&#8221; (with &#8220;Stable&#8221; outlook) and &#8220;Ba2&#8221; (with &#8220;Stable&#8221; outlook)&#13;<br \/>\nrespectively. Lianhe Global maintained the Company&#8217;s credit rating at &#8220;BBB-&#8220;&#13;<br \/>\n(with &#8220;Stable&#8221; outlook).<\/li>\n<li>China&#13;<br \/>\nChengxin Credit Rating, United Ratings and China Lianhe Credit Rating, each&#13;<br \/>\nassigned &#8220;AAA&#8221; onshore credit ratings to the Company and CIFI PRC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fulfilled&#13;<br \/>\nhigh standards of ESG management and become a model of ESG enterprise<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CIFI&#13;<br \/>\nissued the first green finance report, proactively disclosing the use and allocation&#13;<br \/>\nof proceeds from the green bonds and the environmental benefits generated, and&#13;<br \/>\nobtaining independent third-party&#8217;s assurance, which set another benchmark among&#13;<br \/>\nindustrial peers.<\/li>\n<li>In&#13;<br \/>\nAugust, Hang Seng Indexes announced that CIFI would be included to Hang Seng&#13;<br \/>\nESG 50 Index for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>Issued&#13;<br \/>\nits first syndicated green loan of nearly HK$2.8 billion.<\/li>\n<li>In&#13;<br \/>\nMay 2021, the Company issued two batches of green US dollar senior notes with an&#13;<br \/>\naggregate amount of US$500 million. The 5.25-year maturity green senior notes&#13;<br \/>\nbore an interest rate of 4.45% per annum with an amount of US$350 million; while&#13;<br \/>\nthe 7-year maturity green senior notes bore an interest rate of 4.8% per annum&#13;<br \/>\nwith an amount of US$150 million, representing the longest maturity among&#13;<br \/>\noffshore bonds issued by CIFI. <\/li>\n<li>Donated&#13;<br \/>\nRMB100 million to Xiamen University to establish the &#8220;CIFI Education&#13;<br \/>\nDevelopment Fund&#8221; to support university education.<\/li>\n<li>After&#13;<br \/>\na devastating rainstorm disaster hit in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, CIFI Charity&#13;<br \/>\nFoundation announced a donation of RMB10 million to urgently assist the local&#13;<br \/>\nflood prevention and disaster relief work and actively participate in post-disaster&#13;<br \/>\nreconstruction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Received various domestic and international&#13;<br \/>\nawards and recognitions; CIFI&#8217;s market position in the industry has been further&#13;<br \/>\nenhanced<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CIFI was ranked at 766th in the &#8220;Forbes Global 2000&#13;<br \/>\nList&#8221;, 142 places higher than last year. In the list, a total of 395 companies come&#13;<br \/>\nfrom Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.<\/li>\n<li>CIFI was listed in the top 13 of &#8220;Comprehensive&#13;<br \/>\nCompetitiveness List of 2021 Listed Real Estate Enterprises in China&#8221;, 2 places&#13;<br \/>\nhigher than last year.<\/li>\n<li>CIFI&#13;<br \/>\nwas ranked 38th in the &#8220;2021 Forbes China Philanthropy List&#8221;, and the rankings&#13;<br \/>\nhad improved for three consecutive years.<\/li>\n<li>CIFI has won multiple awards in the &#8220;2021&#13;<br \/>\nAll-Asia Executive Team&#8221; of real estate industry comprehensive ranking held by&#13;<br \/>\nthe international financial magazine <i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Institutional Investor<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> for the&#13;<br \/>\nfifth consecutive year, and also won the third position of &#8220;Honored Companies&#13;<br \/>\nin Asia&#8221;.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Financial Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>For&#13;<br \/>\n  the six months ended 30 June<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>2021&#13;<br \/>\n  <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">2020<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">YoY&#13;<br \/>\n  Growth<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Contracted sales<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Contracted&#13;<br \/>\n  sales (RMB&#8217; million) <\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>136,150<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">80,730<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+68.6%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Contracted&#13;<br \/>\n  GFA (sq.m.)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>7,973,300<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">4,895,900<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+62.9%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Contracted ASP (RMB\/sq.m.)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>17,100<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">16,500<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+3.6%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Key&#13;<br \/>\n  financial performance (RMB&#8217; million)<\/b><b> <\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Recognized&#13;<br \/>\n  revenue<b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>36,373<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">23,022<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+58.0%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Gross&#13;<br \/>\n  profit<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>7,525<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">5,901<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+27.5%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Profit for the period attributable to equity owners<b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>3,603<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">3,369<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+6.9%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Core&#13;<br \/>\n  net profit attributable to equity owners<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>3,346<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">3,194<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+4.8%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Core&#13;<br \/>\n  basic earnings per share, RMB cents<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>41<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">41<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>As&#13;<br \/>\n  at <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>30&#13;<br \/>\n  June 2021<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">As&#13;<br \/>\n  at <\/p>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">31&#13;<br \/>\n  Dec 2020<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Key&#13;<br \/>\n  balance sheet data (RMB&#8217; million)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Total&#13;<br \/>\n  assets<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>439,991<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">379,299<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+16.0%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Bank balances and cash<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>52,406<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">51,155<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+2.4%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Total&#13;<br \/>\n  indebtedness<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>110,747<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; 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<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">+3.7%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Net&#13;<br \/>\n  debt-to-equity ratio<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>60.4%<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">64.0%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">-3.6&#13;<br \/>\n  p.p.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Weighted&#13;<br \/>\n  average cost of indebtedness<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><b>5.1%<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">5.4%<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">-0.3&#13;<br \/>\n  p.p.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n  <\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&#13; 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Ltd<\/a><\/b> (&#8220;CIFI&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\nor the &#8220;Group&#8221;, HKEX stock code: 884), a leading real estate developer engaged&#13;<br \/>\nin property development and investment business mainly in the first-, second-&#13;<br \/>\nand quality-third-tier cities in China, is pleased to announce its interim&#13;<br \/>\nresults for the six months ended 30 June 2021. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking&#13;<br \/>\nforward to the second half of 2021, with the solid progress in the national&#13;<br \/>\nsystematic pandemic prevention and control and the development of economy and&#13;<br \/>\nsociety, the resilience of economic development will continuously be shown.&#13;<br \/>\nHowever, the global pandemic deteriorated due to new varieties of COVID-19, and&#13;<br \/>\nthe overall environment at home and abroad is still complex and severe. It is&#13;<br \/>\nexpected that the central government will adhere to prudent real estate&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial management policies in order to prevent financial risks. Furthermore,&#13;<br \/>\nregulatory measures system at the supply end will be continuously improved and&#13;<br \/>\ndeepened, and irregular flow of funds into the real estate market will be strictly&#13;<br \/>\nmonitored to ensure the realization of the goal of stabilizing land prices, housing&#13;<br \/>\nprices and the expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For&#13;<br \/>\nthe seven months ended 31 July 2021, the Group already achieved contracted&#13;<br \/>\nsales of RMB157.03 billion, representing 59% of its 2021 full year contracted sales&#13;<br \/>\ntarget. Thanks to the Group&#8217;s proactive implementation and deepening of diversified&#13;<br \/>\nchannels to acquire lands, deep cultivation in advantageous regions and&#13;<br \/>\nexpansion in potential cities, its high-quality land bank has covered 85 cities&#13;<br \/>\nin different geographical regions, over 90% of which was located at first-,&#13;<br \/>\nsecond- and prosperous third-tier cities with sustained economic recovery. The&#13;<br \/>\nGroup expects the saleable resources in the second half of the year to be approximately&#13;<br \/>\nRMB260 billion, and its management is confident of completing its 2021&#13;<br \/>\ncontracted sales target.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Mr. Lin Zhong, Chairman and Executive Director of the&#13;<br \/>\nGroup <\/b>said, &#8220;2021 is the closing&#13;<br \/>\nyear of the Group&#8217;s &#8220;Second Five-Year Plan&#8221;. Through the unremitting efforts of&#13;<br \/>\nall employees, the Group continued to pursue steady and high-quality&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment, and achieved balance among scale expansion, profitability, and&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial safety, and consolidated CIFI&#8217;s leading position as a top developer&#13;<br \/>\nin China&#8217;s real estate industry. Looking forward, CIFI is still firmly&#13;<br \/>\noptimistic about its principal business of property development, and is committed&#13;<br \/>\nto incubating property related businesses to help development and to complement&#13;<br \/>\neach other. Meanwhile, the management is also optimistic about the development&#13;<br \/>\nof self-owned rental generating properties. The management will continue to explore&#13;<br \/>\nthe transformation from solely residential development to development + investment&#13;<br \/>\nproperties, and adheres to the commercial development route of &#8220;pursuing high&#13;<br \/>\nquality in first- and second-tier cities and pursuing scale in third-tier&#13;<br \/>\ncities&#8221;. The Group also puts great significance on promoting its management standard&#13;<br \/>\non environmental protection, social responsibility, and corporate governance. From&#13;<br \/>\nthe level of the Group&#8217;s strategic planning, we pledge full commitment to forge&#13;<br \/>\nCIFI as one of the Fortune Global 500 enterprises with outstanding results,&#13;<br \/>\npersistent performance of social responsibility and excellent corporate&#13;<br \/>\ngovernance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-08-26\/91861\/cifi-group-announces-2021-interim-results\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue grew by 58.0% year on year to RMB36.4 billion and&#13; &#13; &#13; Interim dividend amounted to HK12 cents per share Rental income grew significantly by 79% year on year to&#13; RMB391 million Contracted sales increased by 53% year on year to RMB157.03&#13; billion for the first seven months, representing 59% of full year target &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}