West China Cement Limited provided earnings guidance for the six months ending 30 June 2015. The board of directors of the company announced that, based on the preliminary assessment by the Board on the unaudited management accounts of the group for the five months ended 30 May 2015, and the progress of operations in the month of June 2015, the company expects to record a significant decrease in net profit for the six months ending 30 June 2015 compared to the corresponding period of 2014. The anticipated significant decrease in net profit of the group was mainly attributable to the continued low average selling prices of cement in the group's operating areas over the past twelve months, especially in the Central Shaanxi region.

The group has however been able to maintain reasonable selling prices and healthy margins in the Southern Shaanxi region. The directors believe that the Group's current efforts in promoting the further consolidation of the Shaanxi cement market will lead to an improvement in cement pricing and operations in Central Shaanxi Province going forward.