The board of directors of Hengtai Securities Co. Ltd. announced that, based on the information currently available to the Group and a preliminary assessment by the Company on the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the Group for the year ended 31 December 2017, the Group is expected to record an increase of approximately 50% in the profit attributable to the Shareholders for the year ended 31 December 2017 as compared to the year of 2016. The Board considers that such increase was mainly due to the fact that the Company well kept abreast of the market dynamics and achieved significant increase in profit of proprietary business while the brokerage business accomplished its operation objectives satisfactorily.