Beijing North Star Co. Ltd. provided earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2011. The net profit attributable to equity holders of the company for the year is estimated to increase by approximately 100% as compared with the corresponding period last year. The increase was due to the additional investment properties held by the company had comparatively smoothly weathered through the initial struggling period in 2011, whereby the company achieved favorable results, resulting in a steep rise in the net profit attributable to equity holders of the company as compared with last year; and since the 'housing properties with restrictions on size and selling prices' served as one of the development projects of the company mainly being accounted for in 2010 while ordinary commodity houses were chiefly accounted for by the company in 2011, the net profit attributable to the equity holders of the company increased in 2011 as compared with last year.