ARRANGEMENT OF DISSEMINATION OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

INTRODUCTION

Central China Securities Co., Ltd. (the ‘‘Company’’) is pleased to announce that pursuant to Rule 2.07A¹ of the Rules (the “Listing Rules”) Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”), the Company will disseminate the future corporate communications of the Company (the “Corporate Communications” ²) to its Shareholders³ electronically and only send corporate communications in printed form to the Shareholders upon request.

In this connection, the following arrangements will come into effect on the date of this website notice.

ARRANGEMENTS

1.      Corporate Communications

The Company will make both the English and Chinese versions of all future Corporate Communications available on its website (http://www.ccnew.com) and the Stock Exchange’s website (www.hkexnews.hk).

The Shareholders are encouraged to proactively check the Company’s website and the Stock Exchange’s website to keep up with the publication of the Corporate Communications and access the website version of the Corporate Communications by themselves. Shareholders who wish to be notified of the Corporate Communications may subscribe for the News Alert service on HKEX website⁶ to receive instant notification of the Company’s latest Corporate Communications.

2.      Actionable Corporate Communications⁴

The Company will send the Actionable Corporate Communications to Shareholders individually in electronic form by email. If the Company does not possess the email address of a Shareholder or the email address provided is not functional^5, the Company will send the Actionable Corporate Communication in printed form.

PROVISION OF SHAREHOLDER’S EMAIL ADDRESS TO THE COMPANY

To ensure timely receipt of the Actionable Corporate Communications, the Company recommends the Shareholders to provide the Company with their email address at any time in future by reasonable notice in writing to the Company’s Hong Kong share registrar (the “Share Registrar”), Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong or by email to ccnew.ecom@computershare.com.hk.

It is the responsibility of the Shareholders to provide an email address that is functional. If the Company does not possess the email address of a Shareholder or the email address provided is not functional, the Company will send to such Shareholder all future Actionable Corporate Communications in printed form by post, until such time when such Shareholder has provided a functional email address to the Share Registrar for receiving the same. The Company will be considered to have complied with the Listing Rules if it sends Actionable Corporate Communications to the email address provided by a Shareholder without receiving any “non-delivery message”.

REQUEST FOR PRINTED COPY OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

For those Shareholders who wish to receive a printed version of all future Corporate Communications, the Company will, upon receipt of request in writing by the Shareholder to the Share Registrar or by email to ccnew.ecom@computershare.com.hk, send future Corporate Communications to such Shareholders in printed form free of charge.

Please note that unless being revoked or superseded, the request for receiving the printed form of the Corporate Communications will be valid for one year starting from the receipt date of request and will expire thereafter.  Further request in writing will be required if a Shareholder prefers to continue receiving printed form of future Corporate Communications.  

Should you have any queries relating to this letter, please contact the Share Registrar at (852)2862 8688 during business hours from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time), Mondays to Fridays, excluding Hong Kong public holidays.

Notes:

1.      With effect from 31 December 2023.

2.      “Corporate Communications” are documents issued or to be issued by the Company for the information or action of holders of any of its securities, including but not limited to (a) the directors’ report, its annual accounts together with a copy of the auditors’ report and, where applicable, its summary financial report; (b) the interim report and, where applicable, its summary interim report; (c) a notice of meeting; (d) a listing document; (e) a circular; and (f) a proxy form.

3.       Holder(s) of the H share(s) the Company.

4.      Actionable Corporate Communications refer to any corporate communications that seeks instructions from the Company’s securities holders on how they wish to exercise their rights or make elections as the issuer’s securities holder.

5.      It is the responsibility of a Shareholder to provide email address that is functional.  The Company will be considered to have complied with the Listing Rules if it sends Actionable Corporate Communications to the email address provided by a Shareholder without receiving any “non-delivery message”.

6.      https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/invest/user/login_e.aspx