Reading Text Group (00772) announced that for the full year of 2017, the Group achieved revenue of about 4,095 million yuan (RMB, same below), an increase of 60.2% over the previous year; gross profit of 2,075 million yuan, an increase of 96.8% over the previous year; operating profit of 511 million yuan, an increase of 14.33 times over the previous year; equity holders should account for net profit of 556 million yuan, an increase of 7.47 times over the previous year; the basic profit per share was 0.74 yuan, with no dividends paid.

Looking back over the year, the Group's average monthly active users increased 12.7% year-on-year to 191.5 million, including 179.4 million mobile users and 12.1 million computer users. In the same period, the average monthly paying user reached 11.1 million, up 33.7% from 8.3 million in 2016.

As of December 31, 2017, the Group's platform had 6.9 million writers, and the number of new words added to the platform reached 43 billion in 2017. The content library contains 10.1 million works, including 9.7 million original works of literature created on its own platform, 280 thousand works from third-party online platforms, and 140 thousand e-books.

According to the “2017 China Mobile Internet Annual Report” released by QuestMobile, the group's flagship mobile application product “QQ Reading” was selected as China Mobile Internet's “Top Ten Industry User Sticky Apps”, “Top Ten Favorite Apps of Mobile Netizens in Second-tier Cities”, and “Nine Ecological Traffic Players”.