POLL RESULT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

RNS Number : 9037U

Air China Ld

31 March 2023

 

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AIR CHINA LIMITED

(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 00753)

POLL RESULT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

The board of directors (the "Board") of Air China Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that the extraordinary general meeting (the "EGM") of the Company has been held on 30 March 2023, and the resolution proposed at the EGM was duly passed.

Reference is made to the notice of the EGM of the Company dated 13 March 2023 (the "Notice") containing details of the resolution tabled at the EGM. Unless otherwise stated herein, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Notice.

The Board is pleased to announce that the resolution set out in the Notice was duly passed by the shareholders (the "Shareholders") of the Company by way of poll at the EGM held at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, 30 March 2023 at The Conference Room C713, No. 30, Tianzhu Road, Airport Industrial Zone, Shunyi District, Beijing, the PRC. All directors of the Company attended the EGM.

RESULT OF THE EGM

As at the date of the EGM, the number of total issued shares of the Company was 16,200,792,838 shares. Shareholders and authorized proxies holding an aggregate of 11,594,358,159 shares with voting rights, representing 71.5666% of the total number of shares with voting rights of the Company, were present at the EGM.

There were no shares the holder of which is required under The Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Listing Rules") to abstain from voting on the resolution proposed at the EGM. There were no shares entitling the holder to attend and abstain from voting in favour of the resolution proposed at the EGM as set out in Rule

13.40 of the Hong Kong Listing Rules. No parties have stated their intention in the Notice to vote against the resolution proposed at the EGM or to abstain from voting.

The poll result in respect of the proposed resolution at the EGM was as follows:

ORDINARY RESOLUTION		Votes of Shareholders
		For	Against	Abstain
1.	To consider and approve the appointment of Mr.	11,589,413,997	4,459,739	484,423
	Wang Mingyuan as the executive director of the	(99.9574%)	(0.0385%)	(0.0041%)
	Company.
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the above resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the auditor of the Company, has acted as the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the EGM and compared the poll result summary to poll forms collected and provided by the Company. The work performed by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in this respect did not constitute an assurance engagement in accordance with Hong Kong Standards on Auditing, Hong Kong Standards on Review Engagements or Hong Kong Standards on Assurance Engagements issued by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants nor did it include provision of any assurance or advice on matters of legal interpretation or entitlement to vote.

By Order of the Board
Air China Limited
Huang Bin Huen Ho Yin
Joint Company Secretaries

Beijing, the PRC, 30 March 2023

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are Mr. Ma Chongxian, Mr. Wang Mingyuan, Mr. Feng Gang, Mr. Patrick Healy, Mr. Xiao Peng, Mr. Li Fushen*, Mr. He Yun*, Mr. Xu Junxin* and Ms. Winnie Tam Wan-chi*.

*   Independent non-executive director of the Company

 

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