 On 28 February 2010, Evergrande Real Estate Group took over the club for a fee of ¥100 million.Xu Jiayin, chairman of Evergrande Real Estate Group, said that they would pump more funds into the transfer market.His first act was to sign in Chinese national team striker Gao Lin from Shanghai Shenhua for a reported fee of ¥6 million, then he replaced the head coach Peng Weiguo with former Beijing Guoan manager Lee Jang-Soo with no indication.