China Eastern Airlines
(A joint stock limited company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China with limited liability)
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The board of directors (the “
RESULTS OF THE AGM
The AGM was held at Meeting Centre, Shanghai Homeyo Hotel (
As mentioned in the Circular, CEA Holding and its associates, holding 2,904,000,000 shares of the Company, were required to abstain, and have abstained, from voting in respect of Ordinary Resolutions Nos. 6 and 7 proposed for approval at the AGM. As such, (i) shareholders representing 1,962,950,000 shares of the Company were entitled to attend and vote for or against rdinary Resolutions Nos. 6 and 7 proposed for approval at the AGM, and shareholders representing 347,040,427 shares out of such 1,962,950,000 shares of the Company were present at the AGM, in person or by proxy, to vote in respect of Ordinary Resolutions Nos. 6 and 7; and (ii) shareholders representing 4,866,950,000 shares of the Company (i.e., the Company’s entire issued share capital) were entitled to attend and vote for or against all of the Ordinary Resolutions (except for the Ordinary Resolutions Nos. 6 and 7) and the Special Resolutions proposed for approval at the AGM, and shareholders representing 3,251,040,427 shares out of such 4,866,950,000 shares of the Company were present at the AGM, in person or by proxy, to vote in respect of all of the Ordinary Resolutions (except for the Ordinary Resolutions Nos. 6 and 7) and the Special Resolutions.
No shareholder of the Company was required to vote only against any of the resolutions proposed at the AGM.
Each resolution proposed for approval at the AGM was taken on poll. Hong Kong Registrars Limited, the Company’s H Shares registrar, was appointed as the scrutineer for the purpose of vote-taking at the AGM. The resolutions set out below are in the same order and correspond to those set out in the AGM Notice. The poll results in respect of the resolutions proposed for approval at the AGM were set out as follows:
Total number of shares represented by votes (Approximate % *) For Against Abstain
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
1. To approve the report of the Board for the year 2007
3,176,066,491 (99.9920%)
216,700 (0.0068%)
35,936 (0.0012%)
2. To approve the report of the supervisory committee of the Company for the year 2007
3,176,016,491 (94.9905%)
266,700 (0.0084%)
35,936 (0.0011%)
3. To approve the audited financial statements and the auditors’ reports for the year 2007
3,176,173,491 (99.9952%)
116,700 (0.0037%)
4. To approve the re-appointments of
3,249,987,291 (99.9676%)
1,017,200 (0.0313%)
5. To approve the Company’s profit distribution proposal for the year 2007
3,243,470,591 (99.9944%)
147,000 (0.0045%)
6. To approve, confirm and ratify a conditional financial services agreement dated 29 April 2008 entered into between the Company and 東航集團財務有限 責任公司 (Eastern Air Group Finance Company Limited) and all transactions thereunder and the relevant associated maximum aggregate annual values in such terms as set out in Ordinary Resolution No. 6 of the AGM Notice
188,746,376 (55.5709%)
150,867,215 (44.4185%)
35,936 (0.0106%)
7. To approve, confirm and ratify the conditional catering services agreement dated 29 April 2008 entered into between the Company and
332,155,091 (97.7935%)
7,458,500 (2.1959%)
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
8. To approve the issue of short-term debenture by the Company in such terms as set out in Special Resolution No. 8 of the AGM Notice
3,013,332,476 (93.3036%)
216,230,215 (6.6953%)
9. To authorise the granting of a general mandate to the Board to issue shares of the Company in such terms as set out in Special Resolution No. 9 of the AGM Notice
3,018,851,576 (93.0715%)
224,696,015 (6.9274%)
* The percentage of voting is based on the total number of shares held by the Independent Shareholders who attended and voted at the AGM in person or by proxy.
Based on the above poll results, all of the Ordinary Resolutions and the Special Resolutions were passed. Please refer to the AGM Notice for the full version of the above resolutions.
By order of the Board
CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES CORPORATION LIMITED
Luo Zhuping
Director and Company Secretary
The Company’s directors as at the date of this announcement are:
Li Fenghua
Li Jun
Cao Jianxiong
Luo Chaogeng
Hu Honggao
Peter Lok
Wu Baiwang
Zhou Ruijin
Xie Rong
Shanghai, the PRC
30 June 2008
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