Distinguished investors, good afternoon. I'd like to welcome you to join us for Goldwind Science & Technology 2025 Q1 results. The management team joining us here today are: President of the Company, Mr. Cao Zhigang; Madam Ma Jinru , VP, Board Secretary and Company Secretary; Mr. Wang Hongyan, CFO; and Mr. Chen Jinghua, Group VP and GM of the Wind Power Industry Group. The meeting will be divided into two parts. First of all, we will invite Madam Ma to walk you through the Q1 industrial trends and the company's operationals. We will have CFO, Mr. Wang Hongyan, to walk you through the Q1 financials. We will get into the Q&A session. Madam Ma, please.
Okay, great. Thank you very much. Dear investors, good afternoon. I'd like to welcome you to join us for the Q1 performance reviews. Please allow me to walk you through the industry and the business review. Let's first go to slide three. The global new installation in 2024 was 121.6 GW, growth by 3.9%, with onshore wind power 109.9 GW, growth by 3.7%. Offshore wind totally 11.7 GW, increased by 6%. On the right side, you can also see the new installation country distribution. You can see that in China, China new installation accounted for 17% of the global new build. Let's go back to China. In Q1 of 2025, China recorded 40.6 GW of the new grid connection, down by 5.7%. At the end of 2025 Q1, cumulative grid-connected grid power capacity was 535.4 GW, taking 50.6% of the power mix. Thermal power declined to 42.3%. We also see that the power generation and production continue to go up. On the right side, we show you the 2024 data.
Let me just share with you, in Q1 of 2024, total power consumption in China reached 2,384.6 billion kWh. We do not have any new data regarding Q1 as a whole. Let's also take a look at the public tendering in Q1 of this year, totaled 28.6 GW, growth by 22.7%. We can see the public tendering market was booming, still growing significantly, compared with the high baseline last year. Onshore public tendering 27.8 GW, offshore 0.8 GW. On the right side, we also show you the monthly public tendering price. You can see that in March, the price was CNY 1,590 per kW. Starting from January of the year, the government continued to roll out the policies for low carbon and green development. First of all, the Energy Law of the People's Republic of China came into force, supporting the renewable energy development.
Secondly, the new energy grid targets and promoting high-quality development of new energy. Where at the same time, in February of this year, the NEA also issued the Guiding Opinion of 2025 Energy Work, proposing by the end of 2025, you can see that the non-fossil fuel power generation is going to improve to 60%. The non-fossil energy in total power consumption needs to be increased to 20%. At the same time, the sale of the new energy power generation device will grow by 200 million kW. All those policies are going to improve the overall development of the industry. Let's take a look at our business review of the company. Let's first take a look at our turbine business of WTG. You can see in Q1 of this year, the total external sales was 2,587.65 MW, growth by 80.16%.
WTG 6 MW was more than 1,823.7 MW, taking 70.47% of the total. WTG 4 MW-6 MW was 760 MW. We do not have too much for the WTG lower than 4 MW. Taking a look at the wind turbine order backlog, in Q1 of this year, we record a new historical high, 51.09 GW, external one 48.6 GW, including 9.42 GW for successful bidding and 39.90 GW for signed contract. At the same time, we have 2.47 GW for company-owned wind farm development projects. By the end of Q1, our external order for the overseas market was 6,909 MW, growth by 26.1% on year-on-year basis. You can also see that we do see very nice growth momentum for the international market order growth. On the right side, we show you the external order mix.
Especially for WTG 6 MW, more than 70% of the total external order is already in that category. Let's also take a look at the wind farm business. By the end of March, grid-connected wind power projects totaled 8,043 MW. In Q1 of this year, our attributable under-construction wind capacity at home and abroad was 4,117 MW. In Q1 of this year, the self-owned wind farm recorded 635 hours of utilization, 57 hours higher than the national average. On the right side, we show you the grid connection by region. You can also see that still the Northwest China, North China, and East China are the key contributors. That's all about the industry and the business. Coming next, let's welcome our CFO to walk you through the financials.
Distinguished shareholders and investors, good afternoon. I come from Goldwind Science & Technology. My name is Wang Hongyan. Thank you very much for joining us here for the Q1 result release. Please allow me to walk you through the financials of Q1 of 2025. In Q1, there are four parts of financials we are happy to present to you. The first one is the profitability index, and then the liquidity stats, as well as the capital monetary funds and operational cash flow. Let me just follow the practice. The light color represents the project years, and the dark color represents the performance we made in this year. On slide 12, the slide actually shows you the profitability index on the group level, and still it involves four indicators. On the left upper corner, that is our revenue. In 2024 Q4 and in 2025 Q1, the different color bars represent the performance from different quarters from 2024- 2025.
In Q1, the revenue was RMB 9.47 billion, growth by RMB 2.49 billion on wildlife basis. The incremental revenue growth is coming from the WTG segment. Where on the upper right corner, you can also see the profit margin showcasing the four quarters in 2024 and Q1 of 2025. We can see that the comprehensive profit margin for Q1 2025 was 21.78%, down by 3.11%. We clearly notice in Q1 of 2025, our total GP margin was growing by RMB 326 million, reaching RMB 0.2063 billion. Majority of the GP margin increase is coming from WTG business. On the left down corner, we also show you net profit attributable to the owners of the company. In Q1 of 2025, net profit was RMB 1.568 billion, growth by 17%. The reason is because we see the line of growth in gross profit. The profitability overall is further improved.
On the right down corner, we show you the weighted average return on equity. In Q1 of this year, weighted average return on equity was 1.48%, growth by 0.62%, growth by more than 17%. The key contributor is still because of our growth net profit. For this year, we surely believe our weighted average return on equity will continue to register strong growth momentum. On slide 12, you can clearly see that in Q1 of 2025, no matter for revenue or for our GP margin or the GP margin rate or the weighted average return on equity, they are indeed in line with our forecast. In other words, profitability continues to be improved. Let's now go to slide 13. Slide 13 shows you the operational index, indeed the liquid assets indicators. On the left side, we show you the days of the trade receivables.
In Q1 of this year, trade receivables accounted for 20% of our total asset, growth by 2%. The trade receivable days was 174 days, growth by two days again, which failed to achieve our receivable performance target. In 2025, we will continue to improve our receivable collections, especially including the short term, the delivery time of the offshore and overseas projects, and continue to improve the receivable performance in 2025. On the right side, we show you the days of the inventory and contract assets. You can see that in Q1, actually, we see nice improvement, no matter for days of inventories or the contract assets. For sure, for the company, we have a very special business model that is the power plant business. If we're deducting the power plant or the wind farm business, the power plant business, once we excluded the.
We believe inventory to the total asset ratio would be further improved. Okay, please help to go to slide 14. Slide 14 showcasing the solvency positions of the company. On the left side is the interest-bearing debt. In Q1 of this year, interest-bearing debt was 43% of the total liability, actually a flat growth compared with the same period last year. Altogether, we downsized the interest-bearing debt by RMB 5 billion. In other words, the interest-bearing debt is further optimized. At the same time, the use of the proceeds and the funds is further optimized. On the right side, we show you the assets liability ratio. By the beginning of this year, it used to be 33.96%, and the total asset was RMB 155.2 billion.
By the end of Q1, those data reached 73.05% and RMB 159 billion of the total assets. Assets liability ratio continued to go down, and we will be able to well control the debt ratio. In 2025, well managing the debt ratio would be a key task for the company. On one side, we hope that we can continue to improve the delivery cycle, well control our expenses, and also control the size of the interest-bearing liabilities, continue to improve the structure of the debt. Where at the same time, for the equity assets, especially long-term equity assets of the parent and the subsidiary companies, we hope that we will be able to take the measures to continue to further improve the asset liability ratio. In one word, in 2025, we will continue to optimize and downsize the asset liability ratio.
The final slide, we also would like to show you the cash flow. On the left side, we'll show you the cash to total asset situation. By the end of Q1 of 2025, the cash to total asset ratio was 8.75%, improved a lot on a year-over-year basis. The key reason is because in Q1, we have the prepayment of the wind turbine due to the rush to build. At the same time, there are some operational funds preparations for Q2, as well as the reserves being made for capital expenditures. That is the reason you see monetary funds holding continue to go up. On the right side, that is the net operating cash flows. In China, because of the central government regulation, the rush to build in China continued to go up with significant improvement. That is the reason in Q1 of this year, the economic cash flow, especially the inflow, continued to go up dramatically. That is our financials in Q1.