Central China Securities Co., Ltd. provided consolidated earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2014. For the year, the company expected to record a significant increase in net profit attributable to the shareholders, representing an estimated growth of approximately 120% to 130% as compared with the net profit attributable to the shareholders of approximately RMB 252.93 million for the year ended December 31, 2013. The estimated significant growth was mainly due to after completion of listing of the company in Hong Kong, significant increase in its capital and funds and continued expansion of the scale of its capital-based intermediary businesses that brought a significant increase in its revenues; the activeness of the A share market with soaring trading volume of its securities and the increase in the market share of the company's brokerage business that brought an apparent increase in the revenue; outstanding results in its fixed income investments achieved by capturing the opportunities arise in the bond market; an increase in revenue of its client asset management business and an enhancement in the results of its product management business, which offset the estimated debts allowed for the last year in accordance with accounting principles during the current year; and an improving gearing ratio with a significant increase in yield of its net assets.