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Loan facilities and lines of credit |
As of December 31, 2024, the Group’s loan facilities were classified into different types as follows:
In October 2021, the Group entered into a one-year HK$15,931 million term loan facility agreement. The term loans under this facility were priced at basis points over Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate (“HIBOR”) on and from the date of first loan made or to be made (“Initial Utilization Date”) to and including the date falling 6 months from the Initial Utilization Date, and thereafter at basis points over HIBOR. In February and May 2022, the Group drew down HK$6,300 million and HK$2,741 million under the facility commitment, respectively, and the borrowings were fully repaid in February 2023. The Group entered into another one-year HK$9,041 million term loan facility agreement to refinance the loan and drew down all the facility in February 2023 and the borrowings were fully repaid in December 2023. In December 2023, the Group entered into a RMB8,500 million term loan agreement with interest rate at basis points below Loan Prime Rate (“LPR”) to refinance the loan and drew down RMB8,286 million, which was expected to be repaid through December 2028 in installments. As of December 31, 2024, RMB166 million and RMB7,966 million of the borrowings were recorded in “ ” “ ” In December 2021, the Group entered into a five-year US$2,000 million unsecured term and revolving loan facility with 5 lead arrangers. The term and revolving loans under this facility were priced at basis points over London Interbank Offered Rate, which was amended to the secured overnight financing rate (“SOFR”) in September 2022. In the second quarter of 2022, the Group drew down US$1,000 million under the facility commitment, which will be due in 2027. As of December 31, 2024, RMB7,188 million of the borrowings above were recorded in “ long-term borrowings ” in the consolidated balance sheets and the undrawn balance was US$1,000 million under the credit facilities agreement. In December 2022, the Group entered into a seven-year RMB3,000 million term loan facility agreement. The term loans under this facility were priced at basis points below LPR. The Group drew down RMB2,000 million and RMB1,000 million under the facility commitment in December 2022 and December 2023, respectively. In 2024, the Group repaid the borrowings of RMB50 million. As of December 31, 2024, RMB180 million and RMB2,760 million borrowings were recorded in “short-term debts” and “ long-term borrowings ” in the consolidated balance sheets , respectively . As of December 31, 2024, in addition to the above unsecured borrowings, RMB6,319 million and RMB120 million borrowings recorded in “ short-term debts ” and “ long-term borrowings ”, respectively, were without collaterals and borrowed from well-known financial institutions.
As of December 31, 2024, the long-term borrowings, including the portion due within one year which were reco r ded in “short-term debts”, will be repaid according to the following schedule:
As of December 31, 2024, the weighted average interest rate for the outstanding short-term debts was 2.7% per annum. As of December 31, 2024, the Group had agreements with reputable commercial banks for unsecured revolving lines of credit, and increased its revolving lines of credit to RMB193,781 million, which can be used for borrowings, bank acceptance, bank guarantee, etc., pursuant to the underlying agreements. The Group was in compliance with the financial covenants, if any, under those lines of credit as of December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2024, under the lines of credit, the Group mainly had RMB140,110 million unused. |