Gulf Resources, Inc.

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Gulf Resources 2022 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants have been placed on a listen-only mode, and the floor will be open for questions and comments after the presentation. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Helen Hsu. Ma'am, the floor is yours.

Thank you, operator. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and good evening to all those of you for joining us from China. And we'd like to welcome all of you to GovResources first quarter 2022, our news conference call. I'm Helen Xu, the IR Director. Our CEO of the company, Mr. Xiaobin Liu, is also joining us this call today. I'd like to remind you to all of our listeners that in this call, Certain management statements during the call will contain for looking information about garbage sources in corporations and its subsidiary business and products within the meaning of Rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3B-6 under the Security Exchange Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor created by those rules. Actual results may differ from those discussed today, taking into account a number of risk factors, including but not limited to the general economic and business conditions in the PRC, the risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, future product development and production capabilities, shipments to end customers, market acceptance of new and existing products, additional competition from existing and new competition from the bromine and the other oil field and power production chemicals, changing technology, the ability to make future bromine assets, and various other factors beyond its control. All four looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and the risk factors detailed with the company's report filed with the SEC. Gulf Resources assumes no obligation to revise or update any four looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this call. Accordingly, our company believes expectations reflected in those forelooking statements are reasonable and there can be no assurance of such will prove to be correct. In addition, any reference to the company's future performance represents the management's estimates as of today, the 16th of May 2022. For those of you unable to listen to the entire call at this time, a replay will be available at the company's website The call is also accessible through the webcast. And the link is accessible through our website. So please locate our press release issued earlier for the details.

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