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text: 144
  0001758419
  XXXXXXXX
  LIVE
  0001508475
  VNET Group Inc
  001-35126
  Guanjie Building, Southeast 1st Floor
  10# Jiuxianqiao East Road
  Beijing
  F4
  100016
  8610-84562121
  Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Management Associates (Cayman) - NQ L.P.
  Affiliate
  American Depositary Shares, each representing six Class A ordinary shares, par value US$0.00001 per share
  Morgan Stanley & Co, LLC
  1585 Broadway
  New York
  NY
  10036
  10402130
  118376239
  1513609283
  03/17/2025
  NASDAQ
  American Depositary Shares
  03/21/2021
  Conversion of Series A Preferred Shares of the Issuer previously purchased for cash pursuant to an Investment Agreement dated June 22, 2020.
  Issuer
  N
  9084636
  03/21/2021
  Conversion of Series A Preferred Shares
  American Depositary Shares
  06/08/2021
  Open Market Purchase
  N/A
  N
  2217494
  06/08/2021
  Cash
  Y
  Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Management Associates(Cayman) - NQ L.P. is investment manager to certain funds (each a "Seller") that each entered into a variable price forward sale transaction relating to American Depositary Shares ("Shares") held by such Seller with Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A. ("MS") under a master confirmation (a "Master Confirmation"). Each Master Confirmation provides for settlement based on the volume-weighted average price of the Shares on scheduled valuation dates set forth in a supplemental confirmation. The broker named in this Form 144 will sell the Shares in the market in accordance with Rule 144 and applicable SEC staff interpretive guidance. Aggregate market value based on closing price of $11.38 for the Shares on 03/17/25. Issuer has 1,513,609,283 Class A ordinary shares outstanding as of 12/31/23 per Form 20-F filed on 04/26/24.
  03/17/2025
  Christopher J. James