Fosun International Limited (656) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
April 1, 2020
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Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Dear analysts and investors and rating agencies and media friends, good morning, everyone. I'm [ Hiwei Bo ]. Welcome to Fosun International 2019 Annual Results Announcement. And today, we are very honored to have our Chairman, Mr. Guo Guangchang; and also Executive Director and also Co-Chairman of Fosun International, Mr. Wang Qunbin; Fosun International Executive Director, Co-CEO, Mr. Chen Qiyu; Fosun International Executive Director, Co-Chairman and CEO, Mr. Xu Xiaoliang; Fosun International Executive Director, Senior Vice President and CFO, Mr. Gong Ping. Well, today, we are also very honored to have the Co-CFO, Mr. Zhang Houlin; and also deputy CFO, Mr. [ Zhu Wenxian ], also with us today; and also Co-CFO, Mr. Zhang Ligang. And next, we would like to invite Mr. Gong Ping to review our annual results.
Gong Ping
executive[Interpreted] Well, thank you, and I would also like to thank all the other members and executives. And welcome, and we would like to welcome all our shareholders for this annual results announcement. First of all, I would like to share with you what happened to Fosun International in 2019. First of all, the financial highlights. During 2019, we have hit a record high to get to RMB 143 billion for total revenue, up by 31%. The profit attributable to owners of the parent amounted to CNY 14.8 billion, up by 10%. In terms of industrial operating profit, up by 21%, you can see this going up. Also, in 2019 for Fosun International and on top of the interim dividend, you can see that the dividend amounts to HKD 0.4 per share. And then you can see that over the past 4 years, the CAGR of dividend per share is 24%. In terms of the leverage ratio, you can see it has been reduced to 53.5%. And then also, you can see that all together, HKD 24 for the adjusted NAV per share, the ROE went up by 12.8%. And you can see we make continued efforts on our 3 segments: health and happiness and wealth. And you can see, they made a very good contribution, and you can also see that 31% increase. And for health, 40% (sic) [ 14% ] up year-on-year. And for the happiness segment, up by 50%, so happiness segment is a very great contributor. For wealth, up by 20%. So it is driven by the internal business and also the external M&A. For Fosun product mix, it can be divided into 8 business lines. And we have our pharmaceutical manufacturing, R&D; medical and health services; medical equipment and diagnoses for health. For happiness, we can further divide it into brand consumption and tourism and culture. For wealth, household finance accounts for more than 50%, and we also have corporate finance and investment. And then for Fosun International, as an innovation-driven consumer group, we continue to consolidate our business. And you can see, top 5 subsidiaries include Yuyuan, Fosun Pharma, Fosun Tourism Group, Fidelidade and Peak Reinsurance. And for these 5 subsidiaries, we have also seen great improvement. And the average growth in revenue is more than 50 -- or 22%, and they contributed 81% of the total revenue. And then next, let's take a look at the growth of the profit in different segments. First of all, for the happiness, you can see it is really and very splendid increase. You can see 24% increase from the happiness business, particularly FOLIDAY last year. And we can also see this almost doubled, and that is around 97% increase in the FOLIDAY business. And for the health business, last year, you can see that CNY 1.56 billion particularly contributed by our Fosun Pharma. And therefore, the wealth business, you can see more than CNY 2.6 billion for the insurance. And you can also see 9% increase year-on-year. And then for the finance and also for the investment, we can see the contribution is also huge. And at the same time, while we have and see the continuous improvement on the profit, we also put a lot of emphasis on the stable growth. So we want to see a very balanced business and also a very healthy balance sheet for Fosun International, and we have also put a lot of emphasis on the stable business. And by the end of last year, you can also see in terms of leverage ratio hitting 53.5%, lower from 53.7%. And currently, we think that this is a very good and also very sound leverage ratio. And also in terms of the foreign and local currency, so you can see it is around half-half. And also in terms of the debt, you can see 60 percentages, 40% in terms of the long-term and short-term debt. And I think it is really very good balance. And then we can also see that 5.06% of the debt. And in terms of liquidity, we can see the average cost of the debt is 5.06%. So we will continue to have our flexible debt mixture. And also over the past years, you can see the growth and also the rapid growth for profit. For example, in terms of the CAGR, you can see that is 23% over the past 8 years. And also for the EPS, 80% (sic) [ 18% ] for the CAGR. And for the book value per share, the CAGR is 16%. In terms of the growth of the profit, EPS and also the book value, so that is a very stable growth. We also put a lot on emphasis on the efficiency over the past 4 years. And you can also see that in terms of the stable ROE, that is a 24% CAGR of the dividend payout per share in 2019, you can see, ROE is around 12.8%. Compared with the past 5 years, you can see it is also very stable. Previously, it was around 13% for ROE. Now it is 12.8%. And also, our target is 50% (sic) [ 15% ] for our all subsidiaries. We would like to put more emphasis on the product competitiveness and also branding and R&D and also refined management. We believe that we are able to fulfill this ROE target. And we also have a stable dividend payout, and you can see by the end of March, you can see 20% for the dividend payout ratio. Yes, that is also very brilliant. Therefore, in terms of the financial highlights, and I would also like to share with you more information about some other highlights. And in 2020, in Q1, we continue our financing to optimize on our bond financing structure. As we all know that over the past 3 months and for our macroeconomic context, there are a lot of challenges. And despite that, we have also completed several rounds on our financing. For example, for our subsidiaries, we have successfully issued CNY 15.46 billion for our bonds, and the average cost in financing is 3.87%. And also CMBS for Atlantis is excluded, which is 5%. Even for the 5% for the Atlantis, the term is still very long. So overall speaking, in Q1 in the financing market, our performance was pretty good. It also shows the confidence by the investors upon the Fosun International in terms of the financing in the international market, and we also have very good management for the capital. So this is the financial highlights for Fosun International in 2019. Next, I would like to invite Mr. Chen Qiyu, Co-CEO, to share with us our corporate development and also the prospect.
Qiyu Chen
executive[Interpreted] Well, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Gong Ping, Next, I would like to share with you the business review. Well, for Fosun, over the past years of growth and for more than 2 decades, and currently, it is already our Phase 3 for our strategic focus. So from the start-up period from 1992 to 2010, and in the start-up period, we have completed our industrial operation. And from 2010 to 2019, we continued to move into the industrial layout and the innovation for our investment. And then since 2019, we put more emphasis on the strategic focus and the innovation-driven consumer group, and we are going to take a deep root in health, happiness and wealth, these 3 segments. And based on these key segments, we would like to build our good brands, good products and good enterprises in order to provide the services, including the health, happiness, wealth and for the global families. And we would like to take the leadership in ROE and also the sustainable growth of operating income. And then we have also seen the history of the developed economies. For example, the growth of GDP per capita and especially after USD 12,000 per capita, you can see the segments of health and happiness and wealth growing very dramatically especially for those developed countries. So the history proves the growth of health and happiness and wealth sectors. And in China, many cities and provinces, they have already exceeded USD 12,000. And then for a lot of cities in China, they have also exceeded USD 8,000 per capita and also trying to hit USD 12,000 per capita. So going forward, we believe that it is a very huge potential in the health and happiness and wealth. So we are very confident about that. In 2020, our key word for Fosun is focus. So in our annual meetings and conferences, we put a lot of emphasis on focus in order to improve our business competitiveness and also ROE. Talking about the focus, it can be divided into 4 parts. First of all is strategy focus: global family, C2M, innovation in order to come up with the ecosystem synergy. Secondly, the industry focus, and based on our health and wealth and happiness, we will continue to focus on the industrial operation. And we hope that we can take the leadership in the products and enterprise and brand in order to develop and also achieve a high ROE. And we will continue to select our operations and segments to achieve this target. Then thirdly, investment focus. And we are also going to change our strategies for the buyout. And we would like to put more focuses on the industrial reinforcement in order to do more strategic merger and acquisition. And going forward, we are also going to be more innovation-driven in order to find more growth potential in the future. Then in terms of the focus on the regions, China is still our core region to take a deep root, of course, and we have our presence in different regions, and they will continue to be our focus. And then we have developed our pyramid asset structure. And for our asset structure, it can be divided into fundamental one, high-growth one and innovation-driven assets. For the fundamental assets, it is about safe and stable. And usually speaking, they are the industrial leaders in the sector. They are able to contribute sustainable profits and cash flow. And therefore the high-growth assets, like Fosun Pharma and also FOLIDAY, they have high-growth assets. They have their leadership in products and teams, and they will continue to build a very good product. So our target for those high-growth assets is about 50% in ROE, and we are also looking forward to high profit growth. And at the same time, they need to have the innovative industrial integration capabilities. And then in terms of the innovative-driven assets, they will be our future leadership. We will focus on long-term potential and competitive investments in innovation-driven sector. Well, for Fosun in terms of our business management, in order to drive our business, we have also come up with our own system. It is referred to as an FBS in order to support our industrial operation and investment. These 2 drivers, and we would like to accurately, precisely to find our focal points. First of all, we would like to focus on the innovation barrier, and we would also to find this fast market growth with high potential in these areas. We need to have our winning potential, and we need to have the potential for globalization and through the VC and acquisition and also licensing and also joint venture and other methodologies in order to enter into those innovative and potential areas in the health and wealth and happiness. And we will continue to build on our excellent teams and come up with our incentive mechanism, empower our talents and also the continuous investment in R&D because we believe that our R&D should represent 30% of our profit before tax because we want to make more investment on innovation and also business development in order to optimize our product line and also our operation. And we need to build our BD and marketing capabilities, both online and off-line, and also the optimization of the supply chain management. By a host of measures, we would like to empower and also take the leadership. And then for different product portfolio. And on top of our self-improvement, we would also like to have the ecological empowerment on the Fosun platform, our middle office and platform and harmonization of the data, integration of the data with our clients and suppliers. For the product mix, internally, externally, we need to be more interrelated, and we need to improve on our branding capabilities and also the branding and also marketing inside and outside our brands and also the supply chain optimization and also empowerment online and off-line for different scenarios. So in this way, for Fosun, we are able to empower our ecological enterprises, and then we can have the brilliant ecosystem. And then for our health care business, our focus will be 2 dimensions. So one is the innovation leadership. And secondly, it is about our ecological synergy based on the health service ecosystem. For these 2 dimensions and also in our health care business, we will make continuous improvement on these 2 dimensions. And then in terms of for the innovation leadership, take our pharmaceutical industry, for example. Over the past 3 years, you can see our investment on the R&D is increasing. And you can see independent research, international collaboration, innovation incubation and VC investment. So actually, they have the synergies with each other. Indigenous innovation, Henlius, Fochon and Fosun Funchuang, we have launched one of our innovative product lines. Regarding international collaboration, for example, Gilead and Kite, we actually have a Fosun Kite. We also have Intuitive Fosun that have been established. We have brought in wonderful products with BioNTech mRNA product that we're cooperating with so that we bring those potential opportunity for brand-new vaccine to the Chinese market. So in terms of the medical health care ecosystem building, on the service side, we leverage the resources as well as on the side of insurance. And we combine those resources with Internet technology because the pharmaceuticals and the health care network as well as the senior care, we have a lot of off-line brick-and-mortar networks as well and how can we combine the resources. And we're improving our insurance product portfolio as well. Regarding insurance in China, we're going to focus on the development of the health care insurance. So we improve our service capabilities and combine them with insurance, then we leverage technology and Internet, so we can launch more crossover sort of integrated ecosystem-based products to serve our C-side customers. Fosun Pharma is a typical core company under Fosun Group. After 2 decades of development, we aim to become a first-class company on the mainstream health care stage of the world. We have drug-making as well as medical device diagnostics, and we are innovating. We try to follow the strategy of intelligence-driven and internationalization. So as a listed co, I'm sure our dear investors already gained a lot of insight into the development trajectory of Fosun Pharma. Then the core competency, we must build. There are 3 successful factors for core competitiveness. First, to be deeply rooted in China domestic market, to gain insight into the rule of the game and to have wonderful sales system built and with knowledge about the local regulatory system. Second successful factor is going to be how can we build preliminary established international R&D system in China and in the U.S. We ramp up on investment of R&D systems, in the meantime, in India, Israel and Europe where we have R&D capacity for drug and device development. Today, we have the globalized innovation capacity. So 24/7, from the cutting-edge forefront of technology and different regions where there's competitive innovation capacity, we're able to pull off continuous R&D in 24/7 fashion. Third, we have created a global resources network with global horizons we've adopted. We have the globally deployed BD teams, the marketing systems and also the VC network. Last year, at Fosun, there was a biopharma VC in the angel investment alliance conference already. There are over 10 alliance members who joined Fosun. So on this basis, we're continuously bringing in the brand-new globally advanced biotech that are a fit with the Chinese market. We're continuously bringing them into China. The next, the health care sector, 3 different businesses with different styles, but they are all very successful. First, the Wanbang Pharma. The leader of Wanbang Pharma, as you can see, serves, let's say, as a CEO and President of Fosun Pharma currently. Mr. Wu Yifang, who is a veteran expert in the pharmaceutical industry for 3 decades, started his career with Wanbang, responsible for marketing, serving a role as President and Chairperson of the Board at Wanbang. Years ago, Wanbang was a SOE. Then [ Fosun Chemi ] acquired this business. With Fosun, he began to build a team and to pull up marketing reform. So Mr. Wu is directly in charge of the marketing reform campaign at Wanbang Pharma. And there has been a mighty marketing system that is coming to being, on top of which not only Wanbang's growth is wonderful, there is also strong capacity of M&A that has been shaped. So from within, through Wanbang integration, smarter portfolio businesses managed to achieve rapid growth in the meantime. Based on the marketing team, there is, let's say, those great transplantation of external capabilities along the lines of BD. So for 10 years in a row, there is a growth by a factor of 10. The growth -- annualized growth rate of Wanbang is 28%. The development of hero products is a great success as well. For example, the uric acid lowering drug marketed, again, the annual revenue has been great. Second business I'd like to introduce to you is Henlius. So this is a greenfield development model starting from scratch. For example, Scott Liu and Dr. Jiang Weidong in '09 achieved agreement with Fosun and started to create the business in 2010, created multiple #1 records in China. Last year, the launch of the first biosimilar in China, thanks to the great exploratory hard efforts of Henlius, last year, it was listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange. And Dr. Zhang Wenjie joined Henlius last year, a veteran expert in industrial operations. Now Dr. Zhang serves the role of President of Henlius Biotech, assisting Scott Liu on a new journey in the next decade. The third business also is very special. It's Fosun Care. For example, Starcastle Senior Care. Starting from 0 into 1, now there is a wonderful model for senior care. And now efforts are on our way, trying to achieve the journey from 1 to n. Fosun Care stands a good chance to become a front-runner in the senior care and rehabilitation industry in China. And years ago with Fortress under the JV model, Starcastle came into being after 2 years since the founding, and the occupancy ratio of the residents become 90% in Shanghai, Suzhou, Ningbo, Beijing, Tianjing and other cities. The model has been successfully replicated in -- let's say, several years ago, Fosun repurchased the shares of Fortress. So now we completed the loop. The leader is Mr. Dong Yan with industrial experience of over 18 years and joined Fosun years ago and assumed historic responsibilities, managed to build a team have been running, so made great contribution to the strong momentum of growth of Fosun Care. And Wang Yuke, since the inception of Starcastle, she was around. So now she serves the role as President of Fosun Integrated Care Group and President of Starcastle, a wonderful team member working with Mr. Dong. Now the beds are numbered at over 4,000. There is going to be a master planning for the future as well. So the health care sector growth is geared towards the long term. We talk about innovation, service industry, insurance, especially health insurance and senior care, all those are very important. We're very confident about our future development. The next Co-CEO, Mr. Xu Xiaoliang, who is going to take over and deliver the next part of the presentation.
Xiaoliang Xu
executive[Interpreted] Hello, everybody. Following Mr. Chen Qiyu's remarks, in 2019, Fosun Group happiness sector of Fosun, I'd like to walk you through. In 2019, the happiness business, the yearly revenue reached CNY 67.5 billion. On a Y-o-Y basis, the growth is 50% plus profit of CNY 2.83 billion, Y-o-Y growth of 24%. It's fair to say in 2019, the happiness sector of Fosun centering around developing wonderful products, branding, contents, creating those wonderful brick-and-mortar scenarios as well as online platforms. Along all those different lines where we registered positive growth, the happiness platform as a whole, the main growth in 2019 was attributed to 2 important drivers. First, the Yuyuan Holding. In 2018, Yuyuan Holdings completed major restructuring. In 2019, after the major restructuring, it was a great new year. For already published 2019 business performance of Yuyuan Holdings, the annual revenue reached a historic new high, namely let's say, CNY 42.9 billion; profit, a new record high of CNY 3.2 billion. So after the restructuring, there is a new stride that Yuyuan Holdings has made. In 2019, Yuyuan Holdings, especially including landmarks, especially the Shanghai Yuyuan, which is an urban landmark of culture, there are great milestones achieved. In July 2019, Premier Li Keqiang visited during that time to Yuyuan and interested in the development of 16 time-honored brands. And in November 2019, during the second International Import Expo, Mr. Xi Jinping, President Xi actually received President Macron and his wife from France. So this is a very important host diplomacy that took place at Yuyuan because Yuyuan is a Chinese cultural landmark and acquired. So it's fair to say, in 2019, in Shanghai City, Yuyuan has been deeply rooted in this place and trying to build its development. In the meantime, across the whole nation, efforts are underway to create those new industrial and cultural marks and landmarks. In addition to organic growth for Yuyuan in 2019, the investment in M&A ramped up as well, especially vis--vis food. Right now, the third-largest, let's say, mushroom-based product-based Ruyi Group that was acquired then also hold controlling stakes of those important watch manufacturers, namely Shanghai-branded watch as well as high -- Seagull watch brand that are well acquired. So we lay a very strong basis for the future watch business. And online, based on the happiness families and membership, we also shore up our stockholding position because online and off-line, we try our best to build wonderful platforms to serve our households. Online and off-line in 2019, the position of Yuyuan is to create happy lifestyle intelligently to global families. Now we've already got a strong industrial basis. In the future, Yuyuan is going to be brought to full play. Another very important driver is Fosun Tourism Group. And since listing in 2018, then 2019 is the first complete year after listing, if you look at the scorecard of Fosun Tourism Group, it is wonderful. Especially profit-wise in 2019, the profit doubled and has thus created a historical new high. In addition, the new strategy has a very clear positioning for Fosun Tourism Group focused on leisure holiday business, trying to create an integrated resort and holiday group. So in terms of the resorts, which is the core, Club Med continue to play very important model replication role. Especially in China, the model like Club Med enjoys very bright prospect in 2019. In terms of operations, business expansion, Club Med managed further development. Especially the year of 2019, Fosun Tourism Group managed to create the landmark Atlantis Sanya. That was a complete year for Atlantis. The annual revenue is CNY 1.3 billion for Atlantis Sanya, which is like the aggregate of 7 to 8 hotels in total put together in the surrounding region. So this product is a leading brand. In addition, in the same year, on Chinese Tiktok, in terms of the content generation, 1.8 billion contents were created. It's -- indeed, it is a new tourism and landmark product in Southern China. Furthermore, the core concept of FOLIDAY has been launched under Fosun Tourism, calling on everybody to love and to live a beautiful life, to encourage more families, to enjoy and embark on a wonderful journey. In Taicang, Lijiang, different cities and places where the efforts are ramping up to promote the development of those new landmarks, a very solid basis has been built in the year of 2019. Regarding IP and content, the C-shows are evolving continuously and the Miniversity as well as Foryou Ski, which is actually a training camp for ski goers that we leverage Thomas Cook platform as well, trying to enlarge our membership and sales platform system as well. It is believed, through 2019 hard efforts, Fosun Tourism Group has managed to build a very solid foundation going forward. Thus, it's going to be a very important driver to push forward the development of the happiness sector development. I believe there are those important leaders working hard within the sector. There are 2 leaders I'd like to introduce to you. First, Huang Zhen, the Yuyuan Inc. CEO and President. Fosun Global Partner, Mr. Huang is a veteran expert in consumer goods for 23 years. He used to work for Jahwa Group, which is a very well-renowned consumer goods company in Shanghai. And Mr. Huang created from scratch a local Shanghainese brand, which is named Herborist, yes, Herborist, starting from scratch. So for a single product under this brand, the annual revenue achieved CNY 3 billion with a gross margin of 86%, which is wonderful. 3 years ago, Mr. Huang joined us, joined Yuyuan and leading the jewelry fashion group along a new journey of growth with Mr. Huang's leadership. So in the past 3 years, 2 original major brands, Yayi turnaround in terms of the profitability status. Laomiao, in the past 3 years, the CAGR is 24%. In 2019, the Laomiao business turnover exceeded CNY 20 billion. The profit close to CNY 500 million is, fair to say, very rapid growth at Laomiao Gold. Thanks to Mr. Huang's insight into the consumer goods industry and very experienced in industrial operation in this sector, the supply chain, R&D channels, so Mr. Huang has driven complete transformation in the reforms. In addition, the Yuyuan Board, Mr. Huang is the newest President with great leadership and with great insight into the consumer goods industry. As a Fosun Global Partner with his leadership, I'm sure Yuyuan is going to enjoy even better growth down the road. Another global partner under happiness sector is Yamada-san based in Japan. Yamada-san graduated from Cornell University in the United States earlier on in the U.S. international platforms as well as Japanese platforms based in the U.S. that he worked with, so worked and studied in the U.S. with insight into the Japanese market. In the meantime, Yamada-san is blessed with great global horizons. 5 years ago, Yamada-san joined our Japan IDERA platform. With his leadership over the past 5 years, IDERA, in terms of AUM as well as profit, registered threefold growth. In the meantime, starting from scratch, the J-REIT platform has been built. So for real, those asset management, property and REITs are effectively integrated. There is a forward positive loop that is coming to being. In addition, Yamada-san is very great at enablement and empowerment as a partner, as a Fosun Global Partner. The biggest Hokaido resort, Tomamu, has been introduced or connected with the Yuyuan industrial fund. And the Club Med has been bought into Tomamu resort as well. So under dual-engine growth model, Tomamu achieved very fast growth, JPY 1.7 billion gross profit, skyrocketed to JPY 4.7 billion now. There are new segments by acquiring Court (sic) [ Courts ], the leisure tourism management platform. We have already got over 7,000 guest rooms under management in 49-layer hotels in the portfolio of Court management system in Japan. So Yamada-san is leading the Japan team on a wonderful growth trajectory. It's fair to say this is a wonderful expert and a great Fosun Global Partner, deeply rooted in Japan. After that, let's look at the wealth ecosystem of Fosun. In 2019, it's fair to say in terms of operational revenue, there is a new high that we have achieved. Wealth, CNY 43.3 billion as to business revenue, the Y-o-Y growth of 20-plus percent and 8% for profit growth. So wealth sector, the very basis is actually insurance portfolio companies, which are cornerstones of the wealth sector. In 2019, the insurance and industries are well integrated. In terms of the senior care and health care, there is wonderful synergy extracted between insurance and industries. In the meantime, with our global asset allocation and investment, especially vis--vis OECD regions, there is effective synergizing. For example, insurance capital integrated with IDERA platform Japan by making overseas platform investment, and our insurance asset allocation is boosted big time. In 2019, some of the assets we exited on, we achieved wonderful ROE. And also thanks to the driver by the insurers, also our fintech has also been boosted, for example, NAGA and also the unicorn in Brazil and some other financial platform, for example, the acquisition of Guide. And for the insurance, our flagship is Fidelidade. And for Fidelidade, we can also say that in Portugal, undoubtedly, it is already the #1 in Portugal in terms of life insurance or the reinsurance in Portugal. At the same time, for Fidelidade, in 2019 with efforts, particularly, they have made a lot of breakthroughs. For example, they made investment in the largest Portuguese hospital, Luz Sade. I mean you can see the natural synergy between the insurance and hospital. And also, you can see, Fidelidade has also joined hands with other assets, and with Fosun, very good connection with Fosun's other assets. And also in terms of the digitalization for the auto insurance and also for the claim, the efficiency have been greatly improved, thanks to the digital transformation. And also last year, they have also acquired the fourth-largest Peru's insurance company, and they're also trying to capture the new opportunities. So we can say that for our wealth sector, Fidelidade is our leading flagship. Next, for our wealth sector, I would also like to introduce one of our new classmate who is also well seasoned in this business, Mr. Chen Guoping. For Mr. Chen Guoping, China's insurance sector, he has more than 23 years of experience. And he has also his own management system called Jinzhixia. Well, for the life insurance yes, one of the most important is the individual channels. And previously, it is based on our individuals who are very fragmented. Some are strong. Some are very weak. They will be taken away. And they will see a lot of ups, downs for the personal or individual channels. However, thanks to Mr. Chen Guoping's management system, that is a very good channel for the high retention and also very high revenue and also high performance. And it is dividing into larger groups with higher performance. Well, last year, thanks to the participation by Mr. Chen Guoping, you can also see great improvement for the Fosun's life insurance business. So Mr. Chen is a very good methodologist and also his leadership. And we believe that with his leadership, especially the excellent management system, we can see a better breakthrough with other business sectors. And here, for all our business sectors, as mentioned by Mr. Guo, we still need to try to come up with our own ecosystem because for all our businesses and sectors, thanks to the mobile Internet and AI, all the businesses should be restructured and they should all be integrated through C2M. So for all our businesses, we are trying to use a C2M model in order to use the industrialization to address the personalized demands. So this is about our ecological synergy. At the same time, we can also see the Chinese urbanization of version 2.0. So the families are going to upgrade their consumption. So that's why we need to have better industries and better brands and better products. So that's why we believe that a combination of the industry and urban landmarks will be promoted. So we would like to have better synergy between the industries and urbans to have more industrial benchmarks and urban benchmarks. So that's why we have our Hive City. And once we have our industries and also Hive Cities, then we need to set up our online and off-line platforms for our families, then we can empower each other, then we can multiply each other. So for all our Fosun classmates, this is our daily pursuit. And all in all, fundamentally speaking, it is reliant on our organization and also our talent, our people. So the most important assets is not just about the book values, it is also about our talent. Lastly, in 2019, we would like to build multidimensional, multi-sector and deep-rooted partnership. On the top level, we have more than 50 global partners. For our global partners, some are very excellent generals. They tend to capture the momentum. And some are our marshals, and they are also going to capture more momentum. And so that's why we would like to share our mission. So we will take a role A and a role B. We are going to complement with each other in order to develop a more agile organization. So that's why our Fosun Glocal Partnership is also a very important foundation. And all in all, it is also about the organization safeguard. In terms of the organization in 2019, we have our cooperation and competition, so we have 271. So the last 10% in the ranking will be changed or eliminated. And also for our different partnerships platforms, we are going to use rotation. And also in the wartime, we are also going to build our constant wartime mechanism. So in terms of the mechanism, the organization, this is also very essential for our culture and team building. Well, as Mr. Guo, our Chairman, said, for the management, so actually, there is -- it is not static. It is dynamic. It is always adaptable. And in different development phases, we are always evolving our mechanism in order to safeguard our agility and also flexibility for faster decision-making. And I know that you're also very keen to know because in the COVID-19 battle, Fosun is very responsive. And since the Chinese New Year in January 24, Fosun has organized the global battle against the COVID-19. In Phase 1, yes, that is the battle in China, we organized global supplies, so nearly 3 million units of medical supplies donated to different places in China. Now it is already in Phase 2. That is the global battle against the COVID-19. Just within less than 1 month, the Fosun has already organized 1 million units of medical supplies donated to those hard-hit areas. At the same time, in this outbreak, for Fosun, businesses and our industry can be better interconnected especially for the diagnostic devices. In the fastest time, we have received the government registration approval for the testing kit. And also, we have also been working with one of the top 3 vaccine companies. And that is in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong and Macau region, and we have been granted the license for the medical technologies. And also in the whole process, many government and agencies praised Fosun. Just 2 weeks ago, Mr. Li Qiang, Shanghai's Party Secretary visited Fosun. And particularly, Mr. Li Qiang mentioned that as a private company in China, in this battle against the COVID-19, we are highly responsive and also take the leadership to fight against the COVID-19. And also for the Fosun's international organization is also quite capable. And through this COVID-19 battle, we are also very clear that on one hand, we have to fight against the COVID-19, at the same time, we would also like to make further development, and we are always going to be on the alert in order to fight the battle and also make further development going forward. So this is my brief presentation. Next, I would like to invite our Co-Chairman, Mr. Wang Qunbin, to give us more information about our future outlook.
Qunbing Wang
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Xiaoliang. Well, ladies and gentlemen, our shareholders and also our friends, good morning, everyone. And talking about the outlook and also for all our Fosun classmates, we are always keeping in our mind our mission. So we would like to make a difference by serving families worldwide to create happier lives of families worldwide. Our vision is always to take deep root in China and create a global happiness ecosystem, fulfilling the needs of 1 billion families in health and happiness and wealth. So we want to build ourselves firmly into an innovation-driven consumer group. That's why for us and for our global family clients, we are going to serve these global families with more products and services and with innovation in health, happiness and wealth sectors going forward for Fosun. We will continue to focus on our 4 core strategies. Our first of core strategy is our deep industrial operation plus investment in the capital markets. These are our twin drivers in order to enable our products and services in each respective industry to be the leaders, and we also would like to expect a high ROE. Second strategy is always our C2M model, and we have also put a lot of emphasis on the C2M model. And next, we will continue our globalization. And fourthly, we will continue to keep innovation-driven in order to develop best-in-class products. And under the current circumstances in this pandemic, when we take a look at our future outlook, we would like to share with you more our characteristics and highlights for Fosun. First of all, for Fosun, especially, our fundamental assets are still very stable and also safe, and they can continue to contribute stable profits and cash flow. And for Fosun's high growth in assets, we'll continue to develop and contribute the performance growth. Our Fosun's innovative assets offer great potential to drive the future. From all these perspectives, we believe that our current value is still underpriced. And because our innovative assets, we will continue to show their value. So we believe that we have more potential to grow our value. And by the end of March, our PB is 0.55 and PE is 5.05. Dividend yield is 4.58%. So you can see, that is a very long-term potential for investment. Secondly, for Fosun, we will continue to focus on the balance between the investment in assets and optimize our balance sheet, and we will also use multiple funding sources and also low-cost cash in order to capture value investments. And we also have our global high-quality investment teams. We believe that we are able to capture this new momentum in this downward cycle. We believe that we can seek more investment opportunities. For example, we can increase the controlling interest investments in order to strengthen our capabilities and operations in the existing areas. And we'll continue to raise and capture established VC and PE funds. We would like to capture more opportunities in cutting-edge technologies and innovation. Thirdly, we will also focus on the industrial operation in existing areas. And we will also continue to develop the leading and world-class products and brands, and we would like to have a higher ROE, particularly at this moment. And after the outbreak, we will also see the changes of the lifestyle, especially the online and also the family as our core value initiative. We hope that when the market rebounds, we will continue to restructure and evolve our business mix. And we would also like to mobilize our global business in order to introduce more IP, intellectual property. For example, our cooperation globally, especially, as we mentioned, in our collaboration in vaccine development together with BioNTech. And we would also like to develop our own ecosystem. Fourthly, at this moment, we continue to fight against the pandemic to provide support. Our Chinese experience and also the global technologies can be shared with the government institutions across the world. We hope that across the world, we can also build our positive global brand image in order to further develop our Fosun's global business. So we continue to practice our values, self-improvement, teamwork, performance and contribution to society. Thank you.
Xiaoliang Xu
executive[Interpreted] So I would also like to share with you some of my observations. Last year, it was not an easy year, and I would like to thank all Fosuners and I would like to all the customers and clients and our investors and the shareholders, we have achieved a very good result last year. Well, last year was different, and this year is more difficult. And for this COVID-19 outbreak, and for everyone, including Fosun, there are a lot of pressures in our tourism industry, our retail business and our fashion business. They will all be suffering, but that is already the fact. However, on the other side, for a good organization or for good guys, please do not miss any crisis, especially the opportunities for our further growth because in the crisis, a good enterprise can test yourself and improve yourselves. Otherwise, you will always be in the comfort zone without an improvement or you don't have this urge for improvement. Thanks to this pandemic and our Fosun capabilities, our organization has been greatly promoted and busy. In this perspective, we are still the beneficiary. For example, in terms of globalization, we have our global capacity. In the past, actually, we do not consolidate global resources on one thing. But now this time, you can say we consolidate our resources for one thing. For example, in Phase 1, with global -- our global capabilities to fight COVID-19 in China. In the second phase, we mobilized our Chinese production and resources to support the global battle against the virus. In this global battle, I think this is the test and also the improvement, our capabilities and also our global capabilities. I think this is an improvement for Fosun. And next, in terms of the product, we have accelerated our pace. For example, our diagnostic testing kit. And currently, it is already being registered and also certified by CE. It is growing. And also for the ventilators in Sweden, and it is already growing in production. And for this outbreak, I think the final solution is about a vaccine. We have very profound industrial operation. For example, we are working with a German company, and I think it is already well done. And I think this is highly expected. And I believe that for the vaccines, I think the final product will be one of the best. And also ventilators and also our testing kits, they are all well done. And also for our fashionable face masks, they are protective masks, and also it is about health and also fashion. And I'm also very optimistic of those products. And also in this pandemic outbreak, we can also see that the organizational improvement is also very important. And from the top level, we have made the restructuring, and we have 2 co-CEOs and we have 1 more co-Chairman. And you can see, we have a more robust organization in the top level. And we can also see that we have our war-time mechanism. And in the presentation, they all talk about people going forward in our future communication and our core people. So they are all our generals. They are all our war-time generals, and not just to me. Maybe you don't like me anymore. Yes, I will share with you more about our talents. We have a lot of good talent and leaders in our group. And just Mr. Wang also mentioned, and we put a lot of emphasis, a very stable finance. We have sufficient cash flow. Of course, there are a lot of crisis from the outbreak. This is also the prime time for us to make more investments and development. In a nutshell, during crisis, our organization is healthier. We have a better position to act. And we have brought to full plate our global capabilities. The C2M, case studies and to the test kits, we have clarified our understanding, and we accelerate our online as well as family orientations. So the product routes for future development have been clarified, although in 2020 there will be some impact on our profitability and operations. But if we manage to secure a positive growth in 2020, we're going to be blessed with even better future going forward. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] All right. Thanks to our management team members, and also thanks to all those investors on the other side of the camera. Thank you for your support and care. We have many investors who have put forward questions for this event. We have multiple channels. First, you can dial in or the screen, the chat box where you can put forward your questions directly. Second, we also have the China and English con call system, so you can use the con call as well to ask your questions. In the back office, we have already collected some of the questions.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] First question comes from Daiwa Securities, the Chief Analyst, Leon Qi. So the Chief Analyst of Daiwa Securities is interested in a question which you're interested in, I'm sure. What is the overall impact of the pandemic on Fosun business? How Fosun is supposed to seize the opportunities amid the pandemic? What countermeasures will be taken? Second, for the 3 sectors, health, wealth and happiness, what will be the implications, respectively, for the 3 sectors? What new inspiration Fosun can draw from this pandemic? And what are the future plans? We're going to invite the co-CEO, Mr. Chen Qiyu, to respond to this very question.
Qiyu Chen
executive[Interpreted] All right. Yes. Investors may put forward a similar question to many companies, not only Fosun. The current impact as well as the future impact of the pandemic on our business operations, what will be the future plans? And to sum up, just like Mr. Guo mentioned, during the pandemic, as long as you're a business operating on the market out there, there is no way for you to steer away from the implications. For Fosun, if you look at the industrial spend we cover and the geographies, there are certain characteristics to the business we do. For sure, there is impact. Second, when it comes to Fosun, I would like to say the impact may be subject to different characteristics due to different regions and geographies and sectors. For example, during Spring Festival, right, just like during January and February, the impact mainly occurred in China. Since March, if you look at tourism and Yuyuan, our operations are gradually recovering. But to which extent, if you look at Fosun Tourism Group prior to the pandemic, the Fosun Tourism Growth -- Group was at its peak with wonderful business indicators even as of the end of February. If you look at our revenue and EBITDA, we scored some positive growth as of the end of February, which was no easy job. And currently, Atlantis, for example, last week, the occupancy rate of the guest rooms already returned to 67%, very robust recovery. For Yuyuan, during Spring Festival, the business operations were dealt with a heavy blow, of course. But now the Yuyuan business is recovering. Our proprietary outlets within Yuyuan Mart have recovered the operations to the extent of 70% recovery already. And during the China pandemic, the overseas business was normal, but now the overseas operations are being affected vis--vis the resort business. There may be a slightly big impact. But in other businesses overseas, the impact may happen to varying extent. Of our financial businesses, the impact is lesser. So we have a broad span of different industries. If you look at the annual statement, we have adequate cash. There are 2 implications based on adequate cash. First, we can survive very well despite the heavy burden and pressure. The first priority for any business under distress is to survive, right, in order to lay a foundation for future development and thrive. Second, with the cash flow, there are opportunities to consolidate those undervalued industries. I think going forward, there will be opportunities to bolt on those industries, which are undervalued based on M&A. I still remember, after '08 financial crisis, in the pharmaceutical industries, there were several major M&As. For example, Pfizer acquired Wyeth, and Roche acquired Genentech, right? That happened after '08 financial crisis. For example, the marriage between Roche and Genentech, there was -- that was relationship that was rumored on for years already, but it was finally the opportunity. And then second, for this pandemic, it is a reflection of our quick response capability. First, if you look on our anti-pandemic countermeasures, I'm sure you're impressed with our mobilization of the global resources immediately. Earlier on, we're one of the first in China to bring those global resources and supplies back into China in huge volume. If you look at protective gown, for Fosun alone, the import during that period amounted to over 10%. So we were acting quickly. Now we're on stage 2 for anti-pandemic because now how can we governize global resources and to help those overseas markets. Stage 1, a lot of what we did was pro bono. But second stage, some of the things we do to fight the pandemic are commercial as well. Third stage, we're blessed with a very robust health care sector capabilities and industrial capacity. So as we're fighting the pandemic, we stand a good chance to score positive performance. Product-wise, the nucleic acid testing kits or ventilators and the negative pressure ambulances in China, so on and so forth. And lately, we have organized a lot of China manufacturing products like masks and supplies. We're developing those tech and fashionable protective masks and the development of a vaccine, the drugs and our proprietary health care institutions. We also have Sinopharm, which is the strongest pharmaceutical drug distribution retail network in China. So the health care sector, our industrial capabilities are very important cornerstone for us to fend off those impacts of the pandemic. Previously, just like Mr. Guo mentioned, we need to move online and to serve the family business and focus on health sector. So those are 3 very important routes we're going to adopt for the future for Fosun. In light of the pandemic, in the near term and mid- and the long term, if you look at the health care sector for Fosun, there are several important messages. First, health services and health insurance, how can we migrate them online? Because now efforts are underway to promote the Fosun health plus Internet health care platform and system because previously, at our hospitals, the Internet presence was rather limited. There was no volume. But now this time around, during pandemic, we took the initiative to organize an online pro bono counsel for patients online. Wonderful results achieved. Right now, we're preparing for the upcoming May massive scale 5/15 Family Day online diagnostic and health counsel event online. We hope by so doing could we shore up further our online Internet health care capabilities. We also launched HMO Internet health care product, which can be well synergized with our insurance products. Still along the line of health care regarding the development of innovation capacity, we aim at the long run that antiviral drugs and therapies will be a new area of future direction of growth for Fosun Pharma. In antiviral arena, we're going to find out about more opportunities of the products. Then mRNA technological platform, which is emerging but very important industrial and tech platform, our collaboration with BioNTech. In China region, BioNTech is collaborating with Fosun and with Pfizer outside of China. So following the Intuitive JV and the Fosun Kite, the JV with Kite, following that 2 deals, this is the third one that we're cooperating with a global leader. So going forward, we're going to capture more global BD cooperations opportunities. In the meantime, solid efforts are underway to further promote the development of our global industrial capabilities. Health care sector, medical device and diagnostics, globalization and overseas market capabilities were weak. But now with this round of measures we've taken, our global capabilities have been improved this time as a result. Our industrial footprint will be further boosted in the medical device and health care sector, as a whole, globally. Then as we know that we also focus on the online migration for retail. So we can improve the rapid growth of the retail in the happiness sector by migrating some important things online. If you look at jewelry, gold, fashion industry, if you're watching our progress lately, we are doing some M&As, trying to improve our product portfolio, mainly focused on Laomiao. But around fashion and jewelry, we will enrich our brand and product portfolio. This is also true for cosmetics, where we're trying to improve and enrich product portfolio. If you look at tourism, we're going to give more rise to the important concept of safety and security because this pandemic is going to have a long-term psychological impact on future travelers. So safety is going to be very important. Fosun enjoys a strong brand image. We're going to explore around for more tourism resources than tech plus fashion. Facial masks, how can you combine tech with fashion? These themes, a small product, but how can you combine these 2 elements. We need to come up with an influential and a massive-scaled product line so that we can build a bridge between happiness and health and wealth. We're going to focus more on the theme of health. In China market, health insurance represents an emerging sector, so this is one area where we're going to ramp up our efforts. Then the family-focused insurance product is also priority. And tech plus finance, the online finance capability, is going to be a focused battleground as well. Then asset allocation, we need to capitalize on the volatility of the capital market. Right now, how can we spot opportunities in the long term for those extraordinary allocation opportunities? In terms of smart manufacturing, the high dividend payout financial assets [indiscernible], how can we seize the opportunities to make adjustment for long-term asset allocation?
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Chen. We welcome the following questions. The next several questions, one of which is about the following topic put forward by [ Wu ] from [ Jinsheng Assets ]. C2M and industrial operation, how can you achieve synergy? What are those specific actions you have taken to implement your C2M strategy? Another question is from Haitong Securities representative. Going forward, what will be your plan to leverage the core IP of Fosun to extract more synergy for your family household business? How can you do more marketing toward those households, the families and the consumers? Mr. Xu, co-CEO, will respond.
Xiaoliang Xu
executive[Interpreted] The C2M of various industries, there are 3 dimensions. First of all, industries, there is supposed to be the physical reaction, so to speak, meaning for you, yourself, how can you shorten the distance from C to M? How can you make your supply chain more flexible? How can you meet the individualized needs of your customers? Along these lines, different industries are working hard to achieve this goal. But the core, to answer this question, is you need to ramp up your R&D, the design on your product side. Second, supply chain. How can you turn it into one that is more flexible? Third, your end channels. How can you connect the dots between online and off-line? So industries are working hard along those lines, as I mentioned. Second, C2M. In addition to physical reaction, we can pull off chemical reaction between industries with synergy in mind. Just like I mentioned, within Fosun ecosystem, there are a myriad of such cases already like the synergy between insurance and health care. For example, Fidelidade. In Luz Sade, the hospital site, there is one for product synergizing. Between health care and senior care, we also have synergizing as well. Then international overseas IPs connected with the China supply chain. For example, on our table, there is the latest Wolverhampton football club face masks. This is a typical Wolverhampton football club IP-based mask. This is a football club, right? Not good at manufacturing masks whatsoever, but it doesn't matter. China's supply chain empowered the football club with this product quickly. So the Wolves football club now enjoys the very cool masks, which are produced in China but with the Wolves IP. This is a WOW product in U.K. Now tech-wise, there is a chip built in. The chip, it is -- the National Health Commission approved this chip. This is not only able to protect yourself from the particles or particulates but as well virus and bacteria. So this is a wonderful integration. This is like a chemistry. Then third, which is more important, the ecosystem-based reaction. The families and households-based members in our ecosystem, it is through online and off-line member service platform that we stick them around with us and then we can extract more synergy down the road. So those efforts are well underway for each industry. We need to achieve those chemical and ecosystem reactions. Given the big IP of Fosun, we are an innovation-driven family's consumer group. This is our positioning. Our core clientele is the global households. For families across the globe, every year, we have a major IP event slated for May 15 every year, the international family day. So on that day, Fosun organize this carnival for families globally. Right now, we're making active preparations for the 2020 upcoming May 15 International Families Day on which we're going to select under our group all those family-related products, on top of which wonderful brands, on top of which wonderful industrial groups. And those industrial groups are able to pull off C2M implementation. So we select those wonderful products that on May 15, our 5/15 International Families Day, directly, we can build a connection with our global households. Again, based on a family big IP of Fosun, we can have close interaction with more and more families. Those are some of the plans. Thank you again for your question.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Xu. The third question comes from Morgan Stanley analyst, Ling. The question goes like why not increase dividend payout to increase the dividend yield? So the midterm payout of dividend in 2019, will that continue? And this question was also raised by other analysts as well. Then other questions are focused on the repo or repurchase. So Alex Gong, our CFO, please respond.
Gong Ping
executive[Interpreted] Yes. Many investors are interested in those questions. First, in the past 5 years, if you look at our dividend payout policy, in the past 5 years, the dividend payout has been growing steadily every year over the past 5 years, the continuous growth, so 20% year in, year out. The profit growth have been 18% in the past 5 years, meaning, our company -- under very prudent financial policy, our company is improving the dividend payout. Second, we think we can issue more dividend this year. This year, it is already pretty handsome, over HKD 0.4. For most assets, just like Mr. Guo mentioned, along the lines of value estimate, we would like to take advantage of each event or even crisis to upgrade our whole strategy and organization each time around. So in terms of dividend payout and capture of a reinvestment, and since some of the assets are undervalued due to the crisis, how can we seize the opportunity? This is going to be very important for us. Then the 2020 midterm dividend payout, we're still having discussions. The jury is still out. The second question is about repurchase. It's fair to say, in recent 2 to 3 years, cumulatively, we have spent over HKD 1 billion for repo, which worked positively for market cap management. But on the other side, the stock's liquidity will be compromised. So we try to strike a balance between those 2. At the recent time, then we will do the buyback, for example, for the buyback. And if the share price is going to fall to some point or if the share trade income pricing is lower than our net value in terms of the liquidity and value and also the price, we tend to -- if we are able to create more values for the shareholders, at that point, we will plan to do this purchase and buyback.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Okay. Thank you. So next, the fourth question from Guotai Securities, Yi Ming Jiang asks, for Fosun International and we have the new division of the management, and you also talked about the focus will be the industrial operation and investment. Can you also share with us some of your criteria standard for the operation? And can you also share with us about the rotating mechanism? How about this progress? So Mr. Wang Qubin, our Chair -- our co-Chairman can share with you our observation.
Qunbing Wang
executive[Interpreted] First of all, I would like to thank Yi Ming Jiang. Thank you for your question. And first of all and for the adjustment, our job responsibilities is going to promote our industrial operation at the same time, and we would also like to bring into play our capabilities, our investment, through this adjustment of job responsibilities. Mr. Guo is still playing the core role. For me, as the co-Chairman, I'm going to continue to support Mr. Guo for the top-level design and also the strategic planning. And I'm also going to allocate more time for the team building and talent and also corporate culture. And also for our 2 co-CEOs, for both of them in Fosun, they have really been working with us for a long time. And in terms of industrial operation and particularly in the front line, they are growing from the front line. So previously, as the co-Presidents, they have already made a lot of achievements. Now as the co-CEOs, they can better promote the organization for better industrial operation. For example, for Mr. Qiyu, every day and in the daily meeting he is dedicating to the online promotion and also the 5/15 Family Day and also [indiscernible]. And also, for example, promoting the fashion face masks, et cetera. So for both co-CEOs, they are taking the leadership to promote the business. And also for our CFO (sic) [ VP HR ] and CEO, and Mr. Pan Donghui and Mr. Gong Ping, they are very familiar with the frontline business with a lot of achievements. And with these new roles, they can continue to promote our finance and also HR business lines, which is also beneficial for our business improvement. At the same time, we would like to build our capabilities of investment. They are still very important. So that's why we have also set up our Chief Investment Officer, for example, Mr. Gong Ping, Li Gao and Jian Hualong, they are our co-CIO in order to boost our investment capabilities. So those are our 3 drivers in order to achieve our final targets. And then in terms of the operating numbers, we pay more attention to our product mix and also branding. We hope that in their respective sectors, they can be the leaders, #1 or #2, in their own sectors for different products and brands. And next, we hope that our ROE for different subsidiaries can hit above 15%. And we would like to make more investments on R&D, and also the success rate and also the output of innovation are also very important. And next for Fosun International, we also hope that our industrial profit can make more contribution. And next -- and in terms of rotation and the rotation and group level and also frontline and mid-office and back office. And I can give you some example. For example, our co-CFO, and for example, he was Zhang Ligang, he was the CFO at [indiscernible]; and also [indiscernible] from our Fosun Group now, and he is working at the [indiscernible]. So you can see the rotation between the group and the subsidiary. For the rotating mechanism, it is going to be a very important Fosun mechanism, which will be on the ongoing basis. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Wang. So next question from Haitong Securities, Zhang Xiangwei, who has 2 questions. First of all, for the COVID-19 vaccine development, can you disclose some milestones and when the vaccine can be developed and when it can be used? And second, how about the success and probability of the vaccine? And also next, for the biotech license to the COVID-19 vaccine, how about the clinical progress? And also, what are the advantages of mRNA technologies? Well, there are some sensitive questions because you know that -- and we have the different regulations from different jurisdictions. Mr. Chen Qiyu, our co-CEO, to answer this question about the vaccine.
Qiyu Chen
executive[Interpreted] Well, talking about the vaccine, it is already under the spotlight across the globe, and the governments have also put a lot of emphasis around the vaccine development. Take the BioNTech, for example. And when we talked with BioNTech, before we signed the agreement with them, actually, we are also talking with the Chinese authorities, including CFDA. And actually, before we signed the agreement with BioNTech, we already talked with the Chinese local government. We want to know the requirements. We are also evaluating whether our partners can achieve these technological requirement. Until now, all these technological progresses and documentations and discussions are very positive. At this moment, according to the information announced by BioNTech, it is hopeful that by the end of April, and they would like to do the clinical trial in the U.S. and in EU, particularly in EU, and after our signing with them. At this moment, we would like to speed up the experiment for the virus testing. So we are already making preparation for the importing and other preparations, and we hope that the preparation can be accelerated. We hope that we can proceed with the Phase I clinical trial. Of course, we have already a very detailed schedule, not just for us but also in Germany because naturally for the German authorities and also for the Chinese and the National Medical Products Administration, they are all very interested. We hope that in the shortest time, we are able to launch this vaccine. For the mRNA, currently, it is still a brand-new technology or platform. However, for the mRNA, actually, at the earliest stage, currently, there are 3 players, Magenta, BioNTech and CureVac. For these 3 players, in the past, they already put a lot of time for development. They have already developed some products for the clinical trials. In terms of safety and security, it has been already tested at the preliminary stage. Of course, the clinical trials are still ongoing. Currently, we are still very optimistic and confident. In terms of the technological specifics, in terms of the preparation and also the production processes, they will be relatively easy. So that's why for the mass production, once it is approved, so it is quite feasible for the mass production. And they don't need any assistance or auxiliary materials, so the production procedures will be relatively easy for us and for the German partner and also for the CDC and the Chinese authorities. We are working together in order to expedite the clinical trial of this new vaccine.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Well, we are running out of time. The last question. That is for an unknown investor from online. The question is, going forward for Fosun, are you going to make -- and planning for future, are you going to make adjustment for the balance between investment and exit? Another question from CICC, Yuan Xue. And for the pandemic outbreak, particularly for H&A and your Fidelidade and European business, what are the impacts? So the last question can be answered by our CFO, Mr. Gong Ping.
Gong Ping
executive[Interpreted] So let me answer the first question about the balance of investment and exit, especially for our future investment strategies. For Fosun International, as always, we would like to put emphasis on the balance between investment and exit. This is one of our disciplines. For the cost and for the balance of investment and exit, the ratio is 1:1.5. It is always in very good equilibrium. And at this moment and in this world, for a lot of assets and their value, their prices started to fall. So while we are working on the business operation, we will continue to put emphasis on our very important capabilities in our gene, that is investment. But we will be more focused, and our investments can be divided into different levels. First of all, the value investment. It is always our bottom line. And the second focus is about the industrial reinforcement for the upstream and the downstream industries and also to replenish and to reinforce our value chain, so for the Yuyuan and also our Fosun Pharma section, you can see our focus. So that is also our investment capabilities. And thirdly, that is about exploration incubation, VC, especially for our health care. And fourthly, for our investment strategies, especially for our portfolio companies, including our financial companies and also insurance companies. And we also make some financial investments. For example, fixed income and also the equity and also alternative investments. So our investments and strategies is always our value investment and then is the industrial reinforcement and also our venture capital. And also in 2020, due to the macroeconomic uncertainties and also the undervalued assets, I believe that there will also be more opportunities before us. And our -- Fosun's track record is still very reliable. So these are all our strengths. Next, the second question is about the Fidelidade and also the impact on our insurance business. For Fidelidade, in our insurance sector, it is our flagship. And of course, the outbreak in Portugal hit more than 5,000 confirmed cases. Of course, for our insurance agents, they have been impacted in terms of the normal operation. Because according to WHO, it is already a pandemic in terms of the medical expenses, and the reimbursement is exempted. So we are all responsible for the testing expenses, which are low. In terms of the fatality and mortality and also for Fidelidade, most of them is about the health, excluding the mortality. So in terms of the medical reimbursement and claims, they are still relatively low. But of course, going forward, we will make evaluation. And also for the asset side for Fidelidade, well, in the insurance business and Fidelidade, it's still a role model in terms of the fixed income portfolio, accounting for more than 70% and then the equity investment and also the real estate investments of some benchmark or landmark real estate. So currently, for fixed income and real estate investment, so they are less impacted by this volatility, especially for the fixed income investment. They are investment grade. So -- because you can see that there are a lot of requirements for the hedging. So that's why it is relatively neutral or a little bit even positive for our investment-grade income -- or fixed-income investment. Although there is some impact, we are still resilient. Of course, there are still a lot of uncertainties. So we will keep an eye on that. And our management, we will to continue to monitor that.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Gong Ping. So this is the end of our annual results announcement this morning. So finally, I would like to invite our Chairman, Mr. Guo, to give us any concluding remark.
Guang chang Guo
executive[Interpreted] Well, talking about the start-up and also entrepreneurship over the past 28 years, we have already encountered a lot of turbulence and ups and downs and even crisis. Overall speaking, in each crisis, we became stronger. And also personally speaking, following all these events and incidents, I have also learned a lot. So we can see that everything is the best-in-class arrangement. Thanks to these events. Of course, we sympathize with, yes, everyone who have been affected. And we can share the pains and also the suffering of all these people or families that are affected. We will go all out to support them. But at the same time, we are also feeling very fortunate in this country, and we have so many growth opportunities. And we also have this organization, and we are able to help others. At the same time, we are also able to work to grow. Well, I also firmly believe that I'm also very fortunate and even very happy. And for all my Fosun classmates, I'm very proud of you. And in this battle against the virus, particularly our medical staff, and I think they should be remembered. And with all that, you are not going to be remembered. Actually, from the bottom of your heart, this is what we are supposed to do in the crisis. You brave your way. And at this time, my feeling is that I think I have a shared feeling. Let's work hard together. Past is going to be past. Then after that, we are going to be stronger, and the world will be better.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Guo. So the next is that at 11:30 to 1:00, and now we are going to see the live streaming of our good products. You can scan our QR code and maybe some good information for you. And also Mr. Guo and Mr. Xu, they will also be our anchors to sell the products from 1:00 P.M. And in the afternoon session, our business segments, including our health, wealth and happiness, and different business leaders and managers will give us more presentation. So in the afternoon session, please continue to stay tuned with us. I would like to thank all our directors once again.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] And our banking and our rating agency, our dear brands. Good afternoon. My name is [ Liu Yue Bo ]. I'd like to welcome you all to our 2019 business performance release event afternoon session. Yes, indeed, in 2020, there is a out of a sudden pandemic, which has dealt a blow to everybody. But Fosun assumed great social responsibilities and anti pandemic efforts. Today, it is a great honor to have with us Mr. Li Haifeng, Senior VP of Fosun International to walk us through the stories of Fosun to fight the pandemic.
Haifeng Li
executive[Interpreted] All right. Dear shareholders and partners from Fosun International, our dealer partners and our dear friends from the press, good afternoon. It is my great privilege to have this opportunity on this occasion of the anti-pandemic campaigns of the world. We will have a cloud-based interaction this morning. We just concluded successfully the 2019 business performance release of [indiscernible]. Now both home and abroad are faced with very complicated situations. However, despite that, in 2019, Fosun International scored very positive performance for our development of the Fosun 2020 and beyond. We're full of confidence as we are working hard, forging ahead. Out of blue, there is the novel coronavirus pandemic that has hit the whole world. At Fosun, Mr. Guo, Mr. Wang, Mr. Chen as well as the leadership of the Fosen Board, starting from January 23, Fosuners of the world begin to act quickly to fight the pandemic. Up to now, as of today, it is 70 days already. So first, I have a video clip for your information through which we can review the past 70 days journey, what we have done as Fosuners to fight the pandemic. [Presentation]
Haifeng Li
executive[Interpreted] Yes. Let's fight the pandemic together. And through this video clip, as we know, how can we pull our strength around? It is a reflection of the great efforts made by Fosuners on a battleground against the pandemic, quick response, quick action. So as a Communications Chief for the anti-pandemic efforts of Fosun, I was asked the question as to why Fosun is so enthusiatic about doing so. I'm sure you may have similar question in your mind. The next, I'm going to spend 10 minutes walking through some of the efforts that we have been engaged in, in 4 perspectives or thoughts we have, based on the efforts we made. So first, the actions originated from the Fosun gene and culture and DNA. If you're familiar with the history of development of Fosun, upon founding the company back in 1992, throughout the past 20 years-plus, Fosun has managed to seize those rounds of rounds of opportunities since the start of the reform in this country, for example, steel, the commercial trade, retail, pharmaceuticals and tourism, so on and so forth. In different points in time when we came into those industries, those are one -- those industries were at a low ebb of development. For example, in light of the Asian financial crisis in 1997, we seized the opportunity of the SOE reform, then we invested in Yuyuan Mart. We successfully got inroads into the retail sector. The Yuyuan Holdings became stronger and larger, which is now acquired for Shanghai City. A second example is after '08 financial crisis, we actually did a countercyclical maneuver. We acquired Club Med that was already downhill. And we worked hard to expand the China market for Club Med. We successfully turned it around. It's fair to say that Fosun, in the DNA of this company, has this spirit to identify opportunities amid crisis. So it is because of the values and operational philosophy that we started to fight the pandemic globally. As we know that in January, the epicenter in China -- on January 23, before the peak occurred in this country, Fosun started to initiate global anti-pandemic campaign. And couple of days later, the first team that we've sent for had already arrived in Wuhan City to support the Wuhan Jihe Hospital owned by Fosun Pharma. Three days after that, the first batch of international supplies shipped to China, and that's when China was in most dire need of medical supplies. So we anticipated those moments ahead of time, then we enabled quick actions with calmness than those of very important DNA running in the blood of Fosun. Second, we think that this global fight against COVID-19 is a wonderful endorsement for Fosun's globalization strategy. Upon viewing this map, you may have a direct view or understanding that since January 23, continuously, on stage 1, we continuously shipped 3 million pieces of various types of medical supplies to China. Our global sourcing network covered Asia, Europe and Oceania and Americas, so on and so forth. Those medical supplies very quickly were delivered to Shanghai. Then it is through the Wuhan base and the Shanghai base that we quickly shipped those supplies to the frontline, namely the very epicenter of the pandemic, namely Wuhan City and other cities in Hubei Province. So the quick response of Fosun and our ability to coordinate for those resources globally has been acknowledged positively by the leadership of this country. For example, a leader from Shanghai government visited Fosun saying, "I heard Mr. Guo talk about the overseas industry presence. I was not that impressed. However, given the pandemic that has occurred, then we bear witness to the globalization level and a globalization capacity of Fosun." So Fosun globalization capabilities are part and parcel of the capabilities of Shanghai and China as a whole. Great endorsement from the government leadership. So meaning that our global integration resources are very prudent for China's reform. And this ability of Fosun to integrate resources across the globe following listed in Hong Kong stock market. This is a great result of Fosun's continuous efforts to advance globalization. In U.K., we own a Premier League football club, namely the Wolves. In France, who have Lanvin, a garment fashion brand. In Portugal, we have Fidelidade. In Japan, we have IDERA, which is a leading asset management house. As we can see, across different geographies, different business models, different segments across the globe, we're able to combine China momentum with global resources. So under the model of twin driver promotion that we successfully combine what we do in China with the rest of the world. So great results we have achieved for fighting the pandemic, which is a great embodiment of Fosun's globalization strategy. Over the past 13 years, we do the right thing. We do those things we need to accumulate over time our experience is for. I'd like to share with you the following, that in the next round, in the following 13 years, Fosun globalization drive will be further expanded, not only covering developed economies but also developing economies like Africa, India and Brazil, so on and so forth. So the global status of Fosun will further improve. As a token for China private sector players on the world stage, China and Fosun will not only be the participant of China's globalization, but also Fosun aims and aspires to become a frontrunner. And then next, we have already started Stage 2 for fighting the pandemic. We helped those who helped us on Stage 1. As of yesterday, the command center already shipped goods to France, India, Portugal, Spain, Macau, a whole host of countries and regions. Altogether, 15 overseas countries and regions for which we shipped 2.5 million various types of protective suits as well as masks and nucleic acid testing kits, so on and so forth. So as a globalized player, Fosun assumes great responsibility. We also answer positively the call of President Xi Jinping to build a community of a shared future for mankind. So indeed, this effort made by Fosun is a testament to the great efforts and standing of the Chinese companies as a whole to help the world fight the pandemic, not only those portfolio companies within Fosun Group. We adopt the ecosystem thinking and we galvanize the forces of those public good organizations, those social organizations as well and those individuals from the society. For example, Glory Foundation, Tencent Foundation, [indiscernible] foundation, Cgroups Alumnus Body, so and so forth, and various social organizations and individuals participated in a dedicated fund proposing to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak. Then we also have the humanitarian global campaign. This humanitarian campaign to fight pandemic are well received and supported by Tencent and other companies and entrepreneurs who wanted to actually donate in kind and in money and actively engage. So on my phone, every day, we have countless number of messages and calls coming in trying to pitch in. Yes, indeed, those actions are making active contribution to our global fight against the pandemic, which touched the heart of the Fosuners. So this donation campaign, led by Fosun Foundation, engage multiple stakeholders, which is a token is a collective contribution made by China. So I'd like to say this time around, through our efforts, we have come up with a wartime mechanism to further continuously evolve in terms of our organization. So many people may ask what benefits Fosun has got through those anti-pandemic efforts. Half month ago, 150-plus partners of Fosun participated in a 2020 global partner discussion seminar, and we reviewed the anti-pandemic journey of Fosun. We think the most important result this time is if we manage to further promote the organization evolution, including a wartime state, wartime mechanism, and we are fighters, we are warriors, we fight and we achieve, and we make a difference. We have already come up with the whole system for that. Going forward, we're quickening our actions to score positive performance and results in order to return favor of our investors for your trust you put in us. So dear investors, those are some of the thoughts in my mind. I think the global pandemic fight cannot be separated from our operational performance. Now we actually adhere firmly to our globalization strategy and we have boost our morale. We have galvanized our forces. It is believed we're going to have a successful journey in 2020. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you. Mr. Li Haifeng. Yes, indeed, throughout the journey, there are many moments that impressed us and touched us. This is a reflection of the globalization strategy for Fosun. Next, we're going to start to talk about the health sector. Next, we would like to find to the President and the CEO of Fosun Pharma, Mr. Wu Yifang. And today, we have also -- very honored to have the Senior VP and also the President of Global R&D Center, Hui Ai-Min. And he's going to share with us his presentation from the United States and online. And after that, Mr. Scott Liu, the CEO of Henlius, will also share with his presentation from the States online. And later on, we will also invite Mr. Liu Yi from Beijing, the VP from Fosun Pharma. And our fifth presenter today will be Mr. Zeng Ming Guang, the President of Fosun United Health Insurance. First of all, I would like to give the floor to Mr. Wu Yifang to share with us in the presentation on Fosun Pharma.
Yifang Wu
executive[Interpreted] Dear shareholders and investors and media friends and also our online friends, good afternoon. For Fosun Pharma and on the 30th of March, we just released our 2019 results. And we are very honored and also very pleased today to share with all of you the following presentations. In terms of financial results in 2019, you can see we have more than CNY 28 billion, up by 14% and the total profit is more than CNY 4.5 billion. And you can also see that the net profit after one-off gain is more than CNY 2.2 billion, up by nearly 7%. And you can also see pharmaceutical represents around 76%. So pharmaceutical is our core business. And over the past years and in terms of our growth, and you can see we have overcome a lot of difficulties in terms of the policy pressures. And we have also successively transformed our strategies for Fosun Pharma step by step and we are already fully driven by innovation. And judging from those financial results, and you can also see, in terms of operating cash flow, it's very healthy, particularly in this great and uncertain backdrop, the healthy cash flow is very crucial. And later on -- and let's also take a look at what happened in the past in terms of the business and the highlights. And also, together with our shareholders and the media, and you can also take a look at our competitiveness. And first of all, competiveness in R&D. Our R&D is growing very dramatically in the last year. And the investment on R&D grew up by nearly 40%. Globally speaking, and we have more than 5,000 R&D staff. And in terms of the CNY 3.4 billion investment and 2/3 in our invested on innovation currently, and you can see we have developed innovative projects and also on '21 and by our similar projects, we're to get the more than 30. And you can also see all these R&D products of high barrier and also high value. And also in terms of our pipeline, you can see that we have a staggered life cycle. First of all, we have our internal R&D department. For example, Henlius and the Fochon. And also, we have different R&D units and evolved portfolio companies. And besides for Fosun Pharma, we're always very open for the international collaboration. We would like to be open to the outside world, and we would also like to embrace the world-leading scientists and also organizations for strategic partnership. For example -- and together, we have the CAR-T cell for our Fosun and Kite, and together with the German biotech that we would like to join hands and to develop mRNA vaccine to fight against COVID-19. That will be the ultimate solution. And also together with the U.S. and intuitive robotics, we have also collaborated with each other to set up the intuitive Fosun. So you can see we are working with those world-leading companies for the strategic alliance. Besides, by means of BD license, we have also introduced a lot of new drugs, and we have also set up our own incubation center as together with the world and the leading scientists and to work together, and they are also our partners. And inside our enterprise, we can work that together to create values, and we can also help them to fulfill their own personal values and to reap the benefits together. And also by means of VC investment. For example, in this row, I know it's only in Boston and also in UC Berkeley and also Oxford University, and together with these institutions, we have set up our VC funds. And these funds can also have very close connection with these leading institutions. That is it for the R&D. Then in terms of marketing. That is about the commercialization of the values. For all those research parties, through the sales and marketing, we can translate these research and findings into practice. Let's take the You Li Tong, for example. You can take a look at our Fosun Pharma's marketing capabilities, that is in the Febuxostat tablet. And so altogether, 3 players already launched this product. We are the second one. So actually, we have launched this as an original R&D products. And we also have our own patents. And we have also set up on the 4 high: hypertension, high-pressure and high lipid, and we have also proposed the hyperuricemia. So besides, we can also see that for the 95% of the gout cases in the male and 4/20 is the critical point. So we have also the 4/20 that is April 20, it is the international gout day. And we also promote the recognition of the public about the gout. And also for the marketing team, we also have HU, a unit for the hyperuricemia. And we have our OTC and the fundamental and the online marketing. And we have MCM, multiple channel for marketing. So this product can be promoted very rapidly. And over the past years, you can see that it is growing at a high speed. And we're also the leader in the market every year. And we have also done many screening of hyperuricemia for those people presented with hyperuricemia, and actually, altogether, we have 4 million cases. So you can also see the rapid growth in our revenue in the shortest period of time, and it is already more than CNY 1 billion. And in terms of product life cycle management, at the very beginning, we put emphasis on the rheumatology. We have set up our academic fundamental and then we started to work on all the clinical, yet evidence-based. Before the Febuxostat, our You Li Tong brand. And for the patients, especially for those with kidney problem, they can provide very good clinical benefit. Then our positioning hasn't promoted to the kidney. So currently, it is better promoted than the rheumatology. And also, we are together working with other experts to promote it in different departments. And step-by-step, we have evolved our position. First of all, it is the hyper -- in hyperuricemia and then -- and also for the protection of the heart and kidney, and we have different value propositions. And so all these marketing propositions, we are able to rapidly grow this brand. So currently, for Febuxostat, it is already the golden standard to cure the gout. And next for our shareholders and the media and also our online friends, let's take a look at our internationalization. Internationalization is one of our priorities. And in Phase I, we are thinking about globalization for China to introduce the global talents, technologies to be combined with China's momentum, that is the introduction from overseas into China. In Phase II, because of the globalization, we also go global, so that is China for global. Then in Phase III, and we are thinking about global-for-global. We are going to deeply engage in the division of the work in terms of the distribution R&D. And in manufacturing, we are going to have our global footprint. Then we are going to deeply engage in the supply chain and also the value chain. So that is about internationalization. In one case, in 2017, at the cost for more than USD 1 billion, we acquired Gland Pharma in India. For Gland Pharma -- so that is also the largest Chinese investment in India, and they also help us to get into the U.S. market and also the best-in-class products from Gland Pharma has also been introduced in China. Another case and that is our African footprint. Over the past years, and thanks for the [indiscernible] based products, we have launched in our branded. At that time, we just put emphasis in the English-speaking areas. And we have acquired Tridem, a French company, then we entered the private market and also the French-speaking areas. It has also complemented our footprint in Africa. Next thing is about strategy and outlook. So we have 4 main strategy. One is in innovation. That is our core. Next is internationalization. I have already talked about that. We are going to be deeply internationalized. Next is intelligentization. You can see that digitalization and 5G and online technology will be more widely used. And also for AI will also be greatly used for the drug development. Next is integration. And we would like to improve our organic improvement. And also, for our business strategy, we would like to continue to focus on our core business, and we are going to dispose of our noncore assets. For example, we have disposed in the United Family Hospital and [indiscernible]. We are going to continue to dispose these noncore assets and projects. And in the future, we will continue to comp our internal organic improvement in order to minimize this noncore. And we are also going to dispose and stop the investment on these minorities. So we are going to force the sustainability on the core business. And then going forward, and we hope that we can continue to be innovation-driven and also global allocation to ensure sustainability in the next 5 years. We hope that half of the contribution will be coming from our innovation. We also would like to grow our international business. We hope that LICA represent 40%. And with these twin drivers, we believe that the Fosun Pharma can continue to grow sustainably in order to create more values for our shareholders and make contribution and to our workers and to our shareholders and to the society. So this is my presentation. And for our shareholders and online friends, and thank you very much for listening.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Wu. Next, I would like to invite the Senior Vice President and also the President of the Global R&D Center, Mr. Hui Ai-Min, who will give us the online presentation.
Aimin Hui
executive[Interpreted] Okay, let's begin. Yes, thank you very much for your support over the past 3 years. First of all, I would like to take you to take a look at our R&D of Fosun Pharma. As we all know, that for the innovation, it is a very long journey from clinical trial -- before the clinical trial, that is a very important milestone in 2019 for Fosun Pharma and also for our industrial enterprises. And we have submitted 5 applications, and excluding the Kite and Henlius, for these 5 of 8 applications have already been approved. And also, the application of the launch of the new drugs in 2019, we have also submitted 3 new drugs to be launched. For example, [indiscernible], it was applied last February. And in recent month, it will also be approved for launch. And also, ORIN1001, it was a small -- first-in-class and anti-oncological drug. In 2019, it was already entered into clinical trial. It has also been in the FDA's in the faster track. So for Fosun Pharma, this is the first in our own innovative drug in the FDAs and fast track. FN-1501, that is the target drug for the leukemia and it's also in the clinical trial. And it has also been certified by the FDA as an orphan drug designation. It is also Fosun's own innovation to be listed in the FDA's orphan drug. In addition to these small molecular drugs, for the cell therapy and also gene therapy, we have some breakthrough. For example, together with ReNeuron from the United Kingdom, we have also developed 2 brand-new stem cell therapies. Yes, one is for the cerebral and the stroke and other [ retinal ] disease. And also for the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee, we're also awarded as the Shanghai Municipal Lab Center for the stem cell therapy. And also, together with the U.S. mini vax we are working with the mini vax for the brain tumor vaccine for this stem cell and also for the tumor vaccine. And actually, it is of the same business model. And for Fosun Pharma, we have the horizon for the domestic R&D. So we can use the global data to launch the products in China. And also, we are familiar with the Fosun Kite last year, and we have completed the CAR-T product for the liver cancer. That is the registration of the clinical trial is already completed last year. And next, let's review some of our R&D track over the past 2 years. So let's take a look at some numbers. And first of all, it's a number of the applications of innovative drugs and also the application of launch. And from 2017, '18 and '19, in terms of the clinical trials, you can see 2, 5 then 8. And then 1, 8 and more than 20 for the new drugs. And also in 2019, we have seen the new breakthrough. It is not an adjustment about the increase of the numbers of the new drugs and clinical trials. For example, in 2019, for Fosun Pharma, in the United States and in Australia, we have organized the first international clinical trial FN-1501. And also in 2019, we have the first-in-class clinical trial, ORIN1001. And also, we have the first U.S. FDA fast-track designation and also orphan drug designation last year. Behind these numbers, you can also see the improvement of Fosun Pharma's R&D capabilities. And also, it's an evolution in 2018. And we have also strengthened our Fosun Pharma's clinical and also regulatory team in China in the same year in the United States. And we have also set up a clinical and the regulatory team. In 2019, we have started off our scientific committee, R&D management committee. And also at the end of last year, last December, we have set up our global R&D center. Well, for our pipeline, so that is referring to our industrial enterprises. So basically, they can be divided in 2 parts, one is oncology, the other is non-oncology. In oncology, we have 12 products already in or very close to the clinical stage. They're all innovative drugs. Most of them are self-developed. And so they are proprietary R&D projects, and 2 are the introduced products. Out of the 12 drugs, 3 have already or will enter into global regulatory clinical trial. So in the next 5 years and within the next 5 years, roughly 7 to 8 products and over 10 indications will be approved and marketed. For example, the Avatrombopag. This is to treat thrombocytopenia due to chemotherapy, then this is likely to be marketed in the next 2 years. Then by 2020 this year, 4 pipeline products will jump from a Phase I to Phase II. In terms of nononcology, we have the CNS, the diabetics, renal disease, the GI tract disease and rare diseases, so on and so forth. Those non-oncology projects, we have a lot of them on advanced clinical trial stage within the next 5 years. 12 to 13 drugs, close to 20 indications were being marketed. Oncology and nononcology put together in the next 5 years, we hope 20 drugs and 30 indications will be approved. Next, in the technology arena, in addition to small molecule, where we have wonderful presence, but also in large molecules, besides antibodies, we also have ADC, the antibody-drug conjugate. Then CAR-T and the stem cell therapy in terms of gene will have the mRNA technology in tumor vaccine. So genetic therapy, for example, in the past, it was understood as a DNA treatment, but now the RNA therapy in a cancer vaccine all belong to the realm of a genetic therapy. The next, our R&D strategy, the presence as well as evolution. In a nutshell, our strategy is to put patients in the center. And we think about the pain the patient suffer all the time, then we are oriented by clinical needs. We think about what kind of drugs that clinicians need to relieve the patients of their pain. We actively apply various types of high-tech as well to advance our R&D in order to strengthen Fosun Pharma, the center R&D capabilities as well as the managerial capacity to better coordinate pre-trial and during trial, home and abroad, in order to make the coordination happen in a better manner. Lately, we have put together a global R&D center. The top-level design has been basically completed. We have also improved our committee system. We have a science committee. We have R&D management committee, technological committee as well as clinical regulatory and registration assessment committee through various committees that we will try to manage our global R&D efforts. And of course, with those systems put in place, it is also necessary for us to make more optimization down the road. For example, we need to improve the project proposal system and the pipeline R&D programs value evaluation system as well as the life cycle management for products system. Furthermore, we need to actively shore up our internal R&D capacity and global R&D capabilities. In the meantime, we need to try various means to work with other partners to incubate, to bring in those wonderful projects and products from outside to reinforce our product pipeline. In addition, leveraging actively big data and the intelligence to transplant those tech with our R&D and managerial efforts. In terms of the technological platform development, small molecules, we have already built a scale. So going forward, we're going to focus more on first-in-class and best-in-class R&D. I mentioned PCG: protein therapy, cellular therapy and genetic therapy. We will ramp up efforts in a broad way to deepen our presence. In terms of disease area, oncology remains our priority. Within CNS, that is central nerve system, not only degenerative disease but also stroke and rare disease, metabolic disease, infection, those are priorities as well. Why oncology remains the priority of our priorities? This is due to the huge clinical needs. Although we have new anticancer drugs coming to being, however, prognosis of cancer patients is rather poor. In China, for instance, 5-year OS is only around 35%. Every year, in addition, a lot of people in China die of cancer. Due to the huge clinical demands, there is huge market potential as a result, not only in China but also the rest of the world. Of the past 1 decade or 2, the oncology market of the world has been growing continuously. The trend is likely to be kept going forward, our presence in oncology. For example, for human beings, over 100 types of cancer, we cover 2 dimensions in our strategy. First, those cancer types with high incidents. Yes, this is the first time that we cover high-incidence cancer types. Now from a Fosun perspective, we have already built a basic network, for instance, males Chinese people, lung cancer and among females it is breast cancer with the highest incidence. In hematological diseases, we have Han Li Kang and CAR-T, the blockbusters. We have already propelled for those hematology. Taking lung cancer, for example, we have multiple antibodies. We have multiple small molecules as well. In addition, we have diagnosis. We have Da Vinci Robotics. We have the minimally invasive smart R&D. This is like the multiple industry coordination efforts. Next, oncology. Another strategy we have, those tumors with Chinese characteristics. What does that mean? For example, liver cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, because these 3 types of cancers have the highest incidence mortality. But the mortality is not as high as in China in those western countries, meaning the global pharma do not really emphasize on drug R&D of these 3 cancer types. For example, gastric cancer and breast of cancer, and lung cancer -- especially lung cancer, breast cancer, FDA has approved 30 drugs. However, for liver cancer, esophageal cancer and gastric cancer, these are 3 cancer types China suffers heavily in particular. Then Fosun Pharma, as a leading R&D company, we need to face the challenges head-on because the number of drugs available is limited for China. We need to assume this challenge. This is an opportunity for us because the existing drugs are limited in number. We stand a big chance to put it off. So we can even build our power on a global stage. If you look at the COVID-19, already 840,000 confirmed cases, a lot of death as well. When the ending is going to happen? We have no idea. We do not have an active therapy. I think the silver bullet is going to be lined with vaccine R&D. So given the societal needs, Fosun Pharma is working with BioNTech Germany. Jointly, we are R&D-ing the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. Since we started negotiation to agreement signing, that took only 6 months to make it happen. Why it is such a smooth journey? Out of 4 reasons, first, Fosun looks at the pandemic, assumed huge responsibilities. Then quickly and sharply, we came to understand the technical advantage of mRNA vaccine. Now very rapidly, we lock in on BioNTech, which boasts a wonderful mRNA technological platform. Last but not the least, our Fosun Pharma R&D capability and our quick responsiveness is applauded by the other side of the table. mRNA vaccine, compared to regular vaccines boast several advantages. Short R&D cycle, due of mechanism of action, the fluid immunology, in a cellular immunology, it does not take adjuvant. It is very safe. The process is straightforward. So far, it's scalable, that's why we choose mRNA. Why BioNTech? First, in this technological area, this is a leading company. And with other big top guns like Pfizer and Sanofi, they already have partnerships. There are several technology advantages. First, they boast diversified mRNA technological platform. For example, those self-amplification mRNA and a nucleotide mRNA, et cetera, they have 3 platforms. So we can do screening on all the 3 platforms at the same time. And thus, we've seen a higher chance of success. In addition, this company boasts a very potent -- those nanoparticle transfer system. For those products, they already conducted a clinical trial on a sample size of over 250 subjects, the mRNA oncology or tumor vaccine is the only one until now that has already demonstrated clinically efficacious result as a tumor vaccine. In a huge production capacity should this vaccine be marketed in the future, every week, they would be able to produce a lot of it. In addition, CAR-T and other types of vaccines, so on and so forth, we enjoy more potential for collaboration with this company in the future. So why we chose them? Those are the reasons I listed out beforehand. But this is a 2-way choice, right? They chose us as well, thanks to our prior track record. Also, thanks to our quick responsiveness and R&D capacity on the part of Fosun Pharma. As we negotiated with the other site, they presented those basic materials and information to us. Then 2 days after that, the Fosun Pharma R&D team already put forward a regulatory plan for registration and as well as the Phase I through Phase III clinical trial design proposal. So we were very professional. In addition, as they sent us the clinical trial filing dossier, the basic document, that our American team and the Chinese team, despite the time difference, spent only 1 day translating their dossier. Then quickly online, we filed the proposal of the project with China regulator CDE, Center for Drug Evaluation. Then 1 week after that Fosun Pharma, BioNTech and CDE tri-party meeting successfully convened. All those efforts pointed to the very professionalism and a quick responsiveness on the part of a Fosun Pharma R&D team. So all in all, this is a great partnership, the marriage of 2 strong sides. The 2 sides can have mutual complementarity strategically. And on March 15, both sites announced that BioNTech share prices increased by a factor of 3, as we know that's really big time since the announcement. Right now, the process is completed in a smooth manner. By the second half of April, the clinical trial will start in Germany. In China, we're talking with the regulator. We try to start it as soon as possible as well.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Dr. Hui. The next from Henlius, CEO of Henlius, Scott Liu, who is going to speak as well. Scott, something wrong with the camera. Therefore, we may not be able to get a direct visual on Scott through the camera. We can only hear his voice. All right. Shall we start? Well, it seems the camera now is working. Great. Scott, please. Yes, Scott, please, start your presentation.
Shi-Kau Liu
executive[Interpreted] Our dear investor friends, our dear online viewers, good afternoon. It's my honor on behalf of Henlius to walk you through our business performance last year. For any biotech firm, if you look at the growth trajectory, there are 3 major milestones: first, product marketing; second, stock market listing; third, breakeven or turnaround to turn a positive cash flow. From those perspectives, throughout the past year, Henlius was blessed with multiple milestones. Our first product, Han Li Kang, successfully launched to the market. In September last year, when the market was poor, with poorer sentiment of investors, we IPO-ed successfully on Hong Kong Stock Market. So we completed 2 major milestones out of the 3 for any major biotech firm. Our R&D, production and sales business, last year, I'd like to walk you through them briefly. First, our mission and vision. Our mission: To improve patients lives by timely providing them with quantity in affordable protein therapeutics through technical innovation and operational excellence. Our vision is to be the most invested and admired biotech company. And we honor the principles like reliable quality, affordable innovation, biosimilars, plus bio-innovatives and a combo and a quality focus and a global footprints. Currently, the company history overview in key milestones. We have filed over 20 INDs, the first product already successfully marketed. In the meantime, we filed 2 NDA and 1 MMA. Right now, the pipeline clinical trial products, there are 18 of them in total. The full-time employee is close to 2,000, 42% of them hold master and a doctoral degrees. And our production capacity right now is 14,000 liters of products. Why we have come this far? Product development, and we begin with the biosimilars, and we are a leading player. It is through biosimilars marketing that we generate cash flow, that we strengthen our R&D, that novel drug development therein, including immunotherapy for oncology. As we continuously develop products, we have laid a very solid basis. Our core platform then R&D production, commercialization and the global registration capabilities are well shaped. So in addition to 01 Han Li Kang product, the first of its kind, the first biosimilar in China, which was already approved and marketed. In addition to that, we filed 3 applications, like 2 NDA and 1 EU EMDA, for which we're very proud because it's the first of its kind R&D in China and handled by EU regulator. So now the approval process is unfolding as we speak. Then we also have the RA rheumatoid arthritis indication. We also have Avastin biosimilar that completed MCRC clinical trial 3 recruitment then a post-R&D approval, 7 of them, including 4 innovation drugs and 1 combo. We have also initiated 12 clinical trials, the 8 PD-1 pivotal trials, those trials that can be used for product registration purpose. Then commercial cooperation. We've got great progress as well. We work with Kalbe, the largest pharma in Southeast Asia. We signed agreement, covering 10 countries, 3 indications. And then we signed agreement with over USD 600 million. Now rituximab, with Farma de Colombia, we achieved a strategic agreement. We give them exclusive commercial rights, 4 countries from South America, company growth will further do capacity planning and expansion. Base 2 broke ground in last June. The Songjiang base is close to be completed with construction. The FTE headcount increased close to 2,000. Then we listed on Hong Kong Stock Market at the end of September last year, and we are very proud. In addition to tumor targets, we also have anti-angiogenesis as well as immunotherapy targets. Altogether, close to 30 targets we cover, including biosimilars and novel drugs. So here, I'd like to mention, be it biosimilars or novel drugs for PD-1 and PD-L1 going forward, we can put them in a combo therapy to shore up clinical efficacy. The downside of PD-1 now is although it works against the 20 tumors, but ORR is low. The hot topic now, PD-1/PD-L1, on top of which we add a small molecule or chemical compound to increase the clinical efficacy to cure more patients. For that, we are prepared. We can combine PD-1/PD-L1 with close to 20 other agents, the combo therapy. Of course, Han Li Kang, that MabThera is the first biosimilar in China after 10 years of R&D. Last year, it was marketed successfully. It is one of the global-first 3 of its kind. It's very hard to complete R&D because the action mechanism, you need to understand the glycolization structure because all these are very important. Different glyco base then there is different bioactivity and hence, different manifestations clinically. It's technically complicated. We are proud we did it. We're approved the regulator in China and the first production approval letter for biosimilar. And then also for 02 and in 2010, we started to have our global footprint together with global pharma, and we are aligned with its global strategy. At the very beginning, we comply with the EU criteria because in China and even in the United States, there are no criteria for the biosimilar. And at the very beginning, there is an only EU criteria. And we follow the strictest criteria for the biosimilar including the manufacturing facilities. So actually, we comply with the Chinese and the American and also the European standards. And also in 2016, we have also obtained a pre-approval. And in 2017 and also in 2018, we also started to sign the licensing agreement with the European and American companies, including the third largest generic companies in the U.K. So currently, we are able to cover 73 companies. And also together with Cipla, we are also able to cover the Australia and New Zealand, of course, also currently in Malaysia and the Hong Kong region, et cetera. And also last year, and we have also applied for NMA (sic) [ NMPA ]. So actually, this is also a milestone, yes, because it represents that in China for global. So this is also a key milestone for Chinese medicine to go global. And we really expect that by the end of this year, we are able to obtain the EU approval and also for PD-1. So we have a combo and global combo is a combo. So it means that for biosimilar or for the innovative and the monoclonal antibody, including I/O targets and anti-angiogenesis targets and tumor-specific targets. And so that's why with this combo, the effector can be improved. And we're also very honored that for our R&D capabilities in terms of speed and quality and the cost of effectiveness. Because for the combo and for the mAb, if one monoclonal antibody is 100,000, then if we have 2, then it will be doubled. Then it will be too expensive. But if we can combine them together, it can become more cost effective. And then in terms of globalization, we have the global multi-center clinical trials. And currently, half of the R&D has also been in partnership with our global resources. And also GCP, GLP are also well aligned. So for GMP and GCP, we can also achieve the world-class -- and we can also enter the emerging markets by leveraging FDA and EMA approvals. And we also have the business development and partnership to have our global footprint. So this is our PD-1 mono and combo therapy. Here, you can see 8 or 9 clinical trials were conducted last year and also innovative and mAb and also the combo therapy. Until now for our PD-1, we already have 11 to 12 people to trial. And also in China for the liver and stomach and also lung cancer and also several cancer, et cetera, you can see, they are already in very good progresses. And also, we have very efficient R&D capabilities. And we have different development platforms. And also, LAMA, LABA and [ VSH ]. And also, you can see that we have fully human nature phase and display library, 1.5x2^10. And also now we are very confident that in the 4 or 6 months, we are able to develop in this antibody with very satisfactory testing procedures. And we also have a bio-specific antibody technology platform. And then in terms of manufacturing and clinical registration, then we can also see the preparation and the filling. And we already have developed our clinical medicine system, and also our quality system is also well developed. And also for [ PC ] and [ PV ], they have also in compliance with international standards. We believe that with this international and foundation certification, we are able to go global more efficiently. And also for the majority of our products are in-house developed. And in our pipeline, currently we have 30 and then totally different pipelines. And we can see around 80% to 90% of the pipelines are actually in-house developed. And in this period meeting, you can see we have a lot of early-stage product development, and we also have a preclinical and Phase I, II, III, et cetera. And I would like to highlight that for this immunological and then also [indiscernible] and [ VG ], et cetera, and this year and also next year, we are going to apply for more clinical trials. And next thing is about our Henlius strategy for strategies, and we always put emphasis on the quality. And also, HLX01, HLX02 will be our top priority. We hope that in the middle of this year an 02 product can be commercialized, and we hope that it can become our cornerstone. Well, in the global footprint, we will continue to work with these global partners and with business channels in order to explore the overseas market. At the same time, we're going to improve our capacity and also new processes, and we hope that the efficiency can be improved on the ongoing basis. And also, we would like to continue to cultivate our team, and we would like to optimize on our commercial operation and also the best-in-class talents. For our strategic partners, we have very good results, for example, in Cipla and also Cipla cable and pharma, Biosidus, and include DE COLOMBIA (sic) [ FARMA DE COLOMBIA ] in South America and also in Europe and in Africa, you can see we have a very good global partnership. And also, we, together with our Fosun Pharma, are also working very closely to explore and expand the market presence. And for example, in China, we have already entered the hospital list for reinvestment in 29 provinces out of 30 provinces in China. And in terms of manufacturing and also the economy of scale and technology innovation, for example, for our Xuhui facility, we would like to expand our 14,000-liter capacity to 18,000-liter. And then we are able to support our Hanlikang's commercial manufacturing. And we have already completed EMA, GMP on-site inspection. Next is our Songjiang plant number 1. And we have already completed the test production. And in the first half, we are going to launch the manufacturing. And then Songjiang plant 2, and we have already have our planning for the land use, and we expect that in the third quarter next year that we'll be fully into production. In addition to the adequate manufacturing, we're also very keen to use the new technologies. For example, we would like to adopt more single-use bioreactor technology in China. And we are also working on the new generation in order to shorten the processes in order to have better efficiency and also more cost effective. So currently, you can see everything is based on the international standard. And you can also see that we have approximately 70% of the headcount of the manufacturing department, who are able to do the global quality operations. And going forward, we would like to capitalize on our first-entrant advantages, thanks to our very strong team. And we are going to focus on, yes, the current market, but also a broader market. And we are already prepared for a very fierce competition. And also, we are also going to make more upgradation for our new product for all 3 series. And we continue to improve on our production capacity, and we are going to complete Songjiang plant 1 and Songjiang plant 2, and state of the art technologies will be used for better efficiency. At the same time, more investments will be used to develop innovative drugs. Globally speaking, we're going to conduct the clinical programs, whether for the biosimilar or bio-innovative. And in the EU and in the United States, we also want to find more partners, and then we can codevelop and also to develop the international markets together. And also, we would like to optimize our operations, not adjusted to ensure the global standards. And we would like to be recognized by more global partners in order to gain more international opportunities. And for biosimilar and innovative drugs, we are going to implement global registration and global commercialization to ensure ourselves going forward to all the international markets.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Okay. Thank you very much. So both Mr. Hui and Mr. Liu are in the United States, they are still at midnight. So next, we would like to invite Mr. Liu Yi, Vice President of Fosun Pharma, and he's going to share with us presentation on our medical equipment.
Liu Yi;Vice President of Fosun Pharma
executive[Interpreted] Well, can you see me? Okay. And dear friends and our shareholders and online friends, today, I'm very honored to have this opportunity to share with you the presentation on the Fosun Pharma's medical devices. In the health business, it is a very important part over the past years. We'll make efforts on all the competitiveness and also the internationalization to be combined with the China momentum. And in all dimensions, we have made a lot of progresses. In terms of products, for example, we have da Vinci surgical robot. And we can see that for the surgical domain, it is a very important robot. Well, in Mainland China and also in Hong Kong region, you can see we have already more than 150 installations, and the number of surgical cases is also surging. In addition to the da Vinci surgical robots and in terms of the cosmetic, we have also made a lot of new progresses. So you can see 15 products, for example, laser cosmetics. And then you can see -- and we have launched the [indiscernible] via the laser base and medical beauty. And also you can see for the plastic surgery, we have made a lot of breakthrough. And also for the global market, we have also launched the other new products. For example, the smallest and the breathing here, that is also registered in China for the breathing product. It will also be launched in China for the sleep and breathing product, so we believe that, and they can also support these types of patients. And also during the COVID-19 campaign, for example, [ Youlitong ] has also been applied for the mobile CT. It is not just used for the COVID-19, it is also very valuable for other types of medical operations. And also the negative pressure ambulance by means of ventilators, they are all very useful in this anti-COVID-19 campaign. And also for our medical device sector, in China, U.S. and Israel and also Sweden, so these 3 -- 4 R&D centers for our medical devices currently. And then we have also covered more than 90 countries and areas. In addition to the organic improvement, we have also mobilized the global resources in Fosun and to be connected with the state-of-the-art technologies in order to have more collaboration. So we are dedicated to improving our global competitiveness through these global operations. And also for our medical devices and also for our future planning, we have following highlights: first of all, the main track is the cardiology and neurology tumor, respiration and medical aesthetics. And you can also see that, these are all very hot in their areas, so that's why we believe that for these areas and also the demands are not fully met. And also, together with the current health care services and products, we can come up with a closed loop for all these 4 areas. It is also based on AI and also 5G and also digital health and robotic technologies. And currently -- and we can also see the POC and MC have also become the core technologies. So this is also our priorities for the technological integration going forward. And also in Fosun's ecosystem and also for Fosun's medical equipment, so we focus around different domains. For example, the clinical diagnostics and also for the health care services can be integrated. For example, for the cardiovascular and also for the diagnosis and treatment and in terms of different functions, we have improved the service qualities. And our product competitiveness, in terms of the medical solutions with different combinations, we can provide more timely solutions in a holistic manner. For example for the orthopedics and also imaging can also be combined. And also, together with the tourism and also senior care can also be combined to diversify the services. In addition to diversified services and also based on the medical devices, we are able to provide more health-related products and services. And for our medical device and future business and organic and also external and integration and also the combination and introduction by the global resources. And also our own evolution, we are going to improve our global competition. So this is the presentation on the Fosun Pharma medical devices. I can also be open for more questions later on. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Next, we would like to invite Mr. Zeng Ming Guang, the President of Fosun United Health Insurance.
Zeng Ming Guang;Director and President of Fosun United Health Insurance Co., Ltd.
executive[Interpreted] Dear investors and media friends, good afternoon. Today, I'm very honored to have this opportunity to introduce in the Fosun United Health Insurance. Fosun United Health Insurance, we were set up in January 2017. We are a professional health insurer. At that time, the background of our establishment was that because for the entire health insurance sector, which was growing very quickly, at that time, Fosun had a very holistic and health-care-related resources. And at this backdrop, we set up this Fosun United Health Insurance. We hope that we can have a very comprehensive ecosystem. At the same time, for the health insurance will also become a very critical part of this ecosystem. So this is a very professional health insurance company. Since the 2017 in January, over the past 3 years, at the end of last year, so it is already our third year, so we have made a lot of progresses. And in terms of product innovation, model innovation and service innovation and sales innovation, as a brand-new insurer, and we have accelerated our paces over the past 3 years. And you can see some of our statistics. First of all, in terms of products, and we have developed more than 100 products. And also in terms of medical network, including Fosun's internal medical network and external ones, we have more than 1,000 partners. And by the end of 2019, we have more than 1.3 million customers. In Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Sichuan, and Jiangsu, in these 5 key provinces, we have set up our branches. Thanks to the opening of these branches, we can say that for those insurance companies set up in the same period of time, we are growing the fastest over the past 3 years. And in 2017, yes, that was the first year, the revenue was CNY 59 million. In the second year in 2018, our revenue hit CNY 520 million last year, and we recorded CNY 1.81 billion. So you can see that the growth rate was more than 248%. And also for our whole company, over the past 3 months, you can see that in each milestone, we are moving forward very quickly. In terms of organization from Guangdong and Beijing and in Shanghai to Sichuan and Jiangsu. And each year, we would set up 2 branches. And also for our business growth, almost for every 2 or 3 months, we are going to see additional CNY 100 million. By June 2019, cumulative insurance premium income exceeded CNY 1.6 billion. So over the past 3 years of our growth, there are several points: first, about sales channel development, it is through the Internet; our group insurance; the bank; as well as individual. Altogether, 4 insurance channels are advancing quickly. The individual insurance channel is developing relatively slower than the other channels because the sales experience for agents are rather high. The Internet business, the banking insurance channel and group insurance channel in 2019, each 1 of the 3 occupies like 1/3 of the pie. And the Internet insurance, there is some renewal business that we have achieved. Similarly, it is higher share than the banking channel. But basically speaking, these 3 sectors occupy 1/3 each of the pie. And product-wise, this is a new company. This is a health insurance, so product innovation remains the most important development topic for us. We emphasize, in particular, on healthy people, the chronic disease people and the deceased population, the 3 types of people. In addition, the insurance products Internet, insurance products health care and insurance products drugs, those are different dimensions we're talking about. It is along those dimensions that we try our best to develop health insurance products. And several years ago, we launched the product of the long-term critical illness insurance. We also have disease insurance, and we also have products that are integrated with other products within Fosun Group. Third, tech innovation. The year of 2018, the IT investment exceeded CNY 15 million. In 2019, the number exceeded CNY 18 million. So we accelerate the online migration for various types of our business as well as intelligence as well as the IT-driven, like automation of claims settlement, the underwriting, et cetera. So it is through tech that we try to empower the business. In terms of the financial data, the 3-year premium income, which I already mentioned: ROI, CNY 22 million in 2017; and a CNY 50 million return on investment in 2019; and a 5.67%, the combined return on investment in 2019. Last year, we suffered a loss of CNY 42 million. That number is little different from the published information. Why? Because EY, Ernst & Young, did audited the risk adjustment. Total asset is CNY 1.9 billion. The net asset of over CNY 675 million. Going forward, Fosun United Health Insurance will focus in particular on our original strategy, for example, leverage fully the shareholder portfolio company resources. And we aim to provide our customers with one-stop health services, which is the direction to go for the future. What matters more is innovation ecosystem, the tech and synergizing. Those are 4 dimensions we're going to cover in particular. First, industrial synergizing. We're unsure, so we need to make sure we can secure our clients. How can we leverage the Fosun Group resources? Yes, indeed. In a more effective way, we want to synergize with portfolio companies within Fosun Group. We also have opportunities regarding business model innovation. As a commercial insurance, how can we strike for new type of a commercial model or business model with us? We shall also accelerate product innovation. Mr. Wu from Fosun Pharma talked about novel drug efforts, where there is lot of plans. How can we combine that novel drug development with insurance, which is a priority for what we do this year? Third, business synergizing, insurance, the medicine as well as drugs, how can we offer one-stop services to our customers? This is also very important point for this year. From a united insurance perspective, this year is like the second 3-year period for Fosun United Health Insurance. We hope in the second of 3-year plan, we want to become the first-tier player in the segment we fight in. How can we further upgrade our, let's say, operational model? Whether can we set up those region-based branch companies this year, we hope, in Shandong, Chongqing and Hunan where we can set up those provision-level branch companies. Innovation-wise, we want to come up with great business model with innovation in mind. And number four, we also leverage the Fosun Group level health care sector resources and make some efforts therein. Our 158% solvency ratio last year, this year, we're going to add to the capital. So we will actually be better, even in terms of ecosystem presence and building. We hope next year, we will begin to turn a profit. We hope, in 2022, we can initiate a plan for IPO. So we've produced a 10-year plan. And from, let's say, 2020 to 2022, this is a growth period. And into 2025, it's going to be the mature phase where we hope we can fully embody our core competitiveness with an established business model that will put us in a good position for IPO. Although we're a new company which was set up 3 years ago, but coming forward, within Fosun health care sector, we want to become a part, an important part of Fosun health care sector and make our due contributions.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank Mr. Zeng. Yes, indeed, your time is up. The next, the health sector Q&A session.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] We have collected some questions. First, from Xingye Securities Analyst [ Joe Pepe ] asking a question about the, let's say, quality, consistency assessment. And what about the VBP, volume-based purchase? What is your strategy of GQCE and VBP? And again, in March, the COVID-19 new kit, asset testing kit, of Fosun Pharma has already approved according to EU CE mark and allowed to gain entrance to the European market. What is your expectation of the future sales in Europe?
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] All right. Thank you, the analyst from Xingye Securities and also from HSBC. So I have 2 questions or that maybe the same question from 2 different organizations. Yes, the GQCE, 49 are ongoing but 16 out of the 49 already passed successfully. And in this year, a big chunk of those GQCE efforts will be approved successfully. Then class 3 VBP, we won 6 categories in the last 3, but we have won more than we have lost. For volume-based purchase or VBP in short, what we see is the pricing policy trend for generics in China, the era is gone when there was overpricing for generics. Going forward, the competition on a battleground of generics shall be based on cost, either you deliver high-value or you achieve low cost. Therefore, we will go out to be propelled along those lines. Currently, in terms of cost competitiveness, we are confident. Second, as for GQCE and VBP, the sales revenue impact, thereof, for us currently, we have propelled more novel drugs and biosimilars in our arsenal as well as chemical generics. We have a very enriched pipeline and a portfolio. We have one of a growth areas or drivers for our future business. Second, the coronavirus testing kit. Not long ago, we got the approval letter from the NMPA, which is the national regulator. We also got approved by EU CE. Now we're applying for, let's say, American certification and a WHO certification. Should those pass successfully as well, then we will deliver the testing kits to the world. Now we are putting together production forces for that kits, but there is huge demand. We're under pressure for production capacity. We hope it is through this testing kit that we can contribute to the pandemic fight in the world. We are very confident about the specificity and accuracy of our assay. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] The next question is about the coronavirus vaccine. Dr. Hui, please. BioNTech authorized Fosun Pharma to develop the vaccine for coronavirus. What is the current status of clinical efforts? What will be the estimated overall investment once the vaccine is approved in the future? What will be your commercialization plan and profit-sharing plan? Third, the technical advantages of mRNA. Dr. Hui, do you copy?
Aimin Hui
executive[Interpreted] Yes. First, first question. Right now, the progress, this is a collaboration with German company. In addition, Pfizer from the States also comes in. This is a tripartite agreement. So the preclinical trial animal efficacy trial, as a matter of fact, has been ongoing smoothly in Germany. The vaccine, study vaccine, is produced and provided in Germany. In the middle of April, the vaccine will be in place and enter the clinical trial. As one other in Germany, they already achieved agreement with the regulator. According to the current progress, clinical trial will start by the second half of April. In the middle of April, the German company, BioNTech, will ship the vaccines to us. So if the inspection can get passed successfully and approved by the registration regulator, then by the end of April or beginning of May, in China, we hope, we can kick off the clinical trial as early as possible. For that, we're still negotiating with the regulator. Second, mRNA, the technical advantages of messenger RNA. There are 5 aspects. First, the R&D cycle is short because this technology is different from the traditional vaccines which ask for in vitro intracellular propagation. Nucleic asset, this is a in vitro synthesization process. The viral genetic sequence, the design and the manufacturing of the animal vaccine prototype, it only takes 40 days to 50 days, so short production cycle. Second, it is a nucleic acid vaccine. There's fewer mechanism of action. First, it stimulates the fluid immunology to generate neutralizing antibodies, to prevent the virus from getting in. Second, it can stimulate the cellular reaction of T-cells to activate the T-cells. So even though some virus has already gained entrance into a human body, the T-cells can be activated to kill the virus. So this is a dual mechanism of action. Third, the strong immunogenicity, unlike the traditional vaccines which ask for adjuvant, because in old days it took adjuvants, the additives, which may produce side effects. But this mRNA does not need adjuvant. Number four, there is no virus content. The microbial content is synthesized industrially. There is no virus. Therefore, it is safe. One more thing that matters, the process is straightforward, so the production capacity can be very good. BioNTech, which is our partner, weekly it is able to produce millions of vaccine units, millions of pieces. So this is very good for fighting the pandemic. There was one more question I missed.
Yifang Wu
executive[Interpreted] Commercialization. All right. I will respond. For COVID-19 vaccine, that messenger RNA vaccine, once it is up for grabs in the future, we will strengthen our existing vaccine channels to expedite the commercialization of this product in China. Now we have a vaccine business in our portfolio named [indiscernible], which is producing 3 types of vaccines right now, the rabies and the flu vaccines, and the business there is growing healthily. Going forward, we're going to leverage the existing channels to expedite the reach of these products in the terminal to enable quick access for our consumers and agents. Then production and manufacturing. Upon approval, within a short period of that, we may use or sell imported vaccine products first in China. In the meantime, we negotiate with BioNTech about the possibility to build a commercial base in China. So after a period of time, we may start domestic production of the vaccines in China to enable and ensure the strategic access which is very important. The bilateral collaboration agreement is pretty clear. You may have already read our announcement. This is a profit-sharing model. Going forward, BioNTech is going to share 35% of the gross profit of this product. Thank you for your question.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Dr. Hui and Mr. Wu. The next chief analyst, Victor from CICC. 2020, the all of a sudden COVID pandemic, any impact on Fosun United Health Insurance business? If the answer is yes, why there is an impact? Where it has impacted? What will be the future opportunities for Fosun United Insurance (sic) [ Fosun United Health Insurance ]? Mr. Zeng?
Zeng Ming Guang;Director and President of Fosun United Health Insurance Co., Ltd.
executive[Interpreted] All right. Thank you, the question from this investor. Yes, the pandemic hit us all of a sudden. As of the end of March, there is a continuous impact for sure due to the pandemic. Why? Because our clients and our sales reps are not that active during the pandemic. But the impact is not hitting us to a large extent because the first 3 months of this year that, cumulatively, new business order growth is not bad. There is still positive growth of the new order in our order book. Although it is not as fast as our original expectation before the pandemic, but we still enjoy handsome growth for our new order -- new business. Starting from April, the business sales have started a normal cycle. So you're right, I don't think we're going to be severely compromised by the pandemic. We can be on track to our original budgeting for this year, the whole year. But in a nutshell, technologically speaking, there are some implications for insurance industry, say, our customers, their consumption behavior is boosted because in the past, you had to educate your potential customers, right, in order for them to buy a policy. But now they are motivated to proactively buy insurance policies due to the pandemic. On the early stage of the pandemic, we promoted our products online. Those products were selling like hotcakes. Those were peak time of the pandemic. So the customer consumption behavior will change and is changing in our favor. Next, our ability to migrate online. We're a young company with less than 3 years of history. We have already made substantial investment online. So this is good for our business going forward. Third, we're pondering the issue as to the online migration for health insurance and offer insurance as a whole. What kind of implications it will have for reshaping further our business model? We're trying to think about it. Say, the online insurance marketing, the online health services delivery, we're thinking about them. There may be some big transformation for our industry down the road.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Zeng. And the final question, we invite Scott from Henlius to respond. Two investors asked a question. A part of it is about Henlius, signing agreements with overseas companies. So Scott, what is the overseas strategy for Henlius? Second, the latest announcement listed on the, let's say, Starboard. So I wonder, what is your thoughts of the Starboard listing?
Shi-Kau Liu
executive[Interpreted] Well, for this issue, first of all, about the globalization and some of our ideas and on global strategies as early as 2010, we have already decided to go global because our mission and vision is to create values for the Chinese and then also the global customers and the patients. And so that's why I say aligned with the Fosun's global strategy. That is the one-decade effort. So we always talk about globalization, but that is quite difficult. The most difficult point is how we can ensure the quality can be certified by FDA because it is a very sophisticated process. It doesn't mean that you can be certified by FDA. It's not that easy. It's going to take many years. And also, we have engaged the experts, for more than 20 experts, and then also the groups and experts. So far, our quality system, actually, it can be subdivided into more than 4 processes. It's going to take years to accumulate these expertise. So in order to become global, you need to have the world-leading quality. We have already achieved this target. Next, we also worked with companies with global channels, for example, for the biosimilar for 01 and 02, and we already have our global partners. Going forward, whether for biosimilar or innovative drugs, we are going to work with the international players. For example, for biosimilar, so we are going to work with these American and European pharmaceuticals with the international channels. We are going to gently bear the R&D expenses. You know that the R&D expenses may amount to USD 100 million. And then we can give the license with each other, so we can share the benefits with these international players, whether in U.S. or Europe. So where we work with European players, they have the European market, we have the Chinese market. Then we can share the market in the United States. So we can have our global leading partners and also share the benefits. Because sometimes, it's impossible to send up the international market so quickly, so that's why we still have to leverage these players and with international channels. Then in terms of innovation, and in order to really work with them, you need to have your own expertise. So we are already working on our own expertise. And for example, for our -- on a monoclonal or for the biclonal, so currently, we have our own R&D competency because we have our international world-class innovation. And then we are able to work with this world-class partners. Then talking about the listing in Shanghai Stock Exchange, Starboard, approved by the Board, we would like to continue to make investments on R&D. And we would like to have enough funding to enhance our R&D as well as the expansion of our production facilities. Also, in order to echo the Starboard and also the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee, also, are really very supportive. So that's why we will continue to be driven by innovation. So we would like to be listed in the Starboard. Because in the past and in terms of the Chinese biosimilar, we are one of the unicorns. In terms of innovation and internationalization, we are already well positioned, so that's why we are very ambitious to be listed in the Starboard in Shanghai.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Scott. And today, I would like to thank you all for your participation in the presentation on the health sector. Well, thank you, Mr. Wu, Mr. Hui, Mr. Kau Liu (sic) [ Shi-Kau Liu ], Mr. Zeng. Well, next, we would like to invite our speakers from our happiness segment. We're very honored to have the Senior VP and also the Chairman and President of Fosun Tourism Group, Mr. Qian Jiannong. And we will also have Mr. Huang Zhen from Yuyuan; and also the co-President of Yuyuan and also the CIO, Mr. Shikun. Mr. Qian Jiannong, the Chairman and President from the Fosun Tourism Group.
Jiannong Qian
executive[Interpreted] Our friends and our shareholders and also partners and also media friends, good afternoon. So before we start, we have also prepared a short video. Let's see. [Presentation]
Jiannong Qian
executive[Interpreted] Okay. So through this short video, you can see about our FOLIDAY. So from morning session until now, I believe that you're already familiar with our Fosun International 2019 results, which are very positive. And in the next dozen of minutes, a very short period of time, I can also give you little bit more about the Fosun Tourism Group, and it will be divided into 3 parts: first is our business review; second is about our sustainable growth; and thirdly, it is -- which is -- and also you are quite keen to know after this outbreak how about our future. In 2019, in terms of our business performance and actually 2 weeks ago, on March 18, our FTG has already announced our results. I think you are already very familiar with our results in 2019. So today, I can also give you a little bit brief picture in 2019. We continued our growth over the past years, so a still very good increasing trajectory, very strong growth. And you can also see our enhanced profitability, and we also have very sufficient cash flow in 2019 for the business revenue. So that is in our main operating business and you can see it went up by 8.9%. And also for our adjusted EBITDA growth, so it went up by nearly 80%. Also, you can see that we have already hit more than CNY 3 billion, and also the EBITDA margin is also 21.5%. Then you can also see the net profit attributable to equity holders up by 97.4%. So it grew from CNY 608 million. So this is an amazing result. So thanks to all these highlights. And we can also see, we have already set up a very solid foundation to move forward. Next, I would like to give you more information about how we can achieve sustainable growth. Well, you know that not all the growth can be sustainable or positive. Sometimes you will grow at the cost of the future profitability. So when I started to set up and establish our Fosun Tourism Group, I always believed that the short-term profit and the long-term sustainability should be in good balance. So that's why, for us, very sound and sustainable growth will be our corporate gene for Fosun Tourism Group. So at the very beginning, especially in 2019, and after we have achieved all these business results with a very rapid growth, at the same time, for future growth, we have also made a lot of inputs and investments. First of all, for the resorts. And for resorts and hotels, it represents 72% of total revenue. Well, for the resorts and hotels, at the very beginning, we acquired the Club Med. Over the past several years, Club Med was growing so dramatically. And in 2019, we started to control the shareholding, and we have opened up more than 14 altogether, and we opened 4 new resorts last year and also 4 new resorts 2 years ago. Here, you can see that at the very beginning, Club Med was a very historic enterprise with very strong brand. But at the very beginning, some Club Med resorts were pretty old, so since 2015. And currently, we have 66 Club Med resorts, and 14 Club Med resorts were newly opened after we became the majority shareholders. So you can see, in terms of the global branding and competitiveness, we have set up a more solid foundation. So you can also see that 85% of the capacity is level 4 and level 5 Trident. Also in France and also in other skiing resorts, we have also opened some new resorts, especially for skiing. And more and more clients are very keen to visit our new resorts. However, our competitors, they just have kept very old-fashioned resorts. However, we have opened up so many new resorts. That's why over the past years, we made a lot of investments on the new resorts. And also last year, by merger and acquisition, we have acquired Thomas Cook, especially its Casa Cook and Cook's Club. So we have more diverse brands for resorts. And especially after last November, in Europe, we have also signed 4 new Thomas Cook franchise contracts. So for our resorts business, in addition to Club Med or following Club Med, we have new resort brands joining in our tourism segment. And also based on this newly acquired brands and based on the Casa Cook Group, we are also developing some new brands, for example, [ Cook's Home ]. We have a different positioning for different scenarios by means of different results. So here, you can see, over the past years, while we were growing very rapidly, however, at the same time, we have also well prepared for future growth. And next is the tourism destinations. For the tourism destinations, it is ready to -- new. It was newly set up in 2018. However, it already represents around 27% of our total revenue. Well, for the tourism destinations in 2017, we had no revenue at that time. At that time, actually we were primarily dependent on Club Med. But now you can see, tourism destination accounts for 27% of total revenues. And we also have some new project pipeline which are also very plentiful. For example, after the successful launch of Atlantis Sanya and in Taicang City, we have set up the FOLIDAY Town in Taicang and Lijiang. And also, there are some other projects in discussion. Well, for the tourism destination, which are relatively new for us, however, you can see we are taking the leadership in branding, especially in China. And our tourism destinations are really very aligned with the taste of the middle class and upper class. And then the third business, yes, that is our FOLIDAY Ecosystem, which is also growing very rapidly. Although at this point, it only represents 1% of total revenue, however, going forward, its growth potential is huge. Because for the tourist destination, 2 years ago, it was nearly 0%, but now it represents 27%. And for the third segment, especially contents and IPs, over the past 2 years of efforts and development, especially the shows and also the kids and family and also the city skiing, these new contents and new IPs are already well promoted. And we are also recruiting our teams. When our teams and also the business models are evolving, I believe that going forward, it will grow very quickly. And particularly, I would like to focus on the Thomas Cook in this segment. After our acquisition of Thomas Cook, which is in time-honored, we can say is the founder and it has a history of over 178 years. After the acquisition of this brand, we hope that we can translate this time-honored brand into a brand-new lifestyle brand. And the work is in progress, and we are going to face the C-end directly. And we also hope that in summer this year, we are able to launch this brand to our consumers. So here, you can see that while we are working on the sustainability, we made a lot of investments and inputs. At the same time, you can see our short-term performance is also growing very dramatically while we have our long-term sustainable plan over the past 3 years. Of course, we are making preparation for our long-term growth. Over the past 3 years, our CAGR in terms of revenue is 21%. Then for the adjusted EBITDA, our CAGR over the past 3 years is 81%. And also, for the net profit, attributable to the equity firm holder, you can see, we saw the turnaround. Also last year, we have also seen CNY 609 million which was doubled in 2018. So you can see, we have our world-class brand resources. And also in the global landscape, we already have our own position. Going forward, we are very confident about our growth potential. The third point I'd like to talk about a topic you're very interested in, like the COVID-19, the pandemic status. Actually, the beginning of this year, namely 2020, that's when the outbreak started. In a nutshell, I think the impact will only be short term. I quite agree to the opinion of a former Fed chair, Bernanke, who uttered a view couple of weeks ago; I quite agree with that. He said to the effect that this pandemic compared to the long-term depression in 1930s, this time it is different, because that depression in 1930s, some of them were man-made reasons. That cycle lasted for 12 years. Bernanke thinks this time the pandemic is more like a snowstorm which hits the whole world, but this is a heavy snowstorm. Since it is a storm, it will pass sooner or later. So I agree with that. I think the implications will only be there for a brief period of time. When it comes to the impact on FOLIDAY, in the near term on our resort business, there are those impact because resorts may close for a while, but we're a globalized company, right? As far as the first 2 months of this year data is concerned, domestic pandemic started from the end of January. Our resorts gradually closed down the operations entering the second half of January. Atlantis gradually closed down on all those activities, including aquarium garden. From January 28, the hotel closed down for business later on. So in China, there was empty window of operation in China for 1 month. But the January and February overall business performance for our resorts, EBITDA up by 20%, business revenue up as well. So we definitely enjoyed the advantages in our globalized diversification. If we concentrate our business in one region, then we're going to be dealt with a heavy blow 100%, right? But the overall pact of our business enjoys a positive growth since we diversify our -- but starting from March, the European business begins to be compromised. However, luckily, in China, the business gradually comes back to normal. Taking Atlantis, for example, last weekend, it is even better than the same period of previous year, because last weekend, occupancy rate is already 67% for our guest rooms. So globalization brings about advantages for us. Currently, in terms of a cash provision and cost control, we are doing a lot of efforts along those lines as well. Our cash reserve and usable bank credit line as well as CNY 7 billion CMBS that we have issued lately, all those shore up our cash status. In the post-pandemic era, the tourism industry as a whole will be subjected to some big impact. Going forward, in the tourism industry, there will be 3 major opportunities, especially with more emphasis to be placed on health. In the leisure tourism, this is going to be a popular new direction to go. Then there will be expedited integration and consolidation in the industry, with more emphasis leaning toward online and intelligence. All these represent fantastic opportunities for FOLIDAY. So that's a brief introduction about FOLIDAY and some of our work and outlook toward the future.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] All right. Thank you, Mr. Jian. We really want to go to those resorts right now. Next, Mr. Huang Zhen, President of Yuyuan Holdings.
Zhen Huang;President of Yuyuan Holdings
executive[Interpreted] My dear investor friends online and our dear friends who show great care for Fosun, good afternoon. Following Mr. Chen, I will take over the mic to walk you through a very important flagship platform under Happiness sector, the Yuyuan. And Mr. Xu, my colleague, will deliver a presentation as well. From my part, I'm going to focus on the Yuyuan Jewelry and Fashion Group. Mr. Xu, who is going to speak later, will talk about the brand and operational logic regarding how to achieve the future visions to rejuvenate our own brands. We have Laomiao, Yayi under jewelry and fashion group. There are many similar brands under the jewelry and fashion group. All right. First, performance review and highlights. Some of the development status written here is for jewelry and fashion group and some financial review, some numbers. On March 23, Yuyuan released the 2019 annual statement, annual report. You're welcome to read those report in detail. And third part of my presentation, outlook toward the future. First, Yuyuan Jewelry and Fashion Group. In recent couple of years or in the past 3 years, there has been a strategic transformation upgrade we've gone through. In 2017 through 2019, the 3-year period, there was a uplift of our business performance. If you look at the bottom right corner of the slide, business revenue CAGR in the past 3 years is 18.5%. Gross margin has a CAGR of 25.4%. In the meantime, gold jewelry market in China, the investors may know what I'm talking about, namely on the gold and jewelry market in China, the very important parameter is your store account. In 2019, we accelerated the outlet expansion. There is good popularity in Yayi and Laomiao, the addition of 900-plus stores added and 600 new stores added in 2018. So in 2019, we added many and a lot of new outlets and stores off-line into our portfolio. So we registered very good progress in 2019. Our efforts won great applause from the market. Laomiao and Yayi, these 2 brands, there was a lot of overlapping. We repositioned these 2 brands. Laomiao focused on good fortune. So we target Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities customers. And at Yayi, expedited expansion into lower-tiered cities, say, Tier 3 and Tier 4 cities, targeting youth as the main audience. We differentiate the brand positioning successfully. As we tried to increase the store count, consciously we acted to increase the quality of our stores, not only in terms of display and how they look but also some other dimensions as well. For instance, last year, there was a core program. We aimed to be a part of the core CBD in a trade area in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities, for example, Deji Tower in Nanjing, Xingguang in Chengdu and New World in Shanghai. These are top-notch malls and shopping spaces in the trade areas. Once we put our stores there, it's going to be a huge boost. Third, one of our products, for a brand to strike a cord with the customers, it all boils down to your products. In 2019, we launched the Laomiao good fortune positioning, the Mak Ling Ling series and Gu Yu Jin series. Those are tokens of good fortune for our customers. What is the basis for all those we've done? Because in 2017, we upgraded our strategy. We changed our team with a crossover philosophy. We hired those managerial talents from other industrial backgrounds, like cosmetics, luxuries as well as garment and clothes. We transplant their experiences with our experience and it worked. Then the partner system and culture that we tried our hands on as well, those changes supported our development in the past 3 years and thus laid a solid basis for the future development. Next, a breakdown of our actions. For instance, the beginning of 2018, through the strategic combing, the [indiscernible] and fashion group, we did a re-strategizing. We completed our brand matrix, organic M&A integration. We come up with a clear by the map. In the middle of 2018, we renamed the business. It used to be called Yuyuan Gold and Jewelry Group. Now the new name the business has got is Yuyuan Jewelry and Fashion Group. So now it opens up your imagination with a clearer future direction to go in terms of organic growth. The existing 2 brands, namely Laomiao and Yayi, they used to be overlap in terms of the brand message. We optimized the position of these 2. We managed to differentiate these 2 in terms of the branding, cultural styles, the target audience, the brand positioning as well as product design style in a design philosophy, so on and so forth. We achieved distinguished differentiation between the 2 brands, targeting different markets and a different target audiences in order to maximize the market share. So this is a key philosophy we hold dear on the front of organic growth. The WOW products, this is particularly true for Laomiao brand. Gold. Gold causes strong emotional attachment and element. But in China, there is high level of homogeneity for gold products. So on such a market, how can we stand out with our core competitiveness? This is where culture comes in, the product comes in. In 2019, in China, there is an opportunity, that is the [Foreign Language] gold, a specific category. When other brands are jumping the bandwagon, we do not want to miss the train. So we seized this opportunity launching this category. We actually built in our culture, namely, our products are a token of good fortune. I bring with me some products today. We're trying to promote good fortune, continuous good fortune for our customers. We leverage a very important cultural token in China, like the cucurbit or calabash, Hulu in Chinese. That means good fortune in terms of the pronunciation. Then we also have the continuous good fortune. The sound of that Chinese characters is very similar to that of a lotus flower. So we combine these 2. So in 2019, these product series achieved a revenue of CNY 500 million, amounting to 2.5% of our total business turnover in 2019. In history, that Laomiao new product launch, the first year in history, the share was no higher than 1%, but we did 5% for the new product's series. So that worked great based on the cultural elements we built in. Going forward, we're going to strengthen our efforts along these lines to further shape our branding culture and WOW products. At the beginning of this year, the feng shui master, Mak Ling Ling, with whom we co-launch a co-brand, so that is a great exploratory effort we've made based on IP. Yayi has got a new start for this brand. So the Yayi brand is themed on love: love your baby, love yourself, love your families, love your friends. Based on the theme of love, we try to strike a cord with our family customers so the Yayi branding reverberates very positively as well. At the end, in addition to numbers, we also focus on brand-new image of our branding. The [ Baobao ] jewelry in a gold fashion, we want to combine the gold and jewelry with fashion elements. In Deji shopping mall in Xinjiekou, Jiangsu and Nanjing, yes, we launched a completely new branding image. We have also created a cultural flagship store. You're welcome to drop in on us to have a look at the changes we're trying to pull for our brand image. We try to combine tradition with fashion. As we are working hard along the lines of off-line branding and in stores, we're actively increasing new tech in 2019. Laomiao is actively promoting the online marketing. Last week, as I interacted with our media, I told them the e-commerce presence with Laomiao had a late start. But in 2019, we try to make it up. We ramped up efforts, developing a Tmall flagship store. We also seized opportunities for online streaming. Last year, we staged over 200 sessions of live streaming. And we also worked with those online live streaming celebrities, successful experiences there. In 2019, we acquired controlling stakes of a Belgium germ (sic) [ gem ] institute or IGI. That laid a solid basis for diamond value chain in the future. Then in Xinjing in the second half of 2019, we invested in building the first plant, and we worked with the manufacturer. We built a JV, the Xingguangda JV with manufacturing capacity in place. And lately, we acquired controlling stakes of [ The Jeweler ] a designer brand of jewelry in France. Those are efforts set out to improve our brand portfolio. We're actively searching for globally wonderful products in order to meet the diversified requirements of the Chinese consumers. I will not expand on these numbers because you can walk them over on our annual report, like the gross margin growth, the net margin growth and our stores count increase I gathered. Of course, these are in the past. But what matters is we will keep the momentum of growth going. We're trying our best to win more favor of more consumers on the market out there. Coming forward, the jewelry market as a whole in China in the long run enjoys a very good development trend. First, the size, a market of CNY 500 billion, a huge market. In addition, per capita, jewelry consumption value falls far behind of developed economies because it is only 1/3 of the western world. Given the gigantic population in China and a rapidly climbing consumption power, that sets the stage for future takeoff of the jewelry consumption here. The next structure. The structural change on the jewelry market will lead to new opportunities. The gold jewelry occupy 70%, whilst it is only 30% to 50% in developed economies. As the pie is enlarging, if we're able to seize the structural opportunities as well, it is believed we're going to have huge potential for development for Yuyuan Jewelry. So there is a renaming, as I already mentioned. We also acquired controlling stakes of IGI. We built the diamond processing manufacturing. We also acquired controlling stakes of [ The Jeweler ], the designer jewelry brand in France. All these set out to achieve the structural adjustment opportunities on the jewelry market in China. The gold prices are climbing as well continuously. Therefore, that trend will also drive steady growth of our sales in the future. I mentioned 3 points. First, based on a globalized Fosun, then we built on this philosophy as a strategic guidance. When it comes to the jewelry and fashion group, globalization is a must-have. Not only do we have Laomiao and the Yayi brands, not only shall we meet the Chinese consumer requirements. How can we go global? How can we bring in from the outside? How can we increase the number of our consumers by launching more WOW products is a very important direction to go. Second, to build presence along the entire value chain. We're not only a branding marketing company, we need to build our presence upstream and downstream. Upstream-wise, in addition to IGI, initiating manufacturing and a processing base, we will act and work harder on the upstream as well. For example, the opportunity with regards to artificial incubation of diamond. On the downstream, we will build our presence of the brick-and-mortar channels, the online operational capabilities, vertical app platform. Based on our membership platform, how can we promote the community -- social community-based marketing? And next is IP collaboration. That is also very important. For example, together with Wan Baobao and Mak Ling Ling, these designers, we are already bearing the fruit. And going forward, we are going to have an better IP and also explore the Chinese demand for gold, and this gold amount can also be empowered by these IP collaboration. And also for the COVID-19, we always believe opportunities and crisis coexist. We always need to be positive and always keep ourself in the war-time condition because the environment is changes so rapidly because the opportunities are only bestowed to those who are well prepared. If we are flexible, we are highly responsive, we believe that either we believe that opportunities are always prevailing over the crisis. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Huang Zhen. And I'm also the fan of Laomiao gold. You can see 2 of my jewelries here. Yes, one is the luck series, the other, love series. Next I would like to invite the Co-President of Yuyuan and also CIO, Mr. Xu-kun to give some presentation about the branding strategy.
Xiaoliang Xu
executive[Interpreted] Thank you for your introduction. And today, I'm also very happy to be here. And following Mr. Chen and Mr. Huang, I would like to give you a little bit more about the business and outlook, about our Happiness sector. Yes, because while we are communicating with our investors, they would like to know more about the product portfolio and also branding. That's why after 2 presentations, we have added this presentation about our product mix and branding and also about on our strategy. And then you can know what is in our way of thinking. And in this slide, you can see, currently, Fosun, for our Happiness and consumables, you can see we have very diversified portfolio of product mix. After the introduction on tourism and just Mr. Huang Zhen also introduced the gold and also the jewelry and diamond and the relevant businesses, behind that, for Fosun, our way of idea is to develop our online and off-line, from consumer to our maker, holistic C2M business model. On one hand, we have different categories of our consumer consumption goods. And we also have the landmark in different cities. And at the same time, also, on May 13, we are going to launch our Fosun family day in order to promote a cluster from our in-house brands. In our strategic thinking, for Chinese consumers, after 40 years of building up and reform, for Chinese consumers, at this point, they are changing dramatically. And Chinese consumers are becoming more homogeneous because over the past 2 decades and for the Chinese and consumption goods, they are quite different over the past 2 decades. So we will see different levels of consumption. But now you can see, we have a kind of homogeneous and global consumers in Tier 1 and in Tier 2 and even lower-tier cities. And how to reach these consumers? We are going to see more innovation. And currently, we have very good product mix. And we are thinking that how can we make sure that this product mix can be better communicated to our Chinese consumers. And besides, for our branding in the happiness sector, we have some leading brands. And however, at the bottom and in the middle, we believe that there's still a very huge growth potential. And just now, Mr. Chen also introduced the Fosun Tourism Group, like Club Med and also Atlantis. So these are of very huge scale, more than CNY 1 billion. And also Atlantis, it's also huge. And also for Laomiao, this is also a very large SKU. And at the same time, for our investors, you can also take a look at some other brands in this slide. You can see a lot of our brands have a very huge growth potential. For each and every brand, they have a very comprehensive logic. And I also hope that these the brands can also be well developed. And you can also familiarize yourselves with more about our brand portfolio. And also, we have already defined our twin drivers for the industrial operation and investment. And we have also adopted some new methodologies for our branding, and we have also accumulated a lot of experience and expertise. So now we have a very clear methodology to develop our brands. First of all, for our branding development, it will be based on 3 pillars: one is family, health and online. And these 3 pillars will be deployed in different segments, and also operations and investment. And in the morning session and also until now, I believe that our investors have already received these type of ideas. And also for Fosun brands, of course, we have so many time-honored brands. And also, for our global cooperation, we have also acquired some time-honored brands in China and abroad. And we would like to make the secondary development of these old-honored brand. But now we would like to put ourselves on 3 pillars: youth, fashion and community, particularly community, especially for those Chinese consumers. And we can also see that for the global consumption community. So you can see it is highly connected in China. That's why, in China, well, the innovation will be more specific in the Chinese marketplace. And we also believe that in the future, we would like to put more emphasis on the community-based branding. And also, as mentioned by Mr. Huang Zhen, take Yuyuan, for example, there are a lot of Chinese or oriental fashion tokens or symbols, and we believe that this is also a very good window. For example, for Chinese windows, after the economic growth, Chinese people are more confident about the Chinese elements and Chinese culture and Chinese fashion. And for Chinese people, they have been also focused more on the Chinese fashion. And thanks to the growth of Chinese and fashion, and also, we will like to synergize on our Chinese resources with more global resources, which are also of great and growth potential. And then also, take the U.S. Latin Festival, in terms of the artistic expression, we also believe that we have many common languages connecting the east and the west and then we can develop our cultural integration. And I think there is one more slide. Well, I think it is already getting close to the end of my slide at this IR event, and I think this is a brief presentation about our branding philosophy. And I also hope that going forward, you can also spend a little bit more time, know more about the brands, about our Fosun, and Happiness and also our value proposition. And I also believe that our Happiness sector will continue to evolve with your support.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Xu-kun. So now it's time for Q&A. And just now we have also collected some questions online.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] [indiscernible] analyst, [indiscernible] asked Mr. Huang Zhen, for the jewelry business, last year witnessed positive results. Then in 2020, how about the planning for jewelry, whether for the marketing and branding or outlet or the store expansion? And also for Yuyuan in cooperation, for the entire consumption and future, so how do you expect?
Zhen Huang;President of Yuyuan Holdings
executive[Interpreted] Thank you for the question, Mr. [indiscernible]. I think I met you before. Well, first of all, for our jewelry and fashion business, just now I shared with you that after the upgrade in 2018, we have very good performance in 2019. And our performance in 2019 confirmed what we have done in 2018. Then in 2020, we will continue our correct way for even faster growth, to improve on our product, competitiveness, and to upgrade our stores, and also some improvement on new retail and new business model, and we will continue to move forward in a very decisive way. At the beginning of this year, because of this pandemic and outbreak, I know we have also seen lot of transformation in this business. And we are very active to explore the new ways. And we are making more internal discussions. We would like to make new breakthroughs. We try to make more transformation, because this pandemic is going to really transform a lot. And yesterday, our internal meeting in 2020, we decided that we will continue to be more digitalized, because for this and COVID-19 outbreak, as mentioned by Mr. Xu-kun, and you listened about family, health and online. Particularly about online, we firmly believe that online will become our new normal. Here, I would also like to introduce what we have done. As a matter of fact, we have already done a little bit in 2019. And now we are going to accelerate in our online movement in order to transform more. For example, take product competitiveness, for example. Like in Q4 this year, we believe that we already have the framework, and we are going to introduce more external designers into our database to make sure that our product design can be boosted by external designers to cater for more new needs. And by the end of this year, our designers and our platform is going to be launched in online and also launched in new products. And besides, now, here, we have more than 3,000 franchise stores [indiscernible] our platform. This is an online platform. We would like to accelerate our investment on the online platform for the order, production and also scheduling and also sales and promotion and also payment, hope that everything can be digitalized in order to improve our operating efficiency and also the capabilities of data analysis. And by doing so, we are going to improve on operating efficiency to empower our efficiency by more tools. And then thirdly, for our online or digital tools. And in February and March, we have also accelerated in the online live broadcasting, especially the broadcasting among our own membership community. At the very beginning, we thought it was just about exploration. We are thinking about how to promote our products and our membership community. Then in February and March because we are pushed by the external environment, we took initiative and we have 400,000 people in Shanghai and we serve over 100,000 VIPs. And the 100,000 VIP customers, they are assigned to our salespeople, and we have achieved CNY 10 million in our revenue. These numbers then are really giving us a lot of confidence. So we will continue to boost on online and off-line and also trying to harmonize and integrate the online and off-line membership information and also make more investments on the online platform. And we also set up on our live broadcasting platform. And we will also cultivate in our own teams for the live broadcasting, recruitment, and training and professional management in our operation. We are going to do it faster. And with all that, our new retail and our new business model can be promoted. So digital transformation will be our focal point in 2020. And also, another thing is also very important, in the external environment for Laomiao and Yayi, these are very traditional brands. On top of our current management and how can we manage [ The Jeweler ] and some other international brands and also managing our production and the supply chain, but we are very confident and we are prepared in teams, and we are also prepared in terms of our operating mechanism. We believe that our industrial matrix will be further expanded to improve our value chain. And we believe that our jewelry and fashion business can be better promoted. I think the second question is about an -- our footprint in our family consumption business. Because -- and always, we will likely to satisfy our family customers' needs. And in all dimensions in the daily life, over the past 2 years and 3 years, we have expanded our business lines in the last year. And we have entered into the pet business. We acquired the 2 largest domestic watch companies, the Shanghai brand and the Seagull brand. And last year, we also had acquired a leading mushroom company, [indiscernible]. So in food and bev industry, we have -- also have found our footprint. And internally, we are also incubating some new business. And even for some old brands, for example, [ Tong Hanjin ], [ CTM ] and also, [indiscernible], so it is also a herbal product. Based on this and herbal candy, it has been further developed into the herbal drink in 2020, in order to satisfy our family consumers' need. And we have another important topic to address, that is to improve our industrial operation profoundly. If all the industrial operation can dive deeper, like our jewelry and fashion business, therefore, we can really dive deeper in each segment. We believe that with our width, with our depth, we are going to see better chemistry in the ecosystem, and I believe that our future growth for Yuyuan is highly anticipated. And also, for the industrial landscape, we also have this logic for the industrial landscape. There are a lot of opportunities. And also, we have very good industrial operation, and it can be fully integrated. Then we can have the combination of our urban development and our industrial operation. This is also our way of our logical thinking. We really hope that for our Yuyuan, for our family consumption business and also for the city urban landscape and also online and off-line integration, we believe that we are able to pave a new way different from general companies, and then we can come up with our own characteristics for family consumers.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Huang Zhen. Well, there are several questions for Mr. Jian, so I will read them one by one. First of all, from [indiscernible] Securities, [indiscernible]. The question is that, for tourism group, how do you think about your outlook in 2020? Because what is the impact by the virus and on the tourist? And what is your coping strategy? The second question comes from [indiscernible] Assets. [indiscernible] asked for tourism group, how about percentage of international markets outside of China? Because the EU and then the U.S. and pandemic is also spreading. How about the impact on these markets for tourism in the group? Next one is from [indiscernible] from the [ Zhongan Asset ]. So we know that the Atlantis is recovering, and we have also be aware that for Club Med. And also in China -- and Club Med is going to be reopened in China. Well, in the future and for the marketing strategy, there are any new planning for these brands to be reopened in China? And another question, [ Wie Lu ] from [ Yin Xing ] Assets. And for the group, and for the dividend and the payout, it has been lower compared with interim dividend payout. What are the reasons behind that?
Jiannong Qian
executive[Interpreted] Well, altogether, 4 questions, and I have noted them down. Well, I would like to answer them one by one. First of all, in 2020, that is the outlook for operation. Well, in 2020, I think the biggest concern is about the pandemic. We have already touched upon that. Well, I think it is still a short-term impact by this virus. And also for global enterprise, well, I believe that we can balance our business. Third, globalization. Right now, China, the resumption of work and production already begun. Yes, indeed, for Atlantis Sanya, already mentioned about the strong rebound of the business, even better than same period of last year. And third part of the question touched on marketing, so I'm going to go into more details on the Atlantis part later on. So the overseas impact. Of course, we're not in a good position to tell you the exact number because the pandemic is not over yet. But overall speaking, first, our overseas business is mainly about Club Med. Club Med in Europe, globally, and in Japan, holistically, 21 are ski resorts out of the total of 66 resorts. 21 of them are ski resorts. They should have been closed down for business in March and April since the snow season is ended, right? So 21 ski resorts, the impact of the pandemic is not very big. The European pandemic and Japanese pandemic started later in China because outbreak started in January in China, right, whilst it started in March in European countries like Italy and France. The speed at which we closed down the resorts is in tandem with the speed of the unfolding of the pandemic. On a ski resort part, no big impact because snow season is going to be over soon. And the beach resort, what about the implications? The impact is mainly during these couple of months. But these couple of month is the slack season for Club Med, traditionally speaking. Because upon the end of the snow season, most resort and vacation goers will actually rush to resorts during summertime. So this pandemic happens in Europe as the snow season is over. It also happens amid the slack season traditionally speaking for Club Med. So there is no particularly huge impact in 2020. The holistic business-wise, there are several directions we can take some hopes on. First, China business begins to resume normal operations. There are 7 Club Med resorts in China and 1 at Atlantis, especially the latter, Atlantis is a tourist destination with a huge size. We are going to go out on marketing. I'm going to explain further on the marketing means we're going to work on. So due to the pandemic across the countries, the intercontinental or international flow of traffic is pretty much stamped. In the past, every year, the outbound travelers exceeded 120 million to 140 million person times every year. Among these people, 100 million-plus -- but in the next couple of months, this number will drop to almost 0. So these travelers, right, who would have gone abroad, have to stay domestically and consuming. There are overseas Chinese students studying abroad, right, and overseas Chinese people who are very enthusiastic about returning to China lately. These people are permanent residents overseas. So if they come back to China for a while, then they need to go on vacations in China domestically, which will drive demand. So going forward, as China gradually resumes to normal life, the Atlantis in China and Club Med resorts in this country, the business of which will grow, because these 2 brands are quite up to the taste of those vacation goers and the frequenters. Next, Thomas Cook branding. We're going to launch the rebranding of Thomas Cook. Compared to our current business, like Club Med and Atlantis, for which every year, we need to expand the business operations. But for the rebranding of Thomas Cook, it's going to be more imaginative. They will complement the existing Atlantis business. We're going to build a 2C operational platform. It's going to be something we all look forward to, the Thomas Cook rebranding. The next, there are a couple of projects we can anticipate as well. The Lijang and Taitung projects, we're going to launch the presale for holiday property sales, so we can generate some cash flow to the market of the group. We enjoy adequate cash. Due to the implications of the pandemic, the businesses that are compromised a big time, we are trying to look for targets potentially out there, especially those companies hit hard by the outbreak. There is opportunities amid crisis. When it comes to FOLIDAY, there are highlights we can look forward to. In addition, there are potential targets that we can invest in. Second, the outside of China region business and impact across different regions, which I already touched on more or less. For sales revenue outside of China, as I share to the overall: 48% for Europe; Asia region occupies 38%; and 14% for Americas. So for FOLIDAY Fosun Tourism Group, we are a truly globalized business and a brand as well as market and a talent pool. Therefore, in a nutshell, the non-China business, in terms of the sales revenue as a share, it's gigantic. But growth-wise, I think it's going to be China and Asia that occupies the lion's share for growth, and of course, those are the rough description of those different regions. The third part of the question is about Atlantis and Club Med, the marketing for relaunch into operations. The FOLIDAY Tourism Group marketing, we're going to ramp up efforts on marketing this year. We are about to establish our sales and marketing department on the Fosun Tourism Group level, which didn't exist in the past. Why the change? Under Tourism Group, multiple brands, multiple companies for each business under this group, they have their own marketing team. However, on the tourism group level, how can we integrate our marketing, how can we do marketing for a certain tourist destination? That's where we need to ramp up efforts. In light of the outbreak, we have done several marketing campaigns on a group level. Interestingly enough, there is an example, Ctrip Chairperson, Mr. Liang Jianzhang, last week, as a matter of fact, at Atlantis, we together staged a marketing campaign. Mr. Liang of Ctrip did a livestreaming promotion of sales of goods which lasted for 1 hour. Plus, afterwards, order coming in the 1-hour livestreaming, selling Atlantis 20,000, let's say, guest room stays. Albion Apartment have been sold over 35,000 guest room stays. The revenue for 1-hour livestreaming is CNY 35 million. So by the middle of the month, Atlantis will typically resume or partly resume the operations. The water park will not be opened until 28th of the month. So it is not completely opened up for business yet. But within a short period of time, our efforts worked. From 27th through 29th, the average occupancy rate has already reached 60% plus. As far as the booking is concerned, the tomb-sweeping festival 3-day holiday, conservatively speaking, the occupancy is going to be over 60% or even 70%, 7-0 percent, as far as the current room reservation status is concerned. The next, the number of cities where our operations are open is limited, confined to Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, those are main cities. Cities like Beijing and others where we have not started the sales yet, because in Beijing, if you return to Beijing, the capital of China, you have to self-quarantine for 14 days. So Beijing is special and different. But in most other cities, those domestic tourism activities have not formally started. However, I'm lucky to tell you that Atlantis has already begun to partially resume the business operations, which is popular among the Chinese people. Club Med, lately into April, gradually, the activities will be resumed. Atlantis -- no sorry, Club Med will be resumed into operations as well. We're doing an interesting marketing campaign for Club Med as we speak. We've already started to sell Club Med coupons or vouchers, so to speak. This is like a presell move we have made. As for consumers, you can book a slot there at a Club Med resort for your future vacation and thus have access to a whole host of benefits for you, because you have been staying at home or children at home, so to speak, for a long time, right? You really want to go outside for some fresh air, why not visit our website and reserve a product slated for April sales. Now you can go there in person during May or June to enjoy the holiday. Of course, we already start this type of marketing. We try to build up the advantages. In terms of the top-level design and planning, in those activities we will stage going forward we're going to strengthen our efforts along those lines. And Thomas Cook, which I already mentioned, the rebranding of Thomas Cook, once that happens, then more major marketing campaigns will start. And the final question is about dividend payout, right? Yes. In terms of dividend, from this first half of this year up to now, we paid out a dividend in the first half of the year; middle of this year, another round. The overall dividend payout policy, which we expect to be steady and stable as long as we enjoy profit and business growth, we're willing to share with investors our profits. This policy stands true well into the future. But why? The second half of the year is going to be of a lesser degree than the first half. This is to do with our profit, because traditionally speaking, first half of the year, ski season enjoys more profits than the summer season. So that's why less dividend paid out, second half compared to the first half. But of course, for our overall business, we are gradually improving the seasonal balancing. For Atlantis, the share that takes to the total business we have is 27%. We're going to actually smoothen the curve throughout the seasons, thanks to the ecosystem development. Those are my response. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Chen. Then there are a couple of questions for Mr. Xu-kun, joining you from [ Shuang Hongyan ], asked a question about Yuyuan Holdings industrial operations and industrial investment. This is a twin-driver model. You also acquired Seagull watch brand. So regarding industrial investment, what plans do you have? Second, Yuyuan has launched many new products, many of which are related to the China cultural style. So the China style and the China cultural products will be the future development plan.
Xiaoliang Xu
executive[Interpreted] First, Yuyuan investment, as Mr. Huang mentioned already, we center our efforts on bolt-on upgrading on top of our original industrial basis. Second, within the Fosun Happiness sector, how can we broaden the width of our coverage, especially along the lines of China culture and China style? The Yuyuan investment efforts throughout the years in the past, just like I alluded to, the Happiness consumption, the whole brand portfolio therein, and also, like Mr. Guo mentioned during the letter to the shareholders, the tracks we choose, the breadth of the segments we choose is already good enough. In the existing tracks of Yuyuan where we may have spotted new opportunities, we already act to be prepared for those opportunities. Now we focus on trying to build a industry frontrunner. The top 2 industrial players, this is going to be very important for our future efforts. Second, the Yuyuan products. Product-wise, product is a lot to do with investment efforts. To make investment, you invest in a company, you are bullish on the team, you are also bullish on their brands and assets. In addition, you want their brand DNA and their products which have a strong attachment to their customers. Regarding China style and China culture, Yuyuan is going to fit with China traditions because Yuyuan is a time-honored business. In Shanghai, there is a strong basis, based on oriental culture of China and street -- sorry, the China style and China culture, then we promoted it as the main threat which is visible in the eyes of investors because we are special due to those Chinese characteristics. And just like Mr. Huang, talking about jewelry sector, we're not confined completely to gold, neither are we confined to Laomiao and Yayi. And we try to explain the breadth centering around the product matrix and a brand matrix. So product-wise, I think we're very busy. We have a lot of things to do, meaning we're going to have more and more new products down the road, better and stronger sales. More consumers will build wonderful relations with us going forward. Okay. That's it for my part.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Xu. Online, we have many more questions to be addressed to Mr. Huang. Some of the questions are about gold and the jewelry business. But in the interest of time, as an investor, if you're interested in those questions, please feel free to watch the video. And a couple of other questions I'd like to bring to your attention, for example [indiscernible] from [indiscernible]. The live streaming as a means to promote sales of a certain products is very popular. On that note, Mr. Huang, could you walk us through the overall status of online sales? Second, the Yuyuan, the overall IP, what is your plan to create the Yuyuan IP going forward?
Zhen Huang;President of Yuyuan Holdings
executive[Interpreted] Thank you. First, live streaming, in 2019, indeed, it was a hot topic. As a marketing means, it was highly implementable and practicable for Yuyuan as we have been transforming ourselves. We're open-minded about those new marketing opportunities. In the past, for instance, in terms of an e-business or new retail, relatively, we lagged behind in the past. However, after the upgrading of Yuyuan, we started to have more opportunities, especially 2019, we have also made the use of the live streaming for sales. And we have also made a lot of arrangements with very positive results. And at the end of last year, we organized the family day for Yuyuan. And on that day, we hit the revenue of CNY 40 million. And then primarily, it was contributed of more than CNY 26 million, thanks to the partnership with [ Wei Ya ] and together with [ Wei Ya ] and [ Li Ziqi ] and other online celebrities. And currently, we are already working with them very well. Going forward, we will also work with these leading celebrities. And we believe that our partnership with these online leading celebrities can help us to expand our audience and attract new clients by introducing more traffic. And also, it is also good to promote new products. As mentioned by Mr. Xu-kun, we are going to launch more products. So that's why we would like to work with these online leading celebrities, and we can sell these new products. And of course, for those leading online celebrities, the cost is also very high. At the same time, we should also think about how to use our general or our in-house live streaming platform for sales. So that's why we will try to set up our own live-streaming platform. And Laomiao is already setting up its own live-broadcasting platform. We already completed our 1.0 version, and we are going to upgrade it into the second version. And our live-streaming team and facilities last year, we have organized 573 live broadcasting sessions made by our own staff. And we have also set up a team of 7 full-time anchors and 23 part-time broadcasters. So this year, we are also beginning to use the live broadcasting for sales as our growing approach. And we're also thinking that the Laomiao live streaming platform can also be connected with Yuyuan and other similar consumer hosts -- products for -- from Fosun. And we believe that the audience of Laomiao can also become the consumers for other brands, so that's why we can achieve the synergies. I think this is also a very active attempt, I think, for the live broadcasting for sales, I think that Yuyuan already leadership. However, at the same time, we have to continue to actively grow, and we hope that it has become our normal promotional mechanism and hope that the live broadcasting for sales can help us to approach and reach new customer base. And hopefully, it can be one of our pillars for online sales for Yuyuan as an IP. It's a time-honored brand. There are a lot of cultural DNA inside that, and we would like to capture the Chinese culture. And just now Mr. Xu-kun also talked a lot about Chinese fashion and also about the family, health and online and also youth and also community. These are all our targets for Yuyuan, and we would like to put more emphasis on our development strategy. And our strategy is 1 plus 1 plus 1 and focused on the consumption industry; second, and also the city landscape development; and thirdly, that is about the online and offline membership. And the 1 plus 1 plus 1 is in our strategy of branding for our Yuyuan.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Well, thank you, Mr. Huang Zhen. And I'd also like to thank our Happiness segment's Mr. Jin, Mr. Huang and Mr. Xu. Thank you, once again. Next, we are going to move forward to the Wealth segment, and we are very honored to have our Senior VP and also CIO, Mr. Tang Bin with us; as well as the co-CIO and also the Chairman of Fosun Insurance, Mr. Li Tao, and he will be with us from Hong Kong; and also, our -- Mr. Jin Hualong, the co-CIO from Fosun International. We would like to invite our leaders to take their seats. And we're also very honored to have the CEO of Fidelidade, Jorge, and he is with us in Portugal, he will be connected with us; and also Mr. Chen Guoping, President of Pramerica; and also CEO of Fosun Hive and Greater China and also the Vice Chairman of Yuyuan and also Chairman of Forte, Mr. Wang Jiping; as well as in our overseas market of Fosun Hive CEO and also CEO and Vice Chairman of IDERA, Yamada-san, he is with us in Japan. First of all, I would like to invite Mr. Tang Bin to give us a little bit of presentation about the Fosun investment.
Bin Tang
executive[Interpreted] Dear shareholders, good afternoon, everyone. So now I would like to give you the following presentation about our Wealth sector. Well, in the first slide, then you can see our approach in our investment management system. First of all, for the future investment, we'll be dividing into 3 parts. One is our industrial reinforcement or more value added for our operation. Just now you have already heard in presentation on different business sectors. And also, in the last years annual conferences, our Board already mentioned that it is already well done in the width, and we would lay to set up our own industrial barriers. For example, we want to leverage our investment capabilities and also make full use of assets and build up on our teams, and we need to be more professional in order to set the bar higher. And next, we would like to make investments in our new platforms. And we will be more prudent for selection for the new platform. And for example, the gross margin should be above 30%, and the debt versus asset ratio should be lesser than 30%. And the industrial position should be 1 of the top 3 or at least has the potential to become 1 of the top 3. And in terms of the fundraising, for example, we have our own criteria, especially the project-based fundraising. And also, we would like to make new platform, for example, Fosun plus industrial group plus fund. And we're also going to consolidate good quality funds for investment. And then for the financial investment, in this regard, we also put emphasis on the [indiscernible]. We would like to set up the funds as our investors club, and Fosun equity will be invested into the fund. And the Fosun will become the biggest LP of each fund. So that is second dimension about fundraising. Then for the management, we need to have our own talents, and they need to have their own labels. They need to be the elites. And we hope that they can provide added values for our industry so they can be dispatched to our business operations. And also Fosun Business System, FBS, and also AMC management will also be supported. And then in terms of asset, every month, we'll evaluate the projects to understand whether our assets can become 1 of the top 3 for ROI above 50% to evaluate its exit. And of course, we also take into account FBS and AMC. And we will do very dynamic evaluation for the exit. And for the cash inflow, on one hand, we have for the evaluation by cash flow and also IRR to be maximized. So that is what we are going to do in terms of the investment, fundraising, management and exit. And how can we continue to improve our investment capabilities? First of all, we will continue to promote our industrial focus. And for all our investors, they need to have their own labels, and we have more than 20 labels. These labels and the slogans and also our assets will be aligned in order to improve our investors to be more focused. And the second is value added for our industries. And then for the regional focus, because we have lot of teams globally. And also for some markets, these industrial capabilities will be boosted. And then it's our strategy focus. It means that our assets and the teams should be matched with our strategy. That is attributable to an innovation-driven consumer group. So that's why we need to have a better alignment. So you can see that with our investment capabilities and industrial operation capabilities, platform capabilities, and we also need to have our securitization capabilities. Last year, you can see our business progress in investment and asset management. And for investment, you can see some of our new projects in 2019. So you can see based on all the operational value added and also platform investment and also the financial investment, so with these new projects, you can see that they are fully matched with our strategy. And several companies have been refinanced, and the evaluation has also been greatly improved. And also some of our portfolio companies have been IPO-ed and also some have been exit through M&A in 2020. And there are around 20 projects to apply for IPO. So that is in our 2019 business review and also some of our highlights and outlook. And also when we talk then about our industrial operation and platform development and also the securitization initiative and also for the new material and also for iron and steel business, as mentioned by Mr. Guo in his annual report for -- over the past 1 year, there were a lot of highlights. You can see that in terms of the output per capita is in top 3. And also for the automation and robotics, we acquired FFT. Well, over the past several years, you can see for the smart energies and smart technologies, we have made a lot of breakthroughs. Going forward, for the automotive intelligence, we are going to move from -- into the general automation and also new energy. And in this outbreak, we have seen some new opportunities, especially for the industrial intelligence can be adopted to innovate the traditional industries. And in the future, FFT will also launch. We'll also try to get it prepared for the Chinese and Star Board. And also for JV in Tianjin is also the [ Bejima ] project. And for our new energy, we're always thinking that the next-generation products for the power products, we can have also seen better valuation for JV power. And we also hope that it can also be listed in the Star Board. And also for the environmental protection, we have acquired [ B Sino ]. Actually, 2 years ago, we acquired this, and eventually, we try to start the application for IPO. And for this business, previously, it's municipal waste and also -- we are also working with other water company. And our positioning for [ B Sino ] is that it is a technology company. It is not just a water company to treat these municipal waste. So that's why we will see more revenue contributed by the innovation business. And then for the resources, we will continue to evolve ourselves and take Hainan Mining over the past 1 year, and you can see the turnaround for Hainan Mining. So after this COVID-19 crisis, we are going to see the bottom price of some resources. And under such a circumstance, maybe we can try to find some M&A opportunities. And also for the free-trade zone in Hainan, we can also make some new breakthroughs. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Tang Bin. Next, we would like to invite co-Cio, Mr. Jin Hualong, to give us more presentation. So first of all, let's take a look at a short video about RZ Capital. [Presentation]
Hualong Jin;Chairman of Fosun RZ Capital
executive[Interpreted] Dear investors, good afternoon. I'm Jin Hualong. And currently, I'm the Chairman of RZ Capital. Currently, I'm also the co-Cio of Fosun International. I'm very pleased to give you information about Fosun RZ Capital. Just now you took a look at our portfolio company that [indiscernible] AI is also the leading company in [ L4 ], and Fosun is also the largest institutional investor. So Fosun RZ Capital is a global investment platform. And our vision is to become a top investment institution, and we would like to generate excellent investment returns and long-term strategic value for Fosun. And our coverage is about the innovation and intelligent technology and also investment areas and about the consumer innovation with series [ A2b ] and also the investment. We promoted the upgrading of various business sectors and explore the new industry directions. RZ global footprint is centered on China, 2 main directions. First, the U.S. and Israel, the technology highland globally. So through China, the U.S. and Israel staff deployment, we seized those cutting-edge investment opportunities. Second, the China and American experiences transplanted onto emerging economies like India and Southeast Asia. Right now, RZ Capital will have a headcount of 45 globally working at 7 offices. We're one of the most active CVCs globally. In the past, over the past 6 years, we've got a very stable partner team. Besides myself, there are 3 partners responsible for China, for example, Liu Grace, Liu Fangwei and Kuang Yi. We also have with us Tej Kapoor, responsible for India market, where we have 2 teams: Jonathan is in charge of Silicon Valley in the States; Danny is responsible for Israeli team at Tel Aviv. The average investment experience of the whole team exceeded 10 years. They have a mixed background. Some of them used to work with Internet firms, some with investment institutions or consultancy firm or banking or tech firms. So the cutting-edge technologies due to this diversified background of the team can cover all those dimensions. Right now, there is a strong complementarity of investment risk of the team members. The Fosun RZ Capital's team combines global horizons with localization. RZ originated from Fosun. We focus a lot on building industrial depth. And it is through our global team that we managed to coordinate and amplify our advantages worldwide. For example, autonomous driving case study. Self-driving as an industry, of course, this is a historic point going forward. In the next 2 decades, this is going to be one of the most important facts and segments for VC. Arrow 4 and Arrow 5 autonomous driving is going to be taking lion's share. Starting from 2016, RZ began investing in LiDAR companies [indiscernible]. Then with that, we surveyed the value-chain opportunities in China and the U.S. We deepened our industrial insight in 2019. The Arrow 4 autonomous driving for a stop solution company, [ Yinlong ], that we invested in. The [indiscernible] we invested in, we exited with a value of close to CNY 100 million, one of our exit going forward. Along the value chain of autonomous driving, we're going to cover the road infrastructure with vehicles and automobile parts and components iteration upgrades. On those points, we're going to continuously make our deployment efforts. Now how can we replicate American and Chinese experience in India market, in other Southeast Asian market? We invested in high-potential companies like the [ Hulala ] mass transport, the India version; and Headfone, the India version in Malaysia; and the Indian version, ixigo; and the Indian version, Little Red Brook, namely [ 12 ]. Those are different companies or businesses in India we invested in. We've replicated the successful experiences from other countries in India. Right now, the overall IRR exceeds 30%, so wonderful financial performance in 2018. JIGUANG listed at NASDAQ. MOLBASE IPO-ed in 2019 in the States. [indiscernible], we exited with value of price premium, so wonderful cash returns. So actually, our investment has been ushered into a period for return. And we have multiple projects to be connected to the capital market, for example, Hun Liji, the dating and wedding platform; and Bochewang website; as well as the education platform, zhaozuor. Those are multiple projects to be connected with the capital market. So our projects that are growing at high speed, the listed [indiscernible], the marketing company in a growing market, leading online market in the states. In addition to positive financial return, we're actively creating the unique industrial value, mainly focused on business synergy and upgrade. We focus a lot on Internet-related entrepreneurship projects. So we are experienced in making investment in tech-driven firms, and we can help the portfolio of businesses under Fosun Group to migrate online, leveraging the IT technology. Coming forward, we stand a good chance to incubate those emerging industrial platforms with a market value of close to CNY 10 billion. We want to empower the Fosun. In 2019, MOLBASE listed in the stock market. We recommended any securities as the key underwriter for this company IPOs in the U.S.A. So this is a wonderful empowerment. We also work with multiple portfolio companies, working with Yuyuan Holdings in the form of Hive property, working with the local government under a profit-sharing model. So coming forward, we're going to actually leverage fully the globalization and advantages we have to help and contribute to Fosun's vision and mission. In big data, we will try to control the majority stakes of those important companies. Then our main business, namely VC, will expand our scale. We will raise capital and build a fund. So every year, 25 to 30 projects with the size of RMB 1 billion. So those are my introduction for RZ Capital. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Let's go to Hong Kong, the Senior VP of Fosun International and the co-CIO, Li Tao, who is also the Chairperson of Fosun Insurance, to deliver presentation.
Tao Li
executive[Interpreted] My dear investor friends and analysts, hereby, briefly, I'd like to introduce to you the Fosun Insurance sector, the overall status in the year of 2019, including financial overview, business highlights and future development priorities. After me, from Fidelidade, Jorge; and Mr. Chen Guoping, Pramerica Fosun, will walk you through some of the details. First, the insurance sector financial review as a whole. The year of 2019, as for overall business of insurance sector, our total revenue reached RMB 31 billion on a Y-o-Y basis, up 32.1%. Profit attributable to owners of the parent reached CNY 2.61 billion, up by 9%. So the net profit maintains a strong momentum of growth. The total asset, up 13%, reaching close to RMB 209 billion. Second, the business highlights. In addition to financial growth, regarding business development -- or actually, there are multiple highlights. For example, strategically out the ecosystem synergy, the channel expansion and quality growth. I'm going to go in some more details. First, layout. The Fosun sector -- the Fosun Insurance sector, in terms of geography presence, we've covered 4 continents and 14 countries. As a result, we are able to better understand global development plans. We actually gained steady cash return from those established economies. Then through active deployment, we can share a slice of the pie of the rapid growth of emerging economies as well. We take full advantage of Fidelidade as a very important hub in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking regions. As I mentioned, Fidelidade, we use this very important hub to make deployment in Latin America region. Portugal invested in La Positiva, which is the leader in Peru. That's a very important milestone, gaining entrance into the Latin America, and the insurance license got approved in Chile, so Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa. In Asia, it is Macau. Furthermore, we focus on the high-growth regions in Asia as well, centering around the rapid population growth, and there are strong demands for security. So we are focused on developing the life insurance and health insurance companies. Pramerica Fosun and Fosun United Health in Mainland register rapid growth. Fidelidade range in Macau has been approved by the regulator and are transformed into a subsidiary. Then for Macau and the Southern China Bay Area, it will contribute further to the business growth there. For Macau and senior care, those linked insurance schemes already began to be launched. The next highlight is ecosystem collaboration. Fosun Insurance not only blindly pursue the asset size and policy growth. How can we build a connection between insurance and the Fosun Group as a whole? We want to create those tech-driven products with Fosun characteristics, leveraging wonderful resources in the pharmaceutical arena of Fosun. How can we combine insurance with health management? It is through insurance that we can offer all-around support to the patients and customers. For example, a cooperation between Fosun United Health Insurance and Wanbang, then the Fidelidade working with Luz Sade hospital system in a remote health monitoring scheme and service. Pramerica Fosun working with [ Guhao Jin ] launched insurance plus testing service. In addition, the cooperation between insurance and senior care insurers, especially life insurer under our group, work with Starcastle under Fosun care, haven't launched the senior care comprehensive solution in insurance product. Fosun's vision is to serve global household and family clients. Ecosystem-wise, there are many family-oriented products. So centering on their pain points and the domains for insurance products, we're going to innovate in our product portfolio. For example, Fidelidade leveraging technical solution provide the elderly with a social assistance. Going forward, the family service ecosystem portfolio companies, like those for maternity and child care and wedding and dating, so we can synergize across the board to create more business with a very distinct Fosun characteristic. The next, channel expansion and distribution. On that front, we are accelerating our efforts as well. For instance, the [ Shinhan ] insurance agency, right now, in China, domestically, we've already got 11 licenses, over 50 companies voted the license. So we focused on the area of the health care institution business potential. We are achieving continuous growth by tapping those potential. The next high-quality growth, business-wise, we emphasized on quality and a sustainable growth. Like Pramerica Fosun, for example, adhere to the principle of value growth to build a high-quality team with special characteristics. Fidelidade continuously improve underwriting performance and a profit grow for underwriting profit 2019, driven by tech, there is more automated process to lower combined cost, the ATG in the States and [indiscernible], based in Hong Kong, adhere to the principle of capital structure, operational manage to strike a balance. So applauded by international rating agencies, [indiscernible] the A- rating. Invest ATG in 2019 has also won the international A- rating. Outlook toward the future. The main threat for future development, there are 3 of them. First, to take deep root in Fosun ecosystem; to strengthen efforts in areas related to health care; happiness, how can we achieve crossover synergy expansion; the insurance plus health care, insurance plus senior care, so on and so forth. So we can come up with those special products with the Fosun advantages. So we can close the loop on the whole ecosystem for Fosun. Second, to center our efforts around family customers. From a birth to senior care, we deeply root our efforts in those family-oriented products by tapping multiple ecosystem scenarios. We drive conversion of customers' traffic. We get insight into their demands so we can meet their requirements. Third, tech-driven. It is through tech-driven, we try to build more on a C-side traffic to build interaction between online and offline. It is also through tech-driven, we can optimize the current process to make what we do more efficient and profitable. So 2020, centering around the group-level strategy, we will deepen operational capacity of the insurance group. So in a better fashion, we can deliver on our comprehensive goal, then the Fosun Insurance can grow stronger with the special characteristics.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Li Tao. The next speaker, Portuguese Insurance CEO, Fosun Insurance co-Chair, Jorge.
Jorge Manuel Baptista Correia
executiveJust a moment. Please to share my video. Just a moment, share screen. [Foreign Language] Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. My presentation today will focus on Fidelidade performance in 2019 and the outlook for 2020. In 2019, we celebrated the fifth year after the acquisition of Fidelidade by Fosun Group. I think it is safe to say that this has been a very successful investment for Fosun. Let me give you a few examples. Number one, Fidelidade consolidated net profits reached in this period EUR 1.2 million -- EUR 1.2 billion, with a net income always above EUR 200 million. Second, nonlife premiums grew in this period almost 40% with over additional EUR 400 million. Remaining -- Fidelidade remains the leader in the Portuguese insurance industry. Number three, the consolidated shareholders' equity has increased by 64% from EUR 1.9 billion to EUR 3 billion. Number four, the combined ratio improved from 99% in 2015 to 96.7%. Assets under management rose by 21% from EUR 13.9 billion to EUR 16.8 billion. And on the international front, the company international presence expanded to new markets and the percentage of revenue coming from the international business increased from 5% to 23%. Two additional topics. The company's workforce was rejuvenated without increasing overall numbers of staff, following the recruitment over 800 new employees and new talented people. And finally, Fidelidade was always considered over and over the company with the best reputation and the most innovative company with the best products, always achieving the best client satisfaction index. We achieved many other milestones, which I will cover in the next few slides. To make the most of our time, I will cover these 3 main topics in the coming minutes. First, I will share some highlights regarding Fidelidade performance in 2019. Second, I will go through some of the main KPIs of our business last year. And finally, I will provide an overview of those challenge I will and I see going forward. I believe, 2019 was a very positive year for Fidelidade. Indeed, we continued to implement our strategy and achieved several milestones. On the commercial front, we continued to grow our nonlife business and maintained the overall market leadership in Portugal. On the writing side -- on the underwriting side, we continued to develop new value proposition for our clients, innovating and developing new ecosystems, such as health, such as mobility. On the operational side, we keep streamlining operations, automating and gaining further efficiencies while implementing agile approach in several projects we are -- in our hands. Regarding our international footprint, we materialized our growth ambition and entering 4 countries in Latin America. Let me give you a bit more detail on following slides. Despite fighting against all major European insurers in Portugal, Fidelidade keeps leading in Portugal with an overall market share of more than 25% as of December 2019. In nonlife, we kept growing above the market and gaining market share. It is the case for all business lines of business: motor, health, property, accidents at work or workers' compensation. In life, the decrease in the market share is mainly related with a predefined strategy to reduce sales. It was our intention to reduce sales in the life financial business, mainly driven by the combination of low profitability and high capital charges of this business. It's not the only -- it was not only Fidelidade that took this decision, all the companies, major companies in Europe decided to reduce this line of business. In the interest of the time, I will skip this slide. It's just a quick note to say Fidelidade is top of mind in Portuguese insurance market and keeps collecting the recognition for our clients that is our main asset. As a market leader, we feel that we have the responsibility to promote innovation in our industry. In this sense, we have been launching different innovative products in the last months, trying to meet our clients' expectations. A few examples are our new fully digital pet insurance, for example; our online medicine tools that have been very useful in this outbreak that we are facing as well as the new cyber product for -- we launched for SMEs and for families. At the same time, we are also piloting more disruptive offers like our Just in Case, that is a travel insurance app, and we are about to launch this year a partnership with Vitality, that is a worldwide leader in [indiscernible] ecosystems. At this point, I want to highlight, we see digital capability as an enable to both improve client service and gain efficiency. We are focused more in these 2 parts than into new products, disruptive products. Disruptive products are usually cheap and not profitable in the earliest years. So we focus our innovation efforts in gaining more efficiency and improving our offer and the sustainability of our current offer. In fact, in the side of the efficiency, we are reaching unprecedented service levels in the European insurance industry. For instance, in the level of automation of our motor claims process, while we can open a claim only in minutes, our competitors can only make it in hours or even in days. This is the sort of competitive advantage which is difficult to replicate. On the international front, Fidelidade, as you know, entered in Latin America in 2019, on the one hand, by acquiring a majority stake in La Positiva Group with operation in Peru, in Bolivia, in Paraguay. On the other hand, by entering greenfield in Chile and being granted license to operate a nonlife insurance company that is going very well. As a result, by year-end, Fidelidade international premiums were approximately EUR 1 billion. Let me go now to the second topic of the agenda. I will cover some of the key performance indicators of Fidelidade. First, 2 different realities in premiums. In life, a significant reduction due to the strategic decision we took to decrease sales. Why? Those products, life financial were not profitable with this low profitability and high capital charges under this Solvency II regime. In nonlife, on the other hand, Fidelidade kept growing above market in all the main lines of business and achieved an impressive growth for a market with a virtually stagnant GDP evolution. Second, Fidelidade achieved the best underwriting results ever since Fosun joined the company. I repeat, we had the best underwriting results since Fosun joined the company with a combined ratio of 96.7%, and we want to keep improving to be amongst the best practice, but the evolution, so far, has been very positive. Third, investment income, financial markets have been very challenging in this low interest rate environment. Reinvestment conditions are very difficult, and therefore, the investment yield decreased to 2.4%. But anyway, this is by far the best investment yield in our market compared with our competitors, even worldwide in the international companies. Finally, Fidelidade maintained a net income of [ EUR 200,000 million ], aligned with the budget. It is a decrease regarding 2019, mainly driven by the invest income, but let me emphasize this, it represents approximately 60% of the Portuguese market net income. Finally, my last topic for today, the outlook for 2020. Regarding the last topic, we anticipate for 2020 -- anticipated few challenges, but we could not manage -- imagine we would face the coronavirus pandemic. In any case, our primary goal was to keep evolving in the implementation of our strategy by keep gaining further efficiencies, keep innovating on product side through the development of our core ecosystems, like in health, mobility and so on. We also want to move towards the fee business in unit-linked side, thus lowering capital charges and saving products. And also, we aim to consolidate our international presence. This being said, current situation will imply an adjustment on these figures. The main concern now is really the coronavirus pandemic. It is too early to have a clear view on the full impact since we are now facing the epicenter of the problem in Western Europe. In any case, let me share some preliminary thoughts on coronavirus and Fidelidade. Fidelidade does not have -- number one, Fidelidade does not have any products, which would cover directly something like this pandemic. We are not covering business interruption, for example, given the pandemic. Therefore, our main concern is related with indirect impact of -- on individuals and companies. On the operational front, at this stage, we are operating remotely with 3,200 employees at home without any disruption. That is very important. And with this, minimizing the risk of contagion. This is to say that the technological investment made in the last year is paying off. Indeed, we are actually being faster since claims notifications dropped and the team is cleaning all the backlog. On the underwriting front, we have 2 different aspects: new sales, which account for approximately for around 50% of the premiums, 50% of the premiums are new sales every year; and the renewals of the legacy portfolio, which account for 85% of the premiums. Regarding new sales, mainly in nonlife, we expect a decrease of approximately 50%, at least during the period in which we are in the emergency state. Regarding renewals, for the time being, they have been in line with previous months. However, we expected these lower sales to be partially compensated by lower claims as the economic and social activities are at every time lows. As a result, we expect a slight increase in the final combined ratio, but the decrease of sales and the -- we compensated quite also the increase of claims, but as we have some fixed costs, the combined ratio really increases slightly. Still on the commercial front, we are adopting several measures in order to support our clients in this very specific phase, namely some portfolio retention measures, initiatives. Our primary goal now is to retain and to be close to our clients for our clients. For instance, we are giving some largest grace periods for payments. We are reducing some coverage temporary, for example, football clubs that are not playing anymore. This season, the risk is reduced, and we have to adapt -- to adjust our policies to this new situation. On the investment front, markets are very volatile. That is to say, we are obviously suffering from devaluations, and our assets under management are decreasing. But we have an important liquidity position. That is very important, I would say, more than EUR 500 million, which allow us to be comfortable in this period. And also, very important to approach some potential opportunities that might be generating -- generated in this scenario. Our solvency position, despite the devaluations in all the assets, is still on the range of 130%, 140%, that is our range according to our last estimate. Thank you very much.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Next, we would like to invite Mr. Chen Guoping, the President of Pramerica, to give us a presentation on Pramerica Fosun.
Chen Guoping;CEO of Pramerica Fosun
executive[Interpreted] Honorable investors and also analysts, good afternoon, everyone. Yes, I'm Chen Guoping from Pramerica Fosun Life Insurance. So first of all, I would like to share with you the fact that we entered into a new chapter in 2019. In 2019, under the new leadership of management team, we set a new strategy focused on teams and to achieve long-term value operation robustly under compliance and the risk control, especially the technology and ecosystem. The new management team attaches great importance to value management and is dedicated to creating long-term value for shareholders. For Pramerica Fosun, we concentrate on developing agency business. We have established a sales management system, centered on the basic law with golden sales units. The company will make unseating efforts to build 3 high sales team. We attach great importance to innovation, relying on Fosun's rich resources and multi-business eco, we have been developing active and coordinated ecosystems, starting with gene test and elderly care services. My presentation will be divided into 4 parts. First of all, let's take a look at our business review in 2019 for the original premium, up by 223%. For the new regular pay premium, up by 261%. And number of individual customers, up by 81% year-on-year from 57,000 to 102,000. For total assets, it grew from CNY 5.25 billion to CNY 11.3 billion, up by 170%. And for the investment yield, from 6.32% down to 5.78%. For risk control, since the fourth quarter of 2016, for 12 consecutive quarters, we have been rated as an A. Next is about our value management in 2019. And we have undertaken 4 measures to enhance our value. First of all is strategic transition focused on channels with high value. Strategic focus, focus on teams, regular pay business and technology and ecosystem. And for the organizational core, we take golden sales units, and excellent agents at the core organization unit, the company aims to build a high-quality and high-performance TA team with a sustainable and recordable growth. Secondly is structural transition focused on the value of RP business in 2019. New business and regular pay premium was CNY 1.01 billion, up by 261% on a year-on-year basis, and RP premium of BA continues to increase. C, the third one is product transition, focused on products with high value, integrating health and elderly care ecology of Fosun to promote long-term health insurance, with high-value margin and long-term annuity. The IM channel shift, it's focused from the critical units insurance into annuity. And fourthly, to optimize AOM and reduce operating risks. At the end of 2019, the quantitative and core of AOM increased significantly, which rose by 10 points to 86 from 76 at the end of 2018. It marks a good foundation to withstand interest rate risk. In 2020, we will continue to improve and enhance the values. It can be divided in 3 parts. First of all, for the life insurance company like us, we need to build a motto with excellent sales teams. So for TA, we strive to have 1,000 star agents and 125 golden sales units by year-end. And for BA, we are going to set up and cultivate the sales team to meet the requirements of different banking scenarios. And secondly, we are going to take high-value products as our priority for TA to increase the proportion of long-term health insurance, the high-value products, to over 50%. And to seize the opportunity into -- or into the high-value health insurance for BA to raise the RP business to improve BNP, to reduce the cost of S&P business. And for IM, we're also going to focus on the value improvement and also control the risk. And thirdly, that is a KPI assessment and incentive for my BNP. We make daily tracking. And the VNP of each channel and branch will be disclosed in the daily performance report. Value assessment and also incentive system and modeling and incentive system based on the VNB. And this is the brief introduction to our golden sales unit. For this system, this is now characteristics. And we would like to set up a high-quality sales team with the launch in the unit. And based on this and high-quality, high-performance and also sustainable growth, that is in our golden sales unit. And the core idea is to protect the IP rights and enlarge our structure. The basic performance, let's check it out. For indicators, an improvement. The first half of the year, the monthly effective rate is 14%, which has increased to 38% by second half. The golden sales unit monthly, we have 8 units, now up to 24 units. So the production capacity enhanced. Now each team, the per capita income driven by the team is enhanced substantially for business director at the highest level. Now the monthly revenue of RMB 57,000. Then finally, the ecosystem coordination and the future planning. Pramerica Fosun is actively working with external industries to cover health, wealth, the elderly care and auto. Those are different service items we cover. We try our best to help our customers to improve their operational capacity. First, the health covering 5 dimensions and elderly care covering 4 dimensions. For example, Yuyuan, jewelry, tourism, these are the wealth ecosystem, in addition to the health and elderly care. We also have the auto ecosystem. Sales-wise, how can we not only cover the business transactions, but also take care of those emotional attachment with consumers.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Chen. The next, Fosun Hive Greater China region CEO, Mr. Wang Jiping, to say a few words.
Wang Jiping;CEO of Fosun Hive Greater China Region and Co-Deputy Chair
executive[Interpreted] Hello, everybody, our dear investors and dear analysts. My name is Wang Jiping, the CEO of Fosun Hive Greater China region, also Co-Deputy Chair of Fosun. So for my part today, I'd like to share with you our perspectives on the Hive Greater China region, the business status. So first, the business around the Greater China region for Hive. We are doing this business for almost 10 years. 10 years ago, we were aware of the development of features and the characteristics of the property business. If we only compete it based on size and quantity, it was not enough because going forward, we already know the key theme for development is going to be quality. Property growth is going to be, for sure, related and linked to industries. So we put forward the concept of Hive earlier on. We are adhering to the principle of boosting the Hive industries. It is a zigzag journey throughout the past decade. But in retrospective, we managed to incubate 7 industry groups on our own. For each industry group, there are special features. For example, Fosun Care Group. There was a leading brand there, Starcastle, which is a premium senior care brand. We have Fosun Neighbor as a community health care brand. We have Sungin. This is a mega health care comprehensive service platform that are established in the 3 groups already, especially with Starcastle, which is able to turn a profit independently through its operations. Secondly, we take deep root in some industries. For example, [ Xin Hong ], focused on online and off-line integration of garment and fashion business. Right now, in Wuhan City, we have the Yong'an brand, which is up and running independently. In addition, [ Xin Hong ] has also developed a storage and a housing logistics business, mainly focused on pharmaceutical code chain logistics. This is a logistic brand, and it has played a vital role in anti-pandemic this time around, thanks to the multi-logistic capacity it has. Third, we've also incubated the infrastructure industry group represented by Sungin. Because now in China, it is the first of its kind to build the private sector-dominated high-speed rail with investment as of today exceeding CNY 20 billion already. This is a great product regarding infrastructure development. The next, the property service transaction platform represented by resource property already listed on a new treasury board. In addition, we regrouped our property management brand, namely Gorti. So in terms of, let's say, construction auxiliary service and other business lines, we have managed to expand the business scope of the original non-Gorti, which is set out to be a property management company. Now we have 5 million square meters of under-construction commercial project, the Starwit and multiple commercial and operational teams working with one another. Going forward, these teams will operate those commercial landmark projects. Efforts are underway, as we speak, in the process of some of the operations that already began to embody or demonstrate their competitiveness. The next culture in e-commerce, say, Dongyang, Woodcarving town in Zhejiang, Jade Town, which are based on local traditional culture in e-commerce, and thus, those landmark buildings as an extension on top of our existing industry. We already have teams along those lines as well. After the past 10 years of efforts, we have incubated 7 industry groups, as I mentioned already. Furthermore, all those industry groups, we develop Hive for them. As we work on a project in the meantime, we will turn our projects into Hive as well. So we have business diversity. We have the Hive-styled industries so that we can achieve the twin-driver model, operating on one side and commerce on the other side. They complement each other. They evolve and upgrade continuously. The next business, 3 parts. First, to build our presence, mainly in the Tier 1 cities and leading Tier 2 cities. As a part of Fosun 1+N framework, we fully empower each and every product line. So health, wealth, happiness, 3 sectors that will have access to the great industries under the 1+N chemical reaction framework within Fosun Group. So everybody will share a slice of the bigger pie. And third, the industry consolidation capabilities, the Fosun Hive Greater China region. A big part of our work is the Hive industry BD, namely the industries of Fosun. How can we sort of bridge across the board? So we can close the loop on industry chain and ecosystem. Last year, actually, we've got 6 benchmark projects of Hive, located in Tianjin, Kunming, Chongqing, Zhuhai cities. Those are cities where we got those landmark projects. Regarding exit, we scored positive performance in Guangzhou, [indiscernible], the Internet cluster zone. We completed the holistic exit. The financial Hive in Tongzhou District, Beijing, together with 3 financial institutions. We exited successfully. On the assets, we realized the project sales of CNY 10 billion for these 2 projects that we exited on. Last year, 5 commercial entities launched into operations, including BFC in Shanghai and Dahua 1935 in Shanghai vitality town and the Xinhua in Shanghai and Zhuzhou. The 5 [indiscernible] projects are successfully launched into production -- in operation, rather. The industrial development group, the intelligent retailing, the rehabilitation and the senior care service and infrastructure construction so on and so forth, we are marching forward and forging ahead with positive results. Looking back at our previous progress and our performance. The new project value last year, according to our estimates, it was over CNY 40 billion. Right now, we have 4.8 million square meters in the pipeline and under construction. The sales revenue of the sellable property last year reached CNY 29 billion. Going forward, we're continuously enhancing investment management so that, continuously, we can concentrate on acquisition of a big Hive projects. And throughout the whole value chain, we aim to build extraordinary Hive products to strengthen our industrial operational capacity.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] All right. Thank you. Mr. Wang Jiping. Next, from Fosun Hive Overseas region CEO, IDERA Deputy Chair and CEO, Yamada-san, to... [Audio Gap] [Presentation]
Takuya Yamada;CEO of Hive Overseas Real Estate operations
executive[Interpreted] Good evening. This is Takuya Yamada. I am CEO of Hive Overseas Real Estate operations. I'd like to go through our activities in 2019. But before I do that, I'd like to mention that all of our offices now having very difficult times, fighting against this coronavirus. Most of our staff is now working from home. Our priority is to protect our clients and our employees, but we are now working very hard to deliver same high-quality services to our clients and our business partners. Please go to our first slide. This shows our presence in the world. We now have 12 platforms. In Americas, we have 4 offices, Everest and Fortress in America; and Rio Bravo and Guide in Brazil. In Europe, we have Eurasia, in Moscow; [indiscernible] in London, [indiscernible] in Paris, and we have digital office. In Asia Pac, we have 3 platforms in Japan, namely IDERA, Court and MIRAI. And we newly added our new platform in India called Ahuja. Now we have CNY 130 billion in total. Next, I'd like to go through our activities in Asia Pac in 2019. Except for investment in assets, we acquired Court, which is middle-class hotel operator in Japan. Court has 13 hotels with 1,800 rooms from Hokkaido to Okinawa. Court has occupancy ratio of 90% in 2019. We added our new platform in India called Ahuja, which is residential developer in Mumbai. Ahuja has several residential projects under development, 1 of buildings and 3 landlords, with GSA more than 700,000 square meters. IDERA managed Tomamu Resort in Hokkaido, delivered record-high results in 2019. EBITDA year-on-year increase of 25%, fivefold the initial amount in 4 years. IDERA also disposed Triton W with after-tax shareholder IRR of 33%. IDERA managed listed REIT called MIRAI outperformed the index and acquired JPY 10 billion asset through new share issuance. Also, IDERA raised JPY 24 billion for third-party funds. 2020 outlook. CapEx fund started for Court to improve brand image and get prepared for tourism rebound after outbreak of coronavirus. With home-for-care concept, Ahuja has been rebranded, and construction will start after this coronavirus settle down. Next, our activities in Europe in 2019. We acquired Hive's first office buildings in Brussels and Paris, also acquired the largest mixed-use development project in [indiscernible] called [ Old Fair ]. This is the largest development project in this CBD for a decade. Next year's development with gross construction area of 270,000 square meter. Building permit has been granted and construction started for the Midland in Milan, and [indiscernible] has been 100% occupied. Our 2020 outlook, we continue exploring Central East Europe market, steadily developed institutional funds business, improve full cycle real estate capability and explore opportunities in real estate-needed industries. Please go to next slide. For our Americas activities in 2019, for Fortress, Liberty 28 almost reached full occupancy. And our Madison residential projects, we started our sales activities. [ Sakapira ], the office building, managed by Rio Bravo, has reached an occupancy of 84%. Rio Bravo raised BRL 1 billion for its mutual funds and REITs, and BRL 0.7 billion for its debt funds. Capital under Guide's Wealth Management grew BRL 8.4 billion. 2020 outlook. Fortress and Everest will focus on exploring low-risk opportunities for Fosun Insurance companies, while developing fundraising capabilities and will also explore new strategic ideas to introduce new IPs for Fosun synergy, combining Guide's fundraising channels and Rio Bravo's investment capabilities, Fosun will develop Brazilian market and create synergy within Fosun ecosystem. Again, we are now having very difficult time fighting against coronavirus, but we will make sure and work very hard to deliver same high-quality services to our clients and business partners. Thank you very much.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Please turn on the mic.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] All right. Now the mic is on. The battery was low for the mic. In the last section, we've collected questions from investors, some topics investors were interested in.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] First, the question goes to Tang Bin, CIO. So Fosun investment compared to other investment companies, what are our advantages? What will be our future investment planning? And how can we give rise to our focused strategy for investment according to those future plans?
Bin Tang
executive[Interpreted] First, in comparison to other investment companies, what are our advantages? There are several facets compared to other finance investment. I'd like to cover asset and liability. First, on the part of asset, we boast industrial ecosystems, as Hualong alluded to already. Second, we are capable of doing industrial operations. Compared to pure financial investment with our industrial ecosystems, we're able to empower the portfolio. Then postinvestment management, we enjoy extraordinary operational systems and capabilities like the FBS, Fosun Business System. And also for liability and compared with our financial investment, compared with other GP, we are different because, for us, we are going to become the largest LP. So in this way, we are going to share the benefits and interests within our other investors. And for the second issue, how can we concentrate on our investment? In our previous presentations, it will be defined into 3 parts. First of all is industrial and added value and to raise the bar for the industries, and we are going to cascade down our targets. And second is the acquisition of new platforms. And we will be very patient to seek our opportunities. And based on industrial ecosystem and then also our strategy build us often into an innovation-driven consumer group, that is in our strategy focus. Thirdly is on our financial investments. In this regard, and in many cases, we will ask why we need to make investment from Fosun, what are the added values in Fosun portfolio companies. So this is why we are unique. So overall speaking, for the investment and for the focus, and we have industrial focus, strategy focus and also the area focus.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Tang. And other question is from [ Valerie ].
Unknown Analyst
analyst[Interpreted] What are Fidelidade's advantage? How to manage this advantage post the various period? What are the opportunities?
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Sorry, I didn't understand in English, so the translation. The other question in English, please, the translation.
Unknown Analyst
analyst[Interpreted] So the question -- but actually, how are you going to manage the competition? And the second question is, following this pandemic, how are you going to maintain your competitive edge? And the third question is -- these are the 2 questions for you. First of all, what are the competitiveness for Fidelidade? And then secondly, after this outbreak of virus, how are you going to maintain your competitive edge?
Jorge Manuel Baptista Correia
executiveOkay. If I understand your question about our competitive advantage, actually, in this outbreak, we are -- our competitive advantage are higher than they were in the past. So because we were prepared, what is important in our market right now is to have a very close relationship with the clients, very close relationship. And as you know, Fidelidade is a carrier that has managed 5 channels: agents, brokers, old channels, Internet and bank assurance. So we have 5 doors for our clients to communicate with us, through the bank, through our own stores, through Internet, through our agents. And this proximity, it makes the difference in this moment, difficult moment. So we are very close to our clients, and we have added several questions and the request from our clients, and our reputation is increasing. Actually, as also to thank the support of Fosun Group to the Portuguese state in donation, providing materials that brings our reputation to even highest level than we was in the past. Second topic on competitiveness. We are preparing some specific products for our clients to help our clients in this very specific model. Number one, medicine online. We have a platform, the only insurance platform for medicine online with doctors to attend to help people to meet consultation and to drive people to the hospitals and to help on this outbreak. Number three, we have also products in -- regarding, for instance, covers for medical employees, for doctors, nurses. We have developed an offer and protect these specific classes of clients. And we have also -- Fidelidade is not only insurance group, it's insurance plus hospital. We have [indiscernible] with hospitals that are working very close to us, very -- together, helping on this. So in terms of competitive, the reputation is higher. On the other hand, we feel that keeping a huge level of liquidity that we have now, we have capacity to tackle new opportunities. Let me say that, according to our studies, the consumer sentiment in the last weeks in U.S. and Europe are in favor of more preventive health care, more insurance and more savings, more else insurance and more savings. I would say that, after this crisis, our clients wants to have more health insurance, more savings. And we are the #1, it is, by far, in these areas. So for me, this -- our competitiveness is not -- we keep our competitive edge reinforced. I don't know if it answered your question.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Okay. Thank you. The next question is for Mr. Jin Hualong. Well, what is the planning for the Fosun fintech group? And what are your targets in the next 3 years and also the long-term vision?
Hualong Jin;Chairman of Fosun RZ Capital
executive[Interpreted] First of all, I would like to thank investors and for -- you are still very interested in our Fosun fintech. Fintech in Fosun still keep a low profile. So I just took the responsibility for this fintech for a short period of time. For our fintech group under Fosun, we have H&A in Germany and then also NAGA listed in Germany and then and Hani listed in Hong Kong. So all together, around CNY 40 billion for our AUM. H&A is also having the largest ROE in Germany, so that is around 11%. And NAGA has also higher revenue. And for Hani Securities in Hong Kong, last year, they have also made substantial progresses. And also the investment in the banking business is also growing over the past couple of months. We are also thinking about our long-term vision for our fintech group under Fosun. And in the long run, how are we going to build ourselves? And after our internal deep discussions, we would like to have a long-term vision for fintech group. We want to have our global and comprehensive service provider based on fintech and especially for the large size and the fintech assets. And in the future, we would like to focus on several issues. First of all, H&A and Hani Securities, for these companies, locally speaking, they need to take the leadership, especially for the wealth management, and we hope that we can take the leadership in the legal -- in the local region for H&A. And they have to continue to expand the private banking. And they have also made the announcement that they're going to acquire [ Lampo ] in Germany. And after the acquisition, it is also going to become one of the largest private banks in Germany. We believe that its profitability will continue to rise. Therefore, Hani Securities in Hong Kong, we will also make both organic and external expansion, and they are going to become the leaders in Hong Kong and also to develop their own investment capabilities with their own characteristics. And next, we are going to develop the Chinese Mainland business and primarily being by means of merger and acquisition. And next, we hope that our fintech group and also our member companies, we would like to have a shared vision. We need to join hands to synergize our resources in order to improve our cross-border activities in the next 3 years, and we hope that we can have better connection with the capital market. And for our 3 years strategy and the long-term vision, I think the technology-driven will be the most important characteristics for us. And also, we are going to continue to improve our technological level, and we want to be more online and then also become smarter. And we would also like to strengthen our investment capabilities and also the investment on the financial infrastructure. And also, we would like to export our fintech services. And I hope that, for the fintech, we would like to become one of the state-of-the-art technology provider. And also, we want to have more clients for the fintech, especially consumption and also smart manufacturing and also the other fintech businesses. And at the same time, we would also like to optimize on our mechanism and corporate culture in order to attract more talent. And the reasons for the payroll and also the business and investment mechanism, they have been all optimized. And we would also like to set up on our partnership system inside our fintech group. And in terms of talent, we would like to promote our talent capabilities, and we would like to keep the optimization of our cultures. And then we hope that our fintech group can become the destination to attract the top-tier talents, and I hope that everyone can grow on our fintech platform. At the same time, and we will continue to optimize and eliminate, and we will keep on promoting the average level and the capabilities of our employees in the next 3 years. And for our fintech group, we believe that it will be highly expected in our Fosun family.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Hualong. The next question is for Mr. Li Tao. And then for the Fosun Insurance segment, how are you going to make the planning in order to become different from other insurance players?
Tao Li
executive[Interpreted] Actually, we have made repeated discussions. And we're also taking a look at the other international insurance players. We believe that we are going to have our own characteristics in 2 dimensions. First of all, in terms of global footprint, you can see a lot of multinational corporations. In order to have a reasonable footprint in established markets, we are going to see very stable business with very stable cash inflow. Second, highly developed -- or highly developing countries and especially the blue ocean, we are going to take a deeper root for Fosun Insurance. And we are going to work on these 2 aspects, not just in U.S. and Europe and in this well-established markets with very stable cash inflow and revenue. At the same time, in Greater China region and also for the life and insurance and nonlife insurance, we have also some new breakthroughs. And through Fidelidade, we have also captured the new opportunities in emerging markets for -- in the Peru and La Positiva, so this is one of the representatives. And we are also very active to pursue the business opportunities in the emerging markets as well. I believe that with this global footprint, Fosun Insurance is going to obtain the new competitive advantage. So with a very stable cash inflow and revenue, we are also able to really develop in the highly growing markets. And next, we are also different from conventional insurance company because of the advantages in our ecosystem. Well, it comes from our years and our development in -- by Fosun. We have pharmaceutical, hospital and testing and physical, check-up, and health and management, and also health care services, and also elderly care services and also managing the baby care. Well, that's why for Fosun Insurance business line, we are able to enjoy a very unique ecosystem. And then actually, we can work with other portfolio companies to develop Fosun Insurance Plus. And also, thanks to the diversification, we are going to have a very good customer base and scenarios. And all these resources can be actively connected with Fosun Insurance. Then through insurance, they can be connected with other scenarios. Then the customers of viscosity can be improved, and we can also have more commercial opportunities. So we can also refer the clients from our insurance to other frozen segment. So in this way, we are going to provide our consumers with a totally different experience. And then we are able to serve customers with greater values. And it is not just inside China or in Hong Kong or Macau, and also in European markets, especially led by Fidelidade, we're already able to provide better services. We believe that Fosun Insurance will be quite different from other insurance firms.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Li Tao. So another question for Jiping. And in this outbreak, what are the impacts on our Hive business? Have we founded new opportunities despite this outbreak?
Wang Jiping;CEO of Fosun Hive Greater China Region and Co-Deputy Chair
executive[Interpreted] Well, for this pandemic outbreak, we have already seen great impact. And in this anti-COVID-19 campaign, we believe that we are highly responsive. And together with local authorities, we are working very closely with local government. And for example, for the medical supplies and medical equipment, we are working with local authorities. For those on medicals and protective supplies badly needed, they have been delivered through those places urgently needing these supplies. And also, our tenants have also enjoyed the services and the medical supplies, and also, they can enjoy better hospital services. And the impact on our business is temporary. However, we are also thinking, at the same time, how we are going to adapt ourselves to this dynamic market, particularly. And after this outbreak, we can also feel that. And for our property, for our buildings and the -- yes, health will become one of our priorities for this Hive City. So we are also building our healthy office, healthy commerce and healthy residence in terms of hardware and material and design and equipment and facilities. And also small and middle office and back office and IoT and the property management, they have to be all upgraded and it should be health-related and environmental. And in this way, we can provide more added value for the property management. And also, it is more about services based on our health care segment. And then we can also empower our Hive business. And then -- and for all our buildings, they are all health-related, ecological-related. So going forward, this is a huge market and the reason to it, and we're also going to standardize our products related with health. And then next, we are still centered on the family consumers. And we would like to work on the whole life cycle from baby to old generation. And we want to customize the products and customize the packages for different consumers in order to improve the efficiency for our family consumers. And also in this outbreak, I think it is also of help to our business. Previously, for the real estate, it is more about off-line, and we also pushed to do more online. And we have more O2O integration. For example, we have so many commercial real estates. For our real estate, so they have set up their online platforms to sell the products online. Besides, the various commercial teams, the off-line commercial scenarios, we enhance the stickiness with our customers 5 kilometers in the parameter. Our merchants, their operational revenue is boosted as well because of the online part. The industry team for sales, they mobilize fully the online resources. For instance, we have been working with the Taobao online celebrity. So we have begun to sell some of the houses or property units online. This worked very positively. In addition, the online traffic, the online live streaming anchor, like our property management team, is doing marketing for online anchor to promote some online sales. So the pandemic is a challenge. However, on the other side, we are forced and compelled to spend more time in energy combining online with off-line, which is the future trend, right? So this is the opportunity for us to achieve O2O and to link the off-line with online.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Jiping. Next question is for Guoping. What are the advantages of Pramerica Fosun? Going forward, which will be the key areas where you're going to work hard on?
Chen Guoping;CEO of Pramerica Fosun
executive[Interpreted] All right. Thank you. Wonderful question. Our operating philosophy is by successful operations. We make a difference. There is a pattern we can observe with regards to life insurer. The biggest moat or defense, so to speak, is whether you have a strong and a mighty sales team. To do that, where we're now? We have the golden sales unit mechanism, right? We have the wonderful team, the golden sales units with high performance. Then we hope, on multiple fronts, we can shape our competitiveness, specifically, number one, we need to be selective. We need to research on the market, which type of sales talents are fit with us. We look at host of factors, like gender, marital status, their provider, job positions or professional field, what were their previous income level, so on and so forth. We look at host of indicators in picking a talent. Second, we need a wonderful management, which is able to strictly implement those fundamental managerial action plans, which is very important for life insurer business. Third, Pramerica is well-renowned for its training. So we have been trained with this extraordinary training system of Pramerica. On top of which, we upgrade our efforts when it comes to China. Number four, the linchpin is the ecosystems advantages of Fosun Group as a whole, I think, which are unique to Fosun Group, which many other companies don't enjoy. Think about the Happiness, health and wealth sectors of the Fosun ecosystems, they offer wonderful operating opportunities and activities for our customers. Therefore, we post unique advantages. We're going to develop in a better fashion going forward. Yes, indeed, despite the pandemic, we registered strong growth, 47.5% growth for Q1 for individual insurance; the agency channel, over 200% growth; the banking insurance channel, close to 400% growth, very strong performance. Thank you.
Unknown Executive
executive[Interpreted] Thank you, Mr. Chen Gouping. Very confident. With that, the Wealth sector session is well concluded up to now. One day, Fosun International, the various sectors and the business performance listed co-sharing is successfully concluded. I'd like to thank you, our dear investors, for your support to the portfolio of companies of Fosun and to Fosun International. If you're interested, please feel free to scan the QR code to review those sessions. And please feel free to contact our management members. Thank you, and thanks to our classmates. [Portions of this transcript that are marked [Interpreted] were spoken by an interpreter present on the live call.]
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