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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
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 was held on 5
December 2024, and all the resolutions proposed at the EGM were duly passed.
References are made to (i) the notice of the EGM
dated 18 November 2024 (the "Notice"); and (ii) the circular of the
Company dated 18 November 2024 (the "Circular"). Unless otherwise specified
herein, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the
same meanings as those defined in the Circular.
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 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, 5 December 2024
at The Conference Room C713, No. 30, Tianzhu Road, Airport
Industrial Zone, Shunyi District, Beijing, the PRC. Except for Mr.
Patrick Healy and Mr. Xiao Peng who did not attend the EGM due to
business arrangements, all the other Directors of the Company
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 3,250,215,658 Shares
were present at the EGM.
CNAHC and CNACG have material interests in the
resolutions No. 1.01 to No. 1.04 proposed at the EGM, and therefore
they were required to abstain, and have abstained, from voting on
such resolutions. CNAHC, CNACG, Cathay Pacific and their respective
associates have material interests in resolution No. 2 proposed at
the EGM, and therefore they were required to abstain, and have
abstained, from voting on such resolution. As at the date of the
EGM, CNAHC and CNACG, in aggregate, held
8,516,024,075 shares of the Company; and Cathay Pacific and its
associates, in aggregate, held 2,633,725,455 shares of the Company.
Accordingly, at the EGM, the total number of Shares entitling the
holders to attend and vote on resolutions No. 1.01 to No. 1.04 was
8,077,696,071 Shares, and the total number of Shares entitling the
holders to attend and vote on resolution No. 2 was 5,443,970,616
Shares.
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Ordinary
Resolutions
|
Votes of
Shareholders
|
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For
|
Against
|
Abstain
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2.
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To consider and approve the resolution on the renewal
of the ACC Framework Agreement between the Company and Air China
Cargo and the application for the annual transaction caps
for
2025 to 2027.
|
614,717,992
(99.7135%)
|
1,131,701
(0.1836%)
|
634,510
(0.1029%)
|
|
|
|
|
|
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, 5 December 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. He Yun*, Mr. Xu Junxin* and Ms. Winnie Tam
Wan-chi*.
* Independent non-executive
director of the Company
