Parties are considered to be related if one party has the ability, directly or indirectly, to control the other party or exercise significant influence over the other party in making financial and operating decisions.
(a) Related parties that control the Company or are controlled by the Company:
See Note 10 for the principal subsidiaries.
None of the shareholders is the controlling entity of the Company.
(b) Nature of the principal related parties that do not control/are not controlled by the Company:
(i) Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries
Name of related parties |
Relationship with the Company |
|
|
Single largest shareholder and its subsidiaries |
|
Guangzhou Railway Group |
Single largest shareholder |
Guangzhou Railway Group YangCheng Railway Enterprise Development Company |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
GRCL |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
GEDC |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Guangzhou Railway Material Supply Company |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Yuehai Railway Company Limited |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Shichang Railway Company Limited |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Guangzhou Railway Station Service Centre |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Changsha Railway Construction Company Limited |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Guangdong Sanmao Enterprise Development Company Limited |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Guangzhou Yuetie Operational Development Company |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
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(b) Nature of the principal related parties that do not control/are not controlled by the Company (continued):
Name of related parties |
Relationship with the Company |
|
|
Guangzhou Railway Rolling Stock Works |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Foreign Economic & Trade Development Corporation of Guangzhou Railway Group |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Guangdong Tieqing International Travel Agency Company Limited |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Huaihua Railway Engineer Construction Company |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Xiashen Railway Guangdong Company Limited |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Ganshao Railway Company Limited |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Hunan Changtie Industrial Development Co. Ltd. |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Guangzhou Railway Real Estate Construction Company |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Guangzhou Beiyang Information Technology Company Limited |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Guangdong Sanmao Railway Capital Construction Company |
Subsidiary of the single largest shareholder |
Associates of the Group |
|
Tiecheng |
Associate of the Group |
Shentu |
Associate of the Group |
On 14 March 2013, pursuant to the Approval, the previous controlling entity of Guangzhou Railway Group, MOR, had been dismantled. The administrative function of MOR were transferred to the Ministry of Transport and the newly established National Railway Bureau, and its business functions were transferred to the CRC. Accordingly, the equity interests of Guangzhou Railway Group which was wholly controlled by MOR previously were transferred to the CRC (“Reform”). The Reform was completed since 1 January 2017 and the Company disclosed details of transactions undertaken with CRC Group for both years of 2017 and 2016 for reference. Unless otherwise specified, the transactions with CRC Group disclosed below have excluded transactions undertaken with Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries.
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(c) In addition to those disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements, during the year, the Group had the following material transactions undertaken with related parties:
(I) Material transactions undertaken with Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries:
|
2015 |
|
2016 |
|
2017 |
|
RMB’000 |
|
RMB’000 |
|
RMB’000 |
Provision of services and sales of goods |
|
|
|
|
|
Transportation related services |
|
|
|
|
|
Provision of train transportation services to Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries (i) |
751,956 |
|
1,425,538 |
1,505,348 | |
Revenue collected by CRC for railway network usage and related services provided to Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries (ii) |
1,180,852 |
|
1,400,876 |
1,428,752 | |
Revenue from railway operation service provided to Guangzhou Railway Group’s subsidiaries (iii) |
550,168 |
|
579,253 |
|
660,847 |
|
2,482,976 |
|
3,405,667 |
|
3,594,947 |
Other services |
|
|
|
|
|
Sales of materials and supplies to Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries (iv) |
25,940 |
|
29,449 |
|
23,386 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Services received and purchase made |
|
|
|
|
|
Transportation related services |
|
|
|
|
|
Provision of train transportation services by Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries (i) |
888,903 |
|
989,778 |
1,048,524 | |
Cost settled by CRC for railway network usage and related services provided by Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries (ii) |
1,406,962 |
|
1,628,336 |
1,720,849 | |
Operating lease rental paid to Guangzhou Railway Group for the leasing of land use rights (Note 36 (b)) |
55,090 |
|
55,090 |
57,358 | |
|
2,350,955 |
|
2,673,204 |
2,826,731 | |
|
|
|
|
| |
Other services |
|
|
|
| |
Social services (employee housing and public security services and other ancillary services) provided by GEDC and Yangcheng Railway (iii) |
16,080 |
|
11,297 |
- | |
Provision of repair and maintenance services by Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries (iv) |
489,038 |
|
306,988 |
298,040 | |
Purchase of materials and supplies from Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries (v) |
384,262 |
|
469,273 |
455,716 | |
Provision of construction services by Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries (vi) |
226,089 |
|
347,409 |
272,390 | |
|
1,115,469 |
|
1,134,967 |
|
1,026,146 |
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(c) In addition to those disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements, during the year, the Group had the following material transactions undertaken with related parties (continued):
(I) Material transactions undertaken with Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries:
(i) The service charges are determined based on a pricing scheme set by the CRC or based on negotiation between the contracting parties with reference to actual costs incurred.
(ii) Such revenues/charges are determined by the CRC based on its standard charges applied on a nationwide basis.
(iii) The service charges are levied based on contract prices determined based on a "cost plus a profit margin" and agreed between both contracting parties.
(iv) The prices are determined based on mutual negotiation between the contracting parties with reference to actual costs incurred.
(v) The prices are determined based on mutual negotiation between the contracting parties with reference to procurement costs incurred plus a management fee ranged from 0.3% to 5% on the costs.
(vi) Based on construction amount determined under national railway engineering guidelines.
(II) Material transactions with CRC and other railway companies
The Group work in cooperation with the CRC and other railway companies owned and controlled by CRC for the operations of certain long distance passenger train and freight transportation businesses within the PRC. The revenues generated therefrom are collected and settled by the CRC according to its central recording and settlement systems (see details in Note 2.24). The charges for the use of the rail lines and services provided by other railway companies are also instructed by the CRC and settled by the CRC based on its systems. Since March 2013, the collection, processing and distribution functions of revenues which were executed by MOR previously have been transferred to CRC. As at 31 December 2017, the cooperation mode and pricing model had not been subject to any material changes.
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(c) In addition to those disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements, during the year, the Group had the following material transactions undertaken with related parties (continued):
(II) Material transactions with CRC and other railway companies (continued):
In addition to those disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements, during the year, the Group had the following material transactions undertaken with the CRC Group:
|
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|
|||||
Provision of services and sales of goods |
|||||
Transportation related services |
|||||
Provision of train transportation services to CRC Group (i) |
|||||
Revenue collected by CRC for services provided to CRC Group (ii) |
|||||
Revenue from railway operation service provided to CRC Group (iii) |
|||||
|
|||||
Other services |
|||||
Provision of repairing services for cargo trucks to CRC Group (ii) |
|||||
Sales of materials and supplies to CRC Group (iv) |
|||||
Provision of apartment leasing services to CRC Group (iv) |
|||||
|
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|
|||||
Services received and purchases made |
|||||
Transportation related services |
|||||
Provision of train transportation services by CRC Group (i) |
|||||
Cost settled by CRC for services provided by CRC Group (ii) |
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
Other services |
|||||
Provision of repair and maintenance services by CRC Group (iv) |
|||||
Purchase of materials and supplies from CRC Group (v) |
|||||
Provision of construction services by CRC Group (vi) |
|||||
|
(i) The service charges are determined based on a pricing scheme set by the CRC or based on negotiation between the contracting parties with reference to actual costs incurred.
(ii) Such revenue/charges are determined by the CRC based on its standard charges applied on a nationwide basis.
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(c) In addition to those disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements, during the year, the Group had the following material transactions undertaken with related parties (continued):
(II) Material transactions with CRC and other railway companies (continued):
In addition to those disclosed elsewhere in the financial statements, during the year, the Group had the following material transactions undertaken with the CRC Group (continued):
(iii) The service charges are levied based on contract prices determined based on a “cost plus a profit margin” and explicitly agreed between both contracting parties.
(iv) The prices are determined based on mutual negotiation between the contracting parties with reference to actual costs incurred.
(v) The prices are determined based on mutual negotiation between the contracting parties with reference to procurement costs incurred plus a management fee ranged from 0.3% to 5% on the costs.
(vi) Based on construction amounts determined under national railway engineering guidelines.
(III) Revenues collected and settled through the CRC:
|
2015 |
|
2016 |
|
2017 |
|
RMB’000 |
|
RMB’000 |
|
RMB’000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
- Passenger transportation |
6,642,129 |
|
6,960,491 |
|
7,295,985 |
- Freight transportation |
1,022,025 |
|
1,105,061 |
|
1,266,122 |
- Other transportation related services |
86,199 |
|
86,883 |
|
112,267 |
|
7,750,353 |
|
8,152,435 |
|
8,674,374 |
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(d) As at 31 December 2016 and 2017, the Group had the following material balances maintained with related parties:
(I) Material balances with Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries:
|
2016 |
|
2017 |
|
RMB’000 |
|
RMB’000 |
|
|
|
|
Trade receivables |
730,061 |
|
1,435,421 |
- Guangzhou Railway Group (i) |
229,056 |
|
132,830 |
- Subsidiaries of Guangzhou Railway Group (i) |
501,005 |
|
1,302,591 |
|
|
|
|
Prepayments and other receivables |
25,961 |
|
44,329 |
- Guangzhou Railway Group |
691 |
|
3,277 |
- Subsidiaries of Guangzhou Railway Group |
25,270 |
|
41,052 |
|
|
|
|
Prepayments for fixed assets and construction-in-progress |
225 |
|
4,352 |
- Guangzhou Railway Group |
- |
|
- |
- Subsidiaries of Guangzhou Railway Group (ii) |
225 |
|
4,352 |
|
|
|
|
Trade payables |
533,051 |
|
681,587 |
- Guangzhou Railway Group (i) |
61,486 |
|
61,899 |
- Subsidiaries of Guangzhou Railway Group (ii) |
432,712 |
|
619,509 |
- Associates |
38,853 |
|
179 |
|
|
|
|
Payables for fixed assets and construction-in-progress |
249,308 |
|
342,519 |
- Guangzhou Railway Group |
10,805 |
|
53,821 |
- Subsidiaries of Guangzhou Railway Group |
168,038 |
|
220,377 |
- Associates |
70,465 |
|
68,321 |
|
|
|
|
Accruals and other payables |
430,331 |
|
439,509 |
- Guangzhou Railway Group |
5,663 |
|
7,390 |
- Subsidiaries of Guangzhou Railway Group (iii) |
422,877 |
|
430,041 |
- Associates (iv) |
1,791 |
|
2,078 |
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(e) As at 31 December 2016 and 2017, the Group had the following material balances maintained with related parties (continued):
(I) Material balances with Guangzhou Railway Group and its subsidiaries:
As at 31 December 2016 and 2017, all the balances maintained with related parties were unsecured, non-interest bearing and were repayable on demand.
(II) Material balances with CRC Group:
As at 31 December | |||
2016 |
2017 | ||
RMB’000 |
RMB’000 | ||
Due from CRC Group |
|||
- Trade receivables |
1,443,272 |
1,372,631 | |
- Other receivables |
4,672 |
1,207 | |
Due to CRC Group |
|||
- Trade payables and payables for fixed assets and construction-in-progress |
65,496 |
62,620 | |
- Other payables |
15,901 |
6,413 |
As at 31 December 2017, all the balances maintained with CRC Group were unsecured, non-interest bearing and were repayable on demand.