Nancy Sun
Analyst · Wei Zhu. Please go ahead
[Interpreted] Thanks Yongji. Hello everyone. I am going to present to you some information regarding our operation performance in the first half of this year. Although all of our learning centers have been temporarily closed in a long period of time during the first half of this year, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, our student recruitment and education services businesses have not stopped. For our adult professional education business in the first half of this year, the number of new students recruited were 29,000 decreased by about 43.1% as compared to 51% new students recruited during the first half of 2019. As mentioned by our CEO, Yongji before, the decrease in numbers of new students recruited was mainly due to the decrease in numbers of our adult education learning centers and temporarily closure of all university campuses. Our major channels of recruiting adult education new students include SEM based online recruitment platforms, online classified advertisements, word of mouth promotion, university campuses and et cetera. Advertising and marketing expenses of adult education business decreased by about 34.1% in the first half of 2020 as compared to the advertising and marketing expenses incurred in the first half of last year. The average acquisition cost per each new student recruited was about RMB3800 in the first half of this year, increased by about 15.8% as compared to the average acquisition cost per each new students' recruited of about RMB3300 in the same period of last year. The total areas of our adult education learning centers decreased by about 36.4% from 220,000 square meters in the first half of last year to 140,000 square meters in the first half of this year. The decrease of 18% in numbers of students' enrollment was much lower than the decrease in percentage of the total areas of learning centers. During the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak period, the average six months post-course job placement rate was over 90%, which is better than what we expected. Outstanding job placement rate indicates that employers are satisfied with the qualifications of our graduates and can also attract more new students to our adult education programs. Our K-12 education business has also been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of 2020. Our ground force promotional activities, which normally contributes about 30% of the total new students recruited have been seized. Moreover, children with lower age group are not very suitable for online lessons. And robotic programming lessons cannot be transferred from offline classes to online lessons. Hence, the new students recruited in the first half of this year are limited to those elders' children who are able to attend the coding and programming lessons. However, the numbers of new students recruited and students' renewal in the first half of this year was 37,000, increased slightly by about 1.6% as compared to 36,400 new students recruited and the student renewal in the same period of last year. Our K-12 education student enrollment numbers reached 105,500, increased by about 18.7% as compared to the student enrollment numbers of 58,400 in the first half of 2019. The renewal rate of students who have completed one year course program was about an 84%. About 52% of the total number of students who have paid the tuition fee in the first half of this year came from student renewal or word of mouth promotional activity. This high percentage indicates that our students and their parents are satisfied with our K-12 education programs and services. Moreover, this could also help to maintain our acquisition costs of new students and student renewal at a comparatively lower level during the pandemic period. Advertising and marketing expenses of K-12 education business decreased by about 4.2% in the first half of this year, as compared to the advertising and marketing expenses incurred in the first half of last year. The average acquisition cost per each new student for student renewal was about RMB1840 in the first half of 2020, decreased by about 5.8% as compared to the average acquisition cost per each new student for student renewal of about 1950 RMB in the same period of last year. We have already implemented certain policies and procedures as staff restructuring, closure or combination of learning centers and et cetera to further control our costs and operating expenses of our K-12 education business. The total number of our K-12 education learning centers increased by 15 from 217 as of December 31, 2019 to 232 as of June 30, 2020. Those new learning centers were at pre-operating stages in the fourth quarter of last year and commenced to operate in 2020. Going forward, our goal is to turn our K-12 education business to be profitable. During the pandemic period, all of our adult education and K-12 education students have been attending and completing their lessons through our online study at home plus dual teachers live broadcasting digital teaching mode. We have fully utilized our accumulated experience on long distance teaching to ensure that our online programs can maintain a high teaching quality of standard. as we can successfully deliver our online education services during the pandemic period the class resumption rates were high. In February, the class resumption rate for adult education excluding the university cooperation projects was 92%. During the period from February to May, this year, the total class resumption rate for coding and robotic programming classes of K-12 education was close to 60%. Class resumption rate for coding programs was even over 80%. By the end of June this year, the class resumption rate of K-12 education was about 84%. We also noted that COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated and accelerated the growth of our K-12 online education business. Our K-12 online Education business revenue increased by about 332% as compared to the revenue number in the same period of last year. K-12 online education revenue represented about 23.9% of the total K-12 education net revenue in the first half of 2020 as compared to only 4.2% in the same period of last year. Our learning centers have been gradually reopened and resumed their classroom lessons and the student recruitment since this June, when the spread of COVID-19 has been properly contained and controlled in most of the areas in China up to the end of July, we have seen that class resumption rates of adult and K-12 education in our learning centers have further increased significantly. Except for some areas that are still affected by the COVID-19, most of our learning centers have resumed their offline classes. This shall further improve our business performance, especially our K-12 education business. We believe that with more and more offline classes are allowed to resume in Beijing and other cities in the mainland of China, our business performance can further be improved in the second half of this year. With that, I would like to turn the call to Kevin, our CFO, who will share with you our 2020 first half financial highlights. Thank you.