China Best Group Holding Limited provided preliminary earnings guidance for the year ended 31 December 2018. For the year, the board of directors of the company announced the shareholders of the company and potential investors that based on preliminary review and assessment of the Group's unaudited financial information currently available to it, the Group is expected to record a substantial loss for the year ended 31 December 2018 as compared to its net profit of approximately HKD 24.5 million for the year ended 31 December 2017. The Board considers that such loss was mainly attributable to, among other things, the gain on disposal of interests in associates amounting to approximately HKD 29 million recognized in the first half of 2017, which is a non-recurring income, the unrealized fair value loss of approximately HKD 13 million in respect of investment in listed securities held for trading as at 31 December 2018, and the substantial decrease in trading revenue resulting in this business segment's gross profit to decline by approximately HKD 4 million.