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| According to the statistics, the company registered improvement quarter-to-quarter |
| We are confident that supported by favorable professional education policies, we can help our students adapt to social development and promote employment by creating courses that cater to their needs as well as the professional needs of the market |
| In the second quarter of 2023 as the impact of uncertainties in external business environment at the beginning of this year abated, we achieved a 42% quarter-over-quarter increase in revenue |
| Meanwhile, thanks to restored social mobility, our IT-focused STEAM education has emerged from the temporary closures of our learning centers with stable and continuous demand for STEAM education, we witnessed a relatively healthy year-over-year growth in cash reserves |
| They are also getting good experiences which would eventually win the word of mouth among the general users and potential customers |
| Among them, revenue from our IT-focused supplementary STEAM education business recovered to the level of the same period last year, thanks to the improving external business environment |
| From the customer acquisition front, environment increased since the beginning of the first quarter, benefiting from our premium courses and delivery quality as well as our very excellent word of mouth referral |
| As always, we will continue to fully leverage our own competitive advantages to create additional shareholder value |
| Currently, we are seeing the good policy to promoting the growth of the programming abilities as well as the STEAM education services |
| As the business environment improved, the net revenue of our IT professional education business increased by 47% quarter-over-quarter |
| So the good news is we are in the market is getting stabilized with a good growing momentum |
| During this period, we will continue to enhance our operating capability and management efficiency with a more focused operational strategy while adapting to the evolving market demand across digital transformation and artificial intelligence by adjusting our course catalog according to -- accordingly to empower students development, we believe this will prepare the company's long-term growth and drive our profitability improvement |
| As we mentioned before, the carve-out of our college collaboration-related business will improve our financial health, while allowing us to focus on enhancing our operational capability and the profitability of our two core businesses |
| The impact of the uncertainties in the external business environment spanning the end of 2022 through the beginning of 2023 has almost faded away, although the IT professional education business will take some time to recover due to the sluggish economic recover impact on the stock market demand, our IT-focused supplementary STEAM education business is benefiting from the relatively strong market demand in the supplementary STEAM education field, demonstrating our business resilience |
| Benefiting from the prudent financial and operational strategy we adopted during the post-pandemic period, we effectively alleviated the sluggish economic recoveries impact on top market supply and demand while enhancing the financial health of our IT-focused supplementary STEAM and 2C professional education services |
| Despite a slight 1.7% year-over-year increase in cost and expenses, we achieved an operating profit of RMB 25.3 million, marking our second consecutive quarter of operating profitability, as we gradually shook off the ongoing impact of the first quarter's external business environment limitations our overall prior efficiency enhancement led to the improvement of our financial health |
| Looking ahead, as the business environment stabilizes, company's rising need for digital transformation and the rapid development of artificial intelligence will drive the continuous growth of market demand for IT talent, although the normalization of the market supply and demand while lag behind the economic recovery in the short term |
| This transaction brought up disposal gains enabling us to achieve a net profit of RMB 8.34 million in the second quarter |
| Our long-term disciplined control of central operations as well as the decreased number of centers enabled us to effectively control of operating expenses |
| We believe that with his abundant experience in the education and Internet field and his professional expertise, he will help us achieve new breakthroughs in operational efficiency and profitability enhancement through a combination of the financial and operational management activities |
| While we experienced a tough and challenging transition period in the first quarter, our business have gradually recovered in the second quarter and recorded a sequential growth of 42% in revenue, representing a relatively resilient recovery and an improved operating environment |
| First of all, as the general business environment is on the improvement we are seeing a boost up of the social liquidity as a natural result, we are seeing the cost of the custom acquisition as well as the delivery of the courses on the improvement as well |
| The parents are developing new awareness which is leading us to have a deeper market penetration |
| This facilitated our recovery from the ongoing impact of the challenging general business environment |
| At the same time, the number of students enrolled at the center increased from 767 the second quarter of the last year to 822 in the same period of 2023, what revenue percent increased to RMB 1.61 million in the second quarter of 2023 from RMB 1.51 million last year |
| In the second quarter of 2023, our costs and expenses decreased by 8.2% year-over-year, mainly due to reduced expenditures on rent, depreciation and other aspects as we adjusted our management structure and optimized our stock mix on learning centers have over consistent cost reduction and efficiency enhancement strategy |
| Contributing to the return of STEAM education net revenue to the same level as in the same period of 2022 |
| The decrease was partially offset by the increase in cost of camps and the competition activities in this quarter and made a high demand for extracurricular courses |
| Thank you again for your attention and support |
| So thank you for staying with us in the previous years as well as in the upcoming years, and thank you for your support to Tarena again |
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| Meanwhile, revenue from our IT professional education business declined by 34.8% year-over-year due to a relatively longer recovery period as a result of the sluggish economic recovery impact on this market |
| As mentioned earlier, we experienced a challenging quarter with a relatively lucky recovery of the adult business |
| Net revenue for our IT professional education business decreased by 34.8% year-over-year |
| As a sluggish overall post-epidemic economic recovery continues to affect top market supply and demand to a certain extent, impacted by weak market demand and reduced the cash received in the past quarters |
| Our total net revenues in the second quarter of 2023 amounted to RMB 545 million a year-over-year decline of 16% for RMB 649 million in the same period of 2022 |
| Overall, our total net revenues in the second quarter of this year was RMB 545 million, a 16% decrease from the same quarter of last year |
| As a result, our group second quarter operating loss narrowed substantially by 88% quarter-over-quarter |
| Its gross margin decreased due to the revenue decline |
| The uncertainty of sustained economic recovery in the post-pandemic phase has an impact on employment supply and demand, which has led to a relatively longer recovery period for the adult professional education business |
| The decrease in revenue was primarily attributable to IT professional education given its lower student enrollment number resulting from the closure of lower profitability teaching centers as well as the impact of the college collaboration-related business divestiture with only two methods of revenue recognized in the second quarter of this year |
| In the second quarter of 2023, enrollment reached 177,000, a slight decrease from one year ago |
| Although the decline in revenues exceeded the reduction in the cost of revenues, resulting in a decrease in gross profit to RMB 278.5 million and the narrowed gross margin at 51.1% |
| Regarding the operation of our centers, the total number of centers providing IT-focused supplementary STEAM education services declined to 215 as of the end of the second quarter of 2023 from 227 at the end of the second quarter of 2022 |
| Meanwhile, as we continued to optimize the staff mix enhanced operating efficiency and comprehensively upgrade our organization's refined management, we significantly narrowed our operating loss in our overall IT professional education business by 85.4% quarter-over-quarter |
| On the operation front, our total number of centers providing IT professional education services declined to 52 at the end of the second quarter of 2023 from 98 in the second quarter of 2022 |
| As a result of foregoing, operating loss was RMB 6.8 million in the second quarter of 2023 compared to operating income of RMB 48 million in the same period of last year |
| For the second quarter of 2023, the company measured its operating loss to RMB 6.8 million compared to an operating loss of RMB 58.8 million in the first quarter |
| Total non-GAAP operating expenses, which excluded share-based compensation expenses, decreased by 13% to RMB 284.6 million in the second quarter of this year from RMB 327.4 million in the same period of 2022 |
| Although we narrowed the decline of cash collection in the adult business year-over-year, recognized revenues will decrease due to lower cash receipts |
| Total share-based compensation expenses allocated to the related operating expenses decreased by 23.5% to RMB 0.9 million in the second quarter of this year from RMB 1.5 million in the same period of last year |
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