China LNG Group Limited provided preliminary unaudited consolidated earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2016. For the year, the group is expected to record a significant decrease in the consolidated net profit and the consolidated profit attributable to equity shareholders of the company by more than 60% and 75%, respectively compared to the consolidated net profit of approximately HKD 401.1 million and profit attributable to equity shareholder of the company of HKD 401.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The company is of the view that the decrease in the consolidated net profit is mainly due to the incompletion of an investment project while most of the company's surplus cash had been reserved for this project instead of being put to use in earning profitable investment income.