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SHARE OPTION PLANS
12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Disclosure Of Compensation Related Costs, Share-Based Payments [Abstract]  
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block]
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SHARE OPTION PLANS
 
On November 8, 2005, the Company adopted the 2005 Performance Equity Plan (the “2005 Plan”) which allows the Company to offer a variety of incentive awards to employees to acquire up to 1,500,000 ordinary shares under the 2005 Plan. On April 22, 2010, the Company adopted the 2009 Performance Equity Plan (the “2009 Plan”) and is authorized to issue equity based awards for up to 1,500,000 ordinary shares to the Company’s employees and senior managements. On December 22, 2014 the Company adopted the 2014 Performance Equity Plan, under which we are able to issue equity awards with the right to acquire up to 5,000,000 ordinary shares to our directors, officers, employees, individual consultants and advisors. The main purpose of the plan is to provide an existing structure and renewable benefit plan for senior management and directors and others providing services to the company. In addition to current equity awards to the directors and officers, we plan to expand our equity awards to a broader range of employees in order to align our employee incentives towards the stock performance. The main purpose of the two plans is to provide an existing structure and renewable benefit plan for senior management and directors, employees and consultants.
 
Under the terms of the 2005 Plan on January 4, 2010 the Company granted its employees options to purchase 125,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$12.23 (“Tranche 5”).Under the terms of the 2009 Plan, on January 3, 2011, the Company granted its employees options to purchase 120,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$10.84 (“Tranche 6”); and on January 3, 2012, the Company granted its employees options to purchase 365,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$2.55 (“Tranche 7”), and on January 2, 2013, the Company granted its employees options to purchase 360,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$1.44 (“Tranche 8”) Subject to the modifications discussed below, and on January 2, 2014, the Company granted its employees options to purchase 350,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$1.27 (“Tranche 9”).
 
Under the terms of the 2014 Plan, on January 2, 2015 the Company granted its employees options to purchase 195,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$1.48 (“Tranche 10”), on January 4, 2016 the Company granted its employees options to purchase 185,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$1.38 (“Tranche 11”), on April 19, 2016 the Company granted its employees options to purchase 600,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$2.05 (“Tranche 12”), on May 16, 2016 the Company granted its employees options to purchase 200,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$1.65 (“Tranche 13”),on August 3, 2016 the Company granted its employees options to purchase 200,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$2.0 (“Tranche 14”), on January 3, 2017 the Company granted its employees options to purchase 180,000 ordinary shares at the price of US$2.07 (“Tranche 15”)
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All the options have an expiration date that is 5 to 10 years from the date of grant and vest immediately or over a period of 1 to 5 years. 1,060,000 and 700,000 options under the 2009 Plan, and 1,380,000 and 1,510,000 options under the 2014 Plan were outstanding as of September 30, 2016 and 2017, respectively.
 
After the adjusted awards, all the option awards have an exercise price of USD 1.27 to USD 12.23 and expire 5 to 10 years from the date of grant and vest immediately or over a period of 1 to 5 years.
 
On December 22, 2014, January 2, 2016 and December 28, 2016, the compensation committee of the Board of Directors approved the substitution of restricted stock for outstanding grants under Tranche 5,6&7 respectively, that no longer offer the kind of incentive opportunity originally sought for valued employees given the fall in the market price of the ordinary shares during recent years. The revised terms of the stock options were accounted for as a modification in accordance with ASC 718-20. For the purpose of determining the amount of any incremental share-based compensation cost that may have resulted from the modification of the exercise prices, the Company compared the fair value of modified awards and that of the original awards, determined that RMB616, RMB542 and RMB982(US$148) respectively, of the modifications required the recognition of additional share-based payment expense, respectively.
 
For the options outstanding at September 30, 2016 and 2017, the weighted average remaining contractual lives are 5.1 and 4.9 years, respectively.
 
The Company recorded share-based compensation expense of RMB1,612, RMB8,796 and RMB3,016 for the years ended September 30, 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively. As of September 30, 2016 and 2017, there were RMB2,676 and RMB690 of total unrecognized compensation expense related to non-vested share-based compensation arrangement under the 2014 Plan. The unrecognized compensation expense is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 0.87 year.
 
A summary of the share option activity under the 2005, 2009 and 2014 Plans is as follows:
 
  Tranche
6
 Tranche
7
 Tranche
8
 Tranche
9
 Tranche
10
 Tranche
11
 Tranche
12
 Tranche
13
 Tranche
14
 Tranche
15
 
                                
Grant date January 3,
2011
 January 3, 
2012
 January 2,
2013
 January 2,
2014
 January 2,
2015
 January 4, 
2016
 April 19,
2016
 May 16,
2016
 August 3,
2016
 January 3,
2017
 
                                
Options outstanding as of October 1, 2015  115,000  365,000  355,000  345,000  195,000  -  -  -  -  - 
Number of options granted  -  -  -  -  -  185,000  600,000  200,000  200,000  - 
Options cancelled/expired  (115,000)  (230,000)  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - 
                                
Options outstanding as of September 30, 2016  -  135,000  355,000  345,000  195,000  185,000  600,000  200,000  200,000  - 
Number of options granted  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  180,000 
Options exercised     (5,000)           (50,000)             
Options cancelled/expired  -  (130,000)  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - 
Outstanding as of September 30, 2017  -  -  355,000  345,000  195,000  135,000  600,000  200,000  200,000  180,000 
                                
Options vested and exercisable                               
At September 30, 2016  -  135,000  355,000  345,000  195,000  185,000  600,000  200,000  200,000  - 
                                
At September 30, 2017  -  -  355,000  345,000  195,000  135,000  600,000  200,000  200,000  180,000 
                                
Weighted average fair value at the grant date (USD)  6.08  1.45  0.76  0.65  0.75  0.90  1.54  1.24  1.44  0.40 
 
The fair value of each option granted is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model:
 
  Tranche
6
  Tranche
7
  Tranche
8
  Tranche
9
  Tranche
10
  Tranche
11
  Tranche
12
  Tranche
13
  Tranche
14
  Tranche
15
 
                                         
Exercise price (US$)  10.84   2.55   1.44   1.27   1.48   1.38   2.05   1.65   2.00   2.07 
Average risk-free interest rate  1.03%  0.40%  0.37%  0.76%  1.07%  1.73%  1.79%  1.75%  1.55%  1.94%
Expected option life (year)  3   3   3   3   3   5   10   10   10   5 
Volatility rate  88.03%  90.30%  86.32%  79.20%  79.67%  80.72%  69.27%  69.92%  65.37%  63.87%
Dividend yield  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
 
The aggregate intrinsic value as of September 30, 2016 and 2017 is USD1,476 and USD265, respectively.