Deson Development International Holdings Limited provided earnings guidance for the six months ended September 30, 2017. For the period, the company may record a decrease in profit attributable to the owners of the company by 97%, as compared to that for the corresponding period in 2016. Based on the information currently available to the Board, such considerable decrease was mainly attributable to: the decrease in the profit contribution from Deson Construction International Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries as a result of DCIHL Group are ceasing to be subsidiaries of the Group upon completion of the placing of 200,000,000 shares of DCIHL to independent placees on 31 March 2017. The construction business and securities investment business of the DCIHL Group were classified as discontinued operation for the six months ended 30 September 2016. During the Reporting Period, the Company has re- classified the interest in DCIHL Group as an investment in associate, which was accounted for by using equity method; and the decrease in the profit contribution from property development and investment segment in the Reporting Period arising from the Group's one-off profit from the disposal of a six-storey office premises (properties held for sales) in the Kaifeng City, Henan Province of the People's Republic of China for six months ended 30 September 2016. During this Reporting Period, the majority of sales arrangement has been contracted and title will be transferred in early 2018, while sales revenue will only be recognised for the year ending 31 March 2018.