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中國國際航空股份有限公司
AIR CHINA LIMITED
(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 00753)
POLL RESULTS OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
References are made to (i) the notice of the EGM dated 24 July 2024 (the "Notice"); (ii) the announcement of the Company dated 15 July 2024 (the "Announcement"); and (iii) the circular of the Company dated 20 June 2024 (the "Circular"). Unless otherwise specified herein, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Circular and the Announcement.
The Board is pleased to announce that the resolutions set out in the Notice were duly passed by the Shareholders by way of poll at the EGM held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, 9 August 2024 at The Conference Room C713, No. 30, Tianzhu Road, Airport Industrial Zone, Shunyi District, Beijing, the PRC. All directors attended the EGM.
RESULTS OF THE EGM
As at the date of the EGM, the total number of issued Shares of the Company was 16,593,720,146 Shares. Shareholders and authorised proxies holding an aggregate of 11,425,034,901 Shares, representing 68.8515% of the total issued Shares with voting rights of the Company, were present at the EGM.
None of the holders of any Shares was required under the Listing Rules to abstain from voting on the proposed resolutions at the EGM. There were no Shares entitling the holders to attend and abstain from voting in favour of any resolutions proposed at the EGM as set out in Rule 13.40 of the Listing Rules. No Shareholder has indicated his/her/its intention in the Circular or the Notice to vote against or to abstain from voting on any resolutions proposed at the EGM.
The poll results in respect of the resolutions proposed at the EGM were as follows:
|
Ordinary Resolutions | Votes of Shareholders | |||
| For | Against | Abstain | ||
| 1. | To consider and approve the resolution in relation to the election of Mr. Cui Xiaofeng as a Director. | 11,404,513,910 (99.8204%) | 18,818,980 (0.1647%) | 1,702,011 (0.0149%) |
| 2. | To consider and approve the resolution in relation to the introduction of 100 C919 aircraft. | 11,421,168,678 (99.9662%) | 3,430,623 (0.0300%) | 435,600 (0.0038%) |
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the above resolutions, the resolutions were duly passed as ordinary resolutions.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the auditor of the Company, acted as the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the EGM and compared the poll results 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
Xiao Feng Huen Ho Yin
Joint Company Secretaries
Beijing, the PRC, 9 August 2024
As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are Mr. Ma Chongxian, Mr. Wang Mingyuan, Mr. Cui Xiaofeng, 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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