As the Exclusive Sponsor of 23rd Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament, Evergrande Supports Guangzhou Sports Undertakings with Great Strength

On March 25^th, the press conference & draw ceremony of Evergrande Real Estate Group 23^rd Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament was held in Guangzhou. Dr. Xia Haijun, the vice chairman of the board of directors and President of Evergrande Real Estate Group, attended the press conference to give a speech. For meeting the coming Guangzhou Asian Tournaments 2010, Evergrande Real Estate Group exclusively sponsors the Tournament with the sponsorship of RMB 2 million once again to support 23^rd Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament to be held in Guangzhou.

President Xia Haijun attending the press conference

With sponsoring experience for Chinese national ball-table tennis game, Evergrande Real Estate Group exclusively sponsored the 49^th World Table Tennis Championship with the sponsorship of RMB 20 million in January of 2008, which created the history that it s the first time for a Chinese enterprise to exclusively sponsor a world table tennis game. Furthermore, the national ball spirit of struggling hard & keep moving coincidently matches with Evergrande Real Estate Group enterprise spirit of struggling hard & exploring forward. To exclusively sponsor 23^rd Asian Table Tennis Tournament not only supports the table tennis undertakings with great strength again but also offers another high-level sports game to Guangzhou city in the year of Asian Games.

President Xia giving a speech in the press conference

The complete content of the speech presented by President Xia on the press conference of Evergrande Real Estate Group 23^rd Asian Table Tennis Tournament is as follows:

All the athletes from different countries & regions, honored leaders & guests, local & foreign journalists: Good afternoon!

Today, we gather together in Guangzhou, a beautiful city, to experience the endless charm of the coming grand sports event of Evergrande Real Estate Group 23^rd Asian Table Tennis Tournament. As the exclusive sponsor for this game, I feel great honor. And now, on behalf of Dr. Xu Jiayin, the chairman of the director board of Evergrande Real Estate Group, and all the staff of Evergrande, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Asian Table Tennis Association, China Table Tennis Association, Guangzhou Municipal Sports Authority, Guangzhou Table Tennis Association, and the organization committee of the 23^rd Asian Table Tennis Tournament for providing such a good opportunity to us; in addition, here I would also like to extend my warm welcome to all the athletes and coaches from Asian countries and regions as well as the warm greeting to all of you.

As the Chinese national sport and one of the most popular & widely developed sports in the world, table tennis prevails all over the world. From the point of view of competition, exchange, participation and culture, table tennis game surpasses all the other games. Its exuberant vitality and wide mass basis will certainly refresh its new vigor and produce new influence through this tournament.

The sport spirit of healthiness, striving, actively reflected in table tennis, coincidently matches with the enterprise spirit of Evergrande Real Estate Group of pioneering in a career through hard work, unselfish contribution, striving, and exploring forward. For over ten years, Evergrande Real Estate Group that is full of innovation has made great efforts to struggle for the national brand s flourish.

Currently, Evergrande Real Estate Group has been an international large real estate comprehensive development enterprise, which has ranked into the top 10 China real estate enterprise for seven consecutive years. Evergrande Real Estate Group that was listed in the stock market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2009 becomes the non-state owned real estate enterprise of the highest market value from China Mainland listed in Hong Kong.

Evergrande Real Estate Group is grateful for this era to provide us with the opportunity of development and prosperity; in addition, Evergrande staff also like healthy and active sports in deep heart. For a long time, we actively take the social responsibility to make great efforts to be engaged in the social commonweal activities of sports, education, charity, and culture, etc. We co-organized the Women Table Tennis World Cup and the 49^th Table Tennis World Championship and established the first local professional volleyball club named Evergrande Women Volleyball Club in China that is coached by Lang Ping, so as to explore the development way for China professional volleyball clubs. Besides, we have recently become the host of Guangzhou Football Club and we hope to contribute to the recovery of China football undertaking. It can be said that the great support to social commonweal undertakings such as sports becomes an important part in the development history of Evergrande and promotes the rapid flourish of Evergrande.

I believe that this game will provide a hard-won competition opportunity for the top table tennis players in the world and offer high-level visual enjoyment for table tennis fans; furthermore, it will promote the flourishing development of world table tennis. This will certainly be a high-level grand meeting of table tennis, a grand meeting of sports full of excellence and an Asian grand meeting of harmony and happiness.

At last, I wish every athlete a good performance and wish you a fantastic and memorable China tour in Guangzhou in the year of Asian Games. And I wish Evergrande Real Estate Group 23^rd Asian Table Tennis Tournament a great success!

Thank you!

President Xia accepting the commemorative trophy cup from Mr. Cai Zhenhua, deputy director of General Administration of Sport of China

Joint photo of President Xia and deputy director Cai Zhenhua

President Xia friendly chatting with Guangzhou Mayor Mr. Zhang Guangning