Chaince Digital Holdings Inc.

Good morning and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you and welcome to Chain Data Group Holdings Limited fourth quarter and full year 2021 earnings conference call. We will be hosting our question and answer session after management's prepared remarks. Please note today's event is being recorded. I'll now turn the call over to the first speaker today, Mr. Don Zhou from Investor Relations of Chain Data Group. Please go ahead, Don.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Chain Data Group's first quarter and full-year 2021 earnings conference call. This is Don from the investor relations team of the company. With us today are Mr. Michael Faust, chairman of the board of the company, Mr. Wu Huapeng, our newly appointed CEO, Ms. Sandy Hsiao, our president, Mr. Nick Wong, our CFO, Mr. Eric Fan, our newly appointed COO, Mr. Zhang Binghua, our newly appointed CTO, and Ms. Zoe Zhang, our finance VP. In addition to providing a discussion and analysis of our quarterly performance, the company would also like to take this opportunity to share more on our recent management update, as well as the growth plan going forward. To begin with, Mr. Michael Faust will walk you through the recent management update and the rationale behind. Harpoon will be providing you a comprehensive look at the company's plan going forward in Chinese, followed by Nick's English version. Nick will then take you through the quarterly review of our operation performance, and Zoe will present our financial results. Management team will be here to answer your questions afterwards. Now I will quickly go over the safe harbor Some of the statements that we make today regarding our business, operations, and financial performance may be considered forward-looking, and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For more information, please refer to the risk factors discussed in our filings with the SEC. During this call, we will present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP measures is included in our earnings press release, which is distributed and available to the public through our investor relations website located at investor.qingdatagroup.com. We have also updated our quarterly presentation on the company's investor relations website, which you can refer to as an important supplementary material for today's call. Without further ado, I'll now turn off the call to Mr. Michael Faust. Michael, please go ahead.

Thank you, Don, and thank you, everyone, for joining our earnings call this morning or this evening. As the chair of the board of directors, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our senior leadership team. We are very pleased to have this team in place and we're confident in their leadership of Chin Data going forward. As you know, we made the announcement a couple of weeks ago, the appointments of our CEO, our president, COO, and CTO of the company. Leading the team, Mr. Wapung Wu was appointed as our CEO and as a director of the board. A little background on Wapung. He joined Chin Data in 2019 as president of our China business. And prior to that, he was the founder of iTech Club and the founder and headmaster of 1024 Academy, which both are preeminent platforms that bring together top technology executives for training and idea exchanges. Wapung also served as vice president of Phoenix New Media and the CTO of iFeng from 2007 to 2013. Wapung's performance in the last three years has truly been outstanding. With his 20 years of experience and contacts within China's technology and data center sectors, Wapong brought in a series of strategic customers and projects and successfully established solid relationships with local governments and our partners in the data center ecosystem. After a thorough search process, it became clear to the board that Wapong is the best fit as the group's new CEO with his strategic thinking, industry resources, and understanding of the company and our team. Ms. Sandy Hsiao has been with the company for over two years. With her deep understanding of the company, having served as our Chief Operating Officer since August of 2019, and as a Board Director since July 2019, Sandy was appointed as President of Chin Data Group. Mr. Xinyu Eric Fan joined the company in December 2021 as Vice President of Business Operations, and was appointed as our new Chief Operating Officer. Eric has a deep background in strategic planning and operations. He served as vice president and the general manager of Securit Asia with Saint-Gobain from 2015 to 2021, and served as strategic planning director of Saint-Gobain from 2013 to 2015. In addition, Mr. Phan served as an associate director at Dow Chemical from 2011 to 2013, And prior to that, Eric was a senior manager at Honeywell Building Solutions from 2009-2011 and also served as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group for four years from 2006-2009. In addition, we're very pleased to announce that Mr. Benoit Jean was appointed as our chief technology officer. Binghua has a very long distinguished background in the IDC industry. Prior to joining Chin Data, he was the technical director, senior director, and the general manager of the systems department and IDC engineering at Baidu from 2010 to 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Zhang served as the chief engineer in the Beijing Telecom Planning and Design Institute from 1995 to 2010. Um, we are very pleased to have him join our team and, um, he's a very distinguished, very well known in the industry. So, uh, we're, we're very happy to have him join us. And lastly, we have, as you well know, we have Nick Wong as our CFO who's been with the company for over two years now. So we're a very well positioned, uh, with our management team and, um, You know, the company benefits from this very strong team with diversified experience and expertise covering our business operations, strategic planning, technical know-how, as well as capital markets operations. We're highly confident that under this team, Chin Data's business is more diversified. Its culture is more open with a solid foundation so that we can further strengthen our position as the leading data center platform in China and in the Asia Pacific emerging markets. So with this, I'll turn the call over to our CEO, Mr. Wa Peng Wu, who will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the company's plan going forward. Thank you.