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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 

 
FORM 10-KSB
 

 
        (Mark One)
 
x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE  ACT OF 1934.
        For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005
  OR
 
o TRANSITION REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF  1934.
       For the transition period from _________ to _________

Commission file number 000-26119
 

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CHINA WORLD TRADE CORPORATION
(Exact name of small business issuer as specified in its charter)
 

 
  Nevada
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  87-0629754
(IRS Employer Identification No.)
 
3rd Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center
138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe
Guangzhou, PRC
(Address of principal executive offices)

(001-8620) -2886-0608
(Issuer's telephone number)

(Former name, address and fiscal year, if changed since last report)

Securities registered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act: None

Securities registered under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act:

Common Stock, par value $.001 per share
(Title of Class)
 

 
 
Check whether the issuer: (1) filed all reports required to be filed by Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act during the past 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.   Yes x No o

Check if there is no disclosure of delinquent filers in response to Item 405 of Regulation S-B contained in this form, and no disclosure will be contained, to the best of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-KSB or any amendment to this Form 10-KSB. x

Issuer's revenues for its most recent fiscal year were $18,223

The aggregate market value of the issuer's common stock held by non-affiliates was approximately $24.8 million, based on the average closing bid and ask price for the common stock on March 31, 2006.

As of March 31, 2006, there were outstanding 33,668,923shares of the issuer's common stock, par value $.001.

Transitional Small Business Disclosure Format (check one):   Yes o No x
 
 
 


 
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION
 
    The discussion contained in this 10-KSB under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the "Exchange Act") contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The issuer's actual results could differ significantly from those discussed herein. These include statements about our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies for the future, which we indicate by words or phrases such as "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "will," "we believe," "the Company believes," "management believes" and similar language, including those set forth in the discussion under "Description of Business," including the "Risk Factors" described in that section, and "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" as well as those discussed elsewhere in this Form 10-KSB. We base our forward-looking statements on information currently available to us, and we assume no obligation to update them. Statements contained in this Form 10-KSB that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to the "safe harbor" created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
 
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History Of Our Company
 
We were incorporated in the State of Nevada on January 29, 1998 under the name Txon International Development Corporation to conduct any lawful business, to exercise any lawful purpose and power, and to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Laws of Nevada.
 
On August 14, 2000, pursuant to a share exchange agreement dated August 10, 2000, by and among Main Edge International Limited, a British Virgin Islands corporation, Virtual Edge Limited, a British Virgin Islands corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Main Edge, Richard Ford, Jeanie Hildebrand and Gary Lewis, we acquired from Main Edge all of the shares of Virtual Edge (the “Acquisition”) in exchange for an aggregate of 1,961,175 shares of our common stock, which shares equaled 75.16% of Txon International’s issued and outstanding shares after giving effect to the Acquisition. Both Main Edge and Virtual Edge a non-operating holding companies organized to own the stock of businesses which they acquired. On September 15, 2000, Txon International Development Corporation changed its name to China World Trade Corporation and effectuated an 8 for 1 forward stock split. As a result of the forward stock split, Main Edge held 15,689,400 shares of our common stock, which shares equaled 75.16% of our issued and outstanding shares.
 
In September 2002, we underwent a debt for equity capital restructuring whereby certain creditors of China World Trade converted an aggregate of $2,731,677 into an aggregate of 4,000,000 shares of common stock.
 
On September 3, 2002, Powertronic Holdings Limited (“Powertronic”), a British Virgin Islands company, entered into a share purchase agreement with us (the “First Share Purchase Agreement”), to purchase 1,000,000 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase up to 2,000,000 shares of our common stock (such warrants, the “First Warrants”), for the total purchase price of $500,000. Additionally, on December 17, 2002, Powertronic entered into a second share purchase agreement (the “Second Share Purchase Agreement”) with us , to purchase an additional 1,000,000 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase up to an additional 2,000,000 shares of our common stock (such warrants, the “Second Warrants”), for the total purchase price of $500,000. The First Warrants and the Second Warrants had an exercise price of $0.575 per share and were exercised in 2004.
 
On December 17, 2002, we entered into a share exchange agreement with Mr. William Chi Hung Tsang, the sole beneficial owner of the share capital in General Business Network (Holdings) Ltd., a Hong Kong company. Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, we acquired from Mr. Tsang all of the issued and outstanding shares of General Business Network in exchange for 4,000,000 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 4,000,000 shares of our common stock (the “Tsang Warrants”) at an exercise price of $0.92 per share. As of the date of acquisition, General Business Network owned two rental properties located at 20/F, Goldlion Digital Network Center, Unit 01-10, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou, the PRC and Flat B, 12/F., Champion Center, 301-309 Nathan Road, Hong Kong, collectively valued in excess of $4,000,000. On January 24, 2003, 4,000,000 shares of our common stock and the Tsang Warrants were issued to Mr. Tsang; to date, the Tsang Warrants have been fully exercised.
 
On May 7, 2004, through one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries, we acquired 51% of the capital stock of CEO Clubs China Limited, a Hong Kong corporation (“CEO Clubs China”) for a total consideration in cash and shares of our common stock in the amount of $360,000, payable $120,000 in cash and $240,000 in market value of our common stock (80,000 shares) and a commitment to provide an operating cash in the amount of $120,000. CEO Clubs China has authorized chapters to operate under the “CEO Clubs” trademarks in the Greater China Region, including the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Comprised of thirteen chapters in the U.S. and China, the CEO Clubs are a by-invitation-only membership association. Members must be chief executive officers of businesses that have above $2,000,000 in annual sales. Our average club member has $20,000,000 in annual sales. In fiscal year 2002, CEO Clubs opened its first international chapter in China.
 
 
On August 2, 2004, we consummated an acquisition of 51% of the capital stock of Guangdong New Generation Commercial Management Limited, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the PRC, for an aggregate consideration of $10,232,000, payable approximately $2,741,000 in cash and approximately $7,487,000 in market value of our common stock (4,081,238 shares). One of our purposes for the acquisition was because New Generation was a formidable competitor in the travel agency business through operations of its five subsidiaries and twenty-one selling points in Southern China and a significant competitor in ticketing sales for international and domestic flights as well as inbound business travel. In addition, New Generation’s goal was to become one of the major consolidators of hotel rooms and airline tickets in China. By acquiring New Generation, we have added value to our business and eliminated this competition. New Generation has already acquired the necessary licenses to operate as a ticketing and travel agent in the PRC, a highly regulated business. New Generation’s business also includes insurance operations through its subsidiary, Huahao Insurance, and it is a licensed insurance agent in China to provide accidental and life insurance policies. The two main revenues managed by New Generation are those from the travel agency business and the insurance business. The financial results from Huahao Insurance are consolidated with the financial results of New Generation after Huahao Insurance was acquired by New Generation on June 30, 2004. While there can be no assurances of success, we expect that New Generation will contribute a significant revenue base to our company.
 
History of Virtual Edge
 
Virtual Edge was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on February 18, 1999 as a non-operating holding company. We currently own 100% of the capital stock of Virtual Edge.
 
On October 5, 1999, pursuant to a share exchange, Virtual Edge acquired a majority interest in Infotech Enterprises Limited (“Infotech”). On October 18, 2000, pursuant to a Share Exchange Agreement with Vast Opportunity Limited, we acquired the remaining interest in Infotech. Infotech was incorporated on July 2, 1999 and is engaged in building a bilingual (Chinese and English) Business-to-Business internet portal. We currently operate the business operations of Infotech through Virtual Edge.
 
On May 9, 1997, the co-operative joint venture of our Beijing World Trade Center Club was formed initially by Canada Belford Enterprises Ltd., a wholly owned company by our CEO Mr. John Hui. On October 10, 1999, Virtual Edge signed an agreement with Belford Enterprises Limited pursuant to which Belford agreed to transfer its 75% interest in Beijing World Trade Center Club (“Beijing WTC Club”) to Virtual Edge. Beijing WTC Club was engaged in the establishment of the Beijing World Trade Center Club and currently provides and will continue to provide recreation, business center services, communication and information services, products exhibitions services, commercial and trading brokerage services to its members. The Beijing World Trade Center Club is located at 2nd Floor, Office Tower II, Landmark Towers Beijing, 8 North Dongsanhuan Road, Beijing, the PRC.
 
On November 10, 2001, Virtual Edge signed an agreement with Guangzhou City International Exhibition Co., Ltd. pursuant to which a co-operative joint venture company, Guangzhou World Trade Center Club (“Guangzhou WTC Club”) was formed to operate a business club in Guangzhou, the PRC, which club shall provide services including food and beverages, recreation, business center, communication and information, products exhibitions, as well as commercial and trading brokerage services to its members. Virtual Edge shares 75% of the profits from the operation of Guangzhou WTC Club. Guangzhou WTC Club had its grand opening on January 28, 2002. The Guangzhou World Trade Center Club is located at 3rd Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou PRC.
 
We currently operate the Beijing World Trade Center Club and Guangzhou World Trade Center Club through Virtual Edge.
 
 
Overview Of Our Company’s Three Business Lines
 
Our business plan involves the pursuit of three distinct lines of business including:
 
·  
Business Clubs. We have business clubs located in Guangzhou and Beijing. Each business club is indirectly associated with the World Trade Center Association, by which we have positioned ourselves as a platform to facilitate trade between China and the world markets.
 
·  
Business Travel and Related Service. We provide business travel and related services. New Generation Group of companies, our latest acquisition and through which we provide business travel services, acts as a consolidator of airline tickets and hotel accommodations in China and as an agent for the sale of life and accident insurance in the Guangzhou Province of China.
 
·  
Business Value-Added Services. We provide value-added services, including, business consulting services, interactive marketing and incentive programs for merchants, financial institutions, telecom operators, and large corporations. In addition to these services, we also plan to the provide business consultancy services by focusing on (1) the financial advisory sectors, including market and industrial research and corporate restructuring and planning; (2) developing the international trade dimension of China enterprises and assisting foreign companies to establish their businesses in China; and (3) formulating marketing strategies. A small part of the business value-added services commenced operations in the year 2002 through Virtual Edge Limited, while the majority of these value added services commenced in the last fiscal quarter of 2004.
 
 
Our executive office is located at 3rd Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou, the PRC 510620.
 
Our segment revenues are stated in United States dollars and are prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles. In this prospectus, unless otherwise specified, all dollar amounts are expressed in United States Dollars.
 
China World Trade Corporation
Segment Revenues
Year ended December 31
   
 
2005
 
 
2004
 
2003
(unaudited)
 
   
US$
 
 %
 
US$
 
 %
 
US$
 
 %
 
Business Club
   
894,550
   
11.4
%
 
551,497
   
17.8
%
 
1,485,440
   
45.5
%
Business Travel
                                     
Traveling Services
   
4,619,608
   
59.0
%
 
1,571,412
   
50.8
%
 
-
   
0.0
%
Insurance
   
363,860
   
4.6
%
 
100,193
   
3.3
%
 
-
   
0.0
%
Business Value-added
   
1,618,414
   
20.6
%
 
40,695
   
1.3
%
 
212,605
   
6.5
%
Others(1)
   
342,792
   
4.4
%
 
828,947
   
26.8
%
 
1,566,566
   
48.0
%
TOTAL
   
7,839,224
   
100.0
%
 
3,092,744
   
100.0
%
 
3,264,611
   
100.0
%
 
(1) Other revenues in year 2003, year 2004 and year 2005 were mostly generated from cattle hide trading business and rental income of our wholly owned properties in Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
 
 
Our Corporate Structure
 
We are a holding company for 23 direct and indirect, majority and wholly-owned subsidiaries that operate businesses in China. Eight of these companies are incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, four under the laws of Hong Kong, and the remaining 11 in the People’s Republic of China. All of our business operations are located in China. Set forth below is an organizational chart depicting the relationships among our various companies.
 
·  
Business Clubs: We carry out our Business Clubs operations through our subsidiaries Guangzhou World Trade Center Club Limited, Beijing World Trade Center Club, and CEO Clubs China Limited. The Business Clubs commenced operations in August 2002.
 
·  
Business Travel: Our Business Travel operations are managed by New Generation which consists of a group of seven individual companies. The two main revenue streams generated by our Business Travel operations are from the travel agency business and the insurance agency business.
 
·  
Business Value-Added Services: Our Business Value-Added Services are offered through three of our subsidiaries including (1) Guangzhou World Trade Link Information Service Limited, (2) Creative Idea Enterprise Limited and (3) Virtual Edge. Guangzhou WTC Link Information Service Limited has provided short message service and customer relationship management services since July 2004 but was disposed of on December 29, 2005 pursuant to the Purchase & Sale Agreement mentioned on Note 3 of the audit report. Creative Idea Enterprise Limited and Virtual Edge have each provided consultancy services since October 2002. Our consultancy services include the provision of market and industrial research, corporate restructuring and planning; and introduction of potential business affiliations.
 
The remainder of our revenues are generated from rental income on investment property held by our subsidiary General Business Network (Holdings) Limited and from trading income earned by our indirect subsidiary Polysend Trading Limited which has ceased its business since July 1, 2005.
 
Our remaining eight direct and indirect subsidiaries are either dormant companies or non-operating holding companies without any current operations or share ownership.
 

 
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Revenue Derived From Our Businesses
 
Fiscal 2005: In fiscal 2005, we derived approximately $894,000 in revenues, representing 11.4% of total revenues from our Business Clubs operations; approximately $4,983,000 in revenues, representing 63.5% of total revenues from our Business Travel and Related Services; approximately $1,618,000 in revenues, representing 20.6% of total revenues from our Value Added businesses; and approximately $343,000, representing 4.3% of total revenues from Other Operations. Other operations, as used in the previous sentence, includes (1) operations in rental property and (2) cattle hide trading (purchase and sale) businesses.
 
The rental properties include:
 
·  
Wholly owned rental property in Hong Kong located at 1209, 12/F., Champion Building, 301-309 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. This property generated $13,147 in revenue for fiscal 2005.
 
·  
Wholly owned rental property in Guangzhou, which was sold as of May 15, 2005, and was located at 20th Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou, the PRC. This property generated $56,000 in revenue for fiscal 2005.
 
·  
The Rental Income Right of 21/F and 23/F, Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou, the PRC. The rental right was terminated on March 31, 2005. This property generated $151,000 in revenue for fiscal 2005.
 
The cattle hide trading is the business of buying and selling raw materials of leather from cattle. The various types of cattle hide include wetblue calf, weblue ox, wetblue heifer, wetblue bull, wetblue cow and wet salted heifer. Cattle hide trading generated $120,441 in revenue for fiscal 2005.
 
Business Plan For Our Business Clubs
 
The Opportunity in China. China has been considered one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The accession into the World Trade Organization will offer new opportunities for foreign companies to invest and do business in China. WTO membership for China will change the methods of market entry for overseas companies. Foreign companies will need to have well-tailored plans to cope with China’s target audience, services, marketing, finance, and human resources for the effective entry into the China market. The unique business culture and legal system in China will cause the local business information and services in China to become a key component to commerce.
 
As a result of lower barriers to entry into the China market, and a more attractive investment environment in recent years, we believe that many small and medium sized foreign enterprises will have investment opportunities in China for the first time. These foreign companies will need up-to-date business intelligence and know-how to successfully invest in the Chinese market.
 
China’s accession into the WTO also provides significant business opportunities to the small to medium size private Chinese companies. The increase in involvement from foreign companies and investors in the China market means more opportunities to do business with foreign companies. Under the trend of globalization, the Chinese market will evolve from many segmented and monopolized markets to an integrated national market that is open to the world economy. The small and medium sized companies in China will enjoy much lower cost to enter into the worldwide market but will also confront more competition, lowered profit margins, and new rules of the game. These Chinese companies will need up-to-date business intelligence, professional strategic planning and the access to the worldwide business networks to ensure success in the new environment. And with its imminent accession into WTO, there will be unique opportunities for foreign investment and international trade.
 
 
The World Trade Centers Association (“WTC Association”) is a not-for-profit corporation that focuses on promoting and assisting world trade activities. Its mission is to encourage world trade by fostering and supporting the development and operation of World Trade Centers in every region of the world. WTC Association was established in 1970 and has members from more than 330 cities in about 100 countries with global members of over 750,000 enterprises.
 
The World Trade Centers (“World Trade Centers”) are separate entities which are licensed by the WTC Association, each of which generate revenue and profit from operating businesses with access to a diverse array of state-of-the-art international trade services and facilities, which enables them to facilitate international trade. Under the jurisdiction of the WTC Association, there are two types of licenses that are available including (1) a license which enables the licensee to operate a World Trade Center Club in cooperation with China’s Commission for the Promotion of International Trade, and (2) a license which enables the licensee to designate a building as a “World Trade Center” but not operate such a club. We only have licenses that enable us to operate World Trade Center Clubs and, as previously mentioned, we currently have two World Trade Center Clubs in operation.
 
In the WTC Association, every local member of a World Trade Center in a city is automatically a member of all World Trade Centers worldwide. This helps the World Trade Centers to market their local membership, and also vastly increases the amount of services that a World Trade Center can offer to its local members. Therefore, the World Trade Centers worldwide form a reciprocal business network for businesses to access the international trade resources that may be expensive and even inaccessible in a domestic environment.
 
We plan to open and operate additional World Trade Center Clubs (also referred to as our “Business Clubs”), which will be licensed by the WTC Association, in major cities in China, where Business Club members can relax, entertain, network and meet potential business affiliates in person, or via the Video Conferencing facilities of the WTC Association worldwide network.
 
The WTC Association has granted various licenses to the regional branches of the Trade Promotion Commission. The WTC Association can grant either regular full membership licenses or affiliate membership licenses to various branches of the Trade Promotion Commission, depending on the initial membership fee paid.
 
Through our wholly-owned subsidiary, Virtual Edge, we have formed 20-year co-operative joint ventures with the business subsidiaries of the Trade Promotion Commission including (1) the Beijing Wanlong Economic Consulting Limited for the joint-venture company Beijing World Trade Center Club and (2) the Guangzhou City International Exhibition Co. Ltd. for the joint venture company Guangzhou World Trade Center Club. Our Guangzhou World Trade Center Club and Beijing World Trade Center Club were both granted regular full membership licenses. We indirectly own 75% of the joint venture companies and the remaining 25% are owned by the business subsidiaries of the Trade Promotion Commission. Each arrangement may be terminated in the event the venture suffers material business setbacks or if a party materially breaches its obligations under the operating contract. We acquired the operation rights of regular full membership from WTC Association for running the world trade center clubs resulting from these two joint venture companies.
 
Under the co-operative joint venture of both Beijing World Trade Center Club and Guangzhou World Trade Center Club, we are obligated to pay a minimum of RMB150,000 (or approximately $18,500) annually until reaching their respective proportional profit sharing of 25% each to Beijing Wanlong Economic Consulting Limited and Guangzhou City International Exhibition Co. Ltd. They in turn pay WTC Association an annual fee of $10,000 for each individual world trade center club. Other than the annual fee which we pay to the business subsidiaries of the Trade Promotion Commission, we do not have any revenue sharing obligation with World Trade Center Association.
 
Facilities. The Guangzhou World Trade Center Club and Beijing World Trade Center Club provide a full range of top quality commercial and recreational services to our members. The clubhouses are luxuriously decorated and provide an elegant environment under which members can enjoy our facilities. 
 
 
The facilities in our Beijing World Trade Center Club include snack bars, seminar and conference rooms, executive suites, office and meeting room packages, videoconferencing facilities, and exhibition rooms. The facilities in our Guangzhou World Trade Center Club include western fine dining, seminar and conference rooms, executive suites, office and meeting room packages, videoconferencing facilities, exhibition rooms, and cigar and wine corner. The business services offered by both the business clubs to its members include (i) liaison work with potential trading partners, (ii) international economic and trade exhibitions and seminars, (iii) interpreters and secretarial services, (iv) organized trips to participate in World Trade Center Association sponsored activities, (v) reception of visiting delegations of foreign World Trade Center Association member units, (vi) arrangement of meetings with Chinese government bodies, business corporations, and (vii) legal consultancy and travel management services.
 
Events Management Services. We assist foreign companies to organize and participate in conferences, exhibitions and special events such as the “beer festival” in China and assist Chinese companies to organize and participate in conferences and exhibitions overseas. We have already generated revenue from this fee based service business.
 
Virtual Office. Virtual office services help foreign companies to establish a presence in China at minimum cost. Each client will be assigned a dedicated phone number, fax number and mail address. The phone number can be forwarded to a number assigned by the client, or be answered by a well trained secretary who takes care of the communication for the client. Foreign companies can also manage their communication with their China affiliates over the Internet. These services started generating revenue in 2004 and a monthly fixed fee is charged for each account.
 
Marketing Strategy. We plan to market memberships in our Business Club mainly to (1) international companies, (2) businessmen who conduct business in China and with local Chinese companies and (3) businessmen seeking business opportunities within and outside China. We will utilize the good reputation and recognition of WTC Association name and the recreational and business facilities which will be offered at each Business Club to establish the Guangzhou Club, Beijing Club and other potential Business Clubs in various cities in the PRC as the premier business clubs of their kind. We also hope to make the ChinaWTC.com website into a distinctive Chinese/English language Internet portal.
 
We plan to achieve our marketing goals through (i) placing advertisements with traditional media, such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines etc., (ii) placing banners on high traffic web sites, (iii) sending e-mails to potential users, (iv) participating in trade shows, (v) employing the services of external public relations and marketing firms, (vi) airing television “infomercials” and talk shows, (vii) placing outdoor advertising signs and (viii) attending / holding press conferences. We intend to form strategic alliances with companies that can contribute services and local expertise in various market sectors. These alliances will increase our content and navigation services, support our advertising services and expand our distribution networks. We intend to form vertical alliances, such as exhibition management companies and travel agents, which will either allow us to integrate their products to our services offerings or to access their distribution networks. We will also form horizontal alliances, such as golf clubs and other business clubs, to increase our client base.
 
An integral part of our success is dependent on the development and enhancement of our products and services. We will incorporate new technologies from third parties, expand products and services internally and conduct market research to remain aware and informed of the evolving user tastes and latest technologies. The New Generation acquisition has demonstrated the success of our strategies to grow our revenues through vertical consolidation. By acquiring New Generation, we have integrated the services offered by New Generation into the services offered by the Business Clubs. The Business Clubs services have also created value to New Generation by allowing New Generation to offer premium services to a selected group of important clients.
 
On the other hand, the acquisition of the CEO Clubs China is an example of our strategies to horizontally consolidate other business clubs so as to increase our client base.
 
 
Sources of Income. We will generate income from our Business Clubs in several ways.
 
We intend to expand our Business Clubs and operate Business Clubs in major Chinese cities. While the worldwide business network from WTC Association together with the reciprocal services will be the core attraction to businesspersons in China, the business community that we maintain in the major Chinese cities will become a more valuable asset in the long term. Through our presence in major cities in China, we will develop a community of active businesspersons from small and medium sized enterprises with a common interest in world trade.
 
Additionally, our Business Clubs intend to generate revenue from the owners and senior management of small and medium sized enterprises in China, by providing a full range of top quality commercial and recreational services, and education and business networking programs. Our Business Club will also help members to liaise with potential trading partners from overseas, to join international economic and trade exhibitions and seminars, and to organize international business trips.
 
As part of the reciprocal arrangement under the WTC Association, the Business Clubs will also provide services to visiting delegations from foreign World Trade Center members. The China World Trade Business Club will help foreign companies or businesspersons to minimize the barrier of doing business in China. Services provided to foreign companies and businessperson may include organizing meetings with Chinese government bodies, business corporations and potential affiliates.
 
The revenue that we have derived already from the Business Club business comes directly from (1) membership fees, (2) fees collected from training and (3) events, such as seminars.
 
At each Business Club will be a Business Center, which is operated for the benefit of the members and others. While the Business Center’s services are not confined to members of the Business Club, members of the Business Club will enjoy special discounts for the Business Center services and more dedicated support from the staffs under the Business Club.
 
The revenue we have derived from a Business Center comes directly from (1) rental fees of facilities and (2) service fees. We will derive income from the Business Center providing (i) temporary offices, seminar and conference rooms, video conferencing facility, exhibition rooms, interpreters and secretarial services and business consultation services.
 
Primary Clientele. The main clients of our Guangzhou World Trade Center Club in year 2005 included:
 
·  
Greentree Financial Group (China) Ltd. which accounted for 19% of the total revenue of Guangzhou World Trade Center Club;
 
·  
Mercury Interactive Corporation, which accounted for 9% of the total revenue of Guangzhou World Trade Center Club;
 
·  
Hyperion Solutions Corporation, which accounted for 7% of the total revenue of Guangzhou World Trade Center Club; and
 
·  
Maguire Products Asia Pte.Ltd. Singapore, which accounted for 6% of the total revenue of Guangzhou World Trade Center Club.
 
Collectively, the above four clients aggregately representing over 30% of the total revenue of Guangzhou World Trade Center Club. These above four clients account for a considerable portion of the total revenue of Guangzhou World Trade Center Club because all of these clients use our “Smart Office” under a fixed term from a one-month period to a 12 month period. We charge each of these clients additional fees for their uses of other facilities, such as teleconferencing, seminar rooms and other electronic equipment. In addition to these four main client, other clients include some international and domestic well-known enterprises, such as Koenig & Bauer AG, Esko-Graphics (Guangzhou), Maguire Products Asia Pte., Ltd. etc.
 
 
The main clients of our Beijing World Trade Center Club in year 2005 included:
 
·  
Daimler Chrysler (China) Limited, which accounted for 21% of the total revenue in 2005;
 
·  
Electro - Motive Diesel (EMD) International Holdings Limited, which accounted for 14%of total revenue in 2005;
 
·  
Greentree Financial Group Inc. , which accounted for 10% of the total revenue in 2005; and
 
·  
Pegasus Solutions, Inc. which accounted for 7% of the total revenue in 2005.
 
Other clients included Norson (Beijing) Information Technology Limited, Standard Life Assurance Company, Yongwei Investment Taiwan and other international companies.
 
Potential Income From Potential License Agreements. We intend to negotiate and acquire the necessary approval from WTC Association to license the China World Trade Center intellectual property rights including the logo and trademark to third parties. The licensees may use our logo and trademark to quickly establish a brand for their products such as office accessories, or to attract a group of clients for certain services such as credit cards offered by the Business Value-Added division. Revenue will be generated from royalty fees, which may be paid in cash, stock or other property.
 
Competition. There are a number of organizations utilizing the word of “Club” in China, such as the Beijing American Club, which offers more in terms of recreational facilities and services. There are other organizations, such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which provide limited trades and business information and networking capabilities. All other clubs and organizations in Guangzhou and Beijing only operate as clubhouses with local presence. On the contrary, we operate under the international brand name of “World Trade Center Club” exclusively in a certain region of PRC area. As a result, we out-compete the other players with our reciprocal membership advantage by leveraging on the global network of World Trade Center Clubs and among our World Trade Center Clubs in China. The management believes there will not be other business clubs in the regions that could operate under a similar model and this would provide the competitive advantage of our Business Clubs operations.
 
Our management believes that there is no single source of information and research report which is sophisticated enough for us to provide a meaningful estimate of the number of competitors and our competitive position in the business clubs industry.
 
Employees. We have 38 employees in our Business Clubs as of December 31, 2005. None of them are parties to any union or collective bargaining agreement.
 
Governmental Regulation of Business Club Operations in China. The operation of our Business Clubs must conform to the governmental regulations and rules of the Peoples’ Republic of China. The practical effect of the People’s Republic of China legal system on our business operations in China can be viewed from two separate but intertwined considerations:
 
First, as a matter of substantive law, the Foreign Invested Enterprise laws provide significant protection from government interference. In addition, these laws guarantee the full enjoyment of the benefits of corporate Articles and contracts to Foreign Invested Enterprise participants. These laws, however, do impose standards concerning corporate formation and governance, which are not qualitatively different from the General Corporation Laws of the several states. Similarly, the People’s Republic of China accounting laws mandate accounting practices, which are not consistent with US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The China accounting laws require that an annual “statutory audit” be performed in accordance with People’s Republic of China accounting standards and that the books of account of Foreign Invested Enterprises are maintained in accordance with Chinese accounting laws. Article 14 of the People’s Republic of China Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise Law requires a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise to submit certain periodic fiscal reports and statements to designate financial and tax authorities, at the risk of business license revocation.
 
 
Second, while the enforcement of substantive rights may appear less clear than United States procedures, the Foreign Invested Enterprises and Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises are Chinese registered companies which enjoy the same status as other Chinese registered companies in business-to-business dispute resolution. Because the terms of the respective Articles of Association provide that all business disputes pertaining to Foreign Invested Enterprises are to be resolved by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm, Sweden applying Chinese substantive law, the Chinese minority partner in our joint venture companies will not assume a privileged position regarding such disputes. Any award rendered by this arbitration tribunal is, by the express terms of the respective Articles of Association, enforceable in accordance with the “United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (1958)”. Therefore, as a practical matter, although no assurances can be given, the Chinese legal infrastructure, while different in operation from its United States counterpart, should not present any significant impediment to the operation of Foreign Invested Enterprises.
 
China’s Accession into the WTO. On November 11, 2001, China signed an agreement to become a member of the World Trade Organization, sometimes referred to as the WTO, which is the international body that sets most trade rules, further integrating China into the global economy and significantly reducing the barriers to international commerce. China’s membership in the WTO was effective on December 11, 2001. China has agreed upon its accession to the WTO to reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers, remove investment restrictions, provide trading and distribution rights for foreign firms, and open various service sectors to foreign competition. China’s accession to the WTO may favorably affect our business in that reduced market barriers and a more transparent investment environment will facilitate increased investment opportunities in China, while tariff rate reductions and other enhancements will enable us to develop better investment strategies and attract investment capital. In addition, the WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism provides a credible and effective tool to enforce members’ commercial rights. Also, with China’s entry to the WTO, it is believed that the relevant laws on foreign investment in China will be amplified and will follow common practices.
 
Business Plan For Our Air-Ticketing and Hotel Booking Businesses
 
We engage in the air-ticketing, hotel room booking and travel agency businesses through our indirect 51% ownership of the New Generation Group of companies. New Generation has ten operating subsidiaries in Southern China through which it operates these businesses. We believe that there are significant opportunities in the travel and tourism industry in China, which are set forth below, although there can be no assurances that we will be able to capitalize on them.
 
New Generation’s Business Travel Services. We seek to serve China’s emerging class of frequent independent travelers, or FITs, who engage in business and leisure travel on their own instead of traveling in groups. Through our professional team of staff, our nationwide 24-hour toll-free call center, our user-friendly Chinese and English language website and our extensive reseller network, we provide our customers with consolidated travel information and the ability to book airline tickets at discounted rates nationwide within China. We also provide our customers with the ability to book hotel rooms at discounted rates in over 220 cities in China. The majority of our hotel suppliers are three-, four- or five-star hotels, as rated by the China National Tourism Bureau, catering to higher-end travelers. We also offer other travel related services, such as vacation packages and corporate travel services, at competitive prices.
 
According to the Yearbook of China Tourism Statistics 2005, China’s domestic tourism spending totaled approximately RMB464 billion in 2004 and RMB528 billion in 2005 with an increase of 12.2%. In the same period, CTRIP, one of the best known operators serving FITs in China, derived RMB173 million in 2003 and 334 million in 2004 from this market, increased 64.5% and 93.1% from the previous year, respectively. This fact to a certain extent reflects that FITs will be a fast-growing, yet relatively underserved segment in the travel business.
 
New Generation believes that it is a major provider of air ticketing services in China. Historically, the air ticketing business in China has been limited to a fragmented presence due to the licensing requirements and significant capital requirements. CTRIP and E-Long are among the best known participants in this business and their brand name recognition and volume of transactions is notable. CTRIP derived $7,600,000 from air ticketing in 2004. In comparison, New Generation reported $4,290,000 in 2004, and $4,770,000 as of the twelve months ended December 31, 2005.
 
Since its inception in 1998, New Generation has built a substantial air-ticketing distribution network in China. It offers customers a wide selection of flights in all major cities in China, usually at significant discounts to published rates. Our airline ticketing volume has increased 28.9% from over 995,000 tickets for the year ended December 31, 2004 to approximately 1,283,000 tickets for the year ended the December 31, 2005. This approximates $115,000,000 in value of transactions for the year ended Decemebr 31, 2004 and $151,000,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2005.
 
 
We issue and deliver air tickets using a network of local agents throughout major cities in China. New Generation started its hotel booking business in April 2004 and revenue generated from this division is insignificant to date. At this stage in its development, management is concentrating on establishing a nationwide network through forging business affiliations and improving its information technology infrastructure. Up to December 2005, it had contractual arrangements with 360 hotels, and there are also more than 3,000 hotels in over 220 cities that can be accessed through subcontracts with other hotel booking agents.
 
To facilitate rapid growth in hotel booking business, New Generation has created a comprehensive IT platform to facilitate its operation. A call center and website approach are believed to be essential to overcome the requirement of having many geographic locations in order to conduct business. Through its telephone network and its website, New Generation’s hotel booking business is not limited to the established air ticketing network but rather is able to form a more extensive hotel booking network quickly, that will also benefit our air ticketing business. At present, the hotel booking volume was recorded at 2701 room-nights booked for the year ended December 31, 2005, comparing to 473 room-nights booked as of December 31, 2004, we believe that this business has significant growth potential.
 
The Travel And Tourism Industry In China. The facts and statistics used in this registration statement relating to the travel industry and economy in China are derived from various government and institute research publications. While we have taken reasonable care to ensure that these facts and statistics presented are accurately reproduced from such sources, we have not independently verified them. These facts and statistics may not be comparable to similar facts and statistics collected for the industry or economy in the United States and other countries.
 
In terms of domestic tourism spending in 2005, the approximately RMB528 billion ($66.1 billion) travel industry in China is large and growing rapidly. We expect the industry to continue to experience rapid growth as China’s economy continues to develop. Travel and tourism in China is characterized by a highly fragmented and inefficient travel service sector due to many factors, including the lack of consolidated hotel ownership, the lack of a centralized hotel reservation system, the localized nature of travel agencies and a dual regulatory regime. We believe that the fragmented nature of the travel market in China will create increasing demand for central reservation platforms such as our own capable of consolidating a wide range of travel information and negotiating favorable terms with travel suppliers on the basis of scale from our aggregated demand.
 
According to the China National Tourism Administration, as of the end of 2004, China had more than 14,900 travel agencies, with the top 100 domestic travel agencies having an aggregate market share of less than 2%. As the requirements of travelers become more complex, we believe that these local agencies, which had been accustomed to providing services using state-owned travel suppliers, have been increasingly unable to respond to the changing needs of business and leisure travelers in China. In addition, the development of China’s tourism infrastructure has resulted in an increasing number of travelers who choose to engage in leisure travel without the constraints inherent in packaged group tours. These frequent independent travelers, or FITs, represent a key segment of the growing travel industry in China that we seek to serve.
 
The increasing accessibility of the Internet in China creates a foundation for new markets and opportunities, providing the ability to bring together a large number of segmented suppliers and customers in a highly fragmented travel industry. We believe that we are well positioned to benefit from these trends in China’s travel industry.
 
According to market data from CEIC Data Company Ltd., the frequent independent traveler, or FIT, segment of travelers grew at an approximately 8% compound annual growth rate from 2004 to 2005 and is the largest growing group of travelers in China. FITs are defined as travelers who do not travel with tour groups and who require flexibility in the selection of accommodations and transportation. FITs are typically more sophisticated urban dwellers who value customized experiences. We expect that as Chinese travelers become wealthier and more experienced with leisure travel, the appeal of traditional tours will become less important than the ability to arrange one’s own schedule.
 
Traditionally, most companies in China have relied on either local travel agencies or their internal resources for business travel planning. Companies in China have begun to recognize the importance of focusing on their core competency by outsourcing non-critical functions. A growing number of medium and large-sized companies are beginning to centralize their corporate travel management by outsourcing to professional travel service providers.
 
 
Market Inefficiencies and Fragmentation. The travel market in China is highly fragmented with an underdeveloped booking, reservation and fulfillment infrastructure, and with no dominant nationwide travel agencies. As a result of market reforms, a gradual shift from state-owned to privately-owned travel agencies and changing travel patterns, the travel market in China is undergoing a period of change. While competition among the older state-owned travel agencies and the privately owned travel agencies has significantly promoted the development of China’s travel service, the industry remains inefficient and is likely to remain so in the foreseeable future.
 
Air-ticketing system. Currently, TravelSky Technology Limited, or TravelSky, operates the only nationwide system for air-ticket reservations in China. Consumers in China do not have access to direct bookings on TravelSky unless it is done through individual travel agencies. Moreover, the delivery of air tickets remains inefficient. The majority of consumers in China receive their air tickets through physical delivery and payment to the travel agency is made upon delivery. The process of physical delivery means that consumers in China do not have a reliable or timely delivery process that can respond to last minute travel needs. For example, business travelers who change their flight destinations at the last minute often have to wait for the delivery of a physical ticket before they can initiate their travel. While some airlines in China have recently begun to offer electronic ticketing, there is currently no universal electronic ticketing system available. The International Air Transport Association recently announced that all members should adopt electronic tickets in 2007. As the employment of e-ticketing requires more capital investment on IT and relevant facilities, as well as more investment on staff training, smaller players will most likely be shaken out of the market during the process. On the other hand, this trend implies that business opportunities for larger agencies with relatively mature business models and operating at a large scale, such as New Generation, would survive.
 
Hotel reservation system. According to the Year Book of China Tourism Statistics 2005, as of December 31, 2004, China had 10,888 star hotels, which includes 3,914 three-star hotels, 971 four-star hotels and 242 five-star hotels.. Hotels in China are generally run independently and are not part of large chains. The largest hotel chains in China are small relative to the larger hotel chains in the United States. There is no industry wide electronic reservation infrastructure similar to that available in the United States and parts of Europe.
 
There is no national distribution system for hotel rooms in China. Travel agents generally have to negotiate room availability and rates with the hotel each time they make a booking. Hotel suppliers in China are not able to benefit from an efficient distribution system that is managed by a centralized process. Until recently, travelers in China did not have access to comprehensive hotel information or a central location for bookings. Instead, travelers in China are still mainly interacting through walk-in room reservations, direct call-in reservations, business conventions and traditional travel agency bookings. There are some business operators, such as CTRIP and E-Long, developing centralized hotel booking platforms in China by utilizing scalable information technology platforms. At present, 70% transactions of CTRIP have been done through telephone and the rest 30% mainly fulfilled online.
 
In the on-line travel business, packaging air tickets with hotel room is increasingly popular for it reduces customers’ sensitivity on prices and the profit margin appears higher than traditional method providing ticketing and hotel booking separately. For Chinese companies conducting this business model, like CTRIP and eLong, hotel booking is the dominant source for revenues. In 2005, CTRIP derived $44,800,000 from hotel booking business, 65% of its total revenues. Air ticketing contributed 11% ($6,330,000) in the same year. (Source: CTRIP Annual Report 2005). While in other countries where the “ticket + hotel room” model is more mature, air ticketing usually contributes to a larger portion of total revenues. Unlike either case, New Generation has been largely relying on air ticketing since its inception. As of nine months ended December 31, 2005, the revenue from air ticketing was about $7.769,000, representing 93% of its total revenues.
 
Traditional travel agencies. Travel agencies in China tend to be unaffiliated, small office operations. Due to local licensing requirements, even the four travel agencies that operate on a nationwide basis are mostly structured such that each office operates independently from the others. Consumers in China have generally not been able to enjoy the benefits that can be offered by a nationwide, integrated travel agency.
 
Inefficiencies created by separate regulatory regimes. Under current regulations, two distinct regulatory bodies regulate the travel industry in China. In order to sell air tickets, travel agencies must obtain a permit from the Civil Aviation Administration of China. If a travel agency intends to conduct the air-ticketing business in more than one city, an air-ticketing permit is required for every city, as there is currently no national air-ticketing license. In addition, in order to conduct other travel-related business such as hotel reservations, the travel agency must obtain a separate license from the China National Tourism Administration. Consumers who wish to purchase both air tickets and make hotel reservations through a single agency must use a travel agency that performs both functions. Many traditional travel agencies are unable to perform both functions given the limited number of licenses that can be issued and the costs associated with obtaining each license. As a result, consumers are often forced to arrange travel plans with multiple travel agencies.
 
 
Regulation. The travel industry in China is subject to substantial regulation by the Chinese government. This section sets forth a summary of certain significant Chinese regulations that affect our business and our industry. Current PRC laws and regulations impose substantial restrictions on foreign ownership in air-ticketing, advertising and Internet businesses in China.
 
Foreign Ownership
 
Air-ticketing. The principal regulation governing foreign ownership in air-ticketing business in China is The Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (2004 revision). Under this regulation, a foreign investor is allowed to own 100% of any wholesale and commission-based agency in China after December 11, 2004. As inferred from the law, air-ticketing does not fall into the statutory prohibited industries like the wholesale of newspaper and magazine, drugs, agricultural chemicals and membrane, chemical fertilizer, refined oil and crude oil, so it is our understanding that beginning on December 11, 2004 foreign investors were permitted to own 100% of an air-ticket agency.
 
Travel agencies. The principal regulation governing foreign ownership in travel agencies in China is the Establishment of Foreign Controlled and Wholly Foreign Owned Travel Agencies Tentative Provisions (2003). Recently, foreign investors that (i) primarily engage in travel agency business; (ii) have annual revenue from travel services exceeding $40,000,000 (in the case of foreign-controlled travel agencies) or $500,000,000 (in the case of wholly foreign owned travel agencies; and (iii) are members of travel industrial associations in their home countries or regions have been permitted to establish or own travel agencies in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xian or other approved national tourism areas, upon the approval of the PRC government, subject to substantial restrictions on the scope of their business. For example, foreign invested travel agencies are prohibited from engaging in the business of overseas travel by PRC citizens or travel by persons from the other regions of the PRC to Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan. In addition, other than its head office, foreign-invested travel agencies are not allowed to open branch offices.
 
Our 51% ownership of the New Generation Group of companies involves the foreign control of a travel agency doing business in the Peoples’ Republic of China. The control of a Chinese travel agency is permissible under the Establishment of Foreign Controlled and Wholly Foreign Owned Travel Agencies Tentative Provisions (2003), subject to compliance with the restrictions on the scope of business for passenger air ticket sales agents, commercial agency, tourist information services and marketing research planning. All such businesses are not categorized as “restricted” or “prohibited” by The Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (2004 revision). We believe the competitive advantage of the travel agency business of New Generation is not limited by the scope of business restrictions referred to in the preceding sentence, and, therefore, our operations are not impacted by laws regulating travel agencies.
 
Advertising Agencies. The principal regulations governing foreign ownership in advertising agencies in China include the Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (2002); and the Administrative Regulations Concerning Foreign Invested Advertising Enterprises (2004). Under these regulations, foreign investors can currently own up to 70% of the equity interest in an advertising agency in China. Beginning on December 10, 2005, foreign investors will be permitted to own 100% of an advertising agency.
 
Internet content provision. The principal regulations governing foreign ownership in the Internet content provision business in China include the Administrative Rules for Foreign Investments in Telecommunications Enterprises (2001); and the Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue (2002). Under these regulations, a foreign entity is prohibited from owning more than 50% of a Chinese entity that provides value-added telecommunications services, including Internet content provision.
 
General Regulation of Businesses
 
Air-ticketing. The air-ticketing business is subject to the supervision of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, or CAAC, and its regional branches. The principal regulation governing air-ticketing business in China is the Administration on Civil Aviation Transporting Marketing Agency Business Regulations (1993). Under this regulation, an air-ticketing agency must obtain a permit from CAAC or its regional branch in every city in which the agency proposes to conduct business. The two types of air-ticketing permits in China are permits for selling tickets for international flights and flights to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and permits for selling tickets for domestic flights in China except flights to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
 
Travel agencies. The travel agency industry is subject to the supervision of the China National Tourism Administration and local tourism administrations. The principal regulations governing travel agencies in China include the Administration of Travel Agencies Regulations (1996), as amended, and the Rules of Implementation of the Administration of Travel Agencies Regulations (2001). Under these regulations, a travel agency must obtain a license from the China National Tourism Administration in order to conduct cross-border travel business, and a license from the provincial-level tourism administration in order to conduct a domestic travel agency business.
 
 
Advertising. The State Administration of Industry and Commerce is responsible for regulating advertising activities in China. The principal regulations governing advertising, including online advertising in China include the Advertising Law (1994); and the Administration of Advertising Regulations (1987). Under these regulations, any entity conducting advertising activities must obtain an advertising permit from the local Administration of Industry and Commerce.
 
Internet content provision service and online commerce. The provision of travel-related content on the websites is subject to Chinese laws and regulations relating to the telecommunications industry and the Internet, and regulated by various government authorities, including the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce. The principal regulations governing the telecommunications industry and the Internet include the Telecommunications Regulations (2000); the Administrative Measures for Telecommunications Business Operating Licenses (2001); and the Internet Information Services Administrative Measures (2000). Under these regulations, Internet content provision services are classified as value-added telecommunications businesses, and a commercial operator of such services must obtain an Internet content provision license from the appropriate telecommunications authority in order to carry out any commercial Internet content provision operations in China.
 
With respect to online commerce, there are no specific Chinese laws at the national level governing or defining online commerce activities, and no government authority has been designated to regulate these activities. There are existing regulations governing retail business that require companies to obtain licenses in order to engage in the business. However, it is unclear whether these existing regulations will be applied to online commerce.
 
Regulation of Foreign Currency Exchange and Dividend Distribution
 
Foreign currency exchange. The principal regulation governing foreign currency exchange in China is the Foreign Currency Administration Rules (1996), as amended. Under these rules, the Renminbi is freely convertible for trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, but not for direct investment, loans or investments in securities outside China without the prior approval of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of the People’s Republic of China, or SAFE.
 
Pursuant to the Foreign Currency Administration Rules, foreign-invested enterprises in China may purchase foreign exchange without the approval of SAFE for trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions by providing commercial documents evidencing these transactions. They may also retain foreign exchange, subject to a cap approved by SAFE, to satisfy foreign exchange liabilities or to pay dividends. However, the relevant Chinese government authorities may limit or eliminate the ability of foreign-invested enterprises to purchase and retain foreign currencies in the future. In addition, foreign exchange transactions for direct investment, loan and investment in securities outside China are still subject to limitations and require approvals from SAFE.
 
Dividend distribution. The principal regulations governing distribution of dividends by foreign-invested companies include (i) the Sino-foreign Equity Joint Venture Law (1979), as amended; (ii) the Regulations of Implementation of the Sino-foreign Equity Joint Venture Law (1983), as amended; (iii) The Foreign Investment Enterprise Law (1986), as amended; and (iv) The Regulations of Implementation of the Foreign Investment Enterprise Law (1990), as amended. Under these regulations, foreign-invested enterprises in China may pay dividends only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with Chinese accounting standards and regulations. In addition, wholly foreign owned enterprises in China are required to set aside at least 10% of their respective accumulated profits each year, if any, to fund certain reserve funds unless such reserve funds have reached 50% of their respective registered capital. These reserves are not distributable as cash dividends.
 
In addition, our wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to allocate portions of their respective after-tax profits to their enterprise expansion funds and staff welfare and bonus funds at the discretion of their boards of directors. Our affiliated Chinese entities are required to allocate at least 5% of their respective after-tax profits to their respective statutory welfare funds. Allocations to these statutory reserves and funds can only be used for specific purposes and are not transferable to us in the forms of loans, advances, or cash dividends.
 
 
Competitive Strengths. We have capitalized on the following competitive strengths in building our travel service business:
 
Established large scale ticketing business. New Generation has achieved a large scale of transactions in the flight ticketing services. The number of companies providing air ticketing services is much less than those providing services for room reservations in China. And few players engage in both businesses. On the supply side, there are thousands of suppliers for room reservation services, while there is a very limited number of airlines in China. As a result, hotel operators are confronting more fierce competition than airlines are. A small company can easily establish contacts with hotels and be their agents since the capital required is small and the relationship with suppliers is easy to manage. In contrast, to be an air ticketing agent, companies have to overcome high capital barriers first and then work hard to maintain good relationships with the airlines. Both are normally very scarce and critical resources in this business. Since New Generation has achieved large scale in its operations, it has formed mutually dependant relationships with its upstream suppliers and has thereby achieved a strong bargaining position with its suppliers. And the capital requirement is not a barrier to entry or growth for New Generation since its systems are already in place. New Generation has achieved the scale necessary to deal with its upstream suppliers, which include the airlines, as well as its downstream customers. Potential entrants into the industry face these capital and scale barriers to entry.
 
Extensive resources in the airport. New Generation is the first travel agent in China who provides customers with seamless pre-boarding services in the terminal. In 1998, it established “Red Carpet Service Zone” in the old Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, the third largest airport in China, to provide customers with extensive services ranging from air-ticketing, check-in services to airport pick-up. After that, Huahao Group, New Generation’s former parent company, and one of our shareholders, entered into a 10-year joint venture agreement with a subsidiary of Baiyun Airport Company Ltd. to provide easy boarding services. The joint venture was reported as the first example in China of cooperation between a private company and the highly regulated airport industry. It is indicative of our extensive resources and those of our affiliates employed at the airport.
 
Brand leadership. As one of the early movers in the industry to adopt modern communications and Internet technologies, we believe that we have established one of the best-known brands for travel services in Southern China. We believe our customers associate the New Generation brand with value, convenience and confidence.
 
Nationwide reach for nationwide travel destinations. Our customers can book domestic and international air tickets and make reservations for accommodations at over 3,000 hotels in more than 220 cities across China, vacation packages and rental cars by calling our centralized 24-hour call center from anywhere in China or by logging onto our website. New Generation is ranked one of the top air-ticketing companies in China, in terms of volume of tickets sold and value of transactions. We issue and deliver air tickets using a network of local agents in major cities in China, covering all of the 975 domestic routes.
 
Total customer focus. We provide our customers with comprehensive travel information, allowing them to conveniently compare prices, browse availability and amenity options, and select the price and supplier that best meet their individual travel needs. Our user-friendly websites, well trained call center representatives and continuous service development efforts reflect our focus on providing superior customer service.
 
Strong supplier value. We offer our travel suppliers access to aggregated consumer demand and the ability to promote their services to a large and growing base of frequent independent travelers seeking higher-end travel services. In addition, our call center and web-based transaction and service platform, with its easy-to-use supplier interface, allows our suppliers to promote their services at low incremental cost and with minimal changes to their existing systems.
 
 
In addition, New Generation has also established a strong business affiliation with the leading Chinese airline groups, including China Southern Airlines and Air China. By the end of November 2005, New Generation had set up four direct air ticket sales centers under the name of the Guangzhou Branch of Air China, in selected strategic locations in Guangzhou. It also entered into a co-operation agreement with the Guangzhou branch of China Southern Airlines Company Limited to provide commuters with downtown check-in and connections services for flights of the China Southern Airline in the new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. The close business affiliation not only allows New Generation to benefit from more favorable sales related promotional and marketing policies, but also, enables it to get involved in the air carriers’ operational activities as a value-added services provider.
 
Streamlined business operations through tailored information management systems. We have drawn on our in-depth knowledge of the business practices unique to China’s travel service industry to develop proprietary processes and technology-based systems for use in our business. These processes and systems incorporate customer relationship management, order processing, financial reporting and performance management and enable us to coordinate effectively the activities of our staff, agents, suppliers and resellers. This results in streamlined operations, a higher degree of operating flexibility and stronger customer relationships through enhanced customer service.
 
Scalable and cost-efficient services. Our services and transaction processing, enabled by our centralized call-center and web-based distribution technologies, provides superior scalability and significant cost advantages over traditional methods of travel service distribution. We can expand our range of services and extend our geographical reach without making major changes to our existing infrastructure or incurring significant capital costs.
 
Experienced management. We believe that our management team, which includes Mr. William Chi Hung Tsang, and a seasoned team of senior managers at the operations level with significant experience in the areas of travel service operations, marketing, technology and finance, is well qualified and experienced to handle the challenges of the travel service industry in China.
 
Competition. The travel service industry in China is extremely large, highly fragmented and intensely competitive. We compete with eLong, Inc., Ctrip.com International, Ltd, traditional travel agencies such as CTS, CITS and CYTS, and hotel suppliers that sell their room inventory directly to consumers. The major markets in which we currently compete include the relatively affluent coastal areas of China. As China’s market continues to grow, we may face further competition from other new domestic hotel room consolidators or international players such as expedia.com or priceline.com that may seek to expand into China. We may also face increasing competition from hotels and airlines should they further expand into the direct selling market or engage in alliances with other travel service providers besides us. We compete on the basis of brand recognition, selection, price, ease of use, accessibility of information, breadth of services offered, convenience, and customer service and satisfaction.
 
The management believes that there is no single source of information and research report which is sophisticated enough for us to provide a meaningful estimate of the number of competitors and our competitive position in the travel service industry.
 
We cannot assure you that we will compete successfully with any of our current or future competitors.
 
 
Opportunity For Growth. We expect the travel and tourism industry in China to continue to grow rapidly as China’s economy continues to expand. China’s travel service industry is fragmented and inefficient. This fragmentation creates a market opportunity for our centralized reservation system for air-ticketing and hotel reservations, which offers comprehensive information and favorable terms negotiated with travel service suppliers across China who are offered economies of scale from our aggregated demand.
 
Business Strategy for Travel Services. Our goal is to become the leading provider of travel services in China. We seek to achieve revenue and earnings growth by pursuing the following key business strategies:
 
Strengthen brand awareness and marketing. We seek to strengthen consumer awareness of our brand by pursuing an aggressive marketing strategy based on online and traditional media advertising. We seek to encourage consumer conversion and the use of our services through segment-based marketing, targeted promotions and focused telemarketing efforts.
 
We also seek to promote the awareness of our brand and increase our penetration among our target customers by leveraging the customer bases of other leading businesses and customer service companies, by (i) increasing advertising using publications such as company brochures and magazines; (ii) cooperating with commercial banks for them to offer co-branded credit cards; and (iii) entering into arrangements with major airlines in China, such as China Southern Airlines, under which travel booking inquiries are directed from their service hotlines to us.
 
Expand our range of travel services. We intend to capitalize on our leadership in air-ticketing utilizing a centralized modern call center and web-based distribution technologies and leverage the reach and efficiency of our distribution of services by growing our hotel reservations and other travel related services, such as vacation packages, car rentals and corporate travel services. We seek to expand the selection of our destination services, such as restaurant and entertainment bookings, and offer our customers greater flexibility in choosing the desired combination of travel services.
 
We believe that the extensive network resources based on air-ticketing, IT platform and strategic alliances with other product and service providers will be converted to our advantage, and that competitors will find difficult to imitate.
 
Enhance customer experience. We seek to enhance our customer’s experience by providing more personalized care, and by strengthening and expanding travel supplier relationships to offer our customers a wider range of travel services. We seek to deliver consistently high-quality customer service through continuous improvements in the information technology systems utilized in our call center, and in the content, features and functions of our websites.
 
We seek to retain our most loyal customers and generate repeat ticketing by offering loyalty rewards and additional specialized services, including dedicated VIP lounges at airports and a VIP call service with reduced waiting time. Our VIP call service, staffed by a dedicated team of specially trained representatives, provides VIP customers personalized travel advice and services. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system was deployed in the first quarter of 2005. This CRM system will integrate the call center, and websites together with other resources to offer comprehensive incentive programs and personalized services in a proactive approach. Interactive information delivered through the mobile telephone network will also be employed.
 
Enhance efficiency and profitability. We have built our operating infrastructure to take advantage of the inherent cost advantages of our centralized call center and web-based distribution technologies. We also seek to increase the efficiency of our marketing programs by tracking the effectiveness of our expenditures on various marketing activities.
 
 
We continue to capitalize on improvements in electronic commerce infrastructure, such as the introduction of electronic ticketing. By using exclusive online promotional offers, we believe we will be able to benefit from the increasing adoption of online commerce among consumers by attracting additional customers and moving existing customers to our websites, thereby lowering our operating costs.
 
Enhance our technology infrastructure. We design and maintain our systems with a view to enhancing consumer-friendliness and providing adaptive products and services for our airline and other travel service suppliers. We seek to streamline our transaction processes through ongoing technology upgrades to our transaction and services level.
 
Selectively pursue complementary acquisitions. We seek to supplement the organic growth of our business by pursuing acquisitions which would enable us to expand our service offerings, our customer base and our distribution network. We seek to capitalize on the opportunities for consolidation in China’s fragmented and inefficient travel service industry by selectively exploring opportunities to acquire other travel service businesses such as air-ticketing agencies, hotel-room consolidators, tour-package agencies and corporate travel providers.
 
Develop travel products and services for corporate clients. We will enhance our travel services by providing corporate travel services that cover more international corporations and large national corporations in the region. The corporate market is a fast growing market a with high profit margin. With our comprehensive resources in ticketing, hotel reservations, business club facilities and airport services, we are confident that we can be one of the leading services providers in the region. At the moment, we have over 30 corporate clients including large scale joint ventures such as Guangzhou Honda and Panasonic Wan Bao. We successfully entered into a service consignment agreement with the Purchasing Office of the Guangzhou City Government. This agreement will extend for two years from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2006. Under this agreement, we will provide international business travel packages and related services to key personnel of the Guangzhou City Government at premium package prices.
 
Pro-Forma Operating Revenues For Our Business Travel Services. The following table sets forth the pro-forma amount of our revenues and profit (loss) from operations represented by each travel-related service for the periods indicated on a dollar and percentage basis:
 
Operating Revenue on a Pro-Forma Basis
   
 
Jan to
Dec 2005
 
Jan to
Dec 2005
 
   
USD
 
 %
 
 
Business Travel services
         
Air-ticketing
   
4,753,424
   
92.95
%
Insurance
   
359,915
   
7.04
%
Other
   
653
   
0.01
%
Pro-Forma Operating Revenue
   
5,113,992
   
100.00
%
Operating Revenue of China World Trade and its non-business travel services subsidiaries
   
2,725,232
       
Consolidated Pro-forma Operating Revenue of China World Trade
   
7,839,224
       
 
 
Profit (loss) from Operations on a Pro-Forma Basis
   
 
Jan to
Dec 2005
 
 
Jan to
Dec 2005
 
   
 
USD
 
 %
 
Business Travel services
         
Air-ticketing
   
297,735
   
65.48
%
Insurance
   
189,013
   
35.52
%
Other
   
(5,481
)
 
(1.00
%)
Pro-Forma Profit (loss) from Operations
   
481,266
   
100.00
%
Loss from Operations of China World Trade and its other non-business travel services subsidiaries
   
(5,771,048
)      
Consolidated Pro-forma Loss from Operations of China World Trade
   
(5,289,782
)
     
               
Pro-Forma Net Income (loss)
             
Air-ticketing
   
(100,188
)
 
(215.98
%)
Insurance 
   
151,985
   
327.64
%
Other
   
(5,410
)
 
(11.66
%)
Total
   
46,387
   
100.00
%
Net Loss of China World Trade and its other non-business travel services subsidiaries
   
(28,163
)
     
Consolidated Pro-forma Net Profit of China World Trade
   
18,224
       
               
Accumulated Profit (loss)
             
Air-ticketing
   
470,945
       
Insurance 
   
886,052
       
Other
   
(24,851
)
     
Total
   
1,332,146
       
 
* All the pro-forma numbers shown above are in conformity with GAAP financial measures.
(1) The pro-forma numbers shown above are prepared on a consolidated basis.
(2) The pro-forma net income figure of the air-ticketing segment includes consolidation adjustment of minority interest.
 
Air-ticketing. We provide a 24-hour air-ticketing service through our toll-free call center and websites. We act as agents for all major airlines in China and international airlines that operate flights that originate from selected cities in China. We make flight reservations through TravelSky, which is the operator of the only nationwide system for air-ticket reservations in China, and currently issue and deliver air tickets using a network of local agents throughout major cities in China. Under current regulations, travel agents, including us, have no discretion to offer discounts on airline tickets. However, we have successfully negotiated escalating commissions with many airlines based on the number of air tickets we sell.
 
Our air-ticketing process begins when a customer initiates an inquiry through our toll-free call center or our websites. The customer is informed of the available flights based on their schedule and desired air carrier and we then confirm a booking for a seat on the selected flight through our call center. Booking information is sent to one of our local agents in the city where the customer wants the ticket to be issued and delivered. We have relationships with a network of local ticketing agents throughout major cities in China. We use these local agents and other third party delivery companies to deliver the tickets to our customers and collect payments for the tickets. We then collect the airfare from the delivery company, pay the agent’s commission and the cost of the tickets, and retain the balance ourselves. We currently do not pre-purchase air tickets for resale.
 
 
We believe that air-ticketing sales will continue their rapid pace of growth. In the year ended December 31, 2005, we sold approximately 1,283,000 air tickets, compared to approximately 995,000 air tickets sold in the the year ended December 31, 2004. We anticipate that the expected adoption of e-tickets in China will allow consumers to better use our call center and websites to book air tickets and will benefit our air-ticketing business by allowing us to reach a broader customer base without materially increasing our operating costs.
 
Hotel reservations. We currently have room supplier relationships with more than 3,000 hotels in over 220 cities throughout China. We seek to offer a range of hotel options at a variety of prices, with the majority of our hotel suppliers being three-, four- or five-star hotels, catering to higher-end customers. For the year ended December 31, 2005, we derived only a very minimal of our total revenues from our hotel bookings.
 
We act primarily as an agent in our hotel-related transactions. When a customer makes an initial inquiry through either our call center or our websites, we match the customer’s request with our allotment of rooms and make a reservation for the customer with the appropriate hotel supplier. The hotel supplier returns a confirmation that is passed along to the customer by phone, fax or email. When the customer checks into the hotel on the designated date, the hotel informs us of the customer’s check in. The customer usually settles his hotel bill directly with the hotel, and we are entitled to a fraction of the room rate as a commission. Upon the completion of a customer’s stay, we verify with the hotel the length of the stay and calculate our commissions, ranging from 10% to 20% of the hotel room rate, which the hotels pay us on a monthly basis. We pay no penalty to the hotel for “no shows” on confirmed bookings, although we are not paid any commission in respect of “no show” bookings. We do not currently pre-purchase hotel rooms until the customer has paid us, and consequently do not carry significant inventory risk.
 
Depending on our agreement with the individual hotel supplier, we either receive a guaranteed allotment of hotel room-nights per month or operate on an “as-requested” basis. Our agreements with hotels typically contain some or all of the following provisions:
 
Room pricing. The hotel guarantees negotiated room rates that are lower than published rates. In addition, the customer is also able to enjoy promotional rates if such rates are in effect.
 
Room supply. The hotel must notify us of any shortages of hotel rooms so that we can make alternative accommodations for our customers.
 
Customer accommodation. The hotel must upgrade the customer to a higher level of accommodation if, due to the fault of the hotel, a customer’s reserved room is not available upon check in.
 
Confirmation of the customer’s stay. The hotel must inform us of the length of the customer’s stay. We confirm a customer’s length of stay by contacting the hotel to verify the customer’s check-in and check-out dates and contact customers to crosscheck the information reported by the hotel. We continuously rate our hotel on the basis of the accuracy and timeliness of the reported information.
 
Extended stay. The hotel must immediately inform us if the customer extends their stay beyond the original booking. We then book the extended stay and calculate the additional commission.
 
Commission payments. The hotel pays us either a flat, pre-negotiated or an escalating commission based on the number of hotel room nights we book.
 
Our agreements with our hotel room suppliers are in writing for the most part. We enter into agreements with companies that own hotels. Due to the fragmented nature of the hotel industry in China where hotels are generally owned separately, we generally enter into agreements with hotel companies on an individual hotel basis.
 
 
Vacation packages. We offer third-party vacation packages that include air transportation, hotel accommodation and other travel related services to many popular destinations in China. A vacation package transaction begins in the same way as the majority of our other transactions, with the customer initiating an inquiry either through our toll-free call center or our websites. The customer selects the desired vacation package and places an order with us. After confirming both the hotel reservation and transportation arrangements with the appropriate travel supplier, we send our customer a confirmation and arrange for ticket delivery, if needed, through a local travel agency. The customer pays for the vacation upon delivery of the appropriate confirmation or air ticket, and we deduct our commission. In general, our customers only pay a penalty if they cancel their reservations at a late stage.
 
We select vacation packages to serve the unique needs of FITs. Many of our vacation packages are designed as self-guided tours that permit FITs to travel to desired locations without adhering to the rigid schedules that are typical of tour group packages.
 
Corporate travel service. We have recently begun to provide companies in China a corporate travel service providing travel planning, hotel reservations, air-ticketing and rental car bookings. By centralizing their travel management functions, our corporate clients can reduce their travel costs and the associated administrative burden. We also assist companies in planning, executing and streamlining their travel budgets.
 
Marketing Strategy. We market our travel services through a combination of direct marketing, online marketing, traditional media advertising and co-marketing with established brands. We seek to build our New Generation brand identity which consumers will associate with choice, convenience and value.
 
Direct marketing. We conduct direct marketing activities principally at major airports and transportation hubs in China. Our promotional efforts at these locations include the distribution of complimentary membership cards.
 
Online marketing. These portals feature hyperlinks to our websites for air-ticket and hotel service recommendations to their web visitors. In some cases we operate on a co-branded basis, where we provide our services and our brand is featured on these portals. In other cases, we operate on a private label basis, where we deliver our services using the brand name of the originating website. In both cases, we pay commissions based on the bookings generated through our co-marketers. We feel that our online marketing effort is an important part of our marketing strategy and serves as a cost-effective marketing tool. In addition, our online presence serves as an additional channel to capture targeted customers through association with established Internet brands in China. We believe that the Internet will continue to experience growth in China, and our relationships with top Internet portals in China will position us well to exploit its potential.
 
Traditional marketing. Our traditional media advertising efforts include newspaper and broadcast advertising. The focus of our media advertising efforts is to promote awareness of the New Generation brand among our potential customers.
 
Co-marketing relationships. We seek to expand our market reach by entering into co-marketing agreements with companies that have a large customer base and strong brand recognition. We believe that we are able to reach more customers and capitalize on their brand recognition in promoting our services and in enhancing our credibility. We have developed co-marketing agreements with some of the largest companies in China with a view to establishing our brand.
 
Distribution Of Our Business Travel Services. We are currently a major air ticketing provider in China. Our growth was achieved through locating our subsidies in the major cities in China. We also package hotel room booking services and tour packaging services with air tickets to better meet our customers’ needs. Our business goal is to become a leading integrator of air ticketing, hotel booking and tour packages. This requires utilization of our comprehensive distribution system that is comprised of a 24 hour toll-free call center, internet website, and a network of resellers.
 
 
Call center. We operate a 24-hour call center staffed by more than 42 customer service representatives (CSRs). The call center is accessible nationwide on a toll free basis for fixed line telephone calls in China and by calling 4008-168-168 in China. Our call center typically handles more than 1,000 calls per day. Although, it currently contributes little to the total air-ticketing reservations and hotel bookings, we are fully confident that with our market expansion, 1% of our total transactions will be generated from on-line transactions. We believe that our call center constitutes a cost-efficient distribution channel because of the available pool of low-cost labor in China. We expect our call center will become one of our principal distribution channel going forward, due to China’s large and growing mobile and fixed-line phone subscribers and consumer preference for the personalized service we are able to provide through our call center.
 
Website. We offer our travel services through our user-friendly website www.4008168168.com. The website allows us to expand our customer base and improve customer service with minimum transaction costs. Customers can browse travel service options, compare prices, book and confirm orders through our website. Our website is designed to provide customers with a quick, efficient and flexible service that facilitates comparison among our large number of travel suppliers. To support the internationalization of our business, we are undertaking a program to construct an English website and synchronize it with the Chinese one. Customers will be able to easily access both websites by logging onto www.4008168168.com.
 
Reseller network. We have developed an extensive nationwide network of over 110 non-exclusive resellers, consisting of smaller travel and air-ticketing agencies that utilize our call center and websites to distribute travel services. We pay our resellers a portion of our commission, subject to an escalating scale, based on the number of hotel reservations and air-ticket bookings they generate for us. Our air-ticketing network generates revenues from resellers’ monthly administration fees, ticketing system rentals and Physical Identity Devices maintenance fees. The volume of tickets sold and value of transactions completed are incorporated into our total volume and total transaction values for New Generation.
 
Technology. We believe that we have a strong technology team in the travel service industry in China. Our goal is to develop a high-performance, reliable, scalable and secure system in-house to support our business demands for new features and functionalities. We have built a sophisticated, proprietary back office system encompassing order processing, customer relationship management, inventory control, business intelligence and staff performance management functions that coordinates the activities of our internal departments, clients, agents and affiliates within a single cohesive platform. We have also invested in an advanced, in-bound call center for phone based bookings and a scalable network infrastructure system utilizing hardware and software from top-tier vendors. Our system connects us with our suppliers, clients and agents.
 
Our infrastructure security system is designed to ensure that our users can only access and use our system according to their assigned authorization levels. Our system also includes VPN and encryption technologies to allow for secure Intranet access, as well as an intrusion detection system, which is designed to detect security breaches. Our infrastructure security system, however, may not be adequate at all times and we may experience occasional security breaches.
 
Employees. We have 493 employees in the New Generation Group of companies that are in the following job categories: Management and Administration (170), Customer Service (196), Sales and Marketing (66), Supplier Management (39), and Technical Services (22).
 
We participate in government-mandated multi-employer defined contribution plans under which certain pensions, medical and other welfare benefits are provided to employees. We make monthly payments to these plans based on the employee’s compensation.
 
We have not entered into any collective bargaining agreements. We consider our relations with our employees to be good.
 
 
Facilities. Our headquarters in Guangzhou Rihang Hotel are located in an adjoining property of approximately 1,740 square meters. Our call center is located in a leased space of approximately 600 square meters. We lease the premises for our call center under a two-year term lease, expiring in 2006. We also maintain branch and sales offices in major cities in Guangdong Province including Foshan, Shunde, Dongguan Zhongshan and Gaoming. We believe that adequate facilities are available to accommodate our future expansion plans.
 
Legal Proceedings. We are currently not involved in any material litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings in the New Generation Group of companies that could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations. From time to time, we may be involved in disputes with individual employees. So far as we are aware, no material litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings are pending.
 
Business Plan For Our Life And Accident Insurance Agency Business
 
We are engaged in the accident and life insurance agency business through our indirect ownership interest in Huahao Insurance Agency Ltd., a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the PRC (“Huahao Insurance”). Huahao Insurance was formed in 2002 and is engaged in the life and accident insurance agency business in the Guangzhou Province of China.
 
Huahao Insurance places insurance for and services personal accounts throughout the Guangdong Province of China. Huahao Insurance acts as an agent in soliciting and negotiating contracts of insurance through insurance companies which are located across China, and also acts as a broker in procuring contracts of insurance on behalf of insured’s. Huahao Insurance specializes in a popular market niche known as life and accident insurance.
 
The Insurance Industry. Insurance brokerage companies principally serve businesses, public institutions and individual clients, which we refer to as “insured’s,” by placing general and specialty insurance coverage on their behalf with insurance carriers, which we refer to as “insurers,” and providing risk management consulting services. Through their knowledge of the insurance market and preferred relationships with insurers, insurance brokers are able to assist their clients by negotiating competitive rates and policy terms. Insurance brokers also serve as a distribution channel for insurers and perform much of the administrative and customer service functions insurers would have to otherwise perform were they to sell insurance coverage directly. Insurance brokers are typically compensated by commissions paid by insurers on the premium volume placed. These services, whether to individuals or institutions, are generally referred to as retail brokering.
 
Our Insurance Business. A substantial portion of the commission and fee business of Huahao Insurance is derived from placing insurance for individuals. It services its clients through its network of four offices in the Guangdong Province. No material part of Huahao Insurance’s business is dependent upon a single customer or on a few customers, the loss of any one or more of which would have a materially adverse effect on Huahao Insurance. We placed insurance for a total of 21,942 policies in 2004 and 12,650 policies in 2005 due to the newly reformed lower entrance requirements to the industry, which lead to strong competition from a lot of new insurance agencies.
 
Competitive Strengths.
 
Distribution network. Our comprehensive distribution network enables us to have easy access to individual consumers. Moreover, the size and scale of our air ticketing operations in the Guangdong Province enable us to distribute life and accidental insurance in an efficient manner to all of our clients.
 
Agency Agreements. Our agency agreements with leading insurance companies enable us to deliver efficient service after policy sales are made. We entered into agency agreements with leading insurance companies, including the People’s Insurance Company of China, PingAn Insurance Company of China and the China Pacific Insurance Company, in January 2002. Since 2003, we have been granted “green channel” privileges by the above mentioned companies as a result of success in turnover, credibility, service level and industrial reputation. The lead time required for underwriting and settling claims has been shortened to a maximum of 7 working days by virtue of our “green channel” status, instead of the regular 15 working days for these matters. We believe that this arrangement will differentiate us from our competitors and will provide us with better opportunities to generate incremental revenues.
 
 
Experienced and motivated management team. Our top executive officers have over 35 years of combined experience in the insurance brokerage and financial services industries and are supported by a group of highly motivated professionals throughout our operations. The Chief Executive Officer of the New Generation Group, Zeliang Chen, has been with us since 2002. During his 10 years in the industry, he has gained substantial experience in insurance and financial services, the development of cross selling strategies, and operational integration. Due to his track record in the industry, he was appointed as the Representative Committee Member of China Insurance Brokerage Association in 2003, for a three-year term.
 
Cross-selling potential with the air ticketing services. Our strength in the air-ticketing business, which results from a large number of individual consumers, should benefit our insurance brokerage business. Given the similarities in selling procedures, we believe there is a great potential for joint marketing opportunities. In fact, life and accidental insurance polices can be incorporated with air-ticketing and hotel booking services into a package and sold as a value-added product to our customers.
 
Competition. The insurance brokerage and service business is highly competitive and there are many insurance brokerage and service organizations as well as individuals throughout the world who actively compete with Huahao Insurance in every area of its business. We are aware that there are firms in a particular locality which are as large as or larger than particular local office of our company which is located there. We believe that the primary factors determining our competitive position with other organizations in our industry are the overall cost and the quality of services rendered.
 
Our management believes that there is no single source of information and research report which is sophisticated enough for us to provide a meaningful estimate of the number of competitors and our competitive position in the insurance brokerage and service industry.
 
Huahao Insurance is also in competition with certain insurance companies which write insurance directly for their customers. Certain government benefits relating to life, health, disability, and accident are also alternatives to private insurance and hence indirectly compete with our business. To date, such direct writing and government benefits have had, in the opinion of the management of Huahao Insurance, relatively little effect on its business and operations, but we can make no prediction as to their effect in the future.
 
Business Strategy. Our objective is to continue our revenue growth while sustaining our profitability, and, to achieve this, we will focus on capitalizing on our competitive strengths and implementing the business strategy outlined below:
 
Increase Operating Efficiencies. We expect to realize continued improvement in our profit margin by consolidating the back-office operations of our brokerage business, completing strategic acquisitions and increasing the productivity of our sales professionals. Our management is incentivized to improve our profit margins by a variety of equity incentives and performance bonuses.
 
Pursue fold-in and strategic acquisitions. We believe in growth through acquisitions. We intend to make selective acquisitions of businesses currently operating in our geographic footprint and consolidating the operations into our existing infrastructure. Our acquisition criteria include strong financial performance, talented management, specialized area of expertise, critical geographical presence and excellent client and insurance carrier relationships.
 
Enhance competitive advantage. Since air-ticketing and hotel booking operations are both time consuming and require a long-term investment horizon, the majority of the market players are concentrating in either the air-ticketing business or hotel booking services. Few players compete in both markets. For this reason, we believe that with the combination of our strengths in the air ticketing and hotel booking business, we are able to enhance our competitive advantage by providing packaged services to meet various customer needs. Better integration in business travel related products and services can build up business resource barriers to entry, which are hard to overcome.
 
 
Commissions And Fees. The two major sources of operating revenues are commissions from brokerage and risk management operations and service fees from risk management operations. Information with respect to these two major sources as well as investment income and other revenue, including non-recurring gains, are as follows:
Pro-Forma Data
 
12/31/2005
USD
 
12/31/2004
USD
 
12/31/2003
USD
 
Commission income
   
359,459
   
423,243
   
929,916
 
Fee income
   
-
   
-
     
Investment income & others
   
640
   
166
   
99
 
Non-recurring income
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
 
The primary source of Huahao’s compensation for its brokerage services is commissions paid by insurance companies which are usually based on a percentage of the premium paid by the insured. Commission rates are dependent on a number of factors including the type of insurance, the particular insurance company and the capacity in which our company acts. In some cases we are compensated for brokerage or advisory services directly by a fee from a client, particularly when insurers do not pay commissions. We also receive contingent commissions which are generally based on the profit the insurance company makes on the overall volume of business placed by the company in a given period of time. Occasionally, we share commissions with other brokers who have participated with us in placing insurance or servicing insureds. We also receive service fees from providing risk management operations.
 
Sales Strategy. Our sales strategy is to be a single distribution point to the individual consumer market, serving their life and accident insurance and other risk management needs. Consequently, our sales strategy emphasizes:
 
·  
Using consultative needs assessment to identify our clients’ insurance priorities;
 
·  
Promoting teamwork between sales professional and product specialists on a local and regional basis; and
 
·  
Maintaining an on-going consultative and trusted advisor relationship with out clients to increase client retention.
 
We have 30 sales professionals, who we evaluate by measuring the revenues they generate from new business and cross selling and the revenues they are able to retain from existing clients.
 
We originate sales opportunities through a number of channels. We focus primarily on selling products and services to new and existing clients on a direct basis. In addition, we sell through approximately 50 professional associations and affinity groups. Professional associations such as those in the entertainment and construction industries, generates sales opportunities by virtue of the recognition we develop in those industries. Finally, a fast-growing component of our sales strategy is to distribute supplementary voluntary insurance products to employees of our business clients through worksite marketing arrangements. We believe that this sales channel can ultimately be used to distribute non-insurance-related financial products and services as well.
 
We utilize sales force automation software to manage and track the progression and status of sales prospects. Through regular updates to the system by our sales professionals, we are able to monitor sales opportunities as they evolve from the initial prospect phase through ultimate acceptance or refusal by the client. Detailed information on each sales prospect, including client information, size of revenue opportunity and type of product being sold, is recorded. As a result, sales force automation is able to serve as both a contact management application for our sales professionals and a business management tool for our regional and corporate sales management executives.
 
 
Business Plan For Our Business Value-Added Services
 
We provide business value-added services to a variety of customers. These services concentrate on business consultancy services, interactive marketing and incentive programs management for merchant chains and large corporations with significant user bases.
 
Business Consultancy Services. Our consultancy services are focused two areas. First, we provide consultancy services in the financial advisory sector including mergers and acquisitions advisory services, corporate restructuring advisory services and corporate finance advisory services. A specialty niche has been to consult with and advise local PRC companies in seeking foreign capital for their expansion programs.
 
Second, we assist Chinese companies in developing the international trade dimension of their own businesses and assist foreign companies to establish their businesses in China. We help Chinese companies in business development, marketing, sourcing and public relationship management in the international business environment.
 
These services are fee based, and our payment is structured either on a flat fee basis or on a success fee basis. Our consultancy services operation started in the last quarter of 2004 and our related revenues have been generated since early 2005.
 
Incentive Programs - WTC Link Information Service. In April 2003, Guangzhou World Trade Center Club Limited (“Guangzhou WTC Limited”), a 75% indirectly owned subsidiary of us, entered into an agreement with the Agricultural Bank of China providing for the introduction of a co-branded credit card. Pursuant to the agreement, Guangzhou WTC Limited is entitled to 15% of processing fees obtained in connection with the issuance of the credit card, with such amount increasing to 20% once the number of cards issued exceeds 10,000. The agreement is for a term of four years, subject to automatic extension for an additional four year term, unless terminated on two months’ prior notice.
 
In order to enhance the value and attraction of the co-brand credit card, Guangzhou World Trade Center Club Limited, formed in 2004 and a subsidiary of us (“WTC Limited”), implemented efforts to recruit merchants that will provide discounts of goods and services to the members of the co-brand credit card, and, as such, has become an aggregator for discount merchants. This program is still in development and has been tested out with a limited number of consumers and business associates. It has not been fully rolled out to consumers. There is a a substantial risk that the Company will terminate this program due to an unforeseen adverse business environment.
 
Being an aggregator for discount merchants, in connection with the co-branded credit card, WTC Limited derives and plans to derive its revenue from (1) managing our co-branded credit card program; (2) advising and executing marketing strategies through the leverage of the advertising space available on the air-ticket jackets of New Generation; (3) providing interactive marketing through a short message service enabling merchant discount programs to be made available to the public by cell phone in an arrangement in which revenues are shared with China Telecom; and (4) managing the customer relationship programs for merchant chains and large corporations.
 
Except for the co-brand credit card program mentioned above in item number 1, we have already generated revenues from the other three services areas.
 
In addition to our compensation under the agreement with the Agricultural Bank of China, we plan to derive revenues in the form of merchant fees, as well as from advertisement income of the promotional leaflets and brochures. The development of the credit card services has been slow due to an extended trial run period on the card system imposed by the card issuing bank, Agricultural Bank of China. Although we continue to work on the fully issuance of the co-branded credit card, expecting to be officially launched in year 2006, our management believes that we may not be able to derive any revenue from this card services in year 2006.
 
 
In addition to the four sources of revenue mentioned above, our role as an aggregator for discount merchants benefits customers by providing special discounts. It also further benefits us by building a valuable database of merchants and clients which will provide us the opportunity to promote and convert each of those merchants and clients to a member of one of our trade center clubs. This valuable database of merchants and clients will also help us to better promote and market to future target companies.
 
Competition. The definition of value-added services varies from company to company and it is not meaningful to compare our market position with other potential competitors. We provide value-added services on a customized basis, and we are not aware of any other company that offers the services that we do.
 
Our management believe that there is no single source of information and research report which is sophisticated enough for us to provide a meaningful estimate of the number of competitors and our competitive position in the value-added service industry.
 
Strategic Investments. We expand our business activities through strategic investments in companies which will directly or indirectly contribute positively to our overall revenues or profits. Strategic ventures which have no positive operation effect with our business or have a negative impact on our cash flow will not be initially considered. A group of business entities or an entity that will enable us to experience intrinsic growth will be considered, especially if they will enable us to evolve into a conglomerate in the Chinese business environment. The New Generation acquisition is an example of a major strategic investment by us. By acquiring New Generation, we can incorporate New Generation’s services to enhance our business club services, and at the same time can access New Generation’s huge client base of business travelers to recruit members for our Business Clubs.
 
Employees. We currently have 20 employees in our Value-Added Services division. We believe our future success will depend in large part upon the continued service of our technical and senior management personnel and our ability to attract and retain technical and managerial personnel. There can be no assurance that we will retain our key technical and managerial employees or that we can attract, assimilate or retain other highly qualified technical and managerial personnel in the future. None of our employees are subject to any collective bargaining agreements.

 
Our main office and the Guangzhou World Trade Center Club facilities are located at 3rd Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou, and the PRC 510620. Such office and club facilities are held pursuant to a lease from Guangzhou Silver Disk Property Management Co. Ltd., which provides for an aggregate monthly rental of approximately $42,285 (RMB$350,000) and expires on July 31, 2007.
 
Our Beijing World Trade Center Club facilities are located at 2nd Floor, Office Tower II, Landmark Towers Beijing, 8 North Dongsanhuan Road, Beijing, the PRC. The five-year lease for the location of the Beijing WTC Club facilities, which runs from February 1, 2004 to January 31, 2009, was executed by Beijing Landmark Towers Co Ltd. and Beijing WTC Club. The terms of the lease provide for an aggregate monthly rental amount and management fees of approximately $14,640 (RMB$121,180) and contains a rent free period from February 1, 2004 to January 31, 2006.
 
Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement dated December 17, 2002, entered into by us and Mr. William Chi Hung Tsang, we acquired the entire issued share capital of General Business Network, which owned two commercial properties, one located at 20/F, Goldlion Digital Network Center, Unit 01-10, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou, the PRC (the “PRC Property”) and the other at Flat B, 12/F, Champion Center, 301-309 Nathan Road, Hong Kong (the “Hong Kong Property”). The PRC Property was sold in May 2005 for approximately $2,460,000. We rent out the Hong Kong Property at an annual rental income of $13,077 (HK$102,000).

Our Hong Kong office is located at Room 1217, 12/F, Metropolis Tower, 10 Metropolis Drive, Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR. The office is held pursuant to a lease from Wisdom Champion (12) Limited, which provides for an aggregate monthly rental of HKD18,765 (or US$2,406). The lease runs from August 16, 2004 to August 15, 2006.
 

Our Hong Kong executive quarter is located at Metropolis Residence, 8 Metropolis Drive, Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR. The residence is held pursuant to a lease from Mr. Wang Yun Hwa, which provides for an aggregate monthly rental of HKD12,000 (or US$1,538). The lease runs from August 16, 2004 to August 15, 2006.

Our subsidiary, New Generation, holds a property at Flat 601, 6/F, Shun Jing Crt, Huadu, Guangzhou, PRC with area approximately to 302 square meters.

New Generation holds a property at Flat 109, Blk 4, Haidian District, Beijing, PRC with area approximately to 92 square meters.
 

We are not aware of any pending or threatened legal proceedings, other than as set forth below, in which we are involved. In addition, we are not aware of any pending or threatened legal proceedings in which entities affiliated with our officers, directors or beneficial owners are involved.

On December 10, 2004, Kenneth P. Silverman, Esq., as Trustee for the Estate of Chief Executive Officers Clubs, Inc. (the “Trustee”), filed a Complaint against CEO Clubs China Limited, China World Trade Corporation, Simon Guo and J.P. Li (the “Complaint”), which commenced an Adversary Proceeding relating to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case pending in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, captioned as In Re: Chief Executive Officers Clubs, Inc., Debtor. The Complaint alleges, among other things, that certain assets of the Chief Executive Officers Clubs, Inc. bankruptcy estate were transferred to our Company in violation of Section 549 of the Bankruptcy Code. It requests that the Bankruptcy Court order, among other things, a return of such assets by our Company and/or seeks a judgment against us in the amount of not less than $480,000.

As previously disclosed, on May 7, 2004, the Company acquired 51% of the outstanding capital stock of CEO Clubs China Limited, a Hong Kong corporation (“CEO Clubs China”), through one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, for a total consideration of cash and shares of common stock amounting to US$480,000. CEO Clubs China is an authorized chapter to operate under the “CEO Clubs” trademarks in the Greater China region, including the Peoples’ Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

We have engaged counsel and are vigorously defending the Adversary Proceeding. We filed a Motion To Dismiss which was heard on March 22, 2005, and the judge ruled in favor of the Trustee by refusing to dismiss the case at this preliminary stage of the proceedings. Notwithstanding that decision, our primary defense is that we purchased the stock of CEO Clubs China, and did not acquire any assets of the Chief Executive Officers Clubs, Inc. bankruptcy estate. We believe that this defense will be meritorious should the matter ever come to trial.


No matter was submitted to a vote of security holders during the fourth quarter of the fiscal year covered by this Report.
 



Market Information

Our common stock is currently quoted on a limited basis on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“OTCBB”) under the symbol “CWTD”. The quotation of our common stock on the OTCBB does not assure that a meaningful, consistent and liquid trading market currently exists. We cannot predict whether a more active market for our common stock will develop in the future. In the absence of an active trading market:

(1) Investors may have difficulty buying and selling or obtaining market quotation;
(2) Market visibility for our common stock may be limited; and
(3) A lack of visibility of our common stock may have a depressive effect on the market price for our common stock.

The following table sets forth the range of bid prices of our common stock as quoted on the OTCBB during the periods indicated. The prices reported represent prices between dealers, do not include markups, markdowns or commissions and do not necessarily represent actual transactions.

 
High (1)
Low
 
 
 
 
2005
First Quarter
$2.66
$1.90
 
Second Quarter
$3.25
$1.80
 
Third Quarter
$2.56
$1.89
 
Fourth Quarter
$2.10
$1.31
 
 
 
 
2004
First Quarter
$9.20
$1.00
 
Second Quarter
$5.00
$1.07
 
Third Quarter
$9.95
$1.80
 
Fourth Quarter
$4.50
$1.85
 

Our common shares are issued in registered form. Interwest Transfer Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the registrar and transfer agent for our common stock.

Effective September 1, 2002, we executed a 1 for 30 reverse stock split of the outstanding shares of common stock.

As a result of a debt-to-equity capital restructuring in September 2002, we issued a total of 4,000,000 shares of common stock for a total debt of $2,731,677
 
As a result of two share purchase agreements dated September 3, 2002 and December 17, 2002, respectively, and entered into between us and Powertronic Holdings Limited, on January 24, 2003 we issued a total of 2,000,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock for a total purchase price of $1,000,000 to Powertronic Holdings Limited.

As a result of a share exchange agreement dated December 17, 2002 entered into between the Company and Mr. William Chi Hung Tsang, on January 24, 2003, we issued 4,000,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock in exchange of 100% of the share capital of General Business Network (Holdings) Ltd.

As of December 31, 2005, there were 97 holders of record of 33,668,923 outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, not including approximately 3,500 holders of our shares in street name.
 

Dividends

We have not previously paid any cash dividends on its common stock and do not anticipate paying dividends on its common stock in the foreseeable future. It is the present intention of management to retain any earnings to provide funds for the operation and expansion of our business. Any future determination to pay dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on our results of operation, financial condition, contractual and legal restrictions and other factors the board of directors deem relevant.

Penny Stock Characterization

Our Shares are "penny stocks" within the definition of that term as contained in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which are generally equity securities with a price of less than $5.00. Our shares will then be subject to rules that impose sales practice and disclosure requirements on certain broker-dealers who engage in certain transactions involving a penny stock. These will impose restrictions on the marketability of the common stock.

Under the penny stock regulations, a broker-dealer selling penny stock to anyone other than an established customer or "accredited investor" must make a special suitability determination for the purchaser and must receive the purchaser's written consent to the transaction prior to the sale, unless the broker-dealer is otherwise exempt. Generally, an individual with a net worth in excess of $5,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000 individually or $300,000 together with his or her spouse is considered an accredited investor. In addition, unless the broker-dealer or the transaction is otherwise exempt, the penny stock regulations require the broker-dealer to deliver, prior to any transaction involving a penny stock, a disclosure schedule prepared by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the penny stock market. A broker-dealer is also required to disclose commissions payable to the broker-dealer and the Registered Representative and current bid and offer quotations for the securities. In addition a broker-dealer is required to send monthly statements disclosing recent price information with respect to the penny stock held in a customer's account, the account’s value and information regarding the limited market in penny stocks. As a result of these regulations, the ability of broker-dealers to sell our stock may affect the Selling Stockholders or other or other holders seeking to sell their shares in the secondary market. In addition, the penny stock rules generally require that prior to a transaction in a penny stock, the broker-dealer make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser and receive the purchaser's written agreement to the transaction.

These disclosure requirements may have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in the secondary market for a stock that becomes subject to the penny stock rules. These additional sales practice and disclosure requirements could impede the sale of our securities. In addition, the liquidity for our securities may be adversely affected, with concomitant adverse affects on the price of our securities.


Agreements to Register

On December 5, 2003, a Registration Rights Agreement was executed by the Company conferring upon Chi Hung Tsang demand registration rights for (i) 3,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock ("Company Shares"), each with par value US$0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"); and (ii) shares underlying a two year warrant to purchase up to 6,000,000 shares of the Common Stock at an exercise price of US$0.75 per share. Upon written demand, the Company shall, register the shares and the shares underlying the warrants as soon as practicable and in no event later than 90 days from the notice. In addition, the Company must maintain the registration statement until all of the securities are sold or otherwise become freely tradable. [you do not register the warrants, instead you register the shares underlying the warrants. Typically, warrants do not get registered and trade on their own]
 
We have a Registration Rights Agreement, dated August 26, 2004, with the Purchasers under a Securities Purchase Agreement that was also executed on August 26, 2004, covering an aggregate of 2,321,003 shares of common stock issued to the Purchasers, and shares of common stock issuable to the Purchasers upon the exercise of warrants. In addition, we have a Registration Rights Agreement with Cornell Capital Partners, LP, dated November 15, 2004, covering the 14,285,714 shares of our common stock that may be registered for sale pursuant to the SEDA, in addition to 375,000 shares of common stock issued as compensation under the SEDA.

 
Shares Eligible for Future Sale

Upon effectiveness of this registration statement, the 16,981,717 shares of common stock sold in this offering will be freely tradable without restrictions under the Securities Act of 1933, except for any shares held by our "affiliates", which will be restricted by the resale limitations of Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933.

In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, any of our affiliates and any person or persons whose sales are aggregated who has beneficially owned his or her restricted shares for at least one year, may be entitled to sell in the open market within any three-month period a number of shares of common stock that does not exceed the greater of (i) 1% of the then outstanding shares of our common stock, or (ii) the average weekly trading volume in the common stock during the four calendar weeks preceding such sale. Sales under Rule 144 are also affected by limitations on manner of sale, notice requirements, and availability of current public information about us. Non-affiliates who have held their restricted shares for two years may be entitled to sell their shares under Rule 144 without regard to any of the above limitations, provided they have not been affiliates for the three months preceding such sale.

Further, Rule 144A as currently in effect, in general, permits unlimited resales of restricted securities of any issuer provided that the purchaser is an institution that owns and invests on a discretionary basis at least $100 million in securities or is a registered broker-dealer that owns and invests $10 million in securities. Rule 144A allows our existing stockholders to sell their shares of common stock to such institutions and registered broker-dealers without regard to any volume or other restrictions. Unlike under Rule 144, restricted securities sold under Rule 144A to non-affiliates do not lose their status as restricted securities.

Currently, approximately 10,900,000 shares of our common stock are available for sale in accordance with the provisions of Rule 144. Additionally, future sales of stock owned by our affiliates may be permitted according to Rule 144. The availability for sale of substantial amounts of common stock under Rule 144 could adversely affect prevailing market prices for our securities.

Changes of Equity Securities During Period Covered By Report

On April 18, 2005, we issued 100,000 shares of common stock to Greentree Financial Group, Inc. for consulting services which included (a) assistance in the preparation of private offering documents, (b) compliance with Blue Sky regulations, (c) compliance with the SEC's periodic reporting requirements, (d) tax and accounting services, (e) EDGAR services, (f) preparation of interim financial information, (g) locating product vendors and (h) other consulting services. In this issuance, we relied on an exemption provided by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

On December 2, 2005, we issued 2,429,448 shares of common stock to Mr. Chi Hung Tsang pursuant to warrants issued on December 5, 2003.
 
On December 29, 2005, we issued a total of 249,478 shares of common stock according to our 2003 Non-Qualified Stock Compensation Plan
 

PRELIMINARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This discussion contains forward-looking statements. The reader should understand that several factors govern whether any forward-looking statement contained herein will be or can be achieved. Any one of those factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected herein. These forward-looking statements include plans and objectives of management for future operations, including plans and objectives relating to the products and the future economic performance of the company. Assumptions relating to the foregoing involve judgments with respect to, among other things, future economic, competitive and market conditions, future business decisions, and the time and money required to successfully complete development projects, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond the control of the company. Although the company believes that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements contained herein are reasonable, any of those assumptions could prove inaccurate and, therefore, there can be no assurance that the results contemplated in any of the forward-looking statements contained herein will be realized. Based on actual experience and business development, the company may alter its marketing, capital expenditure plans or other budgets, which may in turn affect the company's results of operations. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking statements included therein, the inclusion of any such statement should not be regarded as a representation by the company or any other person that the objectives or plans of the company will be achieved.
 

OVERVIEW

We were incorporated in the State of Nevada in 1998 to engage in any lawful corporate undertaking. Initially, our business objective was to open and operate business clubs in the major cities of China in association with the World Trade Center Association in order to position ourselves as the platform to facilitate trade between China and the world market. We currently operate two clubs, one in Guangzhou and the other in Beijing, PRC. Additionally, we expect to open clubs in Shanghai and Shenzhen, PRC in 2006. We have grown through acquisitions and internal growth and our business objectives have expanded as set forth in the following paragraphs.

Our growth and development as a business enterprise has been marked by a number of significant corporate events. Pursuant to a Share Exchange Agreement, dated as of August 10, 2000, between Virtual Edge Limited ("Virtual Edge") and Main Edge International Limited ("Main Edge"), Main Edge transferred all of the issued and outstanding shares of the capital stock of Virtual Edge to the Company in exchange for 1,961,175 shares of our pre-split common stock, representing approximately 75% of our outstanding shares of the common stock. Accordingly, we controlled the operations of Virtual Edge, and Main Edge became our majority stockholder. We then undertook an 8-for-1 forward split that was effective on 15th day of September 2000, which resulted in Main Edge owning 15,689,400 shares of our common stock. Then, five major developments occurred. These were: (i) the consummation of two private placement financings by Powertronic Holdings Limited ("Powertronic") in September 2002 and December 2002 in which it acquired shares of our common stock, (ii) an acquisition of all the issued and outstanding shares of General Business Network (Holdings) Ltd. in December 2002, (iii) a 1-for-30 reverse stock split that was effective on September 1, 2002, (iv) the assignment of the rights of the after tax rental income of certain premises from Mr. Tsang for a five year period in December 2003, and (v) the exercise of warrants for the shares of our common stock by Mr. Tsang and Powertronic in March 2004 and in July 2004, and the further exercise additional warrants in December 2004. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Chi Hung Tsang became the new major shareholder and owns over 12,600,000 shares of our common stock and Powertronic owns over 5,500,000 shares. Mr. Chi Hung Tsang is currently President and Chairman of our Board of Directors.
   
China World Trade Corporation ("China World Trade") has recently established its businesses into three distinct divisions, namely the club and business center; the business travel services; and the business value-added services. The Club and Business Center division is devoted to the building of the World Trade brand in China. Its objective is to open and operate business clubs in the major cities of China in association with the World Trade Center Association, in order to position the company as the platform to facilitate trade between China and the world market. China World Trade currently operates the Guangzhou World Trade Center Club, consisting of over 4,000 square meters, and The Beijing World Trade Center Club, which is located at 2nd Floor, Office Tower II, Landmark Towers Beijing, 8 North Dongsanhuan Road, Beijing PRC, and consisting of 730 square meters. In addition, since the acquisition of CEO Clubs China Limited ("CEO Clubs") in May 2004, CEO Clubs will complement China World Trade's offerings by targeting higher profile leadership from larger companies than those normally associated with China World Trade. The CEO Clubs family, of which each family member operates independently of each other, has thirteen chapters in the US and China. It focuses on recruiting CEO's of companies with annual sales exceeding $2 million as members. The average member of our affiliated CEO Clubs family has $20 million in annual sales.
 
Since the completion of the acquisition of majority stake of Guangdong New Generation Commercial Management Limited (the “New Generation Group” or “New Generation”) in August 2004, the Business Travel Services division has provided the necessary platform for China World Trade Corporation to focus on the high growth, travel related businesses. New Generation aims to be the pioneer and to become one of the market leaders in the travel agency businesses through the operations of its seven subsidiaries in Southern China in ticketing sales for international and domestic flights as well as inbound business travel. Being a major consolidator of hotel accommodations and airline tickets in China, New Generation has already acquired the necessary licenses to operate as a ticketing and travel agent in the PRC. These licenses include 26 licenses as a ticketing agent for international and domestic flights for both cargo and passengers issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the International Air Transport Association and three licenses as a domestic and international travel agent issued by the Administrative Bureau of Tourism of China. In addition, New Generation is also an authorized/licensed insurance agent in China to provide, in particular, accidental and life insurances.. New Generation is believed to contribute a solid revenue base to the Company.
 
The Business Value-Added Services division concentrates on value-added services of merchant related businesses as well as on consultancy services. WTC Link International Limited and other subsidiaries of China World Trade, leveraged the network and database of the Business Clubs and New Generation to provide business related services to its clients. In addition, this division also provides consultancy services to China World Trade's members and clients in the financial services areas (may we state here “corporate strategy and business development areas) including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and financing.
 


The following table shows the financial data of the consolidated statements of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries for the years ended December 2005 and 2004. The data should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and related notes thereto.

 
 
Year ended
 
 
 
Year ended
 
 
 
 
 
Dec 31,
 
% of
 
Dec 31,
 
% of
 
 
 
2005
 
Revenues
 
2004
 
Revenues
 
(In US$ thousands except per share data)
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Operating revenues
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
Club and business center
   
894
   
11.4
   
551
   
17.8
 
Business travel services
   
4,983
   
63.6
   
1,672
   
54.1
 
Business value-added services
   
1,618
   
20.6
   
41
   
1.3
 
Others
   
344
   
4.4
   
829
   
26.8
 
Total Operating Revenues
   
7,839
   
100.0
   
3,093
   
100.0
 
 
                 
 
                 
Gross Profit
                 
Club and business center
   
735
   
82.1
   
460
   
83.4
 
Business travel services
   
4,256
   
85.4
   
1,559
   
93.3
 
Business value-added services
   
(895
)
 
(55.3
)
 
39
   
95.1
 
Others
   
124
   
36.3
   
305
   
36.8
 
Total Gross Profit
   
4,220
   
53.8
   
2,363
   
76.4
 
 
                 
 
                 
Selling, general and administrative expenses
   
(9,168
)
 
(116.9
)
 
(8,133
)
 
(263.0
)
Impairment loss and depreciation
   
(342
)
 
(4.4
)
 
(1,438
)
 
(46.5
)
 
                 
Loss from operations
   
(5,290
)
 
(67.5
)
 
(7,208
)
 
(233.0
)
 
                 
Non-operating income (expenses)
                 
Other income net of expenses
   
42
   
0.5
   
140
   
4.5
 
Interest expense net of income
   
(108
)
 
(1.4
)
 
(66
)
 
(2.1
)
Realized gain on available-for-sale securities
   
6,080
   
77.6
   
-
   
-
 
Gain on disposal of interest in a subsidiary
   
86
   
1.1
   
-
   
-
 
Loss on disposal of leasehold land and building
   
(255
)
 
(3.2
)
 
-
   
-
 
Profit on increase in shareholding in subsidiary
   
-
   
   
-
   
-
 
 
                 
Income before income taxes and minority interest
   
555
   
7.1
   
(7,134
)
 
(230.7
)
 
                 
Income taxes
   
(254
)
 
(3.2
)
 
(47
)
 
(1.5
)
 
                 
Net income before minority interest
   
301
   
3.8 
   
(7,181
)
 
(232.2
)
 
                 
Minority interest
   
(283
)
 
(3.6
)
 
(413
)
 
(13.4
)
 
                 
Net Profit/(loss)
   
18
   
0.2
   
(7,594
)
 
(245.6
)
 
                 
Profit/(Loss) per share of common stock
                 
- Basic
 
$
0.00
     
$
(0.32
)
   
 
 
FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2005 COMPARED TO YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2004.
 
OPERATING REVENUE

The Company has started to recruit members, and to provide club and business center services through its subsidiary Guangzhou World Trade Center Club located in Guangdong Province, the PRC since June 2002, business value-added services and others business through other subsidiaries of the Company since March 2003. We have commenced our operation in the business travel business since our acquisition of New Generation in August 2004. Investment in listed shares and rental incomes are grouped under others operating revenues and others gross profit. Consolidated operating revenue for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2005 was $7,839,000, compared to $3,093,000 for the same corresponding period in year 2004, an increase of $4,746,000 or 153.4%. The increase was mainly the result of the increase in revenue generated from business travel services, club and business center and business value-added services. This increase was partially offset by the decrease in rental income and the discontinuation of the cattle hide trading business.

Of the $7,839,000 revenue in the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2005, approximately $894,000 (11.4%) was generated from providing club related services by Guangzhou World Trade Center Club and Beijing World Trade Center Club, $4,984,000 (63.6%) from business travel services resulting from the acquisition of the New Generation Group, $1,618,000 (20.6%) from business value-added services, and the remaining $344,000 (or 4.4%) from other (rental and listed shares investment) businesses. The acquisition of New Generation has contributed positively to our operating revenue. In addition, our cost of sales is generally positively related to our operating revenue, i.e., the higher the operating revenue, the higher the cost of sales and vice versa.

For the year ended December 31, 2005, New Generation sold a total of over 1,187,000 tickets, which translates to a total value of air-ticket fare of approximately $145 million. As compared to the same corresponding period in year 2004, ticket sold of New Generation increased by 192,000 tickets (or 19.3%) from approximately 995,000 tickets with value of air-ticket fare increased by $26.3 million (or 22.1%) from $118.9 million.

Consolidated gross profit increased $1,857,000 or 78.6% for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2005 over the same corresponding period in year 2004. The increase was predominantly driven by our business travel services resulting from the acquisition of the New Generation in August 2004 and our club and business center services. Such an increase was partially offset by the decrease in the business value-added services and rental income. As a percentage of total operating revenues, consolidated gross profit margins of 53.8% in 2005 decreased from 76.4% in 2004. However, the lower profit margin as a percent of operating revenues for the year ended December 31, 2005 as compared to the same corresponding period in 2004 was primarily contributed by the negative margin from our business value-added services. We received common stock as compensation from the client for our services rendered. According to EITF Issue No. 00-8, we recognize our revenue in relation to a project using the share price of the common stock we received on the contract date. Subsequently, we subcontracted part of the services of the same project to an independent consultant at a later date and according to FAS 123, paragraph 8, we needed to record the compensation paid to non-employees in exchange of goods and services at fair value. The negative gross profit margin for the year ended December 31, 2005 of our consulting business was the result of the timing difference between the dates of the contract with our client and the subcontracting during an upward trend of the share prices of the common stock we received for services rendered.

Of the $4,220,000 total gross profit for the year ended December 31, 2005, approximately $735,000 (or 17.4%) was generated from providing club and business center services, approximately $4,256,000 (or 100.9%) from business travel services, approximately a loss of $895,000 (or -21.2%) from providing business value-added services, and approximately $124,000 (or 2.9%) from other (rental and investment) businesses. As compared to the same corresponding period in year 2004, the club and business center services represented a 19.5% (or $460,000) of the total gross profit; 66.0% (or $1,559,000) was generated from the business travel business; 1.6% (or $39,000) from providing business value-added services; and the remaining 12.9% (or $305,000) from other (rental and trading) businesses. The shift in segmental distribution was primarily due to the increase in gross profit in the business travel services, resulting from the acquisition of the New Generation Group. We foresee that this segment mix will continue to change and balance out in year 2006 upon further development in the business value-added services and the expected opening of World Trade Center Club Shanghai in the year 2006.
 
 
SELLING, GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased by approximately $1,035,000 or 12.7% to $9,168,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $8,133,000 for the same corresponding period in 2004. The increase was mainly a combination of the increase in professional fee resulting from our consulting business in the amount of approximately $493,000, the increase in other professional fees and marketing and information and technology in the total amount of approximately $510,000,.

Of the $9,168,000 selling, general and administrative expenses incurred for the year ended December 31, 2005, the majority of it was approximately $2,456,000 in staff related costs; approximately $1,477,000 in professional expenses in financial consultancy, investor relation and marketing consultancy; approximately $870,000 in building management and rental expenses which were necessary for the operations of our world trade centre clubs in Guangzhou and Beijing; approximately $430,000 in director related salaries; approximately $1,263,000 in the expenses of subcontracting our consultancy business. The management does not foresee this increasing trend will continue and they will continue to impose respective measures for trimming costs.

IMPAIRMENT LOSS AND DEPRECIATION

Total impairment loss and depreciation were approximately $342,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005, as compared to the same corresponding period in year 2004, a decrease of $1,096,000 or 76.2% from $1,438,000. The decrease was mainly due to the decrease in the impairment loss in the amount of approximately $1,167,000 which was off-set by the increase in depreciation and amortization charge of approximately $70,000 over the corresponding period in year 2004.

FINANCIAL INCOME/(EXPENSES), NET

Interest expenses were approximately $136,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005, as compared to the same corresponding period in year 2004 in the amount of $66,000, an increase of $70,000 or 106.1%. The majority of the increase was the result of consolidating the interest expenses incurred by the New Generation in relation to an increased bank loan in the amount of RMB10,000,000 (approximately equals US$2.3 million) to RMB19,000,000 (approximately equals to US$2.4 million)
 
OTHER INCOME AND REALIZED GAIN

The other income and realized gain increased by approximately $6,080,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005. The increase was the result of the gain on disposal of securities during the reporting period which we received as compensation for our consultancy services rendered. These securities may be sold only when earned under the respective consulting agreements, and it is our intention to sell shares earned as promptly as practicable in order to generate income for the company, subject to compliance with federal securities laws.

GAIN ON DISPOSAL OF INTEREST IN A SUBSIDIARY

Gain on disposal of interest in a subsidiary recorded at approximately $86,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005 compared to none for the same corresponding period in year 2004. The gain resulted from the disposal of our subsidiary WTC Link International Limited, which the management found the issue of co-brand credit card and the discount merchant program has limited progress.

LOSS ON DISPOSAL OF LEASEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING

The loss on disposal of leasehold land and building increased by approximately $255,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005, as compared to none for the same corresponding period in year 2004. The loss was primarily the result from the payment of PRC tax and levy in the amount of approximately $229,000 resulting from the disposal of our Guangzhou property in May 2005.
 
 
INCOME TAXES

The Group is subject to income taxes on an equity basis on income arising in or derived from the tax jurisdiction in which it is domiciled and operates.

The Hong Kong subsidiaries incurred losses for taxation purposes for the period and thus Hong Kong Profits Tax has not been provided.

Several of our PRC subsidiaries are subject to PRC Enterprise Income Taxes (“EIT”) on an entity basis on income arising in and derived from the PRC. The applicable EIT rate is 33%.

Income taxes were $254,000 for the year end December 31, 2005, as compared to US$47,000 for the same corresponding period in year 2004. The increase of income taxes was mainly from the operation of New Generation.
 
NET PROFIT

Net profit was approximately $18,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005, as compared to the same corresponding period in year 2004, an increase of $7,612,000 or 100.2% from a loss of $7,594,000. The increase in net income was the result of the recognition of the net gain from the disposal of securities which were received for compensation of our consultancy services. The increase was partially offset by the increase in loss from operations resulting from the increase in selling, general and administrative expenses of our business traveling services and consulting business within the business value-added services. Management believes that our operations will continue to improve and we do not foresee a trend of losses

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES 

We have banking facilities granted in the total amount of approximately $2.4 million, of which approximately $2.3 million has been utilized as of December 31, 2005. These facilities include $1,250,000 in revolving loan; $1,120,000 in short term loan with pledged deposit of $412,000. The weighted average interest rate for these facilities is charged at 7.254% per annum.

As of December 31, 2005, cash and cash equivalents totaled $3.2 million. This cash position was the result of a combination of net cash provided by investing activities in the amount of $9,724,456, offsetting by net cash used in operating activities in the amount of $8,189,443 and net cash used in financing activities in the amount of $124,417. The increase in investing activities was mainly due to the disposal of available-for-sale securities of $6,838,178, net result of disposal and acquisition of property, plant and equipment of $1,910,594 and the disposal of intangible asset of $1,320,000. The net cash used in operating activities was mainly the result from the realized gain and received as income on available-for-sale securities of $7,122,003 and changes in working capital, which consists of the pledge of deposit of $412,484, decrease in account receivables of $1,913,350 and the increase in rental and other deposit of $721,732. Net cash used in financing activities was result from the repayment of advance from a shareholder amount to $183,405.

During the reporting period of year ended December 31, 2005, a total of 100,000 shares of the common stock of China World Trade Corporation were issued to Greentree Financail Corporation, Inc. in relation to a consulting service.

We believe that the level of financial resources is a significant factor for our future development and accordingly may choose at any time to raise capital through private debt or equity financing to strengthen its financial position, facilitate growth and provide us with additional flexibility to take advantage of business opportunities. However, other than the committed Standby Equity financing provided by Cornell Capital Partners, LC, we do not have immediate plan to have a public offering of our common stock.
 

OTHER SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
 
On March 29, 2005, our board of directors approved the sale of the after-tax rental income rights of 21 st and 23 rd Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou to our Chairman, Mr. Chi Hung Tsang at the book value of $1,320,000. As a result, a cash balance due from Mr. Tsang in the amount of $377,504 as of March 31, 2005 was subsequently paid off on April 28, 2005. The total consideration of $1,320,000 would be used to provide additional working capital for our group of companies.
 
On December 30, 2004, General Business Network (Holdings) Limited entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Guangzhou Goldlion Environmental Technology Company Limited for the sale of our property holding located in Guangzhou, the PRC for a consideration of approximately $2,500,000. This transaction was completed on May 31, 2005.

On May 31, 2005, we closed on the sale of our property at 20 th Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou at approximately one percent discount to our book value in the amount of $2,457,000, as previously reported. The net proceeds of the sale will be used to provide additional working capital for our group of companies.
 
Guangdong New Generation Management Limited entered into a Cooperation Framework Agreement, dated July 29, 2005, as subsequently amended, providing for the acquisition of interests in each of Guangdong Hao Shi Guang Travel Agency and Guangdong Kaixuan Transportation Co., Ltd, both owned by Guangdong Rising Hotel Group Limited. The primary business of Kaixuan Transportation Co., Ltd. is to provide coach-hire services in Guangzhou and the primary business of Hai Shi Guang Agency is to provide packaged tour services mainly for corporate clients.
 
Pursuant to such agreement, we have agreed to purchase 22.68% of the share capital of the Travel Agency. We have further agreed to increase our purchase of the share capital of the Travel Agency until we own 70% of the outstanding share capital. The purchase price will be calculated based on the net assets of the Travel Agency as of June 30, 2005, as determined by an independent certified public accountant in the Peoples’ Republic of China, and is expected to be approximately $120,000.
 
We have additionally agreed to purchase 70% of the Transportation Company during the period August 1, 2005 through July 31, 2006. The purchase price is to be calculated based on its net assets as of June 30, 2005, as determined by an independent certified public accountant in the Peoples’ Republic of China, and is expected to be approximately $600,000. We paid an initial deposit of approximately $60,000 upon execution of the agreement and are required to pay an additional $69,000 by January 27, 2006, with both amounts being deducted from the final purchase price.
 
Upon payment of the $60,000, we took over routine operations of the Transportation Company for one year. During the subcontracting year, however, the Transportation Company’s equity holders retain the ability to make decisions with respect to major transactions, such as the acquisition or disposition of significant assets, incurrence of significant indebtedness or entering into new lines of business. If the closing of the full 70% is not consummated by July 31, 2006, due to reasons outside of our control, we are not entitled to the return of any amounts previously paid. Upon consummation of the full 70% acquisition by July 31, 2006, we become a shareholder owning a 70% interest in the Transportation Company.
 
 
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES

In presenting our financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, we are required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported therein. Several of the estimates and assumptions we are required to make relate to matters that are inherently uncertain as they pertain to future events. However, events that are outside of our control cannot be predicted and, as such, they cannot be contemplated in evaluating such estimates and assumptions. If there is a significant unfavourable change to current conditions, it could result in a material adverse impact to our consolidated results of operations, financial position and liquidity. We believe that the estimates and assumptions we used when preparing our financial statements were the most appropriate at that time. Presented below are those accounting policies that we believe require subjective and complex judgments that could potentially affect reported results. However, the majority of our businesses operate in environments where we pay a fee for a service performed, and therefore the results of the majority of our recurring operations are recorded in our financial statements using accounting policies that are not particularly subjective, nor complex.

 
Valuation of long-lived assets

We review our long-lived assets for impairment, including property, plant and equipment, and identifiable intangibles with definite lives, whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be fully recoverable. To determine recoverability of our long-lived assets, we evaluate the probability that future undiscounted net cash flows will be greater than the carrying amount of our assets. Impairment is measured based on the difference between the carrying amount of our assets and their estimated fair value.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We perform ongoing credit evaluations of our customers and adjust credit limits based upon customer payment history and current creditworthiness. We continuously monitor collections and payments from our customers and maintain a provision for estimated credit losses based upon our historical experience and any specific customer collection issues that have been identified. While such credit losses have historically been within our expectations and the provisions established, we cannot guarantee that we will continue to experience credit loss rates similar to those we have experienced in the past. Measurement of such losses requires consideration of historical loss experience, including the need to adjust for current conditions, and judgments about the probable effects of relevant observable data, including present economic conditions such as delinquency rates and financial health of specific customers.

Goodwill on consolidation

Our long-lived assets include goodwill. SFAS No. 142 "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets" requires that goodwill be tested for impairment at the reporting unit level (operating segment or one level below an operating segment) on an annual basis and between annual tests in certain circumstances. Application of the goodwill impairment test requires judgment, including the identification of reporting units, assigning assets and liabilities to reporting units, assigning goodwill to reporting units, and determining the fair value of each reporting unit. Significant judgments required to estimate the fair value of reporting units include estimating future cash flows, determining appropriate discount rates and other assumptions. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the determination of fair value for each reporting unit.
 


CHINA WORLD TRADE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

   
Page
 
       
Report of Child, Van Wagoner & Bradshaw, PLLC, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
44
 
Report of Moores Rowland Mazars, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
45
 
Consolidated Balance Sheet
 
46
 
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss)
 
47
 
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity
 
48
 
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
 
49
 
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
 
50-75
 
 
43


REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM


The Board of Directors and Shareholders
China World Trade Corporation

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of China World Trade Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2005, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in shareholders’ equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for the year then ended. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Group’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Group is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Group’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of China Trade World Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2005, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the year then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. The Company has suffered losses from operations during the year and has a negative working capital that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
 

/s/ Child, Van Wagoner & Bradshaw, PLLC
Child, Van Wagoner & Bradshaw, PLLC
 
Certified Public Accountants

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
April 15, 2006
 
 
44


Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm


To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
China World Trade Corporation


We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of China World Trade Corporation (a Nevada corporation) and its subsidiaries as of December 31, 2004 and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders' equity and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2004 and September 30, 2003. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of China World Trade Corporation and its subsidiaries as of December 31, 2004 and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2004 and September 30, 2003 in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 3(b) to the financial statements, the Company has suffered losses from operations during the year and has a negative working capital that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 3(b). The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.



/s/ MOORES ROWLAND MAZARS

Chartered Accountants
Certified Public Accountants
Hong Kong

Date: April 14, 2004
 
 
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CHINA WORLD TRADE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
(Expressed in United States Dollar (“US$”), except for per share data)
            
        
December 31, 2005
 
ASSETS
 
 Note
     
Current assets
          
Cash and cash equivalents
         
3,234,863
 
Pledged bank deposit
         
412,484
 
Accounts receivables, net
   
5
   
3,377,343
 
Available-for-sale securities
   
8
   
1,413,750
 
Prepayments
         
231,428
 
Other current assets
         
446,750
 
Loans receivables
   
12
   
410,946
 
Rental and other deposits
   
6
   
2,461,487
 
Due from related parties
   
7
   
614,183
 
Due from related companies
   
7
   
113,199
 
 
Total current assets
         
12,716,433
 
               
Property use rights, net
   
9
   
1,572,657
 
Goodwill
   
10
   
11,279,314
 
Property, plant and equipment, net
   
11
   
1,024,678
 
 
Total assets
         
26,593,082
 
               
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
             
Current liabilities
             
Accounts payables
   
14
   
3,070,892
 
Accrued expenses
         
644,044
 
Due to a shareholder
   
15
   
137,131
 
Due to related parties
   
7
   
27,646
 
Due to related companies
   
7
   
77,578
 
Income tax payable
         
1,422,308
 
Tax penalty payable
         
1,026,680
 
Deferred income
         
381,081
 
Short-term bank loan
   
13
   
2,346,461
 
Hire purchase creditor - current portion
         
13,333
 
Other current liabilities
         
1,300,989
 
 
Total current liabilities
         
10,448,143
 
Hire purchase creditor - non-current portion
         
36,667
 
 
Total liabilities
         
10,484,810
 
               
Minority interest
         
2,186,542
 
               
Commitments and contingencies
         
-
 
               
Shareholders' equity
             
Preferred stock, par value of US$0.001 each;
10,000,000 shares authorized, none issued or outstanding
             
Common stock, par value of US$0.001 each;
50,000,000 shares authorized, 33,668,923 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2005
   
18
   
33,669
 
Additional paid-in capital
         
31,014,949
 
Statutory reserves
   
21
   
169,624
 
Accumulated other comprehensive income
             
- unrealized gain on available-for-sale securities
         
751,250
 
- foreign currency translation adjustment
         
23,990
 
Accumulated deficit
         
(18,071,752
)
Total shareholders’ equity
         
13,921,730
 
               
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
         
26,593,082
 
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
 
 
CHINA WORLD TRADE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
(Expressed in United States Dollar (“US$”), except for per share data)
           
       
Year ended December 31,
 
   
Note
 
2005
 
2004
 
Operating revenues
                   
Club and business centre
             
$
894,550
 
$
551,497
 
Business traveling services
               
4,983,468
   
1,671,605
 
Business value-added services
               
1,618,413
   
40,695
 
Rental
               
221,699
   
701,284
 
Trading and others
               
121,094
   
127,663
 
                 
7,839,224
   
3,092,744
 
Operating costs and expenses
                         
Club and business centre
               
(159,742
)
 
(91,415
)
Business traveling services
               
(727,089
)
 
(112,588
)
Business value-added services
               
(2,513,523
)
 
(1,841
)
Rental
               
(98,762
)
 
(403,735
)
Trading and others
               
(119,767
)
 
(120,224
)
                 
(3,618,883
)
 
(729,803
)
Other expenses
                         
Depreciation and amortization
               
(303,797
)
 
(233,298
)
Impairment losses on intangible assets
               
-
   
(222,676
)
Impairment loss on goodwill
               
-
   
(388,118
)
Impairment of property, plant and equipment
               
(38,598
)
 
(594,343
)
Selling, general and administrative expenses
               
(9,167,728
)
 
(8,133,140
)
                 
(9,510,123
)
 
(9,571,575
)
                           
 
Loss from operations
               
(5,289,782
)
 
(7,208,634
)
Non-operating income (expense)
                         
Other income
               
42,581
   
138,994
 
Interest income
               
28,171
   
1,020
 
Interest expense
               
(136,426
)
 
(65,909
)
Gain on disposal of a subsidiary
               
85,854
   
-
 
Realized gain on disposal of available-for-sale securities
               
6,079,960
   
-
 
Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment
               
(254,740
)
 
-
 
 
Profit/(loss) before income tax and minority interests
               
555,618
   
(7,134,529
)
Income tax expense
         
4
   
(254,419
)
 
(46,553
)
 
Profit/(loss) before minority interests
               
301,199
   
(7,181,082
)
Minority interests
               
(282,975
)
 
(413,311
)
 
Net income/(loss)
             
$
18,224
 
$
(7,594,393
)
                           
Per share data:
                         
Earnings (loss) per share
                         
Basic
               
0.00
   
(0.36
)
Diluted
               
0.00
   
(0.36
)
                           
Weighted average number of shares outstanding
                         
Basic
               
31,154,526
   
21,102,405
 
Diluted
               
31,154,526
   
21,102,405
 
                           
Net income/(loss)
               
18,224
   
(7,594,393
)
Other comprehensive income (loss):
                     
-
 
Unrealized holding gain arising during the year
               
751,250
   
-
 
Foreign currency translation adjustments
               
23,990
   
-
 
                           
Comprehensive income (loss)
               
793,464
   
(7,594,393
)
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
 
 
CHINA WORLD TRADE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY
(Expressed in United States Dollar (“US$”), except per share data)
                               
       
Common stock
                     
   
 
 
 
Note
 
 
 
No. of shares
 
 
 
Amount issued
 
 
Additional paid in capital
 
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
 
 
 
Statutory reserves
 
 
 
Accumulated deficit
 
 
 
 
Total
 
                                   
Balance as of January 1, 2004
         
15,981,601
   
15,982
   
14,347,859
   
-
         
(10,325,959
)
 
4,037,882
 
Common stock issued in exchange for services in February 2004
         
244,000
   
244
   
374,956
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
375,200
 
Exercise of warrants on March 22, 2004
         
1,500,000
   
1,500
   
1,123,500
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
1,125,000
 
Option issued in exchange for services on February 27, 2004
         
-
   
-
   
311,200
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
311,200
 
Common stock issued in exchange for services on May 7, 2004
         
24,027
   
24
   
99,976
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
100,000
 
Common stock issued as consideration for acquisition of a subsidiary on May 7, 2004
         
80,000
   
80
   
239,920
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
240,000
 
Common stock issue in exchange for service on July 12, 2004
         
50,500
   
51
   
160,149
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
160,200
 
Exercise of warrants on July 20, 2004
         
2,000,000
   
2,000
   
1,148,000
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
1,150,000
 
Exercise of warrants on July 20, 2004
         
1,500,000
   
1,500
   
1,378,500
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
1,380,000
 
Common stock issued as consideration for acquisition of a subsidiary on July 30, 2004
         
4,081,238
   
4,081
   
7,459,687
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
7,463,768
 
Common stock issued as a compensation for termination of a contract
         
2,000
   
2
   
4,998
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
5,000
 
Common stock issued upon 1 st private placement
         
433,333
   
433
   
649,567
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
650,000
 
Modification of The 2003 Plan
         
-
   
-
   
645,718
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
645,718
 
Exercise of options of The 2003 Plan
         
370,857
   
371
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
371
 
Exercise of options for services
         
58,552
   
58
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
58
 
Common stock issued in exchange for placement agent services
         
375,000
   
375
   
862,125
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
862,500
 
Warrant issued in exchange for placement agent services
         
-
   
-
   
288,427
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
288,427
 
Common stock issued upon 2nd private placement
         
966,667
   
967
   
1,449,034
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
1,450,001
 
Warrant issued for waiver of sole registrants
         
-
   
-
   
277,335
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
277,335
 
Exercise of warrants on December 15, 2004
         
1,574,074
   
1,574
   
(1,574
)
 
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Exercise of warrants on December 15, 2004
         
1,648,148
   
1,648
   
(1,648
)
 
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Net loss
         
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
(7,594,393
)
 
(7,594,393
)
Transfer to statutory reserves
       
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
44,403
   
(44,403
)
 
-
 
Balance as of December 31, 2004
         
30,889,997
   
30,890
   
30,817,729
   
-
   
44,403
   
(17,964,755
)
 
12,928,267
 
Common stock issued in exchange for consultancy services on April 19, 2005
   
19(c
)
 
100,000
   
100
   
199,900
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
200,000
 
Exercise of warrants on December 2, 2005
   
19(b
)
 
2,429,448
   
2,429
   
(2,429
)
 
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Exercise of options of The 2003 Plan on December 29, 2005
   
19(a
)
 
249,478
   
250
   
(251
)
 
-
   
-
   
-
   
(1
)
Net profit
         
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
18,224
   
18,224
 
Transfer to statutory reserve
                                 
125,221
   
(125,221
)
 
-
 
Foreign currency translation adjustment
         
-
   
-
   
-
   
23,990
   
-
   
-
   
23,990
 
Unrealized gain on available-for-sale securities
         
-
   
-
   
-
   
751,250
   
-
   
-
   
751,250
 
Balance as of December 31, 2005
         
33,668,923
   
33,669
   
31,014,949
   
775,240
   
169,624
   
(18,071,752
)
 
13,921,730
 
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
 

CHINA WORLD TRADE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS CASHFLOWS
(Expressed in United States Dollar (“US$”))
               
       
Year ended
December 31,
 
Year ended December 31,
 
   
Note
 
2005
 
2004
 
Cash flows from operating activities:
             
Net income (loss)
         
18,224
   
(7,594,393
)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
     
Loss on sale of land and building
         
25,676
       
Minority interest
         
282,975
   
413,311
 
Amortization on intangible asset
         
90,000
   
360,000
 
Depreciation and amortization
         
303,797
   
233,298
 
Impairment loss on property, plant and equipment
         
38,598
   
594,343
 
Impairment loss on goodwill
         
-
   
388,118
 
Impairment loss on intangible assets
         
-
   
222,676
 
Impairment loss on current assets
         
105,799
   
-
 
(Decrease) increase in deferred income
         
(20,642
)
 
3,546
 
Provision for bad debts due from related companies
         
-
   
236,247
 
Stock, options and warrants issued for services
         
232,500
   
2,379,862
 
Cashless exercise of option
         
-
   
429
 
Staff compensation cost
         
-
   
645,718
 
Realized gain on available-for-sale securities
         
(6,079,960
)
 
-
 
Gain on disposal of a subsidiary
         
(85,854
)
 
-
 
Available for sale securities received as income
         
(1,042,043
)
 
-
 
Changes in working capital:
         
 
   
 
 
Pledged deposit
         
(412,484
)
     
Trade and other receivables
         
-
   
1,865,106
 
Accounts receivables
         
(1,913,350
)
 
-
 
Other current assets
         
(165,593
)
 
-
 
Loans receivable
         
(410,946
)
 
-
 
Due from related parties
         
109,037
   
-
 
Due from related companies
         
237,791
   
-
 
Rental and other deposits
         
(721,732
)
 
(329,535
)
Prepayments
         
(201,525
)
 
515,499
 
Inventories
         
136,112
   
(97,637
)
Hire purchase creditor
         
50,000
   
-
 
Account payables
         
703,764
   
-
 
Accrued expenses
         
258,939
   
-
 
Other current liabilities
         
33,710
   
891
 
Due to related parties
         
(58,317
)
 
-
 
Due to related companies
         
51,494
       
Income tax payable
         
205,952
   
37,400
 
Net cash provided from (used in) operating activities
         
(8,228,078
)
 
(125,121
)
Cash flows from investing activities:
                   
Acquisition of a subsidiary
         
(92,327
)
 
(2,382,036
)
Acquisition of property, plant and equipment
         
(508,153
)
 
(688,622
)
Acquisition of intangible assets
         
-
   
-
 
Disposal of a subsidiary
         
(272,477
)
 
-
 
Proceeds from disposal of intangible asset
         
-
   
-
 
Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment
         
2,457,382
   
-
 
Proceeds from disposal of short-term investment
         
24,163
   
-
 
Proceeds from disposal of available-for-sale securities
         
6,838,178
   
-
 
Proceeds from disposal of intangible asset
         
1,320,000
   
-
 
Acquisition of available-for-sale securities
         
(3,675
)
 
-
 
Purchase of investment securities
         
-
   
-
 
Loan advance to a related company
         
-
   
-
 
Net cash used in investing activities
         
9,763,091
   
(3,070,658
)
Cash flows from financing activities:
                   
Repayment of advance from a shareholder
         
(183,405
)
 
-
 
Proceeds from issuance of shares upon exercise of warrants
         
-
   
3,655,000
 
Proceeds from issuance of shares upon private placements
         
-
   
2,100,001
 
Advance from a shareholder
         
-
   
320,536
 
Proceeds from new bank loan
         
1,111,482
   
604,076
 
Repayment of amount borrowed
         
(1,052,495
)
 
(1,974,337
)
Capital contribution from minority shareholder of a subsidiary
         
-
       
Net cash provided by financing activities
         
(124,418
)
 
4,705,276
 
Foreign currency translation adjustments
         
-
   
-
 
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
         
1,410,595
   
1,509,497
 
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
         
1,824,268
   
314,771
 
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year
         
3,234,863
   
1,824,268
 
                     
Supplemental disclosure information:
                   
Interest paid
         
138,757
   
61,157
 
Income tax paid
         
52,108
   
9,153
 
                     
Non-cash transactions:
                   
Purchase of subsidiaries by:
                   
- issuance of common stock
         
-
   
7,706,383
 
- purchase consideration in arrear
         
-
   
120,000
 
Disposal of a subsidiary by:
                   
- disposal consideration in arrear
         
225,644
       
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
 
1. ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

China World Trade Corporation (“CWTC”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on January 29, 1998 as Weston International Development Corporation. On July 28, 1998, the name was changed to Txon International Development Corporation. On September 15, 2000 CWTC changed to its existing name. CWTC acts as an investment holding company.

The Company and subsidiaries are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Group”.

Details of the major direct and indirectly owned subsidiaries and their principal activities as of the date of this report are summarized below:

 
Name of company
Date of acquisition/
formation
Place of 
incorporation
Principal activities
 
Beijing World Trade Centre Club
April 1, 1999
PRC
75%
Club services
 
           
CEO Clubs China Limited
May 7, 2004
Hong Kong
51%
Licensing
 
           
China Chance Enterprises Limited
January 26, 2004
BVI
100%
Equity holding company
 
           
Creative Idea Group Limited
January 2, 2004
BVI
100%
Business consulting service
 
           
General Business Network (Holdings) Limited
January 24, 2003
Hong Kong
100%
Equity holding company and properties investment
 
           
General Business Network (Guangzhou) Company Limited
December 25, 2002
PRC
100%
Equity holding company
 
           
Guangdong Airport Tour Service Limited
August 2, 2004
PRC
75.4%
Travel ticketing agency
 
           
Guangdong Hauhao Insurance Agency Limited
January 15, 2002
PRC
31.6%
Insurance agency
 
           
Guangdong New Generation Air Tour Service Ltd.
September 30, 2004
PRC
25.6%
Travel ticketing agency
 
           
Guangdong New Generation Commercial Management Limited
August 2, 2004
PRC
51%
Travel ticketing agency and holding company
 
           
Guangdong Boundless Travel Electronics  Services  Co. Ltd.
July 29, 2004
PRC
25.6%
Room booking services and travel ticketing agency
 
           
Guangzhou Hongyan Travel Services Limited
July 17, 2004
PRC
30.6%
Travel ticketing agency
 
           
Guangzhou World Trade Centre Club
December 29, 2001
PRC
75%
Club services
 
           
Guangzhou Xinyou Foreign Enterprise Services Limited
May 18, 2004
PRC
30.6%
Garment trading
 
           
Polysend Trading Limited
March 6, 2003
Hong Kong
100%
Leather trading
 
           
Sino Platform Limited
January 4, 2004
BVI
100%
Equity holding company
 
           
Virtual Edge Limited
August 14, 2000
BVI
100%
Equity holding company
 
 
 
2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

(a) Basis of consolidation

These accompanying consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of CWTC and subsidiaries and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”). The results of subsidiaries acquired or disposed of during the year are consolidated from or up to the date of their effective dates of acquisition or disposal, respectively.
 
All significant inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
 
(b) Use of estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements requires management of the Group to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

(c) Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents of US$3,234,863 as of December 31, 2005 consist principally of cash at bank. For purposes of the consolidated statements of cash flows, the Group considers all highly liquid debt instruments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents. None of the Group’s cash is restricted as to withdrawal except pledged deposit amounting to US$ 412,484, which has been separately disclosed in current assets. .

(d) Accounts receivable

Trade accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and do not bear interest. The allowance for doubtful accounts is the Group’s best estimate of the amount of probable credit losses in the Group’s existing accounts receivable. The Group determines the allowance based on historical write-off experience of the Group. The Group reviews its allowance for doubtful accounts on a regular basis. Past due balances over 90 days and over a specified amount are reviewed individually for collectibility. All other balances are reviewed on a pooled basis by industry. Account balances are charged off against the allowance after all means of collection have been exhausted and the potential for recovery is considered remote. The Group does not have any off-balance-sheet credit exposure related to its customers.
 
(e) Property-use rights

Property-use rights are stated at cost less accumulated amortization and impairment losses. Costs of the property-use rights are amortized over the term of the relevant rights on a straight line basis. 
 

(f) Property, plant and equipment

Property, plant and equipment and leasehold improvements are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment losses, if any. Depreciation is calculated on the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. The estimated useful lives of the assets are as follows:

 
Depreciable life
Leasehold land and buildings
50 years
Leasehold improvements
2 - 3 years
Office and computer equipment
3 - 5 years
Motor vehicles
3 - 6 years
Furniture and fixtures
5 - 10 years

(g) Goodwill on consolidation

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase consideration payable in acquisitions of subsidiaries over the fair value of the net assets acquired at the time of acquisition. Goodwill on consolidation is stated at cost when it arises. As part of an ongoing review of the valuation of goodwill, management assesses the carrying value of the goodwill to determine if changes in facts and circumstances suggest that it may be impaired. If this review indicates that the goodwill is not recoverable, the carrying value of the goodwill would be reduced to its estimated fair market value.

On disposal of a subsidiary, any attributable amount of purchased goodwill is included in the calculation of the gain or loss on disposal.

(h) Impairment of long-lived assets

In accordance with FASB Statement 144, long-lived assets, such as property, plant and equipment, and purchased intangibles subject to amortization, are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its estimated future cash flows, an impairment charge is recognized by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset. Assets to be disposed of would be separately presented in the balance sheet and reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell, and are no longer depreciated. The assets and liabilities of a disposed group classified as held for sale would be presented separately in the appropriate asset and liability sections of the balance sheet.
 
Goodwill is tested annually for impairment, and is tested for impairment more frequently if events and circumstances indicate that the asset might be impaired. An impairment loss is recognized to the extent that the carrying amount exceeds the asset’s fair value. This determination is made at the reporting unit level and consists of two steps. First, the Group determines the fair value of a reporting unit and compares it to its carrying amount. Second, if the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment loss is recognized for any excess of the carrying amount of the reporting unit’s goodwill over the implied fair value of that goodwill. The implied fair value of goodwill is determined by allocating the fair value of the reporting unit in a manner similar to a purchase price allocation, in accordance with FASB Statement 141, Business Combinations. The residual fair value after this allocation is the implied fair value of the reporting unit goodwill.

(i) Deferred income

Deferred income represents unamortized non-refundable admission fees, membership fees and licensing fees received but the related services, or portion of the services, have not yet been rendered.
 

(j) Revenue recognition

The Group recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, the element has been delivered, the fee is fixed or determinable, collection of the resulting receivable is probable, and VSOE of the fair value of any undelivered element exists. A discussion about these revenue recognition criteria and their applicability to the Group’s transactions as follows:

Persuasive evidence of an arrangement: The Group uses either contract signed by both the customer and the Group or written sales receipt issued by the Group that legally bind the Group and the customer as evidence of an arrangement.

Product delivery: The Group deems delivery to have occurred when the air tickets are accepted by and title and risk of ownership has passed to the customer. Delivery of other services are recognized as services are rendered under the terms of the contract.

Fixed or determinable fee: The Group considers the fee to be fixed or determinable if the fee is not subject to refund or adjustment and the payment terms are within its normal established practices. If the fee is not fixed or determinable, the Group recognizes the revenue as amounts become due and payable.

Collection is deemed probable: The Group conducts a credit review for all significant transactions at the time of the arrangement to determine the credit-worthiness of the customer. Collection is deemed probable if the Group expects that the customer will pay amounts under the arrangement as payments become due. 

(i)  
Club and business center
 
The Group, through its Business Club, provides members a commercial and recreational service, education programs and business networking programs. The Group generally records membership revenue as deferred income on its consolidated balance sheets and recognizes it over the membership period. Revenues generated from memberships that are subject to a pro rata refund are recognized ratably over the membership period.

(ii)  
Business traveling services

Travel distribution services
 
The Group engages in the air-ticketing, hotel room booking and travel agency businesses and receives commissions from travel suppliers for air travel, hotel rooms, vacation packages and cruises booked through its toll-free call center, websites and reseller network. Commissions from travel providers are recognized upon delivery of the appropriate confirmation or air ticket to the customers. Commissions from hotel room booking are recognized upon the confirmation of a customer’s stay with the hotel. The Company is not the primary obligor of the arrangement of these services and revenue is reported net in accordance with EITF 99-19, “Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent”.
 
For informational purposes, the commission income of the Group was derived from air-ticketing services with total values as follows:

   
Year ended
 
Year ended
 
   
December 31, 2005
 
December 31, 2004
 
   
US$
 
US$
 
           
Value of air-ticket fare
   
147,995,206
   
54,890,272
 

 
Life and accident insurance agency business

The Group engages in the life and accident insurance agency business in PRC. Commission revenues from the carriers for life and accident insurance are received and recognized during the underlying policy period.
 
For informational purposes, the commission income of the Group was derived from insurance policies with total premium income as follows:

   
Year ended
 
Year ended
 
   
December 31, 2005
 
December 31, 2004
 
   
US$
 
US$
 
           
Premium income of insurance policies
   
11,892,144
   
2,489,675
 

(iii)  
Business value-added services

Revenues from various business consultancy services contracts are recognized as services are provided. There are two basic types of services contracts: (1) fixed price (or flat fee basis) services contracts and (2) services contracts which may or may not be signed in advance for similar service on a success basis (success fee basis). Fixed price services contracts are generally performed evenly over the contract period, and, accordingly, revenue is recognized on a pro-rata basis over the life of the contract. Revenues derived from other services contracts are recognized when the services are performed in accordance with Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 104, “Revenue Recognition, revised and updated.” Expenses related to all services contracts are recognized as incurred.
 
For fixed price services contracts for which fees are received in the form of marketable securities, revenue is recognized with reference to the fair value of marketable securities as of the vested date. Vested date is taken as the contract date and fair value of the marketable securities is determined by multiplying quantity of shares received by the closing market price as of contract date. Revenue is recognized on a pro-rata basis over the life of the contract.
(iv)  
Rental and others

Rental
 
The Company also leases business facilities to members of the Club. These leases are classified as operating leases and the lease revenues are recognized based on the lease term of the facilities.

Others

The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101 “Revenue Recognition of Financial Statements”, when the title and risk of loss have passed to the customer, there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement, delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, the sales price is determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured.

(v)  
Interest income

Interest income is recognized on a time apportionment basis, taking into account the principal amounts outstanding and the interest rates applicable.

(k) Advertising costs

The Group expenses advertising costs as incurred in accordance with the SOP 93-7, “Reporting for Advertising Costs”. Advertising costs are expensed as incurred and were US$312,207 for the year ended December 31, 2005 and US$ 98,848 for the year ended December 31, 2004.
 

(l)              
Income taxes

The Group accounts for income tax using SFAS No. 109 “Accounting for Income Taxes”, which requires the asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes. Under this approach, deferred income taxes are provided for the estimated future tax effects attributable to temporary differences between financial statement carrying amounts of assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases, and for the expected future tax benefits from loss carry-forwards and provisions, if any. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using the enacted tax rates expected in the years of recovery or reversal and the effect from a change in tax rates is recognized in the statement of operations in the period of enactment. A valuation allowance is provided to reduce the amount of deferred tax assets if it is considered more likely than not that some portion of, or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. For details please refer to Note 4 to these financial statements.
(m)            
Foreign currency translation

Assets and liabilities of the Group whose functional currency is the local currency are translated into U.S. dollars at exchange rates prevailing at the balance sheet date. Revenues and expenses are translated at average exchange rates for the year. The net exchange differences resulting from these translations are reported in accumulated other comprehensive income. Gains and losses resulting from foreign currency transactions are included in the consolidated statements of operations.

(n)             
Business segment reporting

SFAS No. 131 “Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information” establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments on a basis consistent with the Group’s internal organization structure as well as information about geographical areas, business segments and major customers in financial statements.
The Group operates in five principal business segments: club and business centre, business traveling services, business value-added services, rental, trading and others. There reportable segments are strategic business units that offer different services. They are managed separately because they provide distinct service that requires different knowledge and marketing strategies. The network maintenance service and Internet café segment were acquired as a unit, and the management at the time of acquisition was retained.

(o)             
Stock-based compensation

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123(R), “Share-Based Payment,” which is a revision of SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.” Generally, the approach in SFAS No. 123(R) is similar to the approach described in SFAS No. 123. However, SFAS No. 123(R) requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the income statement based on their fair values. Pro forma disclosure is no longer an alternative. The new standard will be effective for public entities (excluding small business issuers) for the fiscal year beginning after June 15, 2005. The Group adopted SFAS No. 123(R) on January 1, 2006 using the modified-prospective transition method. Had the Group adopted SFAS No. 123(R) for the year ended December 31, 2005, its diluted earnings per share would have been unchanged, and going forward, the Group expects that the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) will have a similar effect on diluted earnings per share.
 
The Company records compensation expense for stock-based employee compensation plans using the intrinsic value method in which compensation expense, if any, is measured as the excess of the market price of the stock over the exercise price of the award on the measurement date.

On December 31, 2003, the Board of Directors adopted a stock option plan (The 2003 Plan). The 2003 Plan allows the Board of Directors to grant stock options to various employees of the Company. 1,000,000 stock options were granted in accordance with the terms of the 2003 Plan on December 31, 2003 to certain officers and directors at an exercise price of US$0.673 per share. The stock options will vest and become exercisable according to the following schedule:


On December 30, 2004:                                                         25%

Each quarter thereafter:                                                         6.25% (until fully vested)
 

By an ordinary resolution passed at a directors’ meeting held on October 31, 2004, the option holders of The 2003 Plan were allowed to begin exercising 50% of the total entitlements as of November 1, 2004 (ahead of the original entitlement on December 30, 2004) and on a cashless basis. The terms and conditions of the remaining 50% of their entitlements under The 2003 Plan shall stay the same.

As the exercise price of the Company’s incentive stock options is higher than the market price of the underlying stock on the date of grant, pursuant to APB Opinion No. 25, no compensation expense has been recognized for stock options granted to employees at the date of grant.

Following modification the options granted under The 2003 Plan, the modified award (i.e. 50% of the total entitlements) was fully vested at October 31, 2004. The new measurement of stock-based compensation was required and based on the intrinsic value of the Company’s common stock at the date immediately prior to the modification (i.e. October 31, 2004). The compensation cost was recognized in the consolidated statement of operations and the same amount was credited to the Company’s additional paid-in capital.

Had compensation expense for the same stock options been determined based on their fair values at the dates of grant and been amortized over the period from the date of grant to the date that the award is vested, as consistent with the provisions of SFAS No. 123, the Company's net loss and loss per share would have been reported as follows:

   
Year ended
Year ended
 
   
December 31, 2005
December 31, 2004
 
         
Net profit (loss), as reported
 
18,224
 
(7,594,393)
 
Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under intrinsic value based on method for all awards, net of tax
 
Nil
 
645,718
 
Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based on method for all awards, net of tax
 
 
Nil
 
 
(891,425)
 
Pro forma
 
18,224
 
(7,840,100)
 
Earning (loss) per share
 
 
 
 
 
- Basic and diluted
 
 
 
 
 
As reported
 
0.00
 
(0.36)
 
Pro forma
 
0.00
 
(0.37)
 

The fair value of the options granted is estimated on the date of grant and date of modification using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted average assumptions used:

 
 
Years ended December 31,
 
 
 
2005
 
2004
 
Dividend yield
   
-
   
-
 
Expected price volatility
   
224
%
 
224
%
Risk-free interest rate
   
2.1
%
 
2.1
%
Expected life of options (in years)
   
3
   
3
 
Weighted-average fair value of options granted or modified
 
$
0.62
 
$
1.97
 

 
The weighted average fair value per option granted at the date of grant and date of modification was US$0.62 and US$1.97 respectively. For purposes of pro forma disclosure, the estimated fair value of the options is amortized on a straight line basis to expense over the options’ vesting periods, i.e., 3 years as prescribed under The 2003 Plan.

(p)             
Comprehensive income (loss)

Accumulated comprehensive income, as presented in the accompanying consolidated statement of stockholder equity consists of changes in unrealized gains and losses on foreign currency translation as well as unrealized gains or losses from available-for-sale securities. This comprehensive income is not included in the computation of income tax expense or benefit.
 
(q)             
Related party
 
Parties are considered to be related if one party has the ability, directly or indirectly, to control the other party or exercise significant influence over the party in making financial and operating decisions or vice versa, or where the Group and the party are subject to common control or common significant influence. Related parties may be individuals or other entities. All material related party transactions have been disclosed in the disclosure note 15 to the financial statements.

(r)              
Concentrations of credit risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Group to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and trade accounts receivable. The Group performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers' financial condition, but does not require collateral to support such receivables.

The Group utilizes a limited number of suppliers for certain components used in its products but has no long-term supply contracts with them.

(s)             
Fair value of financial instruments

Management considers that the carrying amounts of the Group’s cash, receivables, and payables approximate their fair value because of the short maturity of these instruments. Amounts due to related companies do not bear interest and do not have fixed payment terms. Management is therefore unable to estimate the fair value of such financial instruments.

(t)   Operating leases

Leases where substantially all the rewards and risks of ownership of assets remain with the leasing company are accounted for as operating leases. Rent payable and receivable under operating leases are recognized as expense and revenue on the straight line basis over the lease terms.

The Company leases certain premises under non-cancellable operating leases. Rental expenses under operating leases were US$690,283 and US$564,198 for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. 
 

The Company leases certain premises under non-cancellable operating leases. Rental expenses under operating leases were US$690,283 and US$564,198 for the years ended 31 December 2005 and 2004 respectively. 

(u) Earnings per share

The Company computes earnings per common share (“EPS”) in accordance with SFAS No. 128, “Earnings per Share.” Basic earnings per common share (“Basic EPS”) are calculated using the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during each period. Diluted earnings per common share (“Diluted EPS”) reflect the potential dilutive effect of additional common shares that are issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options, deferred compensation, restricted stock units, and the outstanding commitment to issue shares under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, determined by the treasury stock method.

   
As of
 
As of
 
   
December 31, 2005
 
December 31, 2004
 
           
Warrants
   
921,002
   
5,421,002
 
Options
   
-
   
1,852,500
 
     
921,002
   
7,273,502
 
 

(v) Available-for-sale securities

Available-for-sale securities received in respect of the services rendered in our business value-added segment are accounted for as a current asset for non-legend free trading shares, at fair value as of the vested date. Vested date refers to the contract date which the Company is entitled to the receipt of the shares in respect of its services rendered pursuant to the consultancy service engagement contract. Fair value is taken as the number of shares multiplied by the closing market price of the marketable securities received. For those restricted shares, it is accounted for as a non-current asset upon receipt of securities. For those available-for-sale securities still on hand as of year-end or quarter-end date, amounts are stated at fair value as of the reporting date. They will be “marked to market” by multiplying the number of shares on hand by the closing market price as of the reporting date. The change in unrealized gain or loss will be directly adjusted to accumulated other comprehensive income - unrealized gain on available-for-sale securities.

Please refer to footnote 2(l)(iii) for method of revenue recognition in respect of the consultancy income relating to the receipt of available-for-sale securities. Realized gain on sale of available-for-sale securities is calculated by deducting fair value of shares disposed (number of shares disposed multiplied by market price as of vested date) from net proceeds on disposal (which selling expenses including brokerage commission and levies have been deducted).
 
(w) Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS Statement No.151, “Inventory Costs - an amendment of ARB No. 43, Chapter 4” ("SFAS 151"), which clarifies the accounting for abnormal amounts of idle facility expense, freight, handling costs, and wasted material (spoilage). Under this Statement, such items will be recognized as current-period charges. In addition, the Statement requires that allocation of fixed production overheads to the costs of conversion be based on the normal capacity of the production facilities. This Statement will be effective for the Group for inventory costs incurred on or after January 1, 2006. The Group is currently evaluating the impact of SFAS 151 on its financial statements.

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS Statement No. 153, “Exchanges of Non-monetary Assets - an amendment of APB Opinion No. 29” ("SFAS 153"), which eliminates an exception in APB 29 for non-monetary exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a general exception for exchanges of non-monetary assets that do not have commercial substance. This Statement will be effective for the Group for non-monetary asset exchanges occurring on or after January 1, 2006. The Group is currently evaluating the impact of SFAS 153 on its financial statements.

In May 2005, the FASB issued SFAS No. 154, "Accounting Changes and Error Corrections - a replacement of APB Opinion No. 20 and FASB Statement No. 3" ("SFAS 154"). SFAS 154 changes the requirements for the accounting for and reporting of a change in accounting principle. These requirements apply to all voluntary changes and changes required by an accounting pronouncement in the unusual instance that the pronouncement does not include specific transition provisions. SFAS 154 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. As such, the Group is required to adopt these provisions at the beginning of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. The Group is currently evaluating the impact of SFAS 154 on its financial statements.

In February 2006, the FASB issued SFAS Statement No. 155, “Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments—an amendment of FASB Statements No. 133 and 140” ("SFAS 155"). This Statement amends FASB Statements No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, and No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities. This Statement resolves issues addressed in Statement 133 Implementation Issue No. D1, “Application of Statement 133 to Beneficial Interests in Securitized Financial Assets.” This Statement permits fair value re-measurement for any hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation, clarifies which interest-only strips and principal-only strips are not subject to the requirements of Statement 133, establishes a requirement to evaluate interests in securitized financial assets to identify interests that are freestanding derivatives or that are hybrid financial instruments that contain an embedded derivative requiring bifurcation, clarifies that concentrations of credit risk in the form of subordination are not embedded derivatives and amends Statement 140 to eliminate the prohibition on a qualifying special-purpose entity from holding a derivative financial instrument that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative financial instrument. SFAS 155 is effective for all financial instruments acquired or issued for the Group for fiscal year begins after September 15, 2006. The Group is currently evaluating the impact of SFAS 155 on its financial statements.
 
 
3.      ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION
 
(a)
Pursuant to the Sale & Purchase Agreement dated on December 22, 2005, the Company, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, GD WTC acquired 60% of equity interest of Blue Express Limited for a cash consideration of $101,886, equivalent to RMB825,000. The results of operations have been included in the consolidated financial statements since the effective date of the acquisition. The aggregate purchase price was $101,886 and was fully paid in cash.

The following table summarizes the estimated fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition. [The Company is in the process of obtaining third-party valuations of certain intangible assets; thus the allocation of the purchase price is subject to refinement.]

   
US$
 
Assets acquired
       
Property, plant and equipment
   
194,095
 
Cash and cash equivalents
   
9,559
 
Rental and other deposits
   
9,386
 
Other receivables and prepayments
   
17,581
 
Inventory
   
576
 
Intangible assets
   
68,237
 
Goodwill
   
49,278
 
         
Total assets acquired
   
348,712
 
         
Liabilities assumed
       
Other payables and accrued liabilities
   
246,826
 
         
Total liabilities assumed
   
246,826
 
         
Net assets acquired
   
101,886
 

The acquired intangible asset was the cost of Internet license fee to China Railcom Corporation Limited for the access to Internet connection in operating the Internet cafés in the PRC and was being amortized over the licensing period of 5 years.

The excess of cost over fair value of assets acquired of $49,278 was recorded as Goodwill in the consolidated financial statements. The goodwill is expected to be fully deductible for tax purposes.
 
(b)
Pursuant to the Sale & Purchase Agreement dated on December 22, 2005, the Company, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Sino Platform Limited (“SPL”) disposed 80% of equity interest of WTC Link International Limited for a cash consideration or a Pink sheet stock with fair value not less than $225,641, equivalent to HK$1,760,000. The results of operations before the effective date of the disposal and gain on disposal on SPL have been included in the consolidated financial statements. The aggregate purchase price $225,641 was outstanding as of December 31, 2005 and the date of this financial statements.
 

The following table summarizes the estimated fair value of the assets disposed and liabilities discharged at the date of acquisition.

   
US$
 
Assets sold
       
Property, plant and equipment
   
201,545
 
Cash and cash equivalents
   
272,477
 
Rental and other deposits
   
9,386
 
Other receivables and prepayments
   
21,387
 
Inventory
   
953
 
Intangible assets
   
68,121
 
Goodwill
   
49,278
 
         
Total assets sold
   
623,147
 
         
Liabilities discharged
       
Other payables and accrued liabilities
   
386,351
 
         
Net assets sold
   
236,796
 

The excess of disposal consideration over fair value of net assets sold after adjustments for losses of preceding year, which were not fully charged to minority interest, amounting to $85,854 was recorded as gain on disposal of a subsidiary in the consolidated financial statements.

(c) Framework Guangdong New Generation Management Limited entered into a Cooperation Agreement, dated July 29, 2005, as subsequently amended, providing for the acquisition of interests in each of Guangdong Hao Shi Guang Travel Agency and Guangdong Kaixuan Transportation Co., Ltd, both owned by Guangdong Rising Hotel Group Limited. The primary business of Kaixuan Transportation Co., Ltd. is to provides coach-hire services in Guangzhou and the primary business of Hai Shi Guang Agency is to provide packaged tour services mainly for corporate clients.
 
Pursuant to such agreement, we have agreed to purchase 22.68% of the share capital of the Travel Agency. We have further agreed to increase our purchase of the share capital of the Travel Agency until we own 70% of the outstanding share capital. The purchase price will be calculated based on the net assets of the Travel Agency as of June 30, 2005, as determined by an independent certified public accountant in the Peoples’ Republic of China.
 
 We have additionally agreed to purchase 70% of the Transportation Company during the period August 1, 2005 through July 31, 2006. The purchase price is to be calculated based on its net assets as of June 30, 2005, as determined by an independent certified public accountant in the Peoples’ Republic of China. We paid an initial deposit of approximately US$60,000 upon execution of the agreement and are required to pay an additional US$69,000 by January 27, 2006, with both amounts being deducted from the final purchase price
 
Upon payment of the US$60,000 in June, we were transferred full operating authority for the Transportation Company . If the closing of the full 70% is not consummated by July 31, 2006, due to reasons outside of our control, we are not entitled to the return of any amounts previously paid., However, the net profit of the Transportation Company earned during such one year period.will be received and accounted for as our revenue, irrespective of the purchase of 70% of its share capital by us. Our arrangement operates as a subcontracting agreement in which we are entitled to the net profit during the subcontracting period (i.e. period during which we have the full operating authority) as a fee payment for the non-refundable deposit totaling $129,000. Upon consummation of the full 70% acquisition by July 31, 2006, then, we become a shareholder owning 70% interest.

4. INCOME TAXES

The Group are subject to income taxes on an entity basis on income arising in or derived from the tax jurisdiction in which it is domiciled and operated.

The Hong Kong subsidiaries incurred losses for taxation purposes for the year and thus Hong Kong Profits Tax has not been provided.

 
Several PRC subsidiaries are subject to PRC Enterprise Income Taxes (“EIT”) on an entity basis on income arising in or derived from the PRC. Income tax expense comprises of the following:

   
 
Year ended December 31,
 
   
2005
 
2004
 
           
Current tax
   
254,419
   
46,553
 
Deferred tax
   
-
   
-
 
     
254,419
   
46,553
 


A reconciliation of the income tax expense to the amount computed by applying the current tax rate to the income before income taxes in the consolidated statements of income is as follows:

     
 
Year ended December 31,
 
     
2005
   
2004
 
   
 %
 
 %
 
               
Statutory rate
       
33.0
       
33.0
 
Non-deductible expenses
       
211.5
       
(9.9
)
Tax exempt income
       
(18.6
)
     
-
 
Tax effect of net operating losses
       
4,123.8
       
(23.6
)
Unrecognised temporary differences
       
831.4
       
0.2
 
Subsidiary not subject to tax
       
(5,022.6
)
     
(1.3
)
Tax rate differential between subsidiaries
       
569.6
       
(1.3
)
Over provision in prior years related to a newly-acquired subsidiary
       
-
       
2.0
 
Others
       
668.0
       
0.2
 
         
1,396.1
       
(0.7
)
 

Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. Significant components of the Group’s deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows:

   
As of
December 31, 2005
 
As of
December 31, 2004
 
         
Net operating loss
   
8,500,133
   
9,055,752
 
Depreciation
   
101,462
   
101,462
 
Deferred expenditure
   
2,952,336
   
3,745,025
 
     
11,553,931
   
12,902,239
 
Valuation allowance  
   
(11,553,931
)
 
(12,902,239
)
Total deferred tax assets
   
-
   
-
 

 
In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible.

5.  TRADE RECEIVABLES, NET

   
As of
December 31,
2005
 
   
US$
 
       
Trade receivables, net
   
3,377,343
 

Provision of bad and doubtful debts amounting to US$3,625 has been made in these consolidated financial statements. The management considers that the accounts receivable are from reputable customers and expects to collect their outstanding balances in full.

6. RENTAL AND OTHER DEPOSITS

Included in rental and other deposits are deposits paid to Guangzhou Goldlion City Properties Co., Ltd. of US$214,392 as of December 31, 2005. For relationship with the Group, please refer to note 15 (a) to these financial statements.

7. AMOUNT DUE FROM/TO RELATED PARTIES

(a) Due from related parties
 
 
 
As of
December 31,
2005
 
 
 
US$
 
 
 
 
 
Huang Zehua
 
 
245,761
 
Chen Dexiong
 
 
368,422
 
         
Classified as current assets
 
 
614,183
 

(b) Due from related companies
 
As of
December 31,
2005
 
 
 
US$
 
 
 
 
 
WTC Link International Limited
   
112,715
 
Chinamax International Limited
   
52
 
Guangzhou Sanranxin Travel Ltd
   
432
 
         
Classified as current assets
   
113,199
 
The amounts due from related parties and related companies as of December 31, 2005 represented unsecured advances which were interest-free and repayable on demand. During the fourth quarter of 2005, the Company determined that receivables in the amount of US$18,206 were uncollectible and provision for doubtful debts has been made accordingly.
       
 
 
(c)  
Due to related parties

 
 
As of
December 31,
2005
 
 
 
US$
 
 
 
 
 
Ms. Suo Hong Xia
 
 
26,552
 
Mr. Ringo Leung
 
 
1,094
 
 
 
 
 
 
Classified as current liabilities
 
 
27,646
 
 
(d)  
Due to related companies

 
 
As of
December 31,
2005
 
 
 
US$
 
 
 
 
 
Guangzhou Goldlion City Properties Co., Ltd.
 
 
2,388
 
Beijing Wanlong Economic Consultancy Corporation Ltd.
 
 
9,262
 
Guangzhou City International Exhibition Co.
 
 
18,525
 
Guangdong Huahao Industries Group Limited
 
 
1,179
 
Guangdong WTC Link Information Service Co. Ltd.
 
 
46,224
 
 
 
 
 
 
Classified as current liabilities
 
 
77,578
 

The amounts due to related parties as of December 31, 2005 represented unsecured advances which were interest-free and repayable on demand.

The amount due from related parties relates to general advances to the directors net of non-cash offsetting balances amounting to US$288,307. The amount due from related companies relates to the over paid reimbursement of traveling expenses. The amount due to directors relates to general advances to the Group. The amount due to related companies relates to rental and management fees and advisory fees.
 
8.  SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
The balance represents equity securities classified as “available-for-sale”. As at the balance sheet date, the “available-for-sale” securities are stated at the fair value and correspondingly an unrealized gain of US$751,250 is carried on the balance sheet as accumulated other comprehensive income.

9.  PROPERTY USE RIGHTS

Pursuant to agreements entered into between a subsidiary of the Company, Guangdong New Generation Commercial Management Limited (“GNGMC”), and Guangdong Hauhao Industries Group Co. Limited and Chen Zeliang dated December 28, 2004, GNGMC acquired the property use rights of their office premises located in Guangzhou for a 41-year period and 42-year period commencing from the date of agreements to October 30, 2045 and March 30, 2046 respectively. The total consideration of these transactions were US$1,611,648 The property use rights acquired have been capitalized and are being amortized on a straight-line basis over their lease terms.
 

10.  GOODWILL

   
As of
December 31,
2005
 
   
US$
 
       
Carrying value, beginning and end of of year
   
11,279,314
 

During the year management employed a PRC certified public accountant to prepare a five years profit forecast on GNGCM and resulted with a positive balance. Hence no provision for impairment loss on the carrying value of the goodwill is necessary.

11. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Property, plant and equipment consist of the following:

   
As of
December 31,
 
   
2005
 
   
US$
 
       
Leasehold land and buildings
   
520,061
 
Furniture and fixtures
   
25,821
 
Office and computer equipment
   
651,796
 
Leasehold improvements
   
184,228
 
Motor vehicles
   
314,140
 
     
1,696,046
 
Less: Accumulated depreciation and impairment loss
   
671,368
 
         
Net book value
   
1,024,678
 
 
Total depreciation for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 was US$265,062 and US$233,298, respectively.

In view of the operating loss experienced by the club operations of the Group, management considers that impairment losses of US$38,598 (2004: US$ 594,343) should be recognized on the property, plant and equipment carried on the balance sheet. These losses have been recognized as expenses and included in the consolidated statement of operations.


12. LOAN RECEIVABLE

The loans receivable are those loans to non-related companies which are interest bearing and having a fixed repayment schedule. Of total amount US$410,946 outstanding as of December 31, 2005, US$308,745 have been received in accordance with the loan agreement in February 2006.


13.  SHORT-TERM BANK LOAN

Guangdong Hauhao Industries Holdings Limited, Guangdong Hauhao Insurance Agency Limited, Chen Zeliang and a third party, Guangzhou Qidu Guarantee Service Company Limited provided corporate and personal guarantee to the bank against the bank loans of US$1,234,979 granted to GNGCM.

A pledged deposit of US$412,484 was used to secure the bank loans of US$1,111,482 granted to Guangdong Airport Tour Service Limited. In additions, GNGCM, Chen Zeliang and Suo Hong Xia provided corporate and personal guarantee to the bank against the bank loans.

Please refer to note 15(a) to these financial statements for details of relationship of these guarantors with the Group.
 
 
14.  RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

(a)  Names and relationship of related parties

 
   
Beijing Wanlong Economic Consultancy Corporation Ltd.
PRC partner of a subsidiary
   
Bernard Chan
An officer and a shareholder of the Company
   
Chan Chi Ming
A director and a shareholder of the Company
   
Chen De Xiong
A shareholder and director of a subsidiary
   
Chen Zeliang
A shareholder and director of the Company
   
Chinamax International Ltd.
An ex-shareholder of a former subsidiary
   
Cui Wencheng
A shareholder of the Company
   
Goldlion Holding Ltd.
A company controlled by close family members of a director
   
Guangdong Huahao Industries Group Co. Ltd.
A shareholder of a subsidiary
   
Guangzhou City International Exhibition Co.
PRC partner of a subsidiary
   
Guangzhou Cyber Strategy Limited
A company in which a director of the Company has beneficial interest
   
Guangzhou Goldlion City Properties Co., Ltd.
A company controlled by close family members of a director
   
Guangzhou Goldlion Commercial Co., Ltd.
A company controlled by close family members of a director
   
Guangzhou Goldlion Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.
A company controlled by close family members of a director
   
Guangzhou Sanranxin Travel Ltd
A company in which a director of the Company has beneficial interest
   
Ho Chi Kin
An independent director of the Company
   
Huang Ze Hua
A shareholder and director of a subsidiary
   
John Hui
A director, shareholder and officer of the Company
   
Li Jingping
A ex-director of a subsidiary
   
Luo Chao Ming
A director of the Company
   
Simon Guo
A director of a subsidiary
   
Suo Hong Xia
A shareholder and director of a subsidiary
   
Top Link Ventures Ltd.
A company in which a director of the Company has beneficial interest
   
Union East Consultants Ltd.
A company in which a former director of the Company has beneficial interest
   
William Tsang
A director, shareholder and officer of the Company
   
Xelex Inc.
A company in which an officer and a shareholder of the Company is a director
   
Yang Xin
A shareholder of the Company
   
Zhao Lin
A shareholder of the Company

 
(b) Summary of related party transactions

   
 
 
Notes
 
Year ended
December 31, 2005
 
Year ended
December 31, 2004
 
       
US$
 
US$
 
Disposed property, plant and equipment to
             
Guangzhou Goldlion Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.
   
(i
)
 
2,457,382
   
-
 
                     
Disposed rental income rights to
                   
William Tsang
   
(ii
)
 
1,320,000
   
-
 
                     
Assets purchased from
                   
Huahao Industries Group Co., Ltd.
         
-
   
1,576,639
 
Suo Hong Xia
         
-
   
235,590
 
Chen Zeliang
         
-
   
125,285
 
                     
                   
Guangzhou Cyber Strategy Limited
   
(iii
)
 
12,031
   
236,247
 
                     
Consultancy fee expenses to
                   
Beijing Wanlong Economic Consultancy Corporation Ltd.
   
(iv
)
 
18,323
   
18,122
 
Bernard Chan
         
-
   
2,564
 
Guangzhou City International Exhibition Co.
   
(v
)
 
18,323
   
18,122
 
Guangzhou Cyber Strategy Limited
   
(iii
)
 
-
   
1,938
 
Ho Chi Kin
         
-
   
3,000
 
John Hui
         
-
   
57,692
 
Luo Chao Ming
         
-
   
17,397
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
Notes 
   
Year ended
December 31, 2005
   
Year ended
December 31, 2004
 
 
         $
US
 
$
US
 
Ringo Leung
         
-
   
5,128
 
Top Link Ventures Limited
         
-
   
61,538
 
William Tsang
         
-
   
57,692
 
Xelex Inc.
         
-
   
56,410
 
                     
Director fee to
                   
Ho Chi Kin
   
(vi
)
 
6,000
   
-
 
William Tsang
   
(ii
)
 
162,500
   
-
 
Chan Chi Ming
   
(vii
)
 
92.197
   
-
 
John Hui
   
(viii
)
 
150,000
   
-
 
Luo Chao Ming
   
(ix
)
 
19,142
   
-
 
Bernard Chan
   
(x
)
 
88,650
   
-
 
Chen Zeliang
   
(xi
)
 
29,445
   
-
 
Huang Zehua
   
(xii
)
 
3,638
   
-
 
Suo Hongxia
   
(xiii
)
 
1,835
   
-
 
Chen Dexiong
   
(xiv
)
 
5,202
   
-
 
                     
Rent and related expenses to
                   
Guangzhou Goldlion City Properties Co., Ltd.
   
(xv
)
 
256,893
   
455,744
 
Hauhao Industries Group Co. Ltd.
         
-
   
46,103
 
Guangzhou Goldlion Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.
   
(i
)
 
139,446
   
-
 
                     
Membership fee income from
                   
Union East Consultants Limited
         
-
   
16,008
 
                     
Personal guarantee granted from
                   
Mr. William Tsang
         
19,231
   
19,231
 
                     
Traveling expenses to
                   
Guangzhou Sanranxin Travel Ltd.
   
(xvi
)
 
6,125
   
4,139
 
                     
Other expenses to
                   
Goldlion Holdings Ltd.
   
(xvii
)
 
4,643
   
-
 
                     
Other income from
                   
Guangzhou Goldlion City Properties Co., Ltd.
   
(xv
)
 
3,854
   
-
 

Notes:
(i)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Guangzhou Goldlion Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. is US$Nil.
(ii)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due to Mr. William Tsang is US$137,131.
(iii)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Guangzhou Cyber Strategy Limited is US$Nil.
(iv)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due to Beijing Wanlong Economic Consultancy Corporation Ltd. is US$9,262.
(v)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due to Guangzhou City International Exhibition Co. is US$18,525.
(vi)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Mr. Ho Chi Kin is US$Nil.
(vii)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Mr. Chan Chi Ming is US$Nil.
(viii)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Mr. John Hui is US$Nil.
(ix)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Mr. Luo Chao Ming is US$Nil.
(x)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Mr. Bernard Chan is US$Nil.
(xi)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Mr. Chen Zeliang is US$Nil.
(xii)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from Ms. Huang Zehua is US$245,761.
(xiii)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due to Ms. Suo Hongxia is US$26,552.
(xiv)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from Mr. Chen Dexiong is US$368,422.
(xv)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due to Guangzhou Goldlion City Properties Co., Ltd. is US$2,388.
(xvi)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from Guangzhou Sanranxin Travel Ltd. is US$432.
(xvii)  
As of December 31, 2005, the amount due from/to Goldlion Holdings Ltd. is US$Nil.


15.  AMOUNT DUE TO A SHAREHOLDER

The amount due to Mr. William Tsang represented unsecured advances which were interest-free and repayable on demand.
 
16.  OPERATING LEASE COMMITMENT

(a)  Operating lease payables

As of December 31, 2005, the Group has total outstanding commitments not provided for under non-cancelable operating leases, which are payable as follows:
 
 
Year
 
As of
December 31, 2005
 
As of
December 31, 2004
 
   
US$
 
US$
 
           
   
706,723
   
690,087
 
2007
   
472,593
   
451,525
 
2008
   
194,416
   
157,572
 
2009
   
32,391
   
31,688
 
     
1,406,123
   
1,330,872
 

In addition, the Group has committed to pay contingent rent at 2% to 10% on the monthly turnover of a subsidiary when the subsidiary's monthly turnover exceeds RMB500,000 (US$60,408) during the lease period ending in July 2007.

The Group has also committed to pay contingent rental at the higher of the agreed rent and the following portion of the membership fee income of a subsidiary:

·  
15% on the membership fee income of the subsidiary for the period from February 1, 2004 to January 31, 2006
·  
7.5% on the membership fee income of the subsidiary for the period of February 1, 2006 to January 31, 2009

(b)  Operating lease receivables

The total outstanding commitments under non-cancelable operating leases, which are receivable as follows:

   
As of
December 31, 2005
 
As of
December 31, 2004
 
   
US$
 
US$
 
           
2006
   
109,425
   
145,464
 
2007
   
12,226
   
25,731
 
     
121,651
   
171,195
 

As of December 31, 2005, property, plant and equipment held for use under operating leases include gross amounts of US$410,056 and accumulated depreciation. Depreciation of property, plant and equipment in respect of assets held for use under operating leases are US$7,899 and US$37,804 for the year ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 respectively.
 
 
17.  RETIREMENT PLAN

The Group operates a Mandatory Provident Fund (“MPF”) plan for its Hong Kong employees. The pension expenses charged to the consolidated statement of operations amounted to US$10,627 and US$6,150 for the year ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 respectively.

As stipulated by the PRC regulations, all retired employees of the Group who are residents of the PRC are entitled to an annual pension equal to their basic annual salary upon retirement. The Group contributed to a state-sponsored retirement plan at a certain percentage of the gross salary of its employees and has no further obligations for the actual pension payments or post-retirement benefits beyond the annual contributions. The state-sponsored retirement plan is responsible for the entire pension obligations payable to all employees. The pension expense for the year ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 was US$171,837 and US$58,591 respectively.

18.  COMMON STOCK

(a)       On December 29, 2005, 452,500 options under The 2003 Plan were exercised. The option holders were taken the cashless exercise of 249,478 shares, a total of 249,478 common stock of the Company were issued accordingly. Details of the 2003 Plan are disclosed in Note 20 to these financial statements.

(b)       On December 2, 2005, Mr. William Tsang exercised warrant on a cashless basis for 4,500,000 shares at a price of US$0.75 per share to acquire 2,429,448 shares of the common stock of the Company. As a result the exercise of these warrants, a total of 2,429,448 shares of common stock of the Company were issued accordingly.

(c)       On April 19, 2005, the Company issued 100,000 shares to Greentree Financial Group Inc. for consulting services provided.


19. OPTIONS PLAN

(a) (i)   On December 31, 2003, the Company adopted The 2003 Plan which was approved by the shareholders on the same date. The 2003 Plan allows the Board of Directors, or a committee thereof at the Board’s discretion, to provide for a total 1,000,000 stock options to officers, directors and key employees of the Company. All the stock options provided, were issued in accordance with the terms of The 2003 Plan on the same day to certain officers, directors and key employees of the Company at an exercise price of US$0.673 per share and are exercisable during the period from April 30, 2004 to December 30, 2006.

(ii)  On February 20, 2004, the Company cancelled 65,000 options and 30,000 options for the reason of resignation and job reposting respectively.

(b) On February 27, 2004, the Company entered into an agreement with Xelex Inc. for consulting services provided. Apart from the consultancy fee expenses, an option to acquire 80,000 shares at an exercise price of US$1 per share was issued to Xelex Inc.. The stock option was fully vested and became exercisable on September 1, 2004. On November 9, 2004, the option was fully exercised on a cashless basis. A total of 58,552 common stocks of the Company were issued

The fair value of this option, which is estimated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, was US$3.89. The additional expense was recognized in the preceding year consolidated statement of operations and the same amount was credited to the Company’s additional paid-in capital. The following weighted-average assumptions have been adopted in applying the Black-Scholes option pricing model:

       
Expected dividend yield 
   
None
 
Risk-free interest rate
   
[2.1%
]
Expected volatility
   
[367%
]
Contractual life
   
[2 years
]

 
(c)    The stock options activities and related information are summarized as follows:   

   
Year ended December 31, 2005
 
 Year ended December 31, 2004
 
   
Number of Options
 
Weighted average exercise price
 
 
Number of Options
 
Weighted average exercise price
 
                   
       
US$
     
US$
 
                   
Outstanding, beginning of year
   
1,852,500
   
2.432
       
1,000,000
   
0.673
 
Granted
   
-
   
-
       
80,000
   
1.000
 
Granted
   
-
   
-
       
1,400,000
   
2.500
 
Exercised
                             
- The 2003 Plan (note 19(a))
   
(452,500
)
 
0.673
       
(452,500
)
 
0.673
 
- Xelex Inc.
   
-
   
-
       
(80,000
)
 
1.000
 
Cancelled
   
-
   
-
       
(95,000
)
 
0.673
 
Outstanding, end of year
   
1,400,000
   
3.0
       
1,852,500
   
2.432
 
Exercise price is less than market price on date of grant
   
Nil
   
Nil
       
1,480,000
   
2.892
 
Exercisable, end of year
   
1,400,000
   
3.0
       
1,400,000
   
3.000
 

 
   
As of December 31, 2005
 
       
Weighted average remaining contractual life
   
3.267 years
 
Range of exercise price
       
US$3.0
   
1,400,000
 


20. PRIVATE PLACEMENTS OF COMMON STOCK AND WARRANTS TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK 

(a)     On August 26, 2004, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Bridges & PIPES, LLC, TCMP3 Partners, Connell Capital Partners, LP and Stealth Capital, LLC (the “Purchasers”), providing for the issuance by the Company to the Purchasers, of the (i) number of shares of Common Stock, and (ii) Series A Warrants, subject to an option in favor of the Purchasers to purchase additional shares of common stock and receive additional warrants.

On August 26, 2004 and December 3, 2004 under the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Purchasers acquired in the aggregate 433,333 and 966,667 shares of common stock respectively, at a price of US$1.5 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of US$2,100,000. Upon purchase, the Purchasers were also issued 700,001 five-year Series A Warrants to purchase that number of warrant shares at an exercise price equal to US$2.5 per share, without any additional consideration. In addition, the Company granted each Purchaser an option (the "Option") to purchase that number of shares of common stock equal to 1,400,001 shares (the "Firm Shares"). Upon exercise of the Option at a purchase price of US$3 per share of common stock, the Purchaser would also receive, without additional consideration, five-year Series B Warrants to purchase 50% of the Firm Shares at an exercise price equal to US$4 per share.
 
         The fair values of attached Series A Warrants, Options and Series B Warrants were recorded in the Company’s additional paid-in capital.

In addition, the Company has issued 112,667 Placement Agent's Warrants to Duncan Capital, LLC, who acted as Placement Agent to the Company in connection with the offering. Such warrants are five-year non-cashless exercise, provisioned warrants to purchase shares of common stock at US$2.5 per share. The costs associated with these transactions are also accounted for based on the fair value of these warrants at the date of issue.

On August 26, 2004, the Company also entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with the investors signatories thereto, which provides that on or prior to 45 days after the Escrow Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities (defined as the Firm Shares, Option Shares, shares issuable upon exercise of the Agent's Warrants and shares issuable upon exercise of the Series A Warrants and the Series B Warrants) for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act. In addition, the Registration Rights Agreement also contains certain piggy-back registration rights in favor of the holders of Registrable Securities. All fees and expenses incident to the performance of or compliance with the Registration Rights Agreement are to be borne by the Company.
 

(b)       On November 22, 2004, the Company entered into a Standby Equity Distribution Agreement (a "SEDA") and a Registration Rights Agreement, with US-based investment fund, Cornell Capital Partners, LP ("Cornell Capital") for US$30,000,000. Under the SEDA, Cornell has committed to provide up to US$30,000,000 of funding to the Company over a 24-month period, to be drawn down at the Company's discretion by the purchase of the Company's common stock. The purchase price of the shares purchased under the SEDA with respect to any advance will equal 99% of, or a 1% discount to, the lowest closing bid price of the common stock during the five consecutive trading day period immediately following the notice date. The amount of each advance is subject to a maximum advance amount of $1,500,000, except for the first advance, which may be in the amount of $3,000,000. Cornell Capital intends to sell any shares purchased under the SEDA at the then prevailing market price. Duncan Capital, LLC has been engaged by the Company to act as Placement Agent with respect to the SEDA.

(c)       
In connection with the SEDA, the Company has entered into a Letter Agreement, dated as of November 19, 2004 (the "Letter Agreement"), pursuant to which it agreed to (a) not make any draw-downs under the SEDA for a period of thirty days from the date of effectiveness of the soon-to-be-filed registration statement, and (b) issue to Bridges & PIPES, LLC and TCMP3 Partners, the two Purchasers at the first closing referred to above, 83,334 Series A Warrants and 25,000 Series A Warrants, respectively, in order to induce such Purchasers to waive their rights to be the sole registrants on the registration statement. The costs associated with these compensations are also accounted for based on the fair value of these warrants at the date of issue.

Using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions:


Risk-free interest rate                                       3.61%
Expected volatility                                            211%
Contractual life                                               5 years

The fair value of these warrants was estimated as US$2.56 for the year ended December 31, 2004. The additional expenses for placement services provided and compensation of were recognized in the preceding year consolidated statement of operations and the same amounts were credited to the Company’s additional paid-in capital. No additional expenses was recognized during the year because of no further issue of warrants for services.

The warrant activities and related information are summarized as follows:

   
Year ended December 31, 2005
 
Year ended December 31, 2004
 
   
Number of Warrants
 
Weighted average exercise price
 
Number of Warrants
 
Weighted average exercise price
 
       
US$
     
US$
 
                   
Outstanding, beginning of year
   
5,421,002
   
1.047
   
14,000,000
   
0.749
 
Granted
   
-
   
-
   
921,002
   
2.500
 
Exercised (note 19 (b))
   
(4,500,000
)
 
0.749
   
(9,500,000
)
 
(0.748
)
Outstanding, end of year
   
921,002
   
2.500
   
5,421,002
   
1.047
 
                           
Exercise price is less than market price on date of grant
   
Nil
   
Nil
   
4,500,000
   
0.750
 
Exercise price exceeds market price on date of grant
   
921,002
   
2.500
   
921,002
   
2.500
 
Exercisable, end of year
   
921,002
   
2.500
   
5,421,002
   
1.047
 


   
As of December 31, 2005
 
       
Weighted average remaining contractual life
   
0.59 year
 
Range of exercise price
       
US$2.500
   
921,002
 

(d)  
The Group had accounted for liquidated damage expense of US$208,500 in connection with the failure to have its registration statement become effective as required under the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement in which US$650,000 was raised in August 2004 and US$1,400,000 was raised in December 2004. Under section 2© of the Registration Rights Agreement, in part, that each investor is entitled to be paid an amount in cash until a registration statement is declared effective and/ or the Registrable Securities may be sold pursuant to Rule 144(k) (which requires a two years holding period. If a registration statement is not declared effective on or prior to one hundred twenty days (120) days of closing, and such amount is equal to one percent (1%) of the aggregate purchase price paid by the Investors. We quantified the amount with reference to the date when the 120 days period expires and accrue the liquidated damage expense on a time apportionment basis in respect of both amounts raised in August and December 2004 amounting to US$650,000 and US$1,400,000 respectively. Of total amount of US$208,500 provided, US$145,000 had been paid in March 2006.
 
21. STATUTORY RESERVES

Statutory reserves of the Company’s PRC subsidiaries include the statutory common reserve fund and the statutory common welfare fund. Pursuant to regulations in the PRC, the subsidiaries set aside 10% of their profits after tax for the statutory common reserve fund (except when the fund has reached 50% of the Company’s registered capital) and 5% of their profits after tax for the statutory common welfare fund. The statutory common reserve fund can be used for the following purposes:

-  
to make good losses in previous years; or

-  
to convert into capital, provided such conversion is approved by a resolution at a owners’ general meeting and the balance of the statutory common reserve fund does not fall below 25% of the registered capital.

The statutory common welfare fund, which is to be used for the welfare of the staff and workers of the subsidiaries, is of a capital nature.
 
22. SEGMENTAL REPORTING
 
The Group has four reportable segments; club and business centre, business traveling services, business value-added services and rental and others with four separate businesses lines in access services and product sales.
 
The following table presents information about the Company's business segments for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004:
 
23. BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION
 
 
Year ended
December 31,
 
Year ended
December 31,
 
 
 
2005
 
2004
 
 
 
US$
 
US$
 
Operating revenues
 
 
 
 
 
Club and business centre
   
894,550
   
551,497
 
Business traveling services
   
4,983,468
   
1,671,605
 
Business value-added services
   
1,618,414
   
40,695
 
Rental
   
221,699
   
701,284
 
Trading and others
   
121,093
   
127,663
 
 
   
   
 
 
   
7,839,224
   
3,092,744
 
 

 
 
US$
 
US$
 
Profit (Loss) from operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Club and business centre
 
 
(403,250
)
 
(1,705,288
)
Business traveling services
 
 
976,896
 
 
904,951
 
Business value-added services
 
 
(3,125,705
)
 
(113,569-
 
Rental
 
 
(336,406
)
 
(347,069
)
Trading and others
 
 
(67,247
)
 
(54,096
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(2,955,712
)
 
(1,315,071
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Corporate expenses
 
 
(2,334,070
)
 
(5,893,563
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Consolidated operating loss
 
 
(5,289,782
)
 
(7,208,634
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Realized gain on available-for-sale securities
             
Other income
 
 
42,581
 
 
138,994
 
Interest income
   
28,171
   
1,020
 
Interest expense
 
 
(136,426
)
 
(65,909
)
Realized gain on available-for-sale securities
   
6,079,960
   
-
 
Loss on disposal of land and building
   
(254,740
)
 
-
 
Gain on disposal of a subsidiary
   
85,854
       
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net loss before income taxes
 
 
555,618
 
 
(7,134,529
)

 
 
As of
December 31,
2005
 
 
 
US$
 
Total assets
 
 
 
 
Club and business centre
 
 
307,622
 
Business traveling services
 
 
21,633,409
 
Business value-added services
 
 
1,646,765
 
Rental
 
 
1,445,311
 
Trading and others
 
 
1,559,975
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26,593,082
 

 
24. CONCENTRATIONS AND RISKS

(i) Major Customers

The following is a table summarizing the revenues from customers that individually represent greater than 10% of the total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2005 and their outstanding balances as at year end date:

   
Year ended December 31, 2005
 
Year ended December 31, 2004
 
   
US$
 
US$
 
           
Customer A
   
3,087,215
   
-
 

As of December 31, 2005, the balances due to the Group amounted to US$Nil.

(ii) Major Vendors

The following is a table summarizing the purchases from vendors that individually represent greater than 10% of the total purchases for the year ended December 31, 2005 and their outstanding balances as at year end date:

   
Year ended December 31, 2005
 
Year ended December 31, 2004
 
   
US$
 
US$
 
           
Vendor A
   
2,500,990
   
-
 

As of December 31, 2005, the balances due from the Group amounted to US$Nil.

(iii) Credit Risk

Financial instruments that are potentially subject to credit risk consist principally of trade receivables. The Group believes the concentration of credit risk in its trade receivables is substantially mitigated by its ongoing credit evaluation process and relatively short collection terms. The Group does not generally require collateral from customers. The Group evaluates the need for an allowance for doubtful accounts based upon factors surrounding the credit risk of specific customers, historical trends and other information.

(iv) Exchange risk

The Group cannot guarantee that the current exchange rate will remain steady; therefore there is a possibility that the Group could post the same amount of profit for two comparable periods and because of the fluctuating exchange rate actually post higher or lower profit depending on exchange rate of HK$ converted to US$ on that date. The exchange rate could fluctuate depending on changes in political and economic environments without notice.

25. CONTINGENCIES

Prior to the completion of acquisition by the Company, GNGCM had been paying Mainland China income tax at a basis of calculation which was not in accordance with the standard basis of calculation as stipulated by the Mainland China tax law. The shortfall of the underpaid tax liabilities, related surcharges and penalty up to the date of acquisition by the Company has already been fully provided in the consolidated financial statements. However, GNGCM would potentially be liable to further surcharge for late payment and penalty, additional to the amount being provided, for the period since the date of acquisition by the Company and up to the balance sheet date. A shareholder of GNGCM has undertaken to indemnify the Company against such shortfall and additional tax-related liabilities. As of December 31, 2005, the estimated further surcharges and penalties which GNGCM was potentially liable amounted to US$9,470,714 and US$185,771 respectively. The estimated further penalties were based on the highest charge rate of the range from 50% to 500%.
 
26. DORMANT SUBSIDIARIES
 
The following subsidiaries are dormant during the year ended December 31, 2005.
 
(i)  GBN Wealth Management Limited
(ii) Infotech Enterprises Limited
(iii) Topstar International Limited
(iv) WTC Link International Limited
(v) Sino Platform Limited
(vi) China Chance Enterprises
(vii) Polysend Trading Limited
(viii) Guangzhou Xinyou Foreign Enterprise Service Ltd.

 

    On February 16, 2006, Moore Rowland Mazars, Chartered Accountants (“MRM”) resigned as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company. MRM had been the independent registered public accounting firm for and audited the consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended September 30, 2003, for the three months ended December 31, 2003, and for the year ended December 31, 2004. All of the foregoing audited consolidated financial statements are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements.” The reports of MRM on the consolidated financial statements for the past fiscal years indicated contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles, except for an explanatory paragraph relating to the Company’s ability to continue as a "going concern." The tender of resignation by MRM was approved unanimously by the Board of Directors.

    In connection with the audits for the two most recent fiscal years and in connection with MRM’s review of the subsequent interim periods through February 16, 2006, there have been no disagreements between the Company and MRM on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which, if not resolved to the satisfaction of MRM, would have caused MRM to make reference thereto in their report on the Company’s financial statements for these fiscal years. MRM agreed with the foregoing statements in the letter that it was required to send to the Commission pursuant to Item 304 of Regulation S-B.
 
    On February 16, 2006, the Company engaged Zhong Yi (Hong Kong) C.P.A. Company Limited as its independent registered public accounting firm. The Company had not consulted with Zhong Yi (Hong Kong) C.P.A. Company Limited regarding the application of accounting principles to any contemplated or completed transactions nor the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and neither written nor oral advice was provided that would be an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to an accounting, auditing or financial reporting issues. At the time of its engagement, Zhong Yi (Hong Kong) C.P.A. Company Limited had not yet been credentialed for practice before the Commission, although it began the credentialing process in November of 2005.
 
    On March 23, 2006, Zhong Yi (Hong Kong) C.P.A. Company Limited (“Zhong Yi”) resigned as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company. Zhong Yi had been engaged on February 16, 2006 as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit the consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2005. Zhong Yi was not credentialed to practice accounting before the Commission, but it had an application to be admitted pending with the Commission since November of 2005. Zhong Yi determined that it may not be credentialed in time and may not be able to finish and submit its audit report to the Commission in connection with the filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2005. As a result, Zhong Yi chose to resign in order to give the Company an opportunity to engage a credentialed auditing firm. The draft report of Zhong Yi on the audited consolidated financial statements for the past fiscal year contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles, except for an explanatory paragraph relating to the Company’s ability to continue as a "going concern." Zhong Yi’s tender of resignation was approved unanimously by the Board of Directors.

    In connection with the audit for the most recent fiscal year and in connection with Zhong Yi’s review of the subsequent interim periods through March 23, 2006, there have been no disagreements between the Company and Zhong Yi on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Zhong Yi, would have caused Zhong Yi to make reference thereto in its report on the Company’s financial statements for the last fiscal year. Zhong Yi agreed with the foregoing statements in the letter that it was required to send to the Commission pursuant to Item 304 of Regulation S-B.
 
    On March 23, 2006, the Company engaged Child, Van Wagoner & Bradshaw, PLLC as its independent registered public accounting firm. The Company had not consulted with Child, Van Wagoner & Bradshaw, PLLC regarding the application of accounting principles to any contemplated or completed transactions nor the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company’s financial statements, and neither written nor oral advice was provided that would be an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to an accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue.
 
 

AnnualEvaluation of Controls. As of the end of the period covered by this annual report on Form 10-KSB, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures ("Disclosure Controls"). This evaluation (“Evaluation”) was performed by our Chief Executive Officer, Chi Ming Chan (our “CEO”), and our Chief Financial Officer, Man Ha (our “CFO”). In addition, we have discussed these matters with our securities counsel. In this section, we present the conclusions of our CEO and CFO based on and as of the date of the Evaluation with respect to the effectiveness of our Disclosure Controls..

CEO and CFO Certifications. Attached to this annual report are certain certifications of the CEO and CFO, which are required in accordance with the Exchange Act and the Commission's rules implementing such section (the "Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certifications"). This section of the annual report contains the information concerning the Evaluation referred to in the Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certifications. This information should be read in conjunction with the Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certifications for a more complete understanding of the topic presented.

Disclosure Controls. Disclosure Controls are procedures designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act, such as this annual report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period specified in the Commission's rules and forms. Disclosure Controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that material information relating to us is made known to the CEO and the CFO by others, particularly during the period in which the applicable report is being prepared.

Limitations on the Effectiveness of Controls. Our management does not expect that our Disclosure Controls will prevent all error and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well developed and operated, can provide only reasonable, but not absolute assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of the control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their design and monitoring costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the control. The design of a system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated objectives under all potential future conditions. Over time, control may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or because the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.

Scope of the Evaluation. The CEO and CFO's evaluation of our Disclosure Controls included a review of the controls' (i) objectives, (ii) design, (iii) implementation, and (iv) the effect of the controls on the information generated for use in this quarterly report. In the course of the Evaluation, the CEO and CFO sought to identify data errors, control problems, acts of fraud, and they sought to confirm that appropriate corrective action, including process improvements, was being undertaken. This type of evaluation is done on a quarterly basis so that the conclusions concerning the effectiveness of our controls can be reported in our quarterly reports on Form 10-QSB and annual reports on Form 10-KSB. The overall goals of these various evaluation activities are to monitor our Disclosure Controls, and to make modifications if and as necessary. Our intent in this regard is that the Disclosure Controls will be maintained as dynamic systems that change (including improvements and corrections) as conditions warrant.

Conclusions. Based upon the Evaluation, our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving our objectives. Our CEO and CFO have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective at that reasonable assurance level to ensure that material information relating to the Company is made known to management, including the CEO and CFO, particularly during the period when our periodic reports are being prepared, and that our Internal Controls are effective at that assurance level to provide reasonable assurance that our financial statements are fairly presented inconformity with accounting principals generally accepted in the United States. Additionally, there has been no change in our Internal Controls that occurred during our most recent fiscal quarter or fiscal year that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to affect, our Internal Controls.
 
 


Directors and Executive Officers

Our Bylaws provide that we shall have that number of directors determined by the majority vote of the board of directors. Currently we have seven directors. Each director will serve until our next annual shareholder meeting. Directors are elected for one-year terms. Our Board of Directors elects our officers at the regular annual meeting of the Board of Directors following the annual meeting of shareholders. Vacancies may be filled by a majority vote of the remaining directors then in office. Our directors and executive officers are as follows:

Age
Position
 
 
 
William Chi Hung Tsang
44
Chairman, Director and President
Zeliang Chen
40
Vice Chairman and Director
John H.W. Hui
47
Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Office and Director (Resigned as Chief Executive Office on January 5, 2006)
Chi Ming Chan
44
Chief Executive Officer (Appointed on January 5, 2006) and Director
Chao Ming Luo
55
Director
Bernard K. Chan
41
Chief Financial Officer (Resigned on February 28,2006)
Man Ha
43
Chief Financial Officer (Appointed on February 28,2006)
Ye Xin Long
60
Independent Director
Hamid R. Seyedin
54
Independent Director
Samuel Yung
47
Independent Director (Resigned on January 5, 2006)
Chi Kin Ho
36
Independent Director (Resigned on February 28, 2006)

 
Backgrounds of Directors

Executive Directors

Mr. William Chi Hung Tsang, aged 44, is the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of China World Trade Corporation. Mr. Tsang has more than 15 years of experience in leatherwear manufacturing and property investment. Prior to joining the Company, he was an executive director with a listed company for over 10 years. He is a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; committee member of Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong; vice chairman of Hong Kong United Youth Association Limited; chief president of New Territories Commercial & Industrial General Association Ltd.; and vice chairman of both Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in China - Guangdong and Guangzhou Federation of Industry & Commerce. He is also an honorary president of North-East Overseas Chinese Friendship Association U.S.A., and an honorable citizen of Guangzhou.

Mr. Zeliang Chen, aged 40, is the Vice Chairman and Director of the Company. Mr. Chen graduated with honors from Renmin University of China with a Bachelor of Law. He is the founder of Guangdong Hua Hao Group of Companies and is a committee member of the Private Enterprise Council of Guangdong Province. Mr. Chen now is a Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Guangdong New Generation Travel Service Co., Ltd., Director of Guangdong Huahao Industries Group of Companies, Director and Vice Chairman of China World Trade Corporation.

Mr. John H.W. Hui, aged 47, is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr Hui served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company until January 5, 2006. . Mr. Hui has over 10 years experience in China trade and investment. He is responsible for the overall corporate development of the Company. Mr. Hui is also the President of Beijing World Trade Center Club and Guangzhou World Trade Center Club. He has excellent relationships with the China partners and the principals of the World Trade Center Association in New York and other WTCs around the world. Mr. Hui is a current member of the Canada Business Council Beijing, and American Chamber of Commerce, Guangdong.

Mr. Chi Ming Chan, aged 44, is a Director and was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company on January 5, 2006. Mr. Chan is responsible for the strategic planning, corporate development and project implementation of the Company. Before joining us, Mr. Chan was a Corporate Development Strategist for Renren Holding Ltd., a publicly listed company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mr. Chan founded Asian Information Resources (Holding) Ltd. in 1995, which eventually listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1999. A specialist in Chinese law and China affairs, Mr. Chan is an expert in networking, Internet technology, database technology and management of technical resources. He developed an electronic database system for the Law-on-Line project of the University of Hong Kong and has provided technical consultancy to this project since 1991. He has also developed the Dongguan Network, which has become a successful model for other cities in China. He was appointed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a consultant for the TA Project No. 2702 - Study on PRC Legal Information System and the Electronic Data Expert for the TA project No. 3000. Mr. Chan holds a Master of Law degree from Lancaster University, the United Kingdom, a Master of Philosophy degree in Physics and Bachelor Degree in Physics both from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
 

Mr. Chao Ming Luo, aged 55 is a Director of the Company. Mr. Luo has long-term collaborative relations with Hong Kong business circles and associations. He was employed at the Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong from 1983 to 1996; he then joined the Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch Guangzhou Representative Office in 1996 before joining the Company. He is the Chief Council Member of Guangdong Overseas Friendship Association, and Council Member of Guangzhou Overseas Friendship Association. Mr. Luo worked as the Electric Design Technician in Guangzhou Design Institute and the Assistant of Electric Technology Specialty, Electric Engineering Department in Guangdong University of Technology.
 
Independent Directors and Members of Audit Committee

Mr. Ye Xin Long, aged 60, is an Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Ye has over 35 years of experience doing business in China and investing in Chinese enterprises. He has an excellent relationship with the Beijing Municipal Government and the Guangzhou Municipal Government.

Mr. Hamid R. Seyedin, aged 54, is an Independent Director and a member of the audit committee of the Company. Mr. Seyedin is the CEO of First Washington Group and President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Guangdong. Under his leadership since 2003, the American Chamber of Commerce in Guangdong has grown by more than 83% in membership and 300% in revenues. In 1991, former U.S. President George Bush recognized him in writing for his involvement with the passage of the Fast Track Procedures for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Appointed by three governors of the State of Maryland to four terms of office, he served as the Chairman of Montgomery College and State Chairman of the Maryland Association of Community Colleges representing all seventeen colleges in the State. He served on the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Institute, by appointment of Cardinal James A. Hickey (then Archbishop of Washington). He was a recipient of an award in business from the U.S. Department of Commerce. He received recognition from the U.S. Senate Sergeant At Arms for his service to the U.S. Senate Deliberations. Finally, he served two terms on the Maryland Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

Mr. Samuel Yung, aged 47, is an Independent Director and a member of the audit committee of China World Trade Corporation until January 5, 2006. Mr. Yung is a Senior District Director of American International Assurance Co. (Bermuda) Ltd., a member company of American International Group, Inc. He was the President of The Life Underwriters Association of Hong Kong in 1991, President of the General Agents and Managers Association of Hong Kong in 1996, and Advisory Board Chairman of the General Agents & Managers Association International between 1997 and 1999. Mr. Yung has also participated in numerous community services and served as council member for a number of government committees. In addition, he also serves as advisor to many educational associations. Mr. Yung is a Certified Financial Planner CM , a Chartered Insurance Agency Manager, a Registered Financial Consultant, a Certified Manager of Financial Advisor, and a Chartered Financial Practitioner.

Mr. Chi Kin Ho, aged 35, is an Independent Director and a member of the audit committee of the Company until February 28, 2006. Mr. Ho is a principal of CCP C.P.A. Limited of Hong Kong, an accounting firm focusing on providing statutory audit service. Mr. Ho is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant, a member of AICPA, and associate member of Hong Kong Accounting Association. He has over ten years of experience in both U.S. and China in the area of financial accounting, U.S. taxation and reporting, as well as management advisory. Mr. Ho earned his Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Hawaii Pacific University.

Officers

Mr. Bernard K. Chan, aged 41, is the Chief Financial Officer of the Company until February 28, 2006. He oversees M&A and financial projects of China World Trade Corporation. Mr. Chan has over 15 years of experience in the areas of financial advisory, direct private investments and corporate finance. He was a Managing Partner of a local corporate finance firm concentrating on providing advisory of U.S. listing and capital raising. Prior to that, Mr. Chan was a member of senior management for several listed companies in Hong Kong and the largest private landowner in Hawaii, focusing on direct investments and assets management. He is also a Registered Investment Advisor. Mr. Chan earned his Master of Business Administration Degree in International Management and Investment Finance, Master of Science Degree in Applied Econometrics, and Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Investment Finance, all from the University of Hawaii.
 

Mr. Man Ha, aged 43, was appointed as Chief Financial Officer on February 28, 2006. He has over 20 years of experience in the areas of auditing, transaction advisory services and commercial fields. In the past, he was executive director, group financial controller and company secretary of several publicly traded companies that were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mr. Ha holds a Masters Degree in Professional Accounting from the Open University of Hong Kong. He is also a fellow member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

There are no familial relationships between our officers and directors.

Code of Ethics

The Company has adopted a Code of Ethics that applies to the Company’s principal chief executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions, as well as other employees (the "Code of Ethics"). A copy of the Code of Ethics is attached hereto as Exhibit 14.1 . The Code of Ethics is being designed with the intent to deter wrongdoing, and to promote the following:

·  
Honest and ethical conduct, including the ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships
 
·  
Full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure in reports and documents that a small business issuer files with, or submits to, the Commission and in other public communications made by the small business issuer
 
·  
Compliance with applicable governmental laws, rules and regulations
 
·  
The prompt internal reporting of violations of the code to an appropriate person or persons identified in the code
 
·  
Accountability for adherence to the code


Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, all executive officers, directors, and each person who is the beneficial owner of more than 10% of the common stock of a company that files reports pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, are required to report the ownership of such common stock, options, and stock appreciation rights (other than certain cash-only rights) and any changes in that ownership with the Commission. Specific due dates for these reports have been established, and the Company is required to report, in this Form 10-KSB, any failure to comply therewith during the fiscal year ended December 2005. The Company believes that all of these filing requirements were satisfied by its executive officers, directors and by the beneficial owners of more than 10% of the Company’s common stock. In making this statement, the Company has relied solely on copies of any reporting forms received by it, and upon any written representations received from reporting persons that no Form 5 (Annual Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership) was required to be filed under applicable rules of the Commission.


No compensation in excess of $100,000 was awarded to, earned by, or paid to any executive officer of China World Trade during the years 2005, 2004 and 2003, except as described below. The following table and the accompanying notes provide summary information for each of the last three fiscal years concerning cash and non-cash compensation paid or accrued by our chief executive officer and other executive officers earning in excess of $100,000 for the past three years.
 
 
 
Name of officer
Year
Salary
Bonus
Other Annual Compen- sation
Restricted Stock Award(s)
Securities Underlying Options SARs(#)
LTIP
payouts
All Other Compen-
Sation
                 
John Hui, CEO 
2005 
150,000 
-
-
55,823
-
-
-
John Hui, CEO
2004
57,692
-
-
206,347
-
-
-
John Hui, CEO
2003
147,436
-
-
-
-
-
-
William Chi Hung Tsang, Chairman & Director
2005
150,000
12,500
 
198,480
 
 
 
William Chi Hung Tsang, Chairman & Director
2004
57,692
 
 
733,680
 
 
 
William Chi Hung Tsang, Chairman & Director
2003
141,026
-
-
-
-
-
-
C. M. Chan, Director
2005
76,982
15,215
-
53,755
-
-
-
C. M. Chan, Director
2004
-
-
-
198,705
-
-
-
C.M. Chan, Director
2003
30,769
-
-
-
-
-
-
Luo Chaoming, Director
2005
19,142
-
-
26,878
-
-
-
Luo Chaoming, Director
2004
17,396
-
-
99,362
-
-
-
Bernard Chan, CFO
2004
76,923
11,727
-
-
-
-
-
Bernard Chan, CFO
2004
-
-
-
218,399
-
-
-
 
Compensation of Directors

In 2001, China World Trade committed itself to compensate each of its Board of Directors with 2,000 shares of its common stock per annum. Board members typically meet on a bi-monthly basis.


The following table sets forth information about our 2003 Non-Qualified Stock Compensation Plan adopted by our Board of Directors and filed with the Commission as Exhibit 10.1 to our Registration Statement on Form S-8 on October 28, 2003.

Shares remaining available for future issuance
Shares issuable upon exercise of options to be granted in the future
Weighted average exercise price of outstanding options
 
 
 
397,000
-
-

Pursuant to the 2003 plan, we registered 2,000,000 shares of common stock and 1,000,000 options to purchase shares of common stock at $0.673 per share, for a total registration for issuance of 3,000,000 shares of common stock. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors will issue common stock and award options to employees, directors, officers, consultants, advisors and other persons associated with our company. The 2003 plan is intended to provide a method whereby our company may be stimulated by the personal involvement of our employees, directors, officers, consultants, advisors and other persons in our business and reward such involvement, thereby advancing the interests of our company and all of its shareholders.

As of the date of this report, a total of 1,603,000 shares of common stock were issued to consultants and 985,000 options were issued to our management pursuant to our 2003 Non-Qualified Stock Compensation Plan.
 

 
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

The following table sets forth the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned as of December 31, 2005 by (i) those persons or groups known to us who will beneficially own more than 5% of our common stock; (ii) each Director and director nominee; (iii) each executive officer whose compensation exceeded $100,000 in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005; and, (iv) all directors and executive officers as a group. The information is determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act based upon information furnished by persons listed or contained in filings made by them with the Securities and Exchange Commission and upon information provided by such persons directly to us. Except as indicated below, the stockholders listed possess sole voting and investment power with respect to their shares.

Name/Address
Number of Shares
Ownership(1)
     
William Chi Hung Tsang
Room 1217, The Metropolis Tower, 10 Metropolis Drive, Hunghom, Hong Kong
13,867,716
41.2%
 
 
 
Powertronic Holdings Limited
9 Des Voeus Road West, 12 th Floor, Hong Kong
5,574,074
16.6%
 
 
 
Grand Perfection Limited
15 th Floor, Rihang Hotel, 198 Linhe Road West, Guangzhou, PRC
2,040,619
6.1%
 
 
 
Bernard Chan
65 Cadogan Street, 2 nd Floor, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong
91,552
**
 
 
 
Chi Ming Chan
138 Tiyu Road East, 3 rd Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, Guangzhou, PRC
89,109
**
 
 
 
Chao Ming Luo
138 Tiyu Road East, 3 rd Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, Guangzhou, PRC
44,554
**
 
 
 
John Hui
7040 Granville Avenue, Suite 403, Richmond B.C. Canada
92,536
**
 
 
 
All Officers and Directors as a Group (6 persons)
16,226,086
48.2%

** Less than 1%

(1)Based on 33,668,923 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2005.
 
   
Item 12 .  Certain Relationships and Related Transactions
 
We entered into a acquisition agreement (the “Acquisition Agreement”) dated November 19, 2003, with Mr. William Chi Hung Tsang (“Mr. Tsang”), the owner of the 21st to 23rd Floor of Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road, Tianhe, Guangzhou 510620, the PRC (the “Premises”). Mr. Tsang assigned to us the rents and other consideration (the “Rental Income Right”) valued at $1,800,000. Mr. Tsang was issued 3,000,000 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 6,000,000 shares of our common stock (the “Warrants”) for $1,800,000 ($0.60 per share). The Warrants may be exercised between December 5, 2003 and December 1, 2005 at an exercise price of $0.75 per share. To date, Mr. Tsang has exercised the warrants to purchase up to 1,500,000 shares of our common stock and Mr. Tsang continues to hold a warrant to purchase up to 4,500,000 shares of our common stock until December 1, 2005.
 
The value of the Rental Income Right was determined by using the present value of the 5-year rental income rights of the Premises, or $1,831,795. This present value was based on the then actual rental income of the Premises, or $556,569. We then assumed the following percentages: (a) annual growth rate on the rental income of 3.0%, (b) rent free period and vacancy loss of 10%, and (c) business tax rate of 5.5%. We discounted back to November 2003 using a ten percent discount rate.
 
By a Settlement Agreement dated December 5, 2003, we converted $456,661.73 that was previously advanced by Mr. Tsang into 761,103 shares of common stock. In the quarter ended December 31, 2003, a personal guarantee was granted from Mr. Tsang in the amount of $19,231. As a result of these transactions, Mr. Tsang will beneficially own 71.82% of our shares of common stock, assuming exercise of all of his warrants.
 
We entered into several consulting agreements. On December 9, 2003, we issued 100,000 and 50,000 shares to Greentree Financial Group, Inc. and RR Inv Holding Inc., respectively. On December 11, 2003, we issued 500,000 shares each to TMT Consultant and Mr. Andy Lau for consultancy services provided. On December 16, 2003, we issued 100,000 shares to Wall Street Strategies, Inc. for consultancy services provided and in February 2004, we issued another 69,000 shares to Greentree Financial Group, Inc.
 
We entered into a relationship with respect to rent and related expenses with Guangzhou Goldlion City Properties Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou Cyber Strategy Limited in the approximate amount of $96,154, and Dimension Marketing Limited in the amount of $80,645. These amounts have been classified as current liabilities. The amounts due to related parties represent unsecured advances which are interest-free and repayable on demand.
 
On December 30, 2004, General Business Network (Holdings) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of our company, and Guangzhou Goldlion Environmental Technology Company Ltd., an affiliate of William Chi Hung Tsang, our Chairman, entered into an Agreement for Purchase and Sale of the premises known as the 20th Floor of the Goldlion Digital Network Centre, Nos. 136 and 138 Ti Yu Dong Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou PRC, pursuant to which Goldlion agreed to purchase the premises from General Business Network for $2,456,521.70 in cash. The closing occurred on May 31, 2005, and Goldlion paid the purchase price for the premises to General Business Network.

On March 29, 2005, our board of directors approved the sale of the after-tax rental income rights of 21st and 23rd  Floor, Goldlion Digital Network Center, 138 Tiyu Road East, Tianhe, Guangzhou to our Chairman, Mr. Chi Hung Tsang at the book value of $1,320,000. As a result, a cash balance due from Mr. Tsang in the amount of $377,504 as of March 31, 2005 was subsequently paid off on April 28, 2005. The total consideration of $1,320,000 would be used to provide additional working capital for our group of companies.

The amounts due to related parties represent unsecured advances which are interest-free and repayable on demand.
 


(a)   Exhibits . The exhibit list required by Item 13 of Form 10-KSB is provided in the " Index to Exhibits " located herein, immediately following Item 15.

(b)   Reports on Form 8-K Filed in Last Quarter of Fiscal Year 2004

(1)            
On January 5, 2005, the Company filed a Form 8-K in order to report an Agreement for Sale and Purchase of real estate, dated December 30, 2004, between General Business Network (Holdings) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Guangzhou Goldlion Environmental Technology Company Ltd.

(2)             
On January 24, 2005, the Company filed a Form 8-K in order to report a Complaint, dated December 10, 2004.
   
                                          (3)
On January 11, 2006, the Company filed a Form 8-K in order to report the new appointment of a president and vice-chairman and the election of new directors.
 
(4)            
On February 21, 2006, the Company filed a Form 8-K regarding the changes of certifying accountants.
   
(5)            
On March 1, 2006, the Company filed a Form 8-K in order to report the new appointment of their Chief Financial Officer.
   
(6)            
On March 20, 2006, the Company filed an amendment to the current report on Form 8-K/A regarding the changes of certifying accountants.
(7)           
  On March 30, 2006, the Company filed a Form 8-K to report changes in its certifying accountants.
 
 
Fees Billed For Audit and Non-Audit Services

The following table represents the aggregate fees billed for professional audit services rendered to accounting firm of Moores Rowland Mazars, our current independent auditor, ("Moores") for the audit of the Company's annual financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2004 and unaudited twelve-month period ended December 31, 2003, and all fees billed for other services rendered by Moores during those periods.

Year Ended December 31
 
2005
 
2004
 
               
Audit Fees (1)
 
100,635
   
84,948
 
Audit-Related Fees (acquisition audit fee of New Generation) (2)
   
-
   
64,103
 
Tax Fees (3)
   
3,095
   
513
 
All Other Fees (4)
   
-
   
-
 
Total Accounting Fees and Services
   
87,191
   
149,564
 
 
 
(1)
Audit Fees . These are fees for professional services for the audit of the Company's annual financial statements, and for the review of the financial statements included in the Company's filings on Form 10-QSB, and for services that are normally provided in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements.
 
 
(2)  
Audit-Related Fees . These are fees for the assurance and related services reasonably related to the performance of the audit or the review of the Company's financial statements.
 
 
(3)
Tax Fees . These are fees for professional services with respect to tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning.
 
 
(4)
All Other Fees . These are fees for permissible work that does not fall within any of the other fee categories, i.e., Audit Fees, Audit-Related Fees, or Tax Fees.

 
Pre-Approval Policy For Audit and Non-Audit Services

The Company does not have a standing audit committee, and the full Board performs all functions of an audit committee, including the pre-approval of all audit and non-audit services before the Company engages an accountant. All of the services rendered to the Company by accounting firm of Moores Rowland Mazars after May 2003 were pre-approved by the Board of Directors of the Company.

The Company is presently working with its legal counsel to establish formal pre-approval policies and procedures for future engagements of the Company's accountants. The new policies and procedures will be detailed as to the particular service, will require that the Board or an audit committee thereof be informed of each service, and will prohibit the delegation of pre-approval responsibilities to management. It is currently anticipated that the Company's new policy will provide (i) for an annual pre-approval, by the Board or audit committee, of all audit, audit-related and non-audit services proposed to be rendered by the independent auditor for the fiscal year, as specifically described in the auditor's engagement letter, and (ii) that additional engagements of the auditor, which were not approved in the annual pre-approval process, and engagements that are anticipated to exceed previously approved thresholds, will be presented on a case-by-case basis, by the President or Controller, for pre-approval by the Board or audit committee, before management engages the auditors for any such purposes. The new policy and procedures may authorize the Board or audit committee to delegate, to one or more of its members, the authority to pre-approve certain permitted services, provided that the estimated fee for any such service does not exceed a specified dollar amount (to be determined). All pre-approvals shall be contingent on a finding, by the Board, audit committee, or delegate, as the case may be, that the provision of the proposed services is compatible with the maintenance of the auditor's independence in the conduct of its auditing functions. In no event shall any non-audit related service be approved that would result in the independent auditor no longer being considered independent under the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 


The following exhibits are filed as part of this report:


   *Filed herewith.
 
 

In accordance with the Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: April 14, 2006
 
     
 
CHINA WORLD TRADE CORPORATION
 
 
 
 
 
 
  By:   /s/ Chi Ming Chan
 

Chi Ming Chan
Chief Executive Officer
 

In accordance with the Exchange Act, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature
Title
Date
 
/s/ Chi Ming Chan
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
April 14, 2006
Chi Ming Chan
Director
 
 
/s/ Man Ha
 
Chief Financial Officer
 
April 14, 2006
Man Ha
 
 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, this report has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

Signature
Title
Date
 
 
/s/ William C.H. Tsang
Chairman and Director
April 14, 2006
William C.H. Tsang
 
 
 
/s/ John H.W. Hui
 
Vice Chairman and Director
 
April 14, 2006
John H.W. Hui
 
 
 
/s/ Zeliang Chen
 
Vice Chairman and Director
 
April 14, 2006
Zeliang Chen
 
 
 
/s/ Chi Ming Chan
Chief Executive Officer
April 14, 2006
Chi Ming Chan
and Director
 
/s/ Chao Ming Luo
 
Director
  April 14, 2006
Chao Ming Luo
 
 

 
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