Bank of China : Announcement-Postponement of the 2019 Second Extraordinary General Meeting and Extension of Closure of Register of Shareholders

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中 國 銀 行 股 份 有 限 公 司

BANK OF CHINA LIMITED

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

(the "Bank")

(Stock Code: 3988)

ANNOUNCEMENT

Postponement of the 2019 Second Extraordinary General Meeting

and

Extension of Closure of Register of Shareholders

The Bank published the Notice of the 2019 Second Extraordinary General Meeting (the "Original Notice") and the Circular of the 2019 Second Extraordinary General Meeting (the "Circular") on 3 November 2019 in relation to the holding of the 2019 Second Extraordinary General Meeting (the "EGM") at Bank of China Head Office Building, No. 1 Fuxingmen Nei Dajie, Beijing, China at 9:30 a.m. on 19 December 2019.

Postponement of the EGM

Due to the need for work arrangements coordination, the EGM which is originally scheduled to be held at 9:30 a.m. on 19 December 2019 is rescheduled to 9:30 a.m. on 31 December 2019. The venue of the EGM will remain unchanged at Bank of China Head Office Building, No. 1 Fuxingmen Nei Dajie, Beijing, China.

Extension of Closure of Register of Shareholders

The closure of H-Share register of shareholders of the Bank originally lasts, for the purpose of determining shareholders' entitlement to attend the EGM, from Tuesday, 19 November 2019 to Thursday, 19 December 2019 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares will be registered. Due to postponement of the EGM, the last date for closure of the H-Share register of shareholders of the Bank will be extended from Thursday, 19 December 2019 to Tuesday, 31 December 2019 (the last day inclusive). H-Share Holders who are registered with Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at the close of business on Monday, 18 November 2019 are entitled to attend the EGM.

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Supplemental Proxy Form and Proxy Form

Reference is made to the Supplemental Notice of the 2019 Second Extraordinary General Meeting (the "Supplemental Notice") dated 13 December 2019 of the Bank. The Bank has on this date issued to shareholders a supplemental proxy form in respect of the ordinary resolution in the Supplemental Notice. If a shareholder intends to appoint a proxy to attend the EGM, the supplemental proxy form enclosed in the Supplemental Notice must be completed in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and deposited at the H Share Registrar of the Bank, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at least 24 hours before the time stipulated for convening the EGM or any adjourned meeting thereof in order for the appointment to be valid. Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited is located at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong (Telephone: [phone]). For the avoidance of doubt, if a shareholder has already validly appointed a proxy to act for him/her at the EGM but has not completed and returned the supplemental proxy form, his/her proxy will have the right to vote on the ordinary resolution as stated in the Supplemental Notice at his/her discretion. Completion and return of the supplemental proxy form will not preclude the shareholder from attending and voting at the EGM.

The originally scheduled lodge time of the proxy form published by the Bank on 3 November 2019, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) for H-Share Holders, to Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the office of the H Share Registrar of the Bank in Hong Kong, not less than 24 hours before the time appointed for holding the EGM (i.e. not later than 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 18 December 2019), is also postponed to not later than 9:30 a.m. on Monday, 30 December 2019.

Reply Slip

Saved for the aforesaid changes, the reply slip of the EGM published by the Bank on 3 November 2019 will remain unchanged and valid for the postponed EGM. For the avoidance of doubt, any reply slip duly completed and returned in accordance with the instructions printed thereon by the shareholders remains valid for the postponed EGM and the relevant shareholders are not required to submit the reply slips again.

Save as disclosed above, the Board of Directors of the Bank confirms that all other information in the Original Notice and the Circular remains unchanged.

The Board of Directors of

Bank of China Limited

Beijing, PRC

13 December 2019

As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Bank are: Liu Liange, Wu Fulin, Lin Jingzhen, Zhao Jie*, Xiao Lihong*, Wang Xiaoya*, Liao Qiang*, Zhang Jiangang*, Wang Changyun#, Angela Chao#, Jiang Guohua# and Martin Cheung Kong Liao#.

*  Non-executive Directors

#Independent Non-executive Directors

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