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SUBJECT TO COMPLETION STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL PRELIMINARY OFFERING CIRCULAR DATED 25 OCTOBER 2018 ed, and no agreement r to sell securities and HUNAN XIANGJIANG NEW AREA DEVELOPMENT GROUP CO., LTD （湖南湘江新區發展集團有限公司） (Incorporated with limited liability in the People’s Republic of China) U.S.$@@ @@ per cent. Bonds due @@ Issue Price: @@ per cent. The U.S.$@@ @@ per cent. Bonds due @@ (the ‘‘Bonds’’) will be issued by Hunan Xiangjiang New Area Development Group Co., Ltd（湖南湘江新區發展集團有限公司）(the ‘‘Issuer’’), a company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China (the ‘‘PRC’’) with limited liability. Neither the Changsha municipal government nor any other PRC governmental entity has any payment or other obligations under the Bonds or the trust deed dated on or about @@ 2018 (the ‘‘Trust Deed’’) between the Issuer and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (the ‘‘Trustee’’) and will not provide a guarantee of any kind for the Bonds. The Bondholders shall have no recourse to the Changsha municipal government or any other PRC governmental entity in respect of any obligation arising out of or in connection with the Bonds or the Trust Deed. The Bonds are solely to be repaid by the Issuer and the obligations of the Issuer under the Bonds and the Trust Deed shall solely be fulfilled by the Issuer as an independent legal person. See ‘‘Risk Factors – Risks Relating to The PRC – The PRC Government and the Changsha municipal government have no legal obligations under the Bonds’’. The Bonds will bear interest on their outstanding principal amount from and including @@ 2018 at the rate of @@ per cent. per annum. Interest on the Bonds is payable semi-annually in arrear in equal instalments on @@ and @@ in each year, commencing on @@ 2019. Payments on the Bonds shall be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for or on account of, any taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by the PRC or any political subdivision or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax to the extent described under ‘‘Terms and Conditions of the Bonds – Taxation’’. The Bonds will constitute direct, unconditional, unsubordinated and (subject to Condition 4(a) (Negative Pledge) of the terms and conditions of the Bonds (the ‘‘Terms and Conditions’’)) unsecured obligations of the Issuer and shall at all times rank pari passu and without any preference among themselves. The payment obligations of the Issuer under the Bonds shall, save for such exceptions as may be provided by applicable legislation and subject to Condition 4(a) (Negative Pledge) of the Terms and Conditions, at all times rank at least equally with all its other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated obligations. The Issuer undertakes that it will (i) within 15 Registration Business Days (as defined in the Terms and Conditions) after the Issue Date (as defined in the Terms and Conditions), register or cause to be registered with the local counterpart of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (‘‘SAFE’’) the Bonds pursuant to the Administrative Measures for Foreign Debt Registration and its operating guidelines issued by SAFE, effective as at 13 May 2013 (the ‘‘Foreign Debt Registration’’), (ii) use its best endeavours to complete the Foreign Debt Registration and obtain a registration record from SAFE on or before the Registration Deadline (being 120 Registration Business Days after the Issue Date) and (iii) comply with all applicable PRC laws and regulations in relation to the Bonds. For consequences of non-registration, see ‘‘Risk Factors – Risks Relating to the Bonds – Any failure to complete the relevant filings under the NDRC Notice and the relevant registration under SAFE within the prescribed time frame following the completion of the issue of the Bonds may have adverse consequences for the Issuer and/or the investors of the Bonds’’. Pursuant to the Circular on Promoting the Reform of the Administrative System on the Issuance by Enterprises of Foreign Debt Filings and Registrations（國家發展改革委關於推進企業發行 外債備案登記制管理改革的通知（發改外資[2015]2044號））(the ‘‘NDRC Circular’’) issued by the National Development and Reform Commission of the PRC or its local counterparts (‘‘NDRC’’) on 14 September 2015 which came into effect on the same day, the Issuer has registered the issuance of the Bonds with the NDRC and obtained a certificate from NDRC on 23 March 2018 evidencing such registration and intends to provide the requisite information on the issuance of the Bonds to the NDRC within the prescribed timeframe after the Issue Date and to comply with all applicable PRC laws, rules and regulations in connection with the Bonds (including), but not limited to, any rules issued by the NDRC from time to time).