0001104659-22-091779.txt : 20221101 0001104659-22-091779.hdr.sgml : 20221101 20220816162723 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-22-091779 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20220816 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Recon Technology, Ltd CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001442620 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OIL, GAS FIELD SERVICES, NBC [1389] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: E9 FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ROOM 601, 1 SHUI'AN SOUTH STREET STREET 2: CHAOYANG DISTRICT CITY: BEIJING STATE: F4 ZIP: 100012 BUSINESS PHONE: 86 10 8494-5799 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ROOM 601, 1 SHUI'AN SOUTH STREET STREET 2: CHAOYANG DISTRICT CITY: BEIJING STATE: F4 ZIP: 100012 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm

 

 

Room 601, 1 Shui’an South Street, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100012, People’s Republic of China

 

August 16, 2022

 

Loan Lauren Nguyen, Legal Branch Chief

Liz Packebusch, Staff Attorney

Karl Hiller, Accounting Branch Chief

John Cannarella, Staff Accountant

Office of Energy & Transportation

Division of Corporation Finance

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549-4631

 

Re: Recon Technology, Ltd
  Current Amendment No. 6 to Registration Statement on Form F-3
  Filed July 29, 2022
  File No. 333-257806

 

Dear Ms. Nguyen, Ms. Packebusch, Mr. Hiller and Mr. Cannarella:

 

In response to the comments set forth in your oral comments dated August 1, 2022, we are supplying additional information relative to our financial statements in the as-filed Pre-effective Amendment 6 to the Registration Statement on Form F-3 (“Amendment 6”). Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in Amendment 6 unless otherwise defined herein.

 

1.We understand from the current disclosure that the intercompany balances are reflected in the balance sheets in equity, the appropriate treatment if the Company does not expect those intercompany balances to be repaid in the foreseeable future. If you expect the intercompany balances to be repaid in the foreseeable future, then the intercompany balances should be reflected in the income statements as income. Please confirm that in fact the Company does not expect repayment of the intercompany balances in the foreseeable future.

 

We confirm that the intercompany balances are reflected in equity in the balance sheets because the Company does not expect repayment of such intercompany balances in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, we have added disclosure in Amendment 6 on page 19 to reflect that the Company does not expect such repayment in the foreseeable future.

 

2.We understand from the revised disclosure that you provided on pages 15–18, in response to comment 1 from our letter dated July 26, 2022, that the tabulations on the Selected Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and Selected Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the PRC entities were revised to reflect the changes in the RMB/US Dollar exchange rates. However, these revised tabulations for the PRC entities do not appear to reflect the offsetting amounts on the Cayman Islands entity column tabulations on the intercompany receivables. Please revise the corresponding disclosures under the PRC entities and under the Cayman Islands entity to ensure the intercompany receivables are properly balanced.

 

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We advise the Staff that the intercompany tabulations on the PRC entities and on the Cayman Islands entity are properly balanced on pages 15–18 of the current disclosure. To further clarify our current disclosure, we have included, in part, our calculations below to confirm that the tabulations for the PRC entities are properly offset for the Cayman Islands entity in the disclosure.

 

On the tabulation denoted Recon Technology, Ltd. (the Cayman Islands entity), we treat the intercompany balance as an investment as noted in response to comment 1 above. As a result, the inter-company receivable account has been a non-monetary account ever since our IPO on July 29, 2009, which we have used the historical exchange rate for translating. On the PRC entities’ tabulation, the intercompany USD payables are measured with the balance date exchange rate. The differences caused by the different exchange rates were recorded in the inter-company payable account for the first several rounds of correspondence with the Staff, with the aim to be straightforward for elimination purposes. The  Company moved the Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“AOCI”) amount from equity to the intercompany payable account. The revised balance sheet in the current disclosure resulted in the Company moving back the exchange rate differences to reflect in equity and including an explanation on the elimination of AOCI. For illustrative purposes only, we provide the selected tabulations in red to present how the intercompany balances are balanced in page 15 in the current disclosure.

 

   As of December 31, 2021 
   Recon Technology, Ltd.
(Cayman Islands)
   Non-VIE
Subsidiaries
(Hong Kong and
PRC)
   VIEs and VIE's
subsidiaries
(PRC)
   Eliminations   Consolidated
Total **
 
   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)       (Unaudited) 
Cash  ¥287,893,737   ¥14,118,422   ¥30,851,918   ¥-   ¥332,864,077 
Other current assets   25,824,404    10,852    101,672,724    -    127,507,980 
Intercompany receivables   195,310,788    95,828,083    -    (291,138,871)   - 
Total current assets   509,028,929    109,957,357    132,524,642    (291,138,871)   460,372,057 
Investments in subsidiaries   (55,225,497)*   -    -    55,225,497    - 
Benefits through VIEs and VIE’s subsidiaries   -    (48,060,371)   -    48,060,371    - 
Other non-current assets   -    -    47,064,634    -    47,064,634 
Total non-current assets   (55,225,497)   (48,060,371)   47,064,634    103,285,868    47,064,634 
Total Assets   453,803,432    61,896,986    179,589,276    (187,853,003)   507,436,691 
Intercompany payables   -    116,671,268    168,957,775    (285,629,043)   - 
Other liabilities and accrued liabilities   47,656,395    451,215    60,739,695    -    108,847,305 
Total Liabilities   47,656,395    117,122,483    229,697,470    (285,629,043)   108,847,305 
 Class A common stock, $0.0925 U.S. dollar par value, 150,000,000 shares authorized; 7,202,832 shares and 26,868,391 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2021, respectively   16,524,894                   16,524,894 
 Class B common stock, $0.0925 U.S. dollar par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2021, respectively   1,474,543                   1,474,543 
 Additional paid-in capital   482,163,636         4,749,000    (4,749,000)   482,163,636 
 Retained earnings   (91,353,881)   (55,374,405)   (52,839,443)   108,034,868    (91,353,881)
 Accumulated other comprehensive income   (2,811,063)   148,908    5,509,828    (5,509,828)   (2,662,155)
Total Shareholders’ Equity **   406,147,037    (55,225,497)   (42,550,543)   97,776,040    406,147,037 
Non-controlling interests   -    -    (7,557,651)   -    (7,557,651)
Total Liabilities and Equity  ¥453,803,432   ¥61,896,986   ¥179,589,276   ¥(187,853,003)  ¥507,436,691 

 

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The Company is hopeful that the foregoing answers adequately address the Staff’s questions and looks forward to answering any further questions the Staff may have. You may contact me or the Company’s attorney Anthony Basch (804.771.5725) with any further questions. In addition, the Company acknowledges that:

 

  · The Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;

 

  · Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and

 

  · The Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

 

  Sincerely,
   
  /s/ Liu Jia
  Liu Jia
  Chief Financial Officer

 

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