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Neophotonics NeoPhotonics Corporation (NeoPhotonics or the Company), a Delaware incorporated company, designs, assembles, manufactures and distributes a complete line of active and passive optical components, modules and sub systems for broadband data networks. It is at the forefront of advanced active and passive components integration, positioning it for the expected rapid growth in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments across Asia and North America.  With over 1,500 employees, over 90% based in Shenzhen, China, and estimated consolidated pro-forma sales of approximately $55 million in 2005, NeoPhotonics ranks among the top ten optical component players globally and among the three largest privately held companies in the industry. Through its recent acquisition of Shenzhen Photon Technology Co., Ltd. (Photon), it is also the largest optical components manufacturer in China today.  Approximately $47.5million of its 2005 $55 million in consolidated revenues was generated by the companys operations in China, with approximately 30% of those revenues being contributed by large Chinese customers such as Huawei Technologies and ZTE.  In 2005 the company incurred cash losses of about $20 million as it grew, and it expects to achieve break-even on a monthly cash basis later this year, with 2007 overall being a profitable year. The company maintains its headquarters and state-of-the-art development facilities in San Jose, California and substantial R&D and manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen, China.
China Glass II The project is to help an IFC existing client, China Glass Holdings Limited (CGH or the company):   -  improve its energy efficiency and other aspects of its environmental performance; and  - manufacture more energy-efficient products.  The project consists of three main components:  - build a 3MW heat-recovery generation system and a centralized water recycling system in Suqian, Jiangsu province;  - transform three lines (Suqian, Weihai and Beijing) to produce energy-efficient products such as low-E glass; and  - enhance furnace energy efficiency by revising design and applying new combustion technology and increasing capacity during cold repair.  The total project cost is estimated at up to $52 million and IFC proposes to provide an A loan of up to $30 million to support the project. The projects significant development impacts include:  Assisting a market leader to improve market competitiveness:   The project is consistent with the Chinese Governments efforts to consolidate the industry by supporting a competitive producer and create a strong, efficient leader in the glass industry.  The Project will support CGH in strengthening its market competitiveness and enhancing its long term sustainability by improving energy efficiency and diversifying into green glass products like low-E glass.   Promoting energy efficiency:   The Chinese Government is encouraging the glass industry to pursue cleaner production practice to address the rising environment and energy concern in the country.  The project will help the Company produce more energy efficient products and enhance furnace energy efficiency, thereby reducing its energy costs and CO2 emissions.  This is further expected to help CGH set good cleaner production standards and become a role model for its peers in the industry.
Zhong An Credit Zhong An Credit is an existing company.  It is registered as a venture capital company in Shenzhen, China.  Its primary business is to provide micro enterprise- and personal lending.  Its main operation is in Shenzhen, although the activities are expected to increase in Hebei and Sichuan province in the near future. The purpose of the project is to support the expansion of Zhong An Credits microfinance portfolio in a sustainable way. The project is expected to support an underserved segment of the market, i.e., micro-entrepreneurs, small businesses and other small cash generation activities that do not currently have access to finance.
Yaohua Glass The project is to privatize and re-establish the financial viability of Ching Yaohua Glass Group Corporation (Yaohua) headquartered in QinhuangDao (QHD), Hebei province, North-East of China - and Qinhuangdao Beifang Glass Group Co.,Ltd. (Beifang), Yaohua''s sister glass company located in the same city.  Yaohua has also operations in Shenyang, capital city of Liaoning province.  This privatization involves:   - the closing down, due to environment concerns, of six old and polluting float glass lines located in an urban area of the city of QHD and rebuilding in an industrial zone located in the city suburbs, 8 modern and more energy efficient lines; and - a spin-off of non-glass activities and the consolidation of all the float glass operations of the two companies;  - a staff retrenchment program accompanied by an adequate compensation package; and  - strengthening the balance sheets of Yaohua and Beifang.    NOTE: Yaohua refers to the China Yaohua Glass Group Corporation that has fulfilled the strategic withdrawal from the domestic listed vehicle. The projects significant development impact includes:  - Promoting the privatization of non-performing SOEs, in line with China Government policy:   In addition, the government is encouraging non-strategic SOEs (such as Yaohua and Beifang) to be transformed into viable private companies so that they become industry leaders and more efficient in their operations.  Because of the increased capacity of the combined operations of the two privatized companies, a labor requirement of 6,800 employees is anticipated, which is slightly more than are currently employed in the existing glass lines.  - Supporting the modernization of the sector and the upgrading of environmental standards:   The project will upgrade and modernize the companys production facilities with an increased focus on higher value-added products and energy efficiency production process. - Improving the environment by closing down old plants in urban areas:   The project is consistent with the China Governments efforts to relocate polluting industrial companies from densely populated urban areas.
GXYX ASF Project Guangxi Yangxiang Co., Ltd (Yangxiang or the Company) was established in 1998 in Guigang city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Its main businesses are the breeding and farming of pigs, and pig farm services. Yangxiang is among the top pig companies in China. Headquartered in Guangxi, Yangxiang has presence in Hebei, Henan, Hunan and Liaoning provinces -- all are frontier provinces in China. The Project is to expand pig breeding and farming capacity and its ancillary facilities in Guangxi. The proposed IFC investment is an A loan of up to CNY560 million (approximately US$80 million equivalent). The Project is assessed as part of IFC's overarching programmatic intervention (ASF Asia Recovery Program) to respond to the impacts of the ASF on the regional pork industry. The most significant, expected Project-level outcome resulting from this expansion is the impact on consumers from the provision of safe pork at the time of severe supply shortage as well as implementation of advanced biosecurity procedures at the new farms. The Project will also strengthen the operations of smaller farmers by disseminating best industry practices through the Company's out-grower scheme. At the market level, the Project, alongside other planned investment and advisory interventions, is expected to promote market resilience through improvement of biosecurity and disease management, both by supporting industry consolidation and disseminating best practices among smaller players.
Xi'an City Commercial Bank XCCB was established in 1997 through a consolidation of 42 urban credit cooperatives in Xi''an.  It provides a full range of commercial banking services targeted to primarily SMEs in Xian.  It is proposed that IFC make an equity investment for up to 12.4% shareholding of XCCB.  The bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) of Canada, which will be the strategic and technical partner to co-invest with IFC, will also take an equity stake of 11.5%.  This would be IFCs first investment in a financial institution in the western region of China.      The project is intended to strengthen XCCB''s capital base and assist XCCB in its effort to improve corporate governance, adopt international standards and banking best practices, and become a leading bank in western China.  This venture will have a very strong institution-building and development impact, since it will demonstrate IFC''s support to the economic development of western China, which is still underdeveloped relative to the coastal regions. The Chinese government is making a strategic effort to boost the region''s domestic and foreign investment, as well as private sector development. IFC has already devoted a lot of effort to identify the strategic and technical partner, and to structure the investment.      Scotiabank''s participation in the management of XCCB will help ensure the effective transfer of international banking best practices and therefore the success of this investment.
Chenguang Bio The objective of the proposed investment of up to US$40 million for Chenggang Biotech Group Co., Ltd. (Chenguang or the Company) is to support the Companys permanent working capital needs to increase production. Chenguang is a leading producer of natural, plant-based food extracts and additives in China. The Company currently sources raw materials from Xinjiang, China and Andhra Pradesh, India, and is looking to expand its sourcing footprint to Africa. Development Impact:
 - To consumers, the Project is expected to deliver high quality natural ingredients at a larger scale, which will in turn be used in various consumer goods, such as healthcare products, processed foods, cosmetics etc.  

- To employees, the Project can create new knowledge of production technologies and train staff to fill gaps in the current job market that is facing a shortage of highly skilled talents in food manufacturing and safety monitoring.
 
- To suppliers and distributors, the Project will engage various actors, domestic and global, in the value chain for products and services. It will also help improve the quality standards of food exporters in China.
  
Market Impact:
 
By supporting a global provider of natural pigments and extracts that generates 30+% of revenue through exports, IFC hopes to raise the quality and competitiveness of natural ingredients that are used broadly in industrial value chains, to increase visibility of Chinese companies with sophisticated technologies, to promote South-South investment between China and India.
Simple Credit Loan The proposed investment entails a 3-year financing package, including IFC A loan of up to RMB350 million (US$50 million equivalent) and syndication of up to US$30 million or equivalent, to Simple Credit Micro-Lending Co., Ltd. (Simple Credit, or the Company), a microfinance company holding internet lending license (Internet MCC) in China. The proposed IFC financing aims to support Simple Credit to grow its digital agriculture lending (Digital Agri-lending) business primarily in frontier regions of China and to promote access to finance for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) along the agriculture supply chain. Project Outcomes: Improve access to finance for MSMEs along the agriculture supply chain. The proceed of the financing will increase access to finance for the unbanked and underbanked MSMEs along the agriculture supply chain with innovative digital solution by increasing the number of Simple Credit's micro digital agri-loan from 590 by the end of 2019 to 6,094 by the end of 2023,  and volume of outstanding loan portfolio from US$4.8 million by the end of 2019 to US$132 million by the end of 2023.
Contribution to Market Creation: Inclusiveness: The Project will represent IFC's systematic efforts of using digital solution to promote financial inclusion in China and IFC's continued efforts to develop the agriculture and rural areas in China.
Nature Elements The Nature Elements Asia Renewable Energy and Cleantech Fund, L.P. (the Fund) is a private equity fund that will invest in a diversified portfolio of clean energy and cleantech projects. The Fund will invest in China (estimated at approximately 80% of total investments) and other Asian countries including Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines (estimated at 20% of total investments).  The Fund is targeting $200 million in commitments and will be managed by Nature Elements Capital (NECAP or the Manager). The Fund will have a high development impact, which includes but is not limited to:
(i) Reduction of GHGs; 
(ii) Adoption of more environmentally sustainable practices;
(iii) Improvement in clean energy technology in China;
(iv) Job creation including in the frontier regions; 
(v) Demonstration effect by strengthening investee companies and making them targets for acquisition and investments;
(vi) Privatization of renewable energy assets developed by SOEs; and
(vii) Developing and financing renewable energy projects in the frontier regions of China.
Peak Pacific Investment Company China suffers from severe air pollution problems caused by huge numbers of small, inefficient, coal-fired heating boilers that supply steam to residential, commercial and industrial customers.  Central CHP plants, such as those operated by PPIC, are more efficient and thus generate steam using much less fuel.  This enables the shutdown of many of these small boilers, thus reducing regional air emissions (including greenhouse gases) as well as generating substantial cost savings.  Unfortunately, Government of PRC environmental regulations are inadequately enforced, and even relatively new CHP plants are non-compliant and sub-optimally managed.  The project will have a strong development impact by demonstrating that environmentally compliant, well-managed CHP plants can be financially viable in the PRC market, thus setting a benchmark for other operators.  IFCs involvement will ensure that existing plants are environmentally upgraded to the extent practical and that new units meet international emissions levels.    The World Bank Group Country Assistance Strategy for China calls on IFC to assist China in establishing a more private sector-oriented framework for infrastructure development.  Another major objective of the WBGs work in China is to assist State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in becoming more competitive.  In an indirect way, this project does that by providing lower priced steam inputs to industrial SOEs.  In addition, the WBGs strategy for China specifically cites the need to assist the country in reducing the level of air pollution.
CenturySunshine2 Century Sunshine Group Holdings Limited (CS or the Company) is a public company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Ticker: 0509). Founded in 2000, CSs businesses include ecological fertilizers and magnesium alloys, with main manufacturing facilities located in Donghai, Jiangsu province and Baishan, Jilin province respectively.  CS is currently considering the following expansion plan by 2016 (the Project): (1) increasing the production capacity of its fertilizer manufacturing facility from 300,000 tons to 750,000 tons at the Donghai site; and (2) increasing the production capacity of its magnesium (Mg) manufacturing facility from 16,000 tons to 75,000 tons at the Baishan site. -	Improve food security: CS supplies fertilizers to farmers in 14 provinces and 2 autonomous regions in China, of which ten are classified as frontier regions by the International Development Association (IDA). The fertilizers help enhance the yield of the farmland and hence address food security issues in China.  -	Promote the applications of an environmentally-friendly material: Weight reduction is the most cost effective means to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Generally, it has been estimated that for every 10 percent of weight eliminated from a vehicle''s total weight, fuel economy improves by 7 percent. Magnesium alloy is one of the lightest structural materials used in automobiles -- 75 percent lighter than steel and 33 percent lighter than aluminum. The Chinese government encourages the development and application of high-performance magnesium alloys, as stated in its twelfth 5-year plan.  -	Employment creation and local linkages: The Project is expected to create approximately 1,000 new job opportunities, of which 600 are in Jilin, a frontier province. The Project is also expected to spur the growth of local supply of goods and services, such as machinery, raw materials, and transportation services.
Huarong Asset Management Corporation Description of Company:    Huarong has the largest NPL portfolio among the four Chinese AMCs, with a current total claim value of about RMB 407.7 billion (US$49.7billion).  Huarong is mandated to maximize recovery through management and disposition of NPLs through various exit options, including voluntary transfers, discounted pay-offs, loan restructurings, foreclosures, debt-equity swaps and portfolio auctions.       Purpose of Project:    The purpose of IFC''s support to this auction is to encourage a transaction that is fair, transparent, and follows international best practices, one which would set a precedent for future sales and help provide much-needed momentum to the development of the NPL market in China.      Development impact/IFC''s role   : IFC''s participation would lend essential credibility to a landmark transaction, the success of which will accelerate the development of a Chinese NPL market and help restructure the banking system.  IFC''s role would contribute to encourage foreign participation, increase competition, restructure assets and help develop a local NPL market.  Through years of lending to unprofitable state-owned enterprises, the Chinese banking system has accumulated a vast amount of NPLs, estimated to be as much as US$440 billion, equivalent to 42% of 2000 GDP.  A developed NPL market is needed to help China resolve a massive NPL problem that, if left unresolved, could hamper the country''s growth.
MAISON CAPITAL FUND LP Maison Capital Fund L.P. (Maison Capital or the Fund) is a 10 year closed-end generalist private equity fund targeting fast growing mid-market companies in China. The Fund is seeking to raise $200 million in total committed capital. Expected development impact includes (i) implementation of an Environment and Social Management System by the Fund Manager and subsequent implementation of ESG best practices at portfolio company level, (ii) job creation that is expected to come through the business growth of the portfolio companies and (iii) operational improvements and enhanced corporate governance in portfolio companies.
SBCVC Fund II, LP SBCVC Fund II, LP (SBCVC, or the Fund) is a 10-year closed-end venture capital fund that will target early and growth stage Chinese companies in the telecom, media and technology sectors (TMT).  The Funds objective is to generate superior returns by investing in a portfolio of technology, media and telecom companies that have the potential to create substantial value and become industry leaders in the Chinese, and potentially, global market place.

The Fund is targeting total capital commitments of $150-200 million, and expects to have a first closing during the first quarter of 2006.
Fosun Pharma Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceuticals Company Limited (Fosun Pharma or the Company) is a leading Chinese pharmaceutical company focused on research, development, production and distribution of pharmaceutical products in China. The Company currently develops, manufactures and sells over 190 formulations and 20 different types of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients.  Its products have leading market positions in the treatment of gynecological and hepatic diseases, diabetes, and malaria.  All of the Companys production facilities are Chinese GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) compliant.  Fosun Pharma also possesses one of the largest wholesale and retail distribution networks for pharmaceutical products in China.  The Company holds a 49% stake in Sinopharm Medicine Holding (Sinopharm), one of the largest distributors/retailers in China.  China National Pharmaceutical Group (CNPG), a state owned enterprise, owns the remaining 51% in Sinopharm.  Together Fosun Pharma and Sinopharm maintain a network of more than 1,500 pharmacies in major cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, and rank as one of top three players in each city.  The purpose of the project is to support the operating activities of Fosun Pharma over the next 12-18 months.  Fosun Pharmas total financial requirements in this period are currently estimated at about $100 million. The projects major development impacts are as follows:  - Support Chinas medical sector reforms:   Though some privately owned, specialty drug stores have now emerged in several cities with the ability to sell medicines at a comparatively cheap price, they constitute a small portion of the overall market. Fosun Pharmas expansion in pharmaceutical wholesale and retail business through the association with Sinopharm is likely to increase efficiency in the distribution of pharmaceutical products, help cut medical expenditures in China, and support the Chinese governments decision to further reform the pharmaceutical industry.   - Support development of anti-malaria drugs:  In 2004, Guilin Pharma (a subsidiary of Fosun Pharma) was the first pharmaceutical company to introduce artesunate to treat malaria on a worldwide basis and owns a patent on its synthesis.  Guilin Pharma has the exclusive right to manufacture artesunate in China and export artesunate-related products to 37 countries. The project will support the manufacturing on a larger scale of anti-malaria medicines.  - Support of Stock Reform Plan:    IFCs support of the ongoing stock reform plan in the Company supports the overall Chinese stock market reform initiative intended to remove differences between traded and non-traded shares.  - Support improvement of Fosun Pharmas environment and social systems:  IFC will provide assistance to Fosun Pharma for its ongoing initiatives to build capacity and standardize environmental, health and safety management systems throughout its group companies.
Deqingyuan egg Beijing Deqingyuan Agriculture Technology Co. Ltd (Deqingyuan or the company) is a company based in Beijing, China, that produces high quality eggs.  It currently houses 500,000 layers and produces and sells 200,000 eggs per day.  Its eggs received the no harmful ingredients certificate, the organic food product certificate, and the safe agricultural food product certificate from the government.  It is the only egg product that was granted as a national priority new product by the Ministry of Technology, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Quality Inspection, and Ministry of Environment Protection.   The quality of the Deqingyuan eggs is well recognized by the market.  The eggs sell at a price that is substantially higher than that of the non-brand, regular eggs and the sales grow rapidly.  Deqingyuans strategy is to quickly increase its production capacity and market share.  It plans to expand the capacity of the layer sheds to house an additional 800,000 birds, which will add production capacity by 500,000 eggs per day.