China Evergrande Group's contracted sales in May grew by about 28.0% to about 53.53 billion yuan from about 41.83 billion yuan a year earlier.

The unaudited sales figure for the reporting month corresponds to about 4.973 million square meters of contracted sales area and an average selling price of 10,764 yuan per square meter, the Hong Kong-listed property developer said.

As of June 4, US$1 was equivalent to 6.91 Chinese yuan.