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Inventories Related to Real Estate Business
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
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Inventories Related to Real Estate Business
13. INVENTORIES RELATED TO REAL ESTATE BUSINESS

 

    December 31
    2017   2018
    NT$   NT$   US$ (Note 4)
             
Land and buildings held for sale   $ 25,825     $ 20,734     $ 677  
Construction in progress     8,106,166       8,252,348       269,597  
Land held for construction     1,687,525       1,787,526       58,397  
    $ 9,819,516     $ 10,060,608     $ 328,671  

 

Construction in progress is mainly located on Hutai Road in Shanghai, China and Lidu Road in Kun Shan, China. The capitalized borrowing costs for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2017 and 2018 are disclosed in Note 26.

 

Construction in progress located on Caobao Road in Shanghai, China was completed in the third quarter of 2017 and immediately leased out for the lease business. As a result, the Group reclassified those buildings and land use right under the line item of inventories related to real estate business to investment properties of NT$6,971,372 thousand and long-term prepayments for lease of NT$5,798,449 thousand, respectively.

 

As of December 31, 2017 and 2018, inventories related to real estate business of NT$9,818,869 thousand and NT$10,060,608 thousand (US$328,671 thousand), respectively, are expected to be recovered longer than twelve months.

 

Refer to Note 38 for the carrying amount of inventories related to real estate business that had been pledged by the Group to secure bank borrowings.