In the morning of May 16, the second project that Evergrande Real Estate Group builds with great efforts in Hefei Evergrande City was ceremoniously launched to the market. It was an unprecedently grand occasion with spectacular imposing manner. Relevant leaders of Hefei government such as Mr. Liu Liedong, the standing committee member and vice mayor of Hefei, Mr.
Wang Deman, secretary of district committee of Yaohai District, Mr. Hua Ai, secretary general of the municipal CPPCC of Hefei, and Mr. Gao Guozhong, chief of Hefei Land and Resources Bureau and reporters of over 100 domestic and overseas media participated in the grand ceremony.Dr. Xia Haijun, vice chairman of the board of directors and president of Evergrande Real Estate Group made wonderful speech in the grand launching ceremony.
After the launching activities, Dr. Xia Haijun, vice chairman of the board of directors and president of Evergrande Real Estate Group made free exchange of opinions with media reporters.
It is reported that the sales achievement of Evergrande City is not bad since the launching. Until 13:00, there had been more than 1,000 visitors of Evergrande City. The trading volume was over 400 suites, and the trading amount was over 2.26 million yuan.
Dr. Xia Haijun, vice chairman of the board of directors and president of Evergrande Real Estate Group made a speech in the launching ceremony.
The following is the speech of president Xia Haijun:
Dear vice mayor Liu Liedong, dear leaders, guests, and friends from media:
Ladies and gentlemen:
Welcome to Hefei!
Today, we get together in the beautiful ancient city Hefei to jointly witness the ceremonious launching of Hefei Evergrande City. First of all, on behalf of Professor Xu Jiayin, chairman of the board of directors of Evergrande Real Estate Group and more than 10,000 employees of Evergrande, let me express the warmest welcome and the most sincere gratitude to leaders, guests, and friends from the media present in the grand ceremony.
In the past 13 years since its establishment, Evergrande Real Estate Group has got the powerful support of friends from various circles of the society, and has ranked among the top 10 real estate enterprises of China for seven consecutive years. Evergrande has 57 series project in 25 major cities of the country such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Nanjing, Xi an, Changsha, Taiyuan, Kunming, and Hefei, covering several product series such as the high-end, middle-end, middle- and high-end, and tourism real estate, and has become the developer with the most land reserves and the one which develops real estate in most provincial capitals.
In 2009, we had successfully been listed in Hong Kong and had overfulfilled all operation objectives. The sales amount of the year is 30.3 billion yuan, and the area of sold houses is 5640,000 square meters, both with the increase up to 400% compared with those in the previous year. At present, the total assets of Evergrande exceed 63 billion yuan.
There are totally 41 projects under construction and 32 projects on sale, and the area of salable projects under construction is 16479000 square meters. In the first quarter this year, Evergrande ranked first among real estate enterprises of the country with the area of sold houses of more than 1.3 million square meters and ranked the second among real estate enterprises of the country with the sales volume of about ten billion yuan.
As the leader of high-quality real estate carrying out standardized operation in China, we have continuously implemented the strategy of large-scale enterprise and high-quality and standardized products. Through the efforts of several years, we have integrated the superior resources all over the world, established the strategic union with domestic and overseas leading enterprises in the relevant industry, and have become the first leading enterprise in real estate industry which really integrated resources comprehensively with the largest integration scope, the largest integrated quantity, and the most powerful brand.
This is not only the leap of product quality we make by fully integrating the most excellent enterprises in the relevant industry of real estate all over the world for jointly building high-quality Evergrande real estate, but also our pioneering undertaking for exploring the standardized operation mode of high-quality real estate of China.
In 2010, stableness and harmony is still the core theme of the real estate market. Spacious mansions and value the first is still the residence ideal of the general mass. Evergrande series products have been warmly welcomed by numerous house buyers with their excellent quality and super-high cost performance rate.
At present, Evergrande is offering the 15% discount for all projects in the country, expressing the aim and dream of many years of Evergrande to build houses for people's livelihood with its practical action. Today, about month after the release of the new policies o real estate, the site where Hefei Evergrande City is launched is crowded with people, proving again the existence of the rigid demand on real estate in China and the untiring pursuit of ordinary people for commercial houses of high cost-performance rate.
The project of Evergrande City developed by Evergrande with a huge amount of investment in Hefei is another high-quality real estate masterpiece for Hefei citizens as a tribute after the Evergrande Palace was successfully launched to the market, and is a perfect product created in six months after we acquired the land by integrating resources of famous domestic and overseas brands and cooperating with world-level groups. The requirement on speed of project development of Evergrande is met. The speed is really rare in the development and construction of real estate in China, which again reflects the development theory of Evergrande, namely, no store-up of land, rapid development, high-quality operation, and interest concession to people. Located along Changjiang East Road, the No. 1 road of Anhui Province, facing the super large central lake of 8,000 m2, the project creates the unique water-bank life in the east of the city. With complete and considerate supporting services and facilities such as the international bilingual kindergarten, the 5200-m2 super luxurious club, and the commercial street of international style, the project certainly will become a shining pearl with the highest residence value, investment value, cultural value, and architectural value.
Looking forward to the future, Evergrande will continue to provide residences of the highest quality for house buyers all over the country and make contribution for promoting the urbanization process and the prosperous development of the real estate industry in China. We will repay our shareholders, customers, and the society with our resplendent development achievement! At the end, let me express my gratitude for your coming. Wish you a happy family and good luck in everything.
Thank you!
The site of the launching ceremony
Waiting area for selection of launched houses
House-selecting area