Around 7 pm on the evening of the 15th, Five Star电器 sent a statement to reporters indicating that the company's recent adjustments involved new appointments for a group of branch and head office management personnel, with over 10% of management receiving promotions and no managerial staff being dismissed. The statement revealed that Five Star Appliances made personnel changes based on performance data, promoting outstanding managers to oversee larger branches. Some long-term expatriate managers were reassigned to headquarters and nearby Nanjing branches, while a group of post-70s backbone members were promoted. Jing Xing stated that since January, the exit of the "trade-in for new" policy has indeed impacted the home appliance industry, but the overall performance for January and February was satisfactory, meeting expectations. Due to Best Buy being a public company, Jing Xing expressed that specific data could not be disclosed. At the beginning of 2011, Best Buy proposed that Five Star Appliances would open 40 new stores in China that year. An official statement from Five Star Appliances on the 15th also revealed that Five Star had exceeded this number, currently owning 204 stores. Both the number of newly added stores and the net increase in business area have reached their highest levels since 2006. Simultaneously, all sales and profit targets set by Best Buy for 2011 were fully achieved. Hong Shibin, Deputy Chairman of the Marketing Committee of China Home Appliance One Color, believed that the reason why Five Star Appliances receives so much attention is directly related to its every move being linked to Best Buy, America's largest electronics retailer, whose performance in the Chinese market has been subpar in recent years. Its unclear plan to return to China has placed it at the center of controversy. In the official statement, Five Star Appliances also disclosed its development strategy for 2012: expanding with the addition of 50 new stores and attempting to experiment with new mobile phone businesses using an "in-store shop" model. Notably, the statement also mentioned that Shari, Best Buy's newly appointed president of international operations, will visit Five Star soon to "rapidly implement the China strategy." Does this imply more progress in Best Buy's plan to return to China? When asked by reporters, Jing Xing declined to comment.