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Earnings Per Share - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2017
American depository shares (ADs) [member]
Earnings per share [line items]
Number of ordinary shares per ADS	5

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Number of ordinary shares per ADS.

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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