09:47 WEIGAO GROUP<08199> - Quarterly Results Announcement (2) All significant intra-group transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation. 2. Turnover Turnover represents the amounts received and receivable from the Group's goods sold to external customers, net of sales tax and returns during the period. 3. Taxation Income taxes were verified and calculated on accrual basis. Income taxes are calculated on the basis of the assessable income computed in accordance with the relevant tax laws from the accounting income of this period, after making corresponding adjustment. The Company was listed on GEM in Hong Kong on 27th February 2004. 264,500,000 H Shares were issued, representing 30.6% of the total registered capital. Upon the approval obtained from the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC in July 2004, the Company was approved as a foreign invested enterprise. According to the tax laws and regulations in the PRC, the Company was entitled to the preferential tax treatment of exemption for the first two years and 50% reduction for three years thereafter, commencing from 1st July 2004. Therefore, no income tax is payable for the quarter. According to the "Notice of Recognition of Weihai Jierui Medical Products Company Limited as a Social Welfare Entity" Lu Min Han 1999 No. 25 issued by the Civil Administration Bureau of the Shangdong Province, it was confirmed that Weihai Jierui Medical Products Company Limited ("Jierui Subsidiary") was entitled to the preferential tax treatment for a social welfare enterprise. Jierui Subsidiary has applied to the Torch Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone sub-bureau of Weihai Local Tax Bureau for exemption of enterprise income tax ("EIT") for the previous year. Weihai Weigao Blood Purified Product Co., Ltd. is subject to an EIT rate of 33%. Under the approval document Shen He Guo Shui Deng Zi (2005) No. 0049 "Notice of Tax Reduction and Exemption Approval" issued by Shenyang State Tax Bureau Shenhe Branch, Shenyang Weigao Jinbao Trading Co., Ltd. is exempted from EIT in 2005. 4. Dividend The Directors do not recommend distribution of interim dividend for the three months ended 31st March 2005 (2004: Nil). 5. Earnings per share Basic earnings per share for the three months ended 31st March 2005 was calculated based on net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB16,562,000 (corresponding period in 2004: RMB12,155,000) and the weighted average total number of shares of 864,500,000 shares (corresponding period in 2004: 688,166,667 shares).