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Shareholders' Interests
The Board endeavors to maintain an on-going dialogue with shareholders, and in particular, to communicate with shareholders through annual general meetings. The executive directors and representatives of the Board committees usually attend the meetings and treasure the opportunities to communicate with shareholders at such meetings. At general meetings, the chairman of the meeting proposes individual resolutions in respect of each substantially separate matter. All matters at the Company’s general meetings are resolved by poll and the relevant procedures are explained at the meeting. The Company also appoints external scrutineers to ensure that all votes are counted and recorded appropriately, and publishes the poll results in a timely manner.
The last annual general meeting of the Company was held on 24 May 2011, at which the following resolutions were passed:
• to receive and consider the financial statements and the Reports of the Directors and of the Independent Auditor for the year ended 31 December 2010
• to declare a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2010
• to re-elect Mr. Lu Yimin, Mr. Li Fushen, Mr. Cesareo Alierta Izuel, Mr. Wong Wai Ming and Mr. Cai Hongbin as Directors and to authorize the Board to fix the remuneration of the Directors for the year ending 31 December 2011
• to re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor and authorise the Board to fix their remuneration for the year ending 31 December 2011
• to grant a general mandate to issue new shares
• to grant a general mandate for share repurchase
• to extend the general mandate for issue new shares
• to amend the Articles of Association of the Company
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