Chong Hing Bank : Poll Results of 2019 Annual General Meeting

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(Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability) (Stock Code: 01111)

POLL RESULTS OF 2019 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

At the annual general meeting of Chong Hing Bank Limited (the "Bank") held on Friday, 17 May 2019 (the "AGM"), a poll was demanded by the Chairman of the Meeting for voting on all proposed resolutions as set out in the notice of the AGM dated 26 March 2019 (the "Notice of AGM").

The poll results in respect of all the resolutions proposed at the AGM are set out below:

			Ordinary Resolutions		Number of Votes (%)	Passed by
				For	Against	Shareholders
1. To receive the audited Consolidated Financial
	Statements, the Report of the Directors and the	806,372,604	0	Yes
	Independent Auditor's Report for the year	(100.0000%)	(0.0000%)
	ended 31 December 2018.
2. To declare a final cash dividend of HK$0.41	806,372,604	0	Yes
	per	share for the year ended	31 December
	(100.0000%)	(0.0000%)
2018.
3. (i)	To	re-elect	Mr	ZHANG	Zhaoxing	as	806,314,456	58,093	Yes
		non-executive director.			(99.9928%)	(0.0072%)
	(ii)	To re-elect Mr ZONG Jianxin as executive	806,341,452	31,097	Yes
		director.					(99.9961%)	(0.0039%)
	(iii) To re-elect Mr LI Feng as non-executive	805,816,456	556,093	Yes
		director.					(99.9310%)	(0.0690%)
	(iv) To	re-elect	Mr	YU Lup	Fat Joseph	as	805,939,456	433,093	Yes
		independent non-executive director.		(99.9463%)	(0.0537%)
	(v)	To re-elect Ms CHEN Jing as non-executive	805,813,456	559,093	Yes
		director.					(99.9307%)	(0.0693%)
4. To	re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as	the	806,341,011	28,500
	Auditor	of the	Bank and to	authorise	the	Yes
	(99.9965%)	(0.0035%)
	directors of the Bank to fix its remuneration.
5. To grant a general mandate to the directors of
	the Bank to buy back shares in the Bank not	806,369,511	3,093	Yes
	exceeding 10 per cent of the total number of
	(99.9996%)	(0.0004%)
	shares of the Bank in issue as at the date of
	passing this Resolution.*
6. To grant a general mandate to the directors of
	the Bank to allot, issue and deal with additional	802,058,505	1,924,099	Yes
	shares in the Bank not exceeding 20 per cent of
	(99.7607%)	(0.2393%)
	the total number of shares of the Bank in issue
	as at the date of passing this Resolution.*
7. To extend the general mandate granted under
	Resolution 6 by adding the number of shares of	802,060,950	1,921,654
	the Bank bought back under Resolution 5 to the	Yes
	(99.7610%)	(0.2390%)
	number of additional shares permitted to be
	allotted, issued and dealt with.*

*The full text of Resolutions 5 to 7 are set out in the Notice of AGM.

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As of the date of the AGM, a total of 972,526,094 shares of the Bank were in issue which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote on all the resolutions at the AGM. There were no restrictions on any shareholders of the Company to cast votes on any of the proposed resolutions at the AGM. There were no shares entitling the holders to attend and abstain from voting in favour of the resolutions at the AGM as set out in rule 13.40 of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Listing Rules"), and no shareholder of the Company was required to abstain from voting at the AGM under the Listing Rules.

No parties have indicated in the Bank's circular dated 26 March 2019 that they intend to abstain from voting on or vote against any of the resolutions at the AGM.

Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the Bank's share registrar and transfer office, acted as the scrutineer for vote-taking at the AGM.

For and on behalf of

Chong Hing Bank Limited

Lai Wing Nga

Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 17 May 2019

As at the date of this announcement, the board of directors of the Bank comprises:

•Executive Directors

Mr ZongJianxin (Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive) and Mr LauWai Man (Deputy Chief Executive);

•Non-executiveDirectors

Mr ZhangZhaoxing (Chairman), Mr LiFeng, Mr ChowCheuk Yu Alfred and Ms ChenJing; and

•Independent Non-executive Directors

Mr ChengYuk Wo, Mr MaChiu Cheung Andrew, Mr LeeKa Lun and Mr YuLup Fat Joseph.

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