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Related Party Transactions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
(11) Related Party Transactions
 
Mr. Zhenyong Liu is the director, principal stockholder and chief executive officer of the Company. He loaned money to Orient Paper HB for working capital purposes over a period of time. On August 31, 2009, Orient Paper, Orient Paper HB, and Mr. Liu entered into a tri-party Debt Assignment and Assumption Agreement, under which Orient Paper agreed to assume the loan of $4,000,000 due from Orient Paper HB to Mr. Liu. Concurrently, Orient Paper issued 1,204,341 shares of restricted common stock to Mr. Liu at the market price of $3.32132 per share. As of December 31, 2012, net amount due to Mr. Liu was $2,315,239.
 
The unsecured loan of Mr. Liu is interest bearing and the interest rate is equal to the rate established by the People’s Bank of China, which was 5.85% per annum as of December 31, 2012. The term is for 3 years and starts from January 1, 2010 and is due December 31, 2012. On January 1, 2013, Orient Paper HB and Mr. Liu entered into another three-year term and extended the maturity date further to December 31, 2015. The unsecured loan carries an annual interest rate based on the People’s Bank of China at the time of the renewal and was set at 6.15% per annum. As of December 31, 2013, net amount due to Mr. Liu was $2,389,633.
 
The interest expenses incurred for above related party loans are $145,015, $135,377 and $203,914 for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively. On March 25, 2014, our Chairman and CEO Mr. Zhenyong Liu agreed in writing to permit the Company to continue to postpone the repayment of the accrued interest on his loan to Orient Paper HB until the earliest date on which the Company's quarterly or annual financial statements filed with the SEC show a satisfactory working capital level. The accrued interest owned to Mr. Liu was approximately $566,343 and was recorded as part of the current liabilities as of December 31, 2013.
 
During the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, the Company borrowed $1,390,802, $1,030,097 and $200,000, respectively, from shareholders to pay for various expenses incurred in the U.S. The amount is repayable on demand with interest free. The Company repaid the entire balance by the end of fiscal year 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

Sale of Headquarters Compound Real Properties to a Related Party
 
The Company was informed in 2012 that a recent Xushui County urban redevelopment plan mandates that the current site on which our principal executive offices and other production facilities are situated (the “Headquarters Compound”) and neighboring area be reserved for residential use only. It is expected that the Company, like other manufacturers in the affected area, will be required eventually to cease all operations currently conducted on the Headquarters Compound site. In order to comply with this government mandate, the Company intends to initiate the process of relocating its offices and facilities to a new site. To that end, the Company has entered into negotiations concerning the potential sale of this property and all of the buildings and facilities located thereon (the “Potential Sale”) with Hebei Fangsheng Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. (“Hebei Fangsheng”), a real estate development company owned by Mr. Zhenyong Liu, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and his family. In November 2012, Hebei Fangsheng provided the Company with a payment of approximately $1,075,606 earnest money deposit payment in connection with the Potential Sale, which would be refunded to Hebei Fangsheng in the event that the parties fail to reach an agreement on the terms of the Potential Sale. The Company recorded the receipt of the earnest money deposit as a security deposit as of December 31, 2012 accordingly.
 
On August 7, 2013 the Company’s Audit Committee and the Board of Directors approved the sale of the land use right of the Headquarters Compound (the “LUR”), the office building and essentially all industrial-use buildings in the Headquarters Compound (the “Industrial Buildings”), and three employee dormitory buildings located within the Headquarters Compound (the “Dormitories”) to Hebei Fangsheng for cash prices of approximately $2.77 million, $1.15 million, and $4.28 million, respectively. In connection with the sale of the Industrial Buildings, Hebei Fangsheng agrees to lease the Industrial Buildings back to the Company for its original use for a term of up to three years, with an annual rental payment of approximately $161,439. As of December 31, 2013, the Company accrued the rent due to Hebei Fangsheng in the amount of $64,546.
 
As a condition for the sale of the Dormitories, Hebei Fangsheng agrees that it will act as an agent for the Company, which does not have the qualification to sell residential housing units in China, and that it is obligated to sell all of the 132 apartment units in the Dormitories to qualified employees of the Company at its acquisition price. Hebei Fangsheng further represents that it will not seek to profit from the resale of the Dormitories units and will allow the Company to inspect the books and records of the sale upon completion of the resale of the Dormitories units to ensure the objectives are achieved.
      
The sale was conducted on an arms-length basis, and was reviewed by the Company’s Audit Committee and approved by the Board of Directors. The $2.77 million sale price of the industrial land use right was determined by the valuation from a government designated appraisal, which was 3.35% higher than a second independent appraisal commissioned by the Company. The $1.15 million sale price of the Industrial Buildings was determined by negotiation between the Company and Hebei Fangsheng and is equal to the appraised value based on the assumption that the use of the buildings would be continued until they are retired. Based on the assumption that such buildings would have to be torn down to comply with the re-zoning, a second independent appraisal obtained by the Company put the value at $0.4 million. Although the Company and Hebei Fangsheng agree to set the sale price of the Dormitories at the Company’s original construction cost of the three dormitory buildings for $4.28 million, an independent appraisal shows that the value for the three buildings as employee dormitories was $4.61 million.

For the sale of the Headquarters Compound LUR and the Industrial Buildings, it generated a net gain on disposal of approximately $84,972, net of land appreciation tax and other transactional taxes and fees paid out of the proceeds of the sale to various local government tax authorities.
 
The dormitories were reclassified as assets held for sale on August 9, 2013 in accordance with ASC 360-10-45-9. As the sale was not yet completed by the end of December 31, 2013, the dormitories remained as assets held for sale under current asset in the amount of $4,130,590 as of December 31, 2013. The closing of the sale is expected to be consummated by the second half of year 2014. In December 2013, Hebei Fangsheng provided the Company with a payment of approximately $1,636,072 earnest money deposit payment in connection with the sale of the dormitories. The Company recorded the receipt of the earnest money deposit as a security deposit as of December 31, 2013 accordingly.