Beijing Jingkelong Company Limited provided group earnings guidance for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. For the nine months, the company announced that, based on a preliminary review of the consolidated management accounts of the group, the group's net profit for the nine months ended 30 September 2017 is presently expected to significantly increase by approximately 110%, as compared with that for the nine months ended 30 September 2016. Such increase in net profit is mainly attributable to the optimization of the marketing and pricing policies of the group resulting in an increase in the group's gross profit margin; the closure of six loss-making supermarkets by the Group in 2016.