Jilin Jiutai Rural Commercial Bank Corporation Limited provided earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2016. The board of directors of the bank announced that based on a preliminary assessment of the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the group for the year ended December 31, 2016 and the information currently available to the board, the group is expected to record a growth of not less than 40% in the net profit for the year ended December 31, 2016, compared with that for the year ended December 31, 2015. The board believes that the growth in net profit of the group is mainly due to, among other things, the increased deposits taken by the group, the increased available funds and the increasingly expanded asset scale.