Notice of AGM

RNS Number : 0954L

Air China Ld

29 April 2010

 



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AIR CHINA LIMITED

(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 00753)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

       NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an annual general meeting ("AGM") of Air China Limited (the 

"Company") for the year ended 31 December 2009 will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, 18 June 2010 at The Conference Room,Air China Building, 36 Xiaoyun Road, Chaoyang District,Beijing, PRC for the following 
purposes:

1.     To consider and approve the report of the Board ofDirectors of the Company for the year 2009;

2.     To consider and approve the report of the Supervisory Committee of the Company for the year 
2009;

3.     To consider and approve the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company for the 
year 2009 prepared under the Accounting Standards for Enterprises of the PRC and the 
International Financial Reporting Standards;

4.     To consider and approve the profit distribution proposal that no dividends be distributed for the year 2009 as recommended bythe Board ofDirectors of the Company;

5.     To considerand approve the reappointment of Ernst & Young as the Company's international 
auditors and Ernst & Young Hua Ming CPAs Limited Company as the Company's domestic auditors for the year ending 31 December 2010 and to authorise the Board of Directors of the Company to 

        determine their remunerations forthe year 2010;

To consider and approve the following resolutions as special resolutions (items 6 and 7):

6.     "THAT the authorisation of the Board of Directors of the Company to allot, issue and deal with 
additional shares of the Company be and is hereby approved.

(1)    subject to paragraph (3) of this resolution, the exercise by the Board of Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as defined in paragraph (4) of this resolution) of all the powers of the Company toallot, issue and deal with additional A Shares and/or H Shares of 
the Company (hereinafter referred to as "Shares") and to make or grant offers, agreements 
and options which mightrequire the exercise of such powers be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

(2)    this approval shall authorise the Board of Directors of the Company during the Relevant 
Period to make or grant offers, agreements andoptions which might require the exercise 
of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;

(3)    the amount of additional A Shares and H Shares (as the case may be) allotted, issued and dealt with or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted, issued and dealt with either separately or concurrently by the Board of Directors of the Company pursuant to the approval 
inparagraph (1) of this resolution shall not exceed 20% of each of the Company's existing A 
Shares and H Shares (as the case may be) in issue at the date of passing this resolution; and

(4)    for the purpose of this resolution:

"Relevant Period" means the period from the passing of this resolution until theearlier of:

(a)    the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

(b)    the expiration of the 12 months period following the passing of this resolution; and

(c)    the revocation or variation of the authority given to the Board of Directors of the Company under this resolution by a special resolution of the Company's shareholders 
in general meetings."

7.     "THAT the Board of Directorsof the Company be and is hereby authorised to increase the registered capital of the Company to reflect the issue of Shares authorised under special resolution 6, and to 
make such appropriate and necessary amendments to the Articles of Association of the Company 
as they think fit to reflect such increases in theregistered capital of the Company and to take any 
other action and complete any formalityrequired to effect such increase of the registered capital of the Company."

                By order of the Board

                 Air China Limited

                Kong Dong

Chairman of the Board

Beijing, PRC, 30 April 2010

As at the date of this notice, the directors of the Company are Mr. Kong Dong, Ms. Wang Yinxiang, Mr. 
Wang Shixiang, Mr. Cao Jianxiong, Mr. Christopher Dale Pratt, Mr. Chen Nan Lok,Philip, Mr. Cai Jianjiang, Mr. Fan Cheng, Mr. Hu Hung Lick, Henry*, Mr. Zhang Ke*, Mr. Jia Kang* and Mr. Fu Yang*.

*    Independent non-executive director of the Company

Notes:

1.       Closure of register of members and eligibility for attending the AGM

Holders of H Shares of the Company are advisedthat the register of members of the Company will close from Wednesday, 19 May 2010 to Friday, 18 June 2010 (both days inclusive), during which time no transfer of H Shares of the Company will be effected and registered. In order to qualify for attendance at the AGM, instruments of transfer accompanied by share certificates 
and other appropriate documents must be lodged with the Company's H Share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor 
Services Limited, by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 18 May 2010.

Shareholders of the Company whose names appear on the registerof members of the Company at the close of business on  Tuesday, 18 May 2010 are entitled to attend the AGM.

2.       Notice of attendance

H Share shareholders who intend to attend the AGM should complete and lodge the accompanying notice of attendance and return it to the Company's H Shareregistrar on or before Friday, 28 May 2010. The noticeof attendance may be delivered by hand, by post or by fax to the Company's H Shareregistrar. Completion and return of the notice of attendance do not affect 
the right of a shareholder to attend the AGM. However, the failure to return the notice of attendance may result in an  adjournment of the AGM, if the number of shares carrying the right to vote represented by the shareholders proposing to attend 
the AGM by the notice of attendance does not reach more than half of the total number of shares of the Company carrying the 
right to vote at the AGM.

3.       Proxy

Every shareholder who has the right to attend and vote at the AGM is entitled to appoint one or more proxies, whether or not they are 
members of the Company, to attend and vote on his behalf at the AGM.

A proxy shall be appointedby an instrument in writing. Such instrument shall be signed by the appointer or hisattorney duly authorised in writing. If the appointer is a legal person, then the instrument shall be signed under a legal person's seal or signed by its director or an attorney duly 
authorised in writing. The instrument appointing the proxy shall be deposited at the Company's H Share registrar for holders of H Shares not less than 24 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the AGM. If the instrument appointing the proxy is signed by a person authorised by the appointer, the power of attorney or other document of authority under which the instrument is signed shall be notarised. The notarised 
power of attorney or other document of authority shall be deposited together and at the same time with the instrument appointing the proxy at the Company's H Share registrar.

4.       Other businesses

(i)      The AGM is expected to last for two hours. Shareholders and their proxies attending the meeting shall beresponsible for their own traveling 
and accommodation expenses.

(ii)     The address of Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited is:

17M Floor

Hopewell Centre

183 Queen's Road East

Wanchai

Hong Kong

Tel No.: (852) 2862 8628

Fax No.: (852) 2865 0990

 

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