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ASSETS ACQUISITIONS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
ASSETS ACQUISITIONS
NOTE 2 – ASSETS ACQUISITIONS

Pursuant to the lease contract signed by SCHC on November 5, 2010 with State-Operated ShouguanQingshuibo Farm (the “Lessor”), the Company recognized in January 2011 (1) a 20-year capital lease of a real property adjacent to Factory No. 1, with the related production facility, channels and ducts, other production equipment and the buildings located on the property, with an annual payment of Renminbi (“RMB”)1,877,000 (approximately $290,034) up to December 31, 2030 to the Lessor, aggregating $3,127,913 (the present value of the minimum lease payments); and (2) a 20-year land lease and rights to new extraction wells on which the aforesaid real property, production facilities, channels and ducts, other production equipment and the buildings are situated, with an annual payment of RMB3,123,000 (approximately $482,566) up to December 31, 2030 to the Lessor.  The lease was accounted for under FASB ASC 840-10-25 “Leases – Recognition” and $3,127,913 was included in property, plant equipment under capital lease as of June 30, 2011.

The Company also enhanced the new plant and machinery in the first quarter of 2011 by making capital improvement in reconstruction and renovation work at a cost of approximately $3,050,400, which was recorded as buildings and plant and machinery, for the operation of the aforesaid real property, production facilities, channels and ducts, other production equipment and the buildings located on the property.

During the quarter ended June 30, 2011, the Company carried out enhancement projects to its existing bromine extraction and crude salt production facilities.  In particular, the Company incurred reconstruction and renovation works at a cost of approximately $12,379,153 for its crude salt fields in Factory No. 1, 5 to 9, and at a cost of approximately $20,087,600 for its extraction wells and transmission channels and ducts in Factory No. 1 to 9.  The above enhancement projects have estimated useful lives of 5 to 8 years and are capitalized as buildings and plant and machinery.