أزمة قطاع العقارات الصيني 2020-2023

Residential buildings developed by Evergrande in Yuanyang County, Henan.

أزمة قطاع العقارات الصيني 2020-2023 هي أزمة مالية حالية يعود سببها الرئيسي لصعوبات التي تواجهها شركة إيفرغراند وغيرها من مطوري العقارات في أعقاب حملة إصلاح في عامي 2020 و2021 ووضع لوائح جديد بشأن حدود ديون هذه الشركات. وانتشرت الأزمة إلى ما هو أبعد من إيفرجراند في عام 2021 لتصل إلى مطوري العقارات الكبار مثل كونتري جاردن، ومجموعة كيسا، وشركة فانتازيا القابضة، وسوناك، والشركة الصينية القابضة، وموردن لاند.

في أغسطس 2021، انتشرت على الإنترنت رسالة، نصت على أن إيفرغراند حذرت حكومة مقاطعة غوانغدونغ من أنها معرضة لخطر التعرض لأزمة نقدية. ما أدى لانخفضت أسهم الشركة، الأمر الذي أثر على الأسواق العالمية وأدى إلى تباطؤ كبير في النمو، وانخفاض الاستثمار الأجنبي في الصين خلال الفترة من أغسطس إلى أكتوبر 2021.

ومع انتشار الشائعات عن الصعوبات المالية في صيف عام 2021، حاولت الشركة بيع جزء من أصولها لتأمين السيولة، لكن دون جدوى. وبعدها تخلفت الشركة عن العديد من مدفوعات الديون وجرى تخفيض تصنيفها من قبل وكالات التصنيف الدولية. كذلك تعثرت الشركة في سداد سندات خارجية في بداية ديسمبر 2021، بعد انقضاء فترة سماح التي مدتها شهر واحد. ثم أعلنت وكالة فيتش للتصنيف أن الشركة في حالة "تخلف مقيد عن السداد".

ومع وجود الآلاف من مستثمري التجزئة، بالإضافة إلى البنوك والموردين والمستثمرين الأجانب، الذين لديهم أموال مستحقة على الشركة، وصلت قيمة التزامات إيفرغراند في سبتمبر 2021، لحوالي 2 تريليون يوان صيني (ما يعادل حينها 310 مليار دولار أمريكي).[1]

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خلفية

السفير الأمريكي لدى الصين تري برانستاد يزور مستشفى "بوآو" الذي بُني بشكل مشترك من قبل إيفرغراند و"مستشفى بريجهام والنساء"، 2018.


الفترة من 2000 - 2020

بدءاً من 2005، نمت فقاعة العقارات الصينية، بحيث تضاعف متوسط ​​قيمة الأراضي في الصين ثلاث مرات حتى عام 2009، واستمرت الأسعار بالنمو حتى 2011، عندما توقفت مؤقتا.

وبسبب الإصلاحات المالية التي تم إجراؤها في العقود السابقة، أصبحت الحكومات المحلية تعتمد بشكل متزايد على تطوير البنية التحتية لكسب الإيرادات، عبر أدوات تمويل الحكومة المحلية. ونظراً للفوائد المالية لبيع حقوق استخدام الأراضي، أصبحت قيمة الأرض أمراً أساسياً للأمن المالي للحكومات المحلية. جرت عملية التعافي من الأزمة المالية 2007-2008 بالإعتماد إلى حد كبير على استثمار الحكومة المحلية في البنية التحتية، مما ساهم في التعويل المستمر على زيادة قيمة الأراضي، رغم التراكم المتزايد للديون.[2]

وفي عام 2018، أصبحت الحكومة المركزية قلقة للغاية بشأن حجم ديون الحكومات المحلية الناتجة عن استثمار الأراضي، لدرجة أنها أعلنت أنها لن تنقذ الدائنين الذين لم يتمكنوا من السداد.[3]

ثلاثة خطوط حمراء وقوانين أخرى

المقالة الرئيسية: Three red lines
Ocean Flower Island on the north shore of Hainan near Yangpu in the South China Sea

في عام 2020، بدأ حكومة الأمين العام للحزب الشيوعي الصيني شي جين بينغ، في تشديد الشروط على سوق العقارات على أساس مبدأ أن "الملكية هي للعيش فيها، لا للمضاربة لها."[4](p. 161)وفي أغسطس 2020، سنت الحكومة الصينية قاعدة "الخطوط الحمراء الثلاثة"، في محاولة لكبح جماح قطاع التطوير العقاري المثقل بالديون. ونظمت القاعدة الرافعة المالية التي يستخدمها المطورون، مما يحد من نسبة اقتراضهم بناءً على المقاييس التالية: نسبة الدين إلى رأس المال، ونسبة الدين إلى السيولة، نسبة الدين إلى الممتلكات، ونسبة الدين إلى الأصول.[5]

فيما وصلت ديونها إيفرغراند، ثاني أكبر شركة تطوير عقاري في الصين، بشكل كبير في السنوات السابقة، ما يعني أن الخطوط الحمراء الثلاثة كان لها تأثير كبير على ديونها. إذ تجاوز سعر سهم الشركة معدل النمو البالغ ثلاثين بالمائة لـ مؤشر هانغ سنغ بين عامي 2009 و2017، إذ تضاعف سعر السهم ثمانية أضعاف، لكنها بذلك أصبحت المجموعة العقارية الأكثر مديونية في العالم.[6] وقال مدير تصنيفات إس آند بي غلوبال، أن إيفرغراند "كانت تنشط برافعة مالية عالية جداً، ومن المحتمل أنها تخطت جميع الشروط المزعومة".[6]وأعلنت الشركة في مارس 2021 أنها تتطلع إلى خفض عبء ديونها بمقدار 150 مليار يوان صيني (23.3 مليار دولار أمريكي).[6] ومع ذلك، استمرت إيفرغراند بالتوسع، وأطلقت 63 مشروعاً جديداً في النصف الأول من عام 2021.[6]

وأدت اللوائح الحكومية المركزية والمحلية الأخرى، أبرزها "تحديد سقف إقراض الرهن العقاري"، و"الحدود القصوى للإيجار في المدن الكبرى"، و"إلغاء المزادات الخاصة بالأراضي"، إلى تباطؤ بقطاع العقارات في 2021، حيث أعلنت السلطات أنها حاولت السيطرة على ارتفاع أسعار المنازل.[7]

وحتى 8 أكتوبر 2021، كان 14 من أكبر 30 مطوراً في الصين قد انتهكوا "الخطوط الحمراء" مرة واحدة على الأقل. أبرزها شركة GROUP PROFILE انتهكت اللوائح الثلاثة؛ كذلك انتهكت شركتي إيفرغراند وجرينلاند القابضة لائحتين؛ وكل من شركات أويوان، وسي آي إف آي القابضة، وكونتري جاردن، وجرينتاون الصين، وجيانگسو تشونگنان، وريسون، سيزين، وشينسون القابضة، وسوناك، ومجموعة مدينة صن شاين، ومجموعة زينرو انتهكت إحدى اللوائح.[8]إذ حققت شركات التطوير المذكورون إجمالي مبيعات في عام 2020 تزيد عن 4.34 تريليون يوان صيني (672 مليار دولار أمريكي).[8]

2021

Evergrande's diversification strategy

Housing development in Shenzhen

Evergrande was considered by many analysts as too big to fail. A Lehman-Brothers–style collapse could have massive consequences on the Chinese economy and the world at large.[9] Evergrande's land reserves alone were large enough to house 10 million people in 2020.[6]

In the years preceding the 2021 crisis, Evergrande had pursued an aggressive expansion, including ventures in electric vehicles, theme parks, energy, and many other sectors. These leveraged investments included Ocean Flower Island, a 100 billion RMB (US$15.5 billion) project to build an artificial island on the north shore of Hainan near Yangpu in the South China Sea,[10] plans to spend over 45 billion RMB (US$7 billion) between 2019 and 2021 in electric vehicle development,[11] and ownership of Guangzhou F.C., China's richest football club.[12]

Wealth management products

The Financial Times has reported that "Evergrande used retail financial investments to plug funding gaps".[1] The company raised billions of dollars through wealth management products (WMP) and used the money to plug holes in its own funding and to repay other wealth product investors. The products sold were highly risky, with an anonymous executive suggesting they were "too risky for retail investors and should not have been offered to them".[1] They were marketed widely. Evergrande managers, for instance, pressured subordinates to purchase products advertised at over 10% annual return. Total WMP liabilities stood at 40 billion RMB in September 2021.[1]

Referred to as a type of supply chain finance, investors would invest money in shell companies they falsely believed existed to supplement working capital. As sales of the products fell, their business model became unsustainable. An Evergrande executive was quoted in 2021 as saying "Many people . . . might be arrested for financial fraud if investors don't get paid off. Our products were not for everyone. But our grassroots salespeople didn't consider this when making their sales pitches and they targeted everyone in order to meet their own sales targets."[1] Other Chinese companies that sold wealth management products included Baoneng, Country Garden, Sunac, and Kaisa.[1]

Western exposure to Evergrande

In 2021, Evergrande was estimated to have $19 billion in overseas liabilities.[13] American and European companies had significant exposure to Evergrande through their holding of corporate bonds. Ashmore Group, an emerging market specialist, owned more than $400 million at the end of June, while UBS owned over $300 million. BlackRock had a total exposure of $400 million across all its funds, with one of its high-yield funds having acquired an additional $18 million worth of bonds in August.[14] Other companies have had smaller exposure, with HSBC having a peak exposure of $31 million.[14]

Doubts grow over Evergrande

Rumours and ratings

On 22 June 2021, Fitch downgraded Evergrande's credit rating from B+ to B, and further downgraded it to CCC+ on 28 July.[15] According to the company, the initial downgrade reflected "ongoing pressure for Evergrande to downsize its business and reduce total debt",[16] the latter action due to "Evergrande's diminishing margin of safety in preserving liquidity".[17]

On 3 August 2021, Moody's downgraded Evergrande's rating from B2 to Caa1.[18] On 5 August, S&P Global Ratings downgraded Evergrande and its subsidiaries from B− to CCC, two steps on its scale, qualifying it as having extremely speculative credit worthiness.[19] On 7 September, Fitch downgraded Evergrande further from CCC+ to CC.[20]


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August letter

In the last week of August 2021, a letter became widely circulated online. In the letter, Evergrande informed the government of Guangdong province that they were close to running out of cash. Initially, the company claimed that the letter was fabricated. Evergrande denounced the letter as "pure defamation", and made a number of public announcements to reduce fears from investors and the public.[6]

In a statement on 31 August 2021, Evergrande warned it would default on its debts if it failed to raise enough cash to cover them.[21] At the time, Evergrande was China's most indebted real estate developer, and had several large bond payments to make for the foreseeable future.[22]

Chinese government responses

On 22 September 2021, the governments in Zhuhai and Nanshan District, Shenzhen took control of sales revenue for Evergrande's properties in a state-controlled custodial account to protect home-buyers and continue construction of the company's developments. Various provinces followed suit as the developer put hundreds of projects on hold.[23]

In October 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that the central government was planning to implement a nationwide property tax, to tackle real estate speculation. However, the report detailed widespread resistance within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), leading to an alternative proposal to provide state-owned housing.[24][25] On 23 October, a five-year trial of the proposed tax was announced for select regions with high real estate prices, most likely Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Hainan.[26]

Missed payments in September

On 24 September 2021, Evergrande missed off-shore bond payments totalling US$83.5 million. While the company had 30 days to avoid defaulting on the debt, analysts felt it was unlikely to manage doing so.[27] On 12 October, Evergrande missed payments on three offshore bonds which totalled US$148 million. By this date, the developer had missed five bond payments during the crisis.[28] On 20 October, Evergrande paid off US$83.5 million worth of interest in order to avoid a default on the 24 September bonds.[29]

Financial system responses

Evergrande's attempted asset sales

In order to raise capital, the group started to sell off some of its assets. On 29 September 2021, the company sold a 20% stake in Shengjing Bank, retaining 15%, raising 10 billion RMB (US$1.5 billion).[30] On 4 October 2021, the Cailian Press reported that rival Hopson Development was set to buy a 51% stake in the Evergrande Property Services subsidiary for around US$5 billion.[31] On the same day, Evergrande froze its shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, citing a "possible general offer" in the near future, but until 20 October had not unfrozen them nor made announcements about the offer.[32]

On 20 October, they announced that the deal had fallen through and applied to reopen trading on its shares.[33] Except for a stake in a regional bank, as of that date "there has been no material progress on sale of assets of the group" according to Evergrande.[33] In response, shares fell 13.6%.[34]

Financial contagion

Off-shore bondholders hired Kirkland & Ellis and Moelis & Company to advise them ahead of a potential restructuring in September.[30] In the second week of October 2021, they informed the bondholders that they expected an Evergrande default to be "imminent" and that the company had failed to engage with them "meaningfully".[35]

On 28 September 2021, Sunac bought back $34 million of its bonds and denied requesting government assistance. A letter, which the developer claimed was merely a draft, surfaced online arguing that recent regulations in Shaoxing intended to control property prices had left a local project unable to break even.[36]

On 5 October 2021, developer Fantasia Holdings missed a payment on a US$206 million bond that had matured the day before, triggering a default. Just weeks prior, the developer had assured investors it had "no liquidity issue".[37]

On 7 October 2021, Chinese Estates Holdings announced they would go private in order to avoid contagion from a possible Evergrande default.[38]

On 11 October 2021, developer Sinic Holdings Group Co. warned that it was unlikely to be able to pay off a US$250 million bond due on 18 October 2021. At the time of the announcement, Sinic had US$694 million of dollar bonds outstanding.[39]

In the week of 11 October 2021, Modern Land attempted to extend the maturity of a US$250 million bond on Monday and the prices of Sunac and Guangzhou R&F bonds fell sharply.[28]

On 15 October, the Chinese government commented for the first time on the Evergrande situation, blaming the company for its problems and saying that contagion to the financial system was controllable.[40]

On 19 October 2021, Sinic defaulted on US$246 million worth of bonds.[40] The same day, official figures showed real estate output in China was down 1.6% in the third quarter year on year, the first time it has been negative since the start of the pandemic.[40]

On 20 October 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics of China published data indicating that home prices had fallen month-on-month for the first time since April 2015, dropping in more than half of the cities surveyed.[41]

Evergrande default

In November, it was reported that the Chinese government was working behind closed doors to restructure Evergrande, in order to resolve the crisis.[42]

On 10 November 2021, Evergrande defaulted on three additional bonds after missing the grace period for interest payments,[بحاجة لمصدر] but reportedly fulfilled the payments after the deadline.[43]

On 19 November 2021, it was announced that Hong Kong's Hang Seng China Enterprises Index intended to delist Evergrande Group.[44] Reasons why companies are delisted are typically not given by the index. Any delisting is likely due to the poor performance of the company since the crisis began.

On 7 December 2021, it was reported that Evergrande had for the first time missed a deadline for payment of interest on US dollar bonds[45] at the end of a 30-day grace period, with no sign of payment.[46] A day later, trading in shares of the similarly embattled Chinese property developer Kaisa Group Holdings was suspended after an anonymous source said that Kaisa would probably not meet a deadline for $400 million offshore debt.[45] In early December 2021, Kaisa was the second-largest holder (after Evergrande) of offshore debt among developers.[45]

The ratings agency Fitch further downgraded Evergrande Group (and Kaisa) on 9 December 2021 from "C" to "RD",[47] thereby declaring that both groups had defaulted on offshore bonds. Fitch attached a so-called "restricted default" status to this downgrade. Neither developer had yet officially announced defaults that could lead to debt restructuring processes.[48] On 10 December 2021, a third party forcibly sold about 3.4% of Chairman Hui Ka Yan's personal holding of Evergrande stock to enforce a "security interest" (the shares had been pledged).[49] On 17 December 2021, credit rating agency S&P Global declared Evergrande in "selective default" with regard to payments for outstanding US-dollar bonds.[50]

Demolition notice

On 27 December 2021, the People's Government of Danzhou issued a notice asking Evergrande to demolish 39 of the buildings on its Ocean Flower Island, or Haihua Island, project, which is off the coast of Danzhou City, Hainan.[51] The government stated that these buildings were built illegally. With an 8-square-kilometer planned area and an investment of roughly 81 billion yuan, Haihua Island would have been the world's largest artificial island. It was also Evergrande's most influential real estate project before the financial crisis. The order further undermined market confidence in Beijing's proposal to allow Evergrande to sell its assets to satisfy its debts.[52]

2022

Trading of Evergrande's shares was halted on 3 January 2022.[53] In a filing submitted the next day, Evergrande committed to trading again in the future, but noted that its 2021 sales were 43.02 billion yuan ($70 billion), down 39% from 2020.[51]

As concern over the state of the Chinese economy and its dependence on loans increased, Chinese banks decreased their traditional lending activity and purchasing low-risk financial instruments to meet government-imposed lending quotas.[54] On 20 February 2022, various Evergrande contractors reported[55] that assets worth over US$150 million had been frozen on orders of Chinese courts.

On 23 February 2022, Marco Metzler stated that Evergrande could no longer be successfully restructured, based on an analysis by ratings agency Fitch. In this analysis, a liquidation of the company would return only between 0% and 10% of principal to creditors.[56] Metzler was Chairman of FMPC Consulting, who advised Evergrande creditors on possible insolvency proceedings with respect to Evergrande's Cayman Islands subsidiary.

On 15 March 2022, Evergrande's share price sank to a new all-time low of HK$1.16 (US$0.15), down from a high of over HK$31 in October 2017.[57]

On 17 March 2022, stocks of Sunac, China's third-biggest property developer by sales, were downgraded to a B− credit rating by ratings agency S&P, because of concerns that the company might not be able to meet its very large debt repayments of nearly US$4bn for 2022.[58] The company's liquidity position was revised downward from "less than adequate" to "weak" by the ratings agency.

On 22 March 2022, Evergrande said that it would delay the release of its financial results for 2021 due to "ongoing audit work"; in that week, about 13.4 billion yuan (US$2.11 billion) in deposits were seized by banks from its property services unit Evergrande Property Services Group because the money had been pledged as security for third-party guarantees.[59][60]

Evergrande promised to deliver a preliminary debt restructuring plan by 31 July 2022. By August, it had not.[61] Instead, the company offered details on "preliminary restructuring principles" for its offshore debt; Evergrande added that it aimed for "a specific offshore restructuring plan within 2022." On 2 September 2022, a Hong Kong High Court judge rescheduled to 7 November 2022 legal proceedings to wind up China Evergrande Group, in order to give the company time to formulate a restructuring plan.[62]

Chinese homebuyers started boycotting mortgage payments in the middle of 2022. Data from the website "WeNeedHome" showed that homebuyers were boycotting payments for 343 projects in mid-September 2022. This was an increase from 318 projects in early July.[63]


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2023

Property sales remained slow into 2023. According to one senior economist, sales were slowed by a property price floor imposed by the government to prevent developers from cutting prices. However, at the same time, the government was discussing a proposal to place a tax on property value, which had the potential to resolve local government debt problems, but which could reduce land value by 50%.[64] In April, the government completed a unified real estate registration system, which could enable the property tax to be implemented.[65]

By June, there were reports that property developers were using incentives such as cars and mobile phones to promote apartment sales. Huafa Tianfu, a developer in Hangzhou, offered up to 1kg of gold as a reward for buying an apartment (450,000 yuan, around 18% of the apartment's value).[64]

Sales by the top 100 developers in mainland China had fallen by about 33 per cent year on year in July 2023, according to China property consultancy CRIC.[66] According to analysts, a rise in default by "shadow banks" (as trust companies are also known) with strong ties to the Chinese property sector would add pressure to the real estate sector in China.[67] Bloomberg Economics estimated that the trust sector's exposure to real estate was around 10% of total assets.[68]

In August 2023, it was estimated that there were 60-80 million empty apartments in China.[69] Referring to properties marketed by Evergrande, Anne Stevenson-Yang of J Capital Research opined in summer 2023 that many such properties in the past were “sold as a speculative investment, not sold as a place to live, so obviously the confidence game will only work as long as people keep buying.”[70]

Evergrande

On 17 July 2023, Evergrande made public that it had made a net loss attributable to shareholders of 476 billion yuan (US$66.3 billion) for 2021 and of 105.9 billion yuan (US$14.7 billion) for 2022.[71] The group stated that its total liabilities on 31 December 2022 stood at 2.43 trillion yuan (roughly US$340 billion), up from 2 trillion yuan[1] in September 2021. Court hearings on the restructuring of the group's debts were to be held in July 2023 in Hong Kong and the Caribbean.

In a New York court on 18 August 2023, Evergrande filed for bankruptcy protection under chapter 15 of the US bankruptcy code, which protects its US assets while it attempts a restructuring deal.[72] On 28 August 2023, Evergrande stock plunged in Hong Kong as trading resumed after a 17-month suspension, tumbling by 79 per cent to 35 HK cents, as opposed to the pre-suspension price of HK$1.65 on 21 March 2022.[73] The record stock price in October 2017 had been over HK$31.[74]

Hui Ka Yan, the chairman of the board and Communist Party secretary of the Evergrande Group, was put under "mandatory measures" (a kind of detention[75] by the authorities) for suspected illegal activities on 28 September 2023.[76] The Wall Street Journal reported that he was suspected of transferring assets offshore while it was still unclear whether the indebted property developer would be able to complete all its unfinished projects.[77] Several important figures from Evergrande were also arrested in the preceding days.[78][79]

Country Garden

In August 2023, Country Garden Holdings warned of a large net loss for the first six months of 2023 due to impairment on property projects and declining profit margins. Country Garden was the largest private property developer in China. Its loss was expected to be in the range of 45 billion yuan (US$6.25 billion) to 55 billion yuan, after a net profit of around 1.91 billion yuan in the same period in 2022.[68] The company's shares fell up to 14.4 per cent to a record low on the day following the profit warning,[68] closing below 1 HKD for the first time.[80] Its stock was down 30% the following week.[81] The actual loss for the first half year announced on 30 August 2023 was 48.9 billion yuan (US$6.7 billion).[82]

On 15 August, Country Garden sought to delay payment on one private onshore bond, and suspended trading of 11 other onshore bonds,[83] making some analysts believe that the company was preparing for a debt restructuring.[66]

By the end of August 2023, Yang Huiyan, Country Garden's largest shareholder and China's richest woman two years previously, had seen her personal wealth decline by 84%, around US$28.6 billion since then.[69]

On 30 August, Country Garden warned it was on the "brink" of default in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, according to The Washington Post, as it had "failed to grasp and react to the risks of the ongoing real estate slump, most notably in smaller cities that are home to most of its developments."[84] The Guardian noted that if Country Garden were not to meet a deadline for a bond payment at the beginning of September 2023, it would become the biggest Chinese real estate firm to default since the Evergrande default in 2021.[85]

Although Country Garden was able to make its bond payments at the beginning of September 2023, on 10 October 2023 the company stated that it had failed to pay a HK$470 million (US$60 million) principal when due.[86] The company added that it did not expect to be able to meet all its offshore payment obligations, including with regard to dollar-denominated bonds.

Country Garden shares slumped over ten per cent to HK$0.75 on the day of the statement. One of its US dollar bonds fetched about 7 cents on the dollar on the day, according to Bloomberg data.[86] Company filings showed that, in the twelve months leading to September 2023, contracted monthly sales measured in billions of yuan had dropped from about 33 billion to 6 billion yuan.[86] South China Morning Post called this steep drop "a crisis of confidence" that had deprived Country Garden of a "crucial source of cash flow".[86]

Zhongzhi and Zhongrong

Similar issues arose at Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, one of China's largest private wealth managers, with over US$137 billion of assets under management. Although it was not clear how many products Zhongzhi had defaulted on, it suspended payments on nearly all of its products in mid-August. The firm hired KPMG to review its balance sheet, as the Chinese banking regulator set up a taskforce to examine risks.[87]

Zhongrong International Trust Co was the ninth largest trust company in China, with about 600 billion yuan in assets under management,[87] and was part-owned by Zhongzhi. On 14 August 2023, reports warned of an increased contagion risk, because Zhongrong missed its obligations for repayment on some investment products.[67][88] Two Chinese companies said Zhongrong had not paid them in time for maturing investments.[89][90]

Other firms

On 14 August, state-backed developer Sino-Ocean announced that it had missed nearly US$21 million in interest payments.[66]

See also

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