China Animation Characters Company Limited provided consolidated earnings guidance for the year ended 31 March 2018. The Board informed the shareholders of the company and prospective investors of the company that based on the preliminary information available to the Board and the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the Group, the profit attributable to owners of the company for the year ended 31 March 2018 is expected to decrease significantly by approximately 33.0%, as compared with the same for the year ended 31 March 2017, because of the mixed effects of the following the amount of revenue from the trading business of the Group for 2018 financial year is expected to decrease by approximately 27.6% due to the decrease in the purchase orders placed by two major customers during the 2018 financial year; the amount of revenue from the theme park business of the Group for the 2018 financial year is expected to increase by approximately 102.3% due to the revenue contribution from Sega Live Creation Inc. (currently known as CA Sega Joypolis Limited) from January 2017 following completion of the acquisition; and the Group incurred a significant loss of approximately HKD 30.2 million mainly from fair value change in respect of the Group's investments held-for-trading in the shares of two Hong Kong listed companies which are held for promoting temporary business relation.