−Removed: Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk.
−Removed: you invest you should carefully review our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
−Removed: set forth in Item 2 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our consolidated financial statements and related notes included
−Removed: in Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our consolidated financial statements and related notes, as well as our
−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the other information in our Annual Report
−Removed: on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
−Removed: Readers should carefully review risks described in other documents we file from
−Removed: time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
−Removed: We are currently not in compliance with the Nasdaq continued
−Removed: listing requirements.
−Removed: If we are unable to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s listing requirements, our securities could be delisted,
−Removed: which could affect our common stock’s market price and liquidity and reduce our ability to raise capital.
−Removed: On May 6, 2025, the Company was notified by the Listing Qualifications
−Removed: Staff (the “Staff”) of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that the Staff granted the Company’s request
−Removed: to transfer the listing of its common stock, par value $0.0005 per share (the “Common Shares”), from The Nasdaq Global Select
−Removed: Market tier to The Nasdaq Capital Market tier, and that the Staff granted the Company’s request for a second 180-calendar day period,
−Removed: or until November 3, 2025 (the “Second Compliance Period”), to regain compliance with the $1.00 bid price requirement, as
−Removed: set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2).
−Removed: To regain compliance with such minimum price requirement, the Company must evidence a closing
−Removed: bid price of at least $1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days.
−Removed: The transfer of the listing of the Common Shares
−Removed: from The Nasdaq Global Select Market to The Nasdaq Capital Market took effect with the open of business on May 8, 2025.
−Removed: The transfer is
−Removed: not expected to impact trading in the Common Shares, which will continue to trade on Nasdaq under the symbol “GURE.”
−Removed: As previously announced, on November 5, 2024, the Staff notified the
−Removed: Company that the bid price for the Common Shares had closed below $1.00 per share for 30 consecutive business days and, as a result, the
−Removed: Company no longer satisfied Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1), the minimum bid price requirement applicable to The Nasdaq Global Select Market
−Removed: Pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company was afforded an initial 180-calendar day grace period, through May
−Removed: 5, 2025, to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement.
−Removed: Issuers listed on The Nasdaq Global Select Market are not eligible
−Removed: for a second 180-day grace period under the Nasdaq Listing Rules.
−Removed: However, based upon the Company’s compliance with the various
−Removed: criteria required under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A)(ii) to obtain a second 180-day grace period applicable to issuers listed on
−Removed: The Nasdaq Capital Market, the Company applied to transfer the listing of its Common Shares to The Nasdaq Capital Market.
−Removed: As noted above,
−Removed: the Staff approved the Company’s transfer application on May 6, 2025.
−Removed: The Company intends to closely monitor the closing bid price for its
−Removed: Common Shares and consider all available options to timely remedy the bid price deficiency.
−Removed: If at any time during the Second Compliance
−Removed: Period, the closing bid price of the Common Shares is at least $1.00 per share for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days, the Staff
−Removed: will provide the Company with written confirmation of compliance and the matter will be closed, unless the Staff exercises its discretion
−Removed: to extend this ten-day period pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(H).
−Removed: The Company can give no assurance that it will regain or demonstrate
−Removed: compliance during the Second Compliance Period.
−Removed: If the Company is not able to demonstrate compliance with the minimum bid price requirement
−Removed: by November 3, 2025, or the Company does not comply with the terms of the extension, the Staff will provide written notification to the
−Removed: Company that the Common Shares will be delisted.
−Removed: At that time, the Company may appeal the Staff’s determination to the Nasdaq Hearings
−Removed: Panel (the “Panel”).
−Removed: The Company’s appeal request would stay any delisting action by the Staff at least pending a hearing
−Removed: before the Panel and the expiration of any extension that may be granted by the Panel to the Company following the hearing.
−Removed: The Company has provided written notice to Nasdaq of its intention
−Removed: to cure the deficiency during the Second Compliance Period by effecting a reverse stock split, if necessary.
+Added: Investing in our common stock involves a high degree
+Added: Before you invest you should carefully review our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
+Added: of Operations set forth in Item 2 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our consolidated financial statements and related notes
+Added: included in Item 1 of Part I of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our consolidated financial statements and related notes, as well
+Added: as our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the other information in our Annual
+Added: Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
+Added: Readers should carefully review risks described in other documents we
+Added: file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
+Added: If we are unable to comply with the applicable
+Added: continued listing requirements or standards of Nasdaq, there is a possibility that our common stock could be delisted.
+Added: At present, we
+Added: are not in compliance with certain Nasdaq continued listing requirements.
+Added: Should we be unable to regain compliance, our securities may
+Added: be subject to delisting, which could impact the market price and liquidity of our common stock and potentially limit our access to capital.
+Added: We have received a determination
+Added: from Nasdaq regarding potential delisting and, while we have effected a reverse stock split and timely appealed against such determination.
+Added: While these actions reflect our commitment to maintaining our listing, there can be no assurance that we will regain or maintain compliance
+Added: with Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements.
+Added: A delisting could have implications for the trading and liquidity of our common stock,
+Added: as well as our capital-raising efforts.
+Added: On November 4, 2025, we received a
+Added: letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) indicating that we had not regained
+Added: compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (“Minimum Bid Price Requirement”) by the November 3, 2025 deadline.
+Added: our securities would be scheduled for trading suspension.
+Added: On November 7, 2025, we promptly appealed the Staff’s determination to
+Added: the Nasdaq Hearings Panel (the “Panel a hearing before the Panel has been scheduled on December 9, 2025.
+Added: We are actively evaluating a range
+Added: of available strategic and corporate actions that may assist in regaining compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement.
+Added: the reverse stock split which we have already implemented, we also intend to enhance investor engagement and pursue operational improvements,
+Added: subject to board and shareholder approval.
+Added: While we are making every effort to
+Added: address the listing requirements, there can be no assurance that the Panel will determine that we have achieved compliance with Listing
+Added: Rule 5550(a)(2) within the prescribed period or that we will qualify for any additional compliance period that may be available or that
+Added: we will ultimately satisfy all applicable Nasdaq listing standards.
+Added: If our common stock is delisted, it could result in:
+Added: • limited availability of market quotations for our securities;
+Added: • reduced liquidity for the Company’s securities;
+Added: • a determination that the Company’s common stock is a “penny stock” which may impose additional trading restrictions;
+Added: • a limited amount of news and analyst coverage;
+Added: • challenges in raising capital or issuing additional securities in the future.
+Added: There can also be no assurance that
+Added: the market price of the Company’s common stock will maintain the Minimum Bid Price Requirement.
+Added: The Chinese government exerts substantial
+Added: influence over the manner in which we must conduct our business activities.
+Added: We are currently not required to obtain approval from Chinese
+Added: authorities to list on U.S exchanges, however, if our holding company or subsidiaries were required to obtain approval or filing in the
+Added: future and were denied permission from Chinese authorities to list on U.S.
+Added: exchanges, we will not be able to continue listing on U.S.
+Added: exchange, which would materially affect the interest of the investors.
+Added: The Chinese government has exercised and can continue
+Added: to exercise substantial control to intervene on virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through regulation and state ownership,
+Added: and as a result, it can influence the manner in which we must conduct our business activities and effect material changes in our operations
+Added: or the value of the common stock we are registering in this resale.
+Added: Under the current government leadership, the government of the PRC
+Added: has been pursuing reform policies which have adversely affected China-based operating companies whose securities are listed in the U.S.,
+Added: with significant policies changes being made from time to time without notice.
+Added: There are substantial uncertainties regarding the interpretation
+Added: and application of PRC laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the laws and regulations governing our business, or the enforcement
+Added: and performance of our contractual arrangements with borrowers in the event of the imposition of statutory liens, death, bankruptcy or
+Added: criminal proceedings.
+Added: Our ability to operate in China may be harmed by changes in its laws and regulations, including those relating to
+Added: taxation, environmental regulations, land use rights, property and other matters.
+Added: The central or local governments of these jurisdictions
+Added: may impose new, stricter regulations or interpretations of existing regulations that would require additional expenditures and efforts
+Added: on our part to ensure our compliance with such regulations or interpretations.
+Added: Accordingly, government actions in the future, including
+Added: any decision not to continue to support recent economic reforms and to return to a more centrally planned economy or regional or local
+Added: variations in the implementation of economic policies, could have a significant effect on economic conditions in China or particular regions
+Added: thereof, and could require us to divest ourselves of any interest we then hold in Chinese properties.
+Added: Given recent statements by the Chinese government
+Added: indicating an intent to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in China-based
+Added: issuers, any such action could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors
+Added: and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or become worthless.
+Added: Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee
+Added: of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the Opinions on Severely Cracking Down on Illegal
+Added: Securities Activities According to Law, or the Opinions, which was made available to the public on July 6, 2021.
+Added: The Opinions emphasized
+Added: the need to strengthen the administration over illegal securities activities, and the need to strengthen the supervision over overseas
+Added: listings by Chinese companies.
+Added: Effective measures, such as promoting the construction of relevant regulatory systems, will be taken to
+Added: deal with the risks and incidents of China-concept overseas listed companies.
+Added: As of the date hereof, we have not received any inquiry,
+Added: notice, warning, or sanctions from PRC government authorities in connection with the Opinions.
+Added: On June 10, 2021, the Standing Committee of the
+Added: National People’s Congress of China, or the SCNPC, promulgated the PRC Data Security Law, which took effect in September 2021.
+Added: PRC Data Security Law imposes data security and privacy obligations on entities and individuals carrying out data activities, and introduces
+Added: a data classification and hierarchical protection system based on the importance of data in economic and social development, and the degree
+Added: of harm it will cause to national security, public interests, or legitimate rights and interests of individuals or organizations when
+Added: such data is tampered with, destroyed, leaked, illegally acquired or used.
+Added: The PRC Data Security Law also provides for a national security
+Added: review procedure for data activities that may affect national security and imposes export restrictions on certain data an information.
+Added: In early July 2021, regulatory authorities in
+Added: China launched cybersecurity investigations with regard to several China-based companies that are listed in the United States.
+Added: cybersecurity regulator announced on July 2 that it had begun an investigation of Didi Global Inc.
+Added: DIDI) and two days later ordered
+Added: that the company’s app be removed from smartphone app stores.
+Added: On July 5,2021, the Chinese cybersecurity regulator launched the same
+Added: investigation on two other Internet platforms, China’s Full Truck Alliance of Full Truck Alliance Co.
+Added: YMM) and Boss
+Added: of KANZHUN LIMITED (Nasdaq:
+Added: On July 24, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General
+Added: Office of the State Council jointly released the Guidelines for Further Easing the Burden of Excessive Homework and Off-campus Tutoring
+Added: for Students at the Stage of Compulsory Education, pursuant to which foreign investment in such firms via mergers and acquisitions, franchise
+Added: development, and variable interest entities are banned from this sector.
+Added: On August 17, 2021, the State Council promulgated
+Added: the Regulations on the Protection of the Security of Critical Information Infrastructure, or the Regulations, which took effect on September
+Added: The Regulations supplement and specify the provisions on the security of critical information infrastructure as stated in the
+Added: Cybersecurity Review Measures.
+Added: The Regulations provide, among others, that protection department of certain industry or sector shall notify
+Added: the operator of the critical information infrastructure in time after the identification of certain critical information infrastructure.
+Added: On August 20, 2021, the SCNPC promulgated the
+Added: Personal Information Protection Law of the PRC, or the Personal Information Protection Law, which took effect in November 2021.
+Added: first systematic and comprehensive law specifically for the protection of personal information in the PRC, the Personal Information Protection
+Added: Law provides, among others, that (i) an individual’s consent shall be obtained to use sensitive personal information, such as biometric
+Added: characteristics and individual location tracking, (ii) personal information operators using sensitive personal information shall notify
+Added: individuals of the necessity of such use and impact on the individual’s rights, and (iii) where personal information operators reject
+Added: an individual’s request to exercise his or her rights, the individual may file a lawsuit with a People’s Court.
+Added: As such, the Company’s business segments
+Added: may be subject to various government and regulatory interference in the provinces in which they operate.
+Added: The Company could be subject
+Added: to regulation by various political and regulatory entities, including various local and municipal agencies and government sub-divisions.
+Added: The Company may incur increased costs necessary to comply with existing and newly adopted laws and regulations or penalties for any failure
+Added: Additionally, the governmental and regulatory interference could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer
+Added: or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.
+Added: Furthermore, it is uncertain when and whether
+Added: the Company will be required to obtain permission from the PRC government to list on U.S.
+Added: exchanges in the future, and even when such
+Added: permission is obtained, whether it will be denied or rescinded.
+Added: Although the Company is currently not required to obtain permission from
+Added: any of the PRC federal or local government to obtain such permission and has not received any denial to list on the U.S.
+Added: exchange, our
+Added: operations could be adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by existing or future laws and regulations relating to its business or
+Added: On February 17, 2023, the CSRC promulgated Trial
+Added: Administrative Measures of the Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Companies (the “Overseas Listing Trial Measures”)
+Added: and five relevant guidelines, which became effective on March 31, 2023.According to the Overseas Listing Trial Measures, PRC domestic
+Added: companies that seek to offer and list securities in overseas markets, either in direct or indirect means, are required to fulfill the
+Added: filing procedure with the CSRC and report relevant information.
+Added: The Overseas Listing Trial Measures provides that an overseas listing
+Added: or offering is explicitly prohibited, if any of the following:
+Added: (1) such securities offering and listing is explicitly prohibited by provisions
+Added: in laws, administrative regulations and relevant state rules;
+Added: (2) the intended securities offering and listing may endanger national security
+Added: as reviewed and determined by competent authorities under the State Council in accordance with law;
+Added: (3) the domestic company intending
+Added: to make the securities offering and listing, or its controlling shareholder(s) and the actual controller, have committed relevant crimes
+Added: such as corruption, bribery, embezzlement, misappropriation of property or undermining the order of the socialist market economy during
+Added: the latest three years;
+Added: (4) the domestic company intending to make the securities offering and listing is currently under investigations
+Added: for suspicion of criminal offenses or major violations of laws and regulations, and no conclusion has yet been made thereof;
+Added: are material ownership disputes over equity held by the domestic company’s controlling shareholder(s) or by other shareholder(s)
+Added: that are controlled by the controlling shareholder(s) and/or actual controller.
+Added: The Overseas Listing Trial Measures also provides
+Added: that if the issuer meets both the following criteria, the overseas securities offering and listing conducted by such issuer will be deemed
+Added: as indirect overseas offering by PRC domestic companies:
+Added: (1) 50% or more of any of the issuer’s operating revenue, total profit,
+Added: total assets or net assets as documented in its audited consolidated financial statements for the most recent fiscal year is accounted
+Added: for by domestic companies;
+Added: and (2) the issuer’s main business activities are conducted in China, or its main place(s) of business
+Added: are located in China, or the majority of senior management staff in charge of its business operations and management are PRC citizens
+Added: or have their usual place(s) of residence located in China.
+Added: Where an issuer submits an application for initial public offering to competent
+Added: overseas regulators, such issuer must file with the CSRC within three business days after such application is submitted.
+Added: the Overseas Listing Trial Measures provide that the direct or indirect overseas listings of the assets of domestic companies through
+Added: one or more acquisitions, share swaps, transfers or other transaction arrangements shall be subject to filing procedures in accordance
+Added: with the Overseas Listing Trial Measures.
+Added: The Overseas Listing Trial Measures also requires subsequent reports to be filed with the CSRC
+Added: on material events, such as change of control or voluntary or forced delisting of the issuer(s) who have completed overseas offerings
+Added: and listings.
+Added: At a press conference held for these new regulations
+Added: (“Press Conference”), officials from the CSRC clarified that the domestic companies that have already been listed overseas
+Added: on or before March 31, 2023 shall be deemed as existing issuers (the “Existing Issuers”).
+Added: Existing Issuers are not required
+Added: to complete the filling procedures immediately, and they shall be required to file with the CSRC upon occurrences of certain subsequent
+Added: matters such as follow-on offerings of securities.
+Added: According to the Overseas Listing Trial Measures and the Press Conference, the existing
+Added: domestic companies that have completed overseas offering and listing before March31, 2023, such as us, shall not be required to perform
+Added: filing procedures for the completed overseas securities issuance and listing.
+Added: However, from the effective date of the regulation, any
+Added: of our subsequent securities offering in the same overseas market or subsequent securities offering and listing in other overseas markets
+Added: shall be subject to the filing requirement with the CSRC within three working days after the offering is completed or after the relevant
+Added: application is submitted to the relevant overseas authorities, respectively.
+Added: If it is determined that any approval, filing or other administrative
+Added: procedures from other PRC governmental authorities is required for any future offering or listing, we cannot assure you that we can obtain
+Added: the required approval or accomplish the required filings or other regulatory procedures in a timely manner, or at all.
+Added: If we fail to fulfill
+Added: filing procedure as stipulated by the Trial Measures or offer and list securities in an overseas market in violation of the Trial Measures,
+Added: the CSRC may order rectification, issue warnings to us, and impose a fine of between RMB1,000,000 and RMB10,000,000.
+Added: Persons-in-charge
+Added: and other persons that are directly liable for such failure shall be warned and each imposed a fine from RMB500,000 to RMB5,000,000.
+Added: shareholders and actual controlling persons of us that organize or instruct such violations shall be imposed a fine from RMB1,000,000
+Added: and RMB10,000,000.
+Added: On February 24, 2023, the CSRC published the Provisions
+Added: on Strengthening the Confidentiality and Archives Administration Related to the Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Enterprises
+Added: (the “Provisions on Confidentiality and Archives Administration”), which came into effect on March 31, 2023.
+Added: The Provisions
+Added: on Confidentiality and Archives Administration requires that, in the process of overseas issuance and listing of securities by domestic
+Added: entities, the domestic entities, and securities companies and securities service institutions that provide relevant securities service
+Added: shall strictly implement the provisions of relevant laws and regulations and the requirements of these provisions, establish and improve
+Added: rules on confidentiality and archives administration.
+Added: Where the domestic entities provide with or publicly disclose documents, materials
+Added: or other items related to the state secrets and government work secrets to the relevant securities companies, securities service institutions,
+Added: overseas regulatory authorities, or other entities or individuals, the companies shall apply for approval of competent departments with
+Added: the authority of examination and approval in accordance with law and report the matter to the secrecy administrative departments at the
+Added: same level for record filing.
+Added: Where there is unclear or controversial whether or not the concerned materials are related to state secrets,
+Added: the materials shall be reported to the relevant secrecy administrative departments for determination.
+Added: However, there remain uncertainties
+Added: regarding the further interpretation and implementation of the Provisions on Confidentiality and Archives Administration.
+Added: As of the date of this annual report, we and our
+Added: PRC subsidiaries have obtain the requisite licenses and permits from the PRC government authorities that are material for the business
+Added: operations of our PRC subsidiaries.
+Added: In addition, as of the date of this annual report, we and our PRC subsidiaries are not required to
+Added: obtain approval or permission from the CSRC or the CAC or any other entity that is required to approve our PRC subsidiaries’ operations
+Added: or required for us to offer securities to foreign investors under any currently effective PRC laws, regulations, and regulatory rules.
+Added: If it is determined that we are subject to filing requirements imposed by the CSRC under the Overseas Listing Regulations or approvals
+Added: from other PRC regulatory authorities or other procedures, including the cybersecurity review under the revised Cybersecurity Review Measures,
+Added: for our future offshore offerings, it would be uncertain whether we can or how long it will take us to complete such procedures or obtain
+Added: such approval and any such approval could be rescinded.
+Added: Any failure to obtain or delay in completing such procedures or obtaining such
+Added: approval for our offshore offerings, or a rescission of any such approval if obtained by us, would subject us to sanctions by the CSRC
+Added: or other PRC regulatory authorities for failure to file with the CSRC or failure to seek approval from other government authorization
+Added: for our offshore offerings.
+Added: These regulatory authorities may impose fines and penalties on our operations in China, limit our ability
+Added: to pay dividends outside of China, limit our operating privileges in China, delay or restrict the repatriation of the proceeds from our
+Added: offshore offerings into China or take other actions that could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results
+Added: of operations, and prospects, as well as the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: The CSRC or other PRC regulatory authorities also may
+Added: take actions requiring us, or making it advisable for us, to halt our offshore offerings before settlement and delivery of the securities
+Added: Consequently, if investors engage in market trading or other activities in anticipation of and prior to settlement and delivery,
+Added: they do so at the risk that settlement and delivery may not occur.
+Added: In addition, if the CSRC or other regulatory authorities later promulgate
+Added: new rules or explanations requiring that we obtain their approvals or accomplish the required filing or other regulatory procedures for
+Added: our prior offshore offerings, we may be unable to obtain a waiver of such approval requirements, if and when procedures are established
+Added: to obtain such a waiver.
+Added: Any uncertainties or negative publicity regarding such approval requirement could materially and adversely affect
+Added: our business, prospects, financial condition, reputation, and the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: In addition, on December 28, 2021, the CAC, the
+Added: National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”), and several other administrations jointly issued the revised Measures
+Added: for Cybersecurity Review, or the Revised Review Measures, which became effective and has replaced the existing Measures for Cybersecurity
+Added: Review on February 15, 2022.
+Added: According to the Revised Review Measures, if an “online platform operator” that is in possession
+Added: of personal data of more than one million users intends to list in a foreign country, it must apply for a cybersecurity review.
+Added: on a set of Q&A published on the official website of the State Cipher Code Administration in connection with the issuance of the Revised
+Added: Review Measures, an official of the said administration indicated that an online platform operator should apply for a cybersecurity review
+Added: prior to the submission of its listing application with non-PRC securities regulators.
+Added: Given the recency of the issuance of the Revised
+Added: Review Measures and their pending effectiveness, there is a general lack of guidance and substantial uncertainties exist with respect
+Added: to their interpretation and implementation.
+Added: For example, it is unclear whether the requirement of cybersecurity review applies to follow-on
+Added: offerings by an “online platform operator” that is in possession of personal data of more than one million users where the
+Added: offshore holding company of such operator is already listed overseas.
+Added: Furthermore, the CAC released the draft of the Regulations on Network
+Added: Data Security Management in November 2021 for public consultation, which among other things, stipulates that a data processor listed overseas
+Added: must conduct an annual data security review by itself or by engaging a data security service provider and submit the annual data security
+Added: review report for a given year to the municipal cybersecurity department before January 31 of the following year.
+Added: If the draft Regulations
+Added: on Network Data Security Management are enacted in the current form, we, as an overseas listed company, will be required to carry out
+Added: an annual data security review and comply with the relevant reporting obligations.
+Added: Because the majority of our operations are
+Added: in mainland China and our auditor has been located in mainland China, a jurisdiction where the U.S.
+Added: Public Company Accounting Oversight
+Added: Board (“PCAOB”) is currently unable to conduct inspections without the approval of Chinese authorities, there have been concerns
+Added: regarding oversight of the audits of our financial statements filed with the SEC.
+Added: If the PCAOB continues to be unable to inspect our audit
+Added: firm in the PRC for three consecutive years, the HFCAA requires the SEC to prohibit the trading of our securities on a national securities
+Added: exchange, including Nasdaq, or on over-the-counter markets in the United States.
+Added: In addition, the U.S.
+Added: Senate and U.S.
+Added: Representatives have each passed bills, which, if enacted, would decrease the number of non-inspection years from three consecutive years
+Added: to two, thus reducing the time period before our securities may be prohibited from trading on a U.S.
+Added: securities exchange or delisted from
+Added: The foregoing could adversely affect the market price of our securities and our ability to raise capital effectively.
+Added: Auditors of companies that are registered with
+Added: the SEC and traded publicly in the United States, including our independent registered public accounting firm, are required to be registered
+Added: with the PCAOB and to undergo regular inspections by the PCAOB to assess their compliance with the laws of the United States and applicable
+Added: professional standards.
+Added: Because our current auditor is located in mainland China, a jurisdiction where the PCAOB is currently unable to
+Added: conduct inspections without the approval of Chinese authorities, our auditor is not currently inspected by the PCAOB.
+Added: PCAOB inspections of auditors located outside
+Added: of mainland China and Hong Kong have at times identified deficiencies in those auditors’ audit procedures and quality control procedures,
+Added: which may be addressed as part of the PCAOB’s inspection process to improve future audit quality.
+Added: The lack of PCAOB inspections
+Added: of audit work undertaken in mainland China and Hong Kong prevents the PCAOB from regularly evaluating our auditor’s audits and its
+Added: quality control procedures.
+Added: As a result, investors are deprived of the benefits of PCAOB inspections, which could result in limitations
+Added: or restrictions on our access to the U.S.
+Added: capital markets.
+Added: Furthermore, in recent years, the U.S.
+Added: and regulatory authorities have continued to express concerns about challenges in their oversight of financial statement audits of U.S.-listed
+Added: companies with significant operations in China.
+Added: As part of this continued focus on access to audit and other information currently protected
+Added: by national law, in particular under Chinese law, the United States enacted the HFCAA in December 2020.
+Added: The HFCAA requires the SEC to
+Added: identify issuers that have filed an annual report with an audit report issued by a registered public accounting firm that is located in
+Added: a foreign jurisdiction and that the PCAOB has determined it is unable to inspect or investigate completely because of a restriction imposed
+Added: by a non-U.S.
+Added: authority in the auditor’s local jurisdiction (a “Commission-Identified Issuer”).
+Added: Under the HFCAA, if
+Added: the SEC conclusively identifies an issuer as a Commission-Identified Issuer for three consecutive years, the SEC is required to prohibit
+Added: the trading of the issuer’s securities on a national securities exchange or through any other method that is within the jurisdiction
+Added: of the SEC to regulate, including over-the counter markets in the United States.
+Added: Our securities may be prohibited from trading on the
+Added: Nasdaq or other U.S.
+Added: stock exchanges if our auditor is not inspected by the PCAOB for three consecutive years, and this ultimately could
+Added: result in our securities being delisted.
+Added: Furthermore, in June 2021, the U.S.
+Added: Senate passed
+Added: the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (“AHFCAA”),which, if enacted, would amend the HFCAA and require
+Added: the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading on any U.S.
+Added: stock exchanges if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections
+Added: for two consecutive years (as opposed to the three years under the HFCAA).
+Added: In February 2022, the U.S.
+Added: House of Representatives passed
+Added: the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act of 2022 (the “America
+Added: COMPETES Act”), which similarly would amend the HFCAA to shorten the number of non-inspection years from three years to two years.
+Added: The America COMPETES Act, however, includes a broader range of legislation than the AHFCA Act in response to the U.S.
+Added: Innovation and Competition
+Added: Act passed by the U.S.
+Added: Senate in 2021.
+Added: House of Representatives and the U.S.
+Added: Senate will need to agree on amendments to these
+Added: respective bills to allow the legislature to pass their amended bills before the President can sign the bill into law.
+Added: It is unclear if
+Added: or when either of these bills will be signed into law.
+Added: In September 2021, the PCAOB adopted PCAOB Rule
+Added: 6100, Board Determinations Under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which provides a framework for the PCAOB to use when determining
+Added: whether the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely a registered public accounting firm located in a foreign jurisdiction
+Added: because of a position taken by one or more authorities in that jurisdiction for the purposes of the HFCAA.
+Added: PCAOB Rule 6100 establishes
+Added: the manner of the PCAOB’s determinations; the factors the PCAOB will evaluate and the documents and information it will consider
+Added: when assessing whether a determination is warranted; the form, public availability, effective date, and duration of such determinations;
+Added: and the process by which the PCAOB will reaffirm, modify or vacate any such determinations.
+Added: In November 2021, the SEC announced that it
+Added: had approved Rule6100.
+Added: In December 2021, the SEC adopted amendments to finalize rules implementing the submission and disclosure requirements
+Added: int he HFCAA for Commission-Identified Issuers, which became effective on January 10, 2022.
+Added: In addition, the PCAOB issued a Determination
+Added: Report, pursuant to PCAOB Rule 6100, which found that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting
+Added: firms headquartered in mainland China and Hong Kong because of positions taken by Chinese authorities in those jurisdictions.
+Added: began to identify Commission- Identified Issuers for fiscal years beginning after December 18, 2020.
+Added: A Commission-Identified Issuer will
+Added: be required to comply with the submission and disclosure requirements in the annual report for each year in which it was so identified.
+Added: If an issuer is identified as a Commission-Identified Issuer based on its annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, the
+Added: issuer will be required to comply with the submission or disclosure requirements in its annual report for the fiscal year ended December
+Added: If we are identified as a Commission-Identified Issuer that uses an auditor not subject to PCAOB inspection for three consecutive
+Added: years, or, if the AHFCAA or the America COMPETES Act is passed, two consecutive years, our securities may be delisted from Nasdaq as a
+Added: Delisting of our securities would force holders of our securities to sell their securities.
+Added: Further, we may be prohibited from
+Added: listing our securities on another U.S.
+Added: securities exchange, making our shares harder to trade for the investors, potentially reducing
+Added: demand and lowering our share price.
+Added: The market price of our securities could be adversely affected as a result of anticipated negative
+Added: impacts of such legislative or executive actions upon, as well as negative investor sentiment toward, companies with significant operations
+Added: in mainland China and Hong Kong that are listed in the United States, regardless of whether such actions are implemented and regardless
+Added: of our actual operating performance.
+Added: Our auditor, GGF CPA LTD., Certified Public Accountants,
+Added: is a China-based accounting firm registered with the PCAOB, and is subject to laws in the United States pursuant to which the PCAOB conducts
+Added: regular inspections to assess its compliance with the applicable professional standards.
+Added: Our auditor is headquartered in the China and
+Added: is subject to inspection by the PCAOB on a regular basis.
+Added: On August 26, 2022, the PCAOB signed the Protocol with the CSRC and the MOF
+Added: of the People’s Republic of China, governing inspections and investigations of audit firms based in mainland China and Hong Kong.
+Added: The Protocol remains unpublished and is subject to further explanation and implementation.
+Added: Pursuant to the fact sheet with respect to
+Added: the Protocol disclosed by the SEC, the PCAOB shall have independent discretion to select any issuer audits for inspection or investigation
+Added: and the unfettered ability to transfer information to the SEC.
+Added: On December 15, 2022, the PCAOB announced that it was able to secure complete
+Added: access to inspect and investigate PCAOB registered public accounting firms headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong completely in
+Added: The PCAOB Board vacated its previous 2021 determinations that the PCAOB was unable to inspect or investigate completely registered
+Added: public accounting firms headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong.
+Added: However, whether the PCAOB will continue to be able to satisfactorily
+Added: conduct inspections of PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in China mainland and Hong Kong is subject to uncertainty
+Added: and depends on a number of factors out of our, and our auditor’s control.
+Added: The PCAOB is continuing to demand complete access in China
+Added: mainland and Hong Kong moving forward and was already making plans to resume regular inspections in early 2023 and beyond, as well as
+Added: to continue pursuing ongoing investigations and initiate new investigations as needed.
+Added: The PCAOB has indicated that it will act immediately
+Added: to consider the need to issue new determinations with the HFCAA if needed.
+Added: Therefore, the PCAOB in the future may determine that it is
+Added: unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms in mainland China and Hong Kong.
+Added: Our auditor’s working
+Added: papers related to us and our subsidiaries are located in China.
+Added: If our auditor is not permitted to provide requested audit work papers
+Added: located in China to the PCAOB, investors would be deprived of the benefits of PCAOB’s oversight of our auditor through such inspections
+Added: which could result in limitation or restriction to our access to the U.S.
+Added: capital markets and trading of our securities may be prohibited
+Added: under the HFCAA, which would result in the delisting of our securities from the Nasdaq.
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