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Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets |
7. | PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT ASSETS
Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2016 |  |  | 2017 |
|  | RMB |  |  | RMB |  |  | US$ |
Prepaid expenses |  |  | 163,443 |  |  |  | 344,696 |  |  |  | 52,979 |
Staff field advances |  |  | 22,429 |  |  |  | 6,735 |  |  |  | 1,035 |
Interest receivables |  |  | 13,576 |  |  |  | 17,644 |  |  |  | 2,712 |
Receivables for the disposal of certain construction-in-progress |  |  | 20,290 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Tax recoverables |  |  | 309,426 |  |  |  | 376,642 |  |  |  | 57,889 |
Deposits |  |  | 19,596 |  |  |  | 30,669 |  |  |  | 4,714 |
Loan to third parties |  |  | 62,433 |  |  |  | 60,805 |  |  |  | 9,345 |
Other receivables |  |  | 165,938 |  |  |  | 96,559 |  |  |  | 14,840 |
|  |  | 777,131 |  |  |  | 933,750 |  |  |  | 143,514 |
Prepaid expenses mainly represented the unamortized portion of prepayments made to Microsoft for the cloud computing services, and the prepayments to telecommunication operators for bandwidth, data centers or cabinets.

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