Beijing: Troubled developer China Evergrande Group says it can promote its stake in an incomplete improvement close to Shanghai for US$575mil (RM2.41bil) because it scrambles to seek out money to pay its mammoth money owed.
The true property big is drowning in US$300bil (RM1.26 trillion) of liabilities, and has struggled to repay bondholders and traders after a clampdown by Beijing instantly turned off the liquidity faucets.
Yesterday the developer mentioned it will promote the Crystal Metropolis Mission, an enormous industrial zone in Hangzhou, an jap metropolis exterior of Shanghai for 3.66 billion yuan (RM2.41bil).
A part of the proceeds from the sale will go to repaying development charges of 920.7 million yuan (RM608.71mil), the corporate mentioned in a submitting with the Hong Kong inventory alternate.
The remaining money will probably be used as “normal working capital of the group,” Evergrande added.
“The group’s liquidity concern has adversely affected the event and progress of the group’s initiatives,” it mentioned.
On Tuesday night time, the agency’s Evergrande New Electrical Automobile unit additionally confirmed in a separate submitting that it plans to begin mass manufacturing of its first electrical automotive on June 22.
It had mentioned Sunday it will begin taking orders for the automotive and open gross sales facilities in 15 main Chinese language cities, together with in Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
However the announcement was unable to stop the unit’s share worth plunging virtually 10% yesterday after resuming buying and selling.
The auto arm had halted buying and selling on March 21 together with Evergrande Group and Evergrande Property Companies.
That got here because the developer mentioned it was trying into how lenders have laid declare to deposits of greater than 13.4 billion yuan (RM8.85bil) for its property companies subsidiary.
Nevertheless, the board of the electrical automobile unit mentioned this “primarily considerations a sister firm”, permitting its shares to restart buying and selling.
Evergrande mentioned final week it will not be capable of publish its 2021 audited outcomes by the tip of March – as Hong Kong’s itemizing guidelines require – blaming the delay on Covid-19.
It has repeatedly mentioned it will end initiatives and ship them to patrons in a determined bid to salvage its money owed, and had requested collectors to present the corporate time. — AFP