China Evergrande Group announced unaudited sales results for the month and year ended December 2016. For the month, the Group's contracted sales of properties amounted to approximately RMB 24.52 billion. The contracted sales area was approximately 2.740 million square meters. For the year 2016, the contracted sales amount was approximately RMB 373.37 billion, an increase of 85.4% over the contracted sales amount for the year 2015. The contracted sales area for the year was approximately 44.690 million square meters. The Group's sales collection for the year amounted to approximately RMB 300.89 billion as at 31 December 2016.