Wei Wen
大家好。感谢各位今天参加我们2021年第三季度财报电话会议。本季度,我们在充满挑战的宏观环境中保持了韧性,面对COVID-19疫情反复和全球芯片供应短缺制约汽车生产的双重压力。尽管我们的收入同比下降38.9%至人民币6110万元,主要原因是疫情导致多场线下车展取消,但我们持续推进线上计划,优化成本结构,并将归属于公司股东的净亏损同比收窄10.7%至人民币3680万元。在详细讨论第三季度业绩之前,让我们先谈谈将业务拓展至电动汽车制造的战略计划。为满足消费者对电动汽车日益增长的需求,我们将利用现有平台建立新的电动汽车业务线,包括设计研发和制造团队。在与潜在战略伙伴保持开放讨论的同时,如有重大业务交易进展,我们将及时公布。中国是全球最大的电动汽车市场,2020年销量超过130万辆,占全球电动汽车总销量的近44%。2021年,中国电动汽车零售渗透率从2020年的5.8%上升至全年的14.8%,12月更达到22.6%。根据中国乘用车协会数据,2022年中国电动汽车销量预计将达到550万辆,年复合增长率达106%,远快于整体乘用车市场增速,这得益于电动汽车基础设施的快速建设和技术进步降低了车辆成本并提升了交互智能功能。在政府环保法规和排放标准持续利好的背景下,许多新兴电动汽车制造商正在建立直销网络,以便直接与用户互动,塑造购买体验,并高效获取用户需求和偏好反馈,持续改进产品和服务。在此背景下,凭借我们庞大的客户基础,我们相信能够很好地把握消费者对电动汽车日益增长的需求。基于客户洞察的深度和广度,我们已累计服务超过3000万客户,通过我们的综合汽车交易平台促成超过140万笔汽车销售交易,总交易额约人民币2000亿元。此外,截至2021年9月30日,我们拥有覆盖125个城市的广泛销售网络,这将支持我们电动汽车制造业务的成功。我们将利用从一线城市到全国各省市的领先汽车销售能力和销售网络,通过将现有平台与我们正在建设的一流电动汽车设计、研发和制造团队无缝整合,并与潜在战略伙伴深度合作,我们相信这一战略扩张将创造显著的协同价值,确保我们在电动汽车革命中占据重要地位。现在,让我介绍第三季度各业务板块的亮点。首先,我们通过创新平台和与合作伙伴的战略合作,创造新的零售消费场景,进一步巩固了线下营销服务的领先地位。由于COVID-19病例反弹和全行业芯片短缺影响了许多汽车制造商的生产计划,我们组织的车展数量减少至55个城市的65场,而2020年第三季度为107个城市的152场。这些车展产生的净收入为人民币3310万元,同比下降59.9%。展望未来,我们将继续利用专有数据分析能力,加强与战略伙伴的合作,通过更具创意的营销方案丰富零售活动和场景,从而提升线下营销服务。我们还将进行更深入的研究,以更精细地识别具有相对较高投资回报潜力的领域,并相应调整线下布局以及线上线下营销服务的组合。接下来,让我们看看虚拟经销商和在线营销服务的增长计划。2021年第三季度,我们通过为汽车制造商和经销商提供一流的用户管理、在线培训和活动管理服务,扩大了在线营销服务的渗透率。这些改进使虚拟经销商和在线营销服务的净收入同比增长72.6%。未来,我们将在现有综合汽车交易平台业务的基础上,利用创新基础拓展至电动汽车制造。继2022年1月5日宣布将战略重点扩展至电动汽车制造后,我们继续与潜在战略伙伴进行开放讨论,并正按计划寻找具有高度互补优势的候选伙伴,以创造显著的协同价值。我们乐观地认为,随着中国汽车市场向更智能、更节能的出行解决方案进行结构性增长转变,我们的创新商业模式、庞大客户基础、强大的客户洞察力、领先的汽车销售网络,加上我们正在建设的一流设计、研发和制造团队,以及与潜在战略伙伴的深度合作,将释放巨大价值并为成功奠定坚实基础。现在,我将把电话转交给我们的副首席财务官陈曦,请他详细分析我们第三季度的财务表现。
Wei Wen
Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us today on our third quarter 2021 earnings call. In this quarter, we've preserved against a challenging macro environment with COVID-19 flare-ups and a global chip supply shortage that constrained auto production. While our revenue contracted by 38.9% year-over-year to RMB61.1 million, primarily due to cancellations of a number of our offline auto shows in response to pandemic conditions, we forged ahead with our online initiatives, streamlined our cost base and narrowed our net loss attributable to the Company's shareholders by 10.7% year-over-year to RMB36.8 million. Before we discuss our third quarter results in more detail, let's first talk about our strategic plan to expand our business into EV manufacturing, catering to the rising consumer demand of electric vehicles, leveraging our existing platform we’re establishing a new EV business line including a design R&D and a manufacturing team. While holding open discussions with potential strategic partners, we will announce the progress of major business transactions if any, in a timely manner. China is the largest EV market in the world, with sales reaching over 1.3 million in 2020, representing close to 44% of all EVs sold globally. In 2021, an EV retail sales [penetration] (ph) in China rose to 14.8% throughout the year and 22.6% in December from 5.8% in the year 2020. According to the China Passenger Car Association in 2022, EV sales in China [Indiscernible] expected to reach 5.5 million growing at a CAGR of 106%, much faster than the overall passenger vehicle market supported by the expedite establishment of EV infrastructure and technological advancements that have lowered vehicle costs as well as improved interactive smart features. While government regulation and the industry standard on environmental protection and the emission continue to be favorable, many of the emerging EV OEM building a direct sales network so they can interact first-hand with their users to shape their purchase experience and efficiently receive feedback on our user needs and preference to continuously enhance their products and services. In this context, we believe we are well positioned to capitalize on consumers rising demand for EVs given our tremendous customer base. Under the depth and the breadth of our customer insights, we have cumulatively served over 30 million customers and facilitate more than 1.4 million automobile sales transactions with GMV of approximately RMB200 billion via our integrator automotive marketplace. Furthermore, we have extensive sales operations covering 125 cities as of September 30, 2021 to enable the success of our EV manufacturing. We will harness our leading auto sales capabilities and the sales network spanning from first tier cities to provincial country nationwide. Through seamlessly integrating our existing platform with the top tier electric vehicle design R&D and the manufacturing team we are building. And in-depth cooperation with potential strategic partners, we are confident this strategic expansion will driving significant synergistic value and ensure we secure our important stake in the EV revolution. Now, let me provide third quarter highlights from our business segments. First, we further enhanced our solid leadership positions in offline marketing service by creating new retail consumption scenarios through innovative platforms and strategic cooperation with partners. Due to resurgence in COVID-19 cases and the industrial-wide chip shortages, that affected the production schedule of many OEMs the number of auto shows we organized were reduced to 65 across 55 cities compared to 152 auto shows in 107 cities in the third quarter of 2020. These shows generated net revenues of RMB33.1 million representing a 59.9% year-over-year decrease. Looking ahead, we will continue to enhance our offline marketing services by leveraging our proprietary data analytics capabilities and continuing to strengthen our collaboration with strategic partners and diversify our retail events and scenarios with more creative marketing solutions. We will also conduct further in-depth studies to identify in granular detail [Indiscernible] with relatively higher potential ROI and to fine tune our offline presence and the mix of offline and online marketing services accordingly. Next, let's move on to our growth initiatives in virtual dealership and online marketing services. During the third quarter of 2021, we extended our online marketing services penetration by providing best-in-class user management, online training and events management services to OEMs and the dealer. These improvements led to 72.6% year-over-year increase in net revenues from virtual dealership and the online marketing services. Going forward, we will further building on our existing business as integrated automotive marketplace while leveraging our innovative foundation to expand into EV manufacturing. Following our announcement on January 5, 2022, to expand our strategic focus to EV manufacturing, we continue to open discussions with potential strategic partners and are on track to identify candidates with highly complementary strengths that will allow the creation of substantial synergistic value. We're optimistic that as China's auto market on the growth structural changes toward a smarter and more energy efficient mobility solutions, our innovative business model, massive customer base, strong customer insights and our leading auto sales network coupled with the top tier design, R&D and the manufacturing teams we’re building as well as the in-depth operation with potential strategic partners, will unlock significant value and lay a solid foundation for success. Now, I will turn the call over to Chenxi, our deputy CFO for a closer look at our financial performance in the third quarter.