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Stock Codes: 737 (HKD counter) and 80737 (RMB counter)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 30 APRIL 2019

POLL RESULTS

At the annual general meeting (the "AGM") of Hopewell Highway Infrastructure Limited (the "Company") held on 30 April 2019, all the resolutions (the "Resolutions") proposed were duly passed by the shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") by way of poll, as required by The Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the Company's Hong Kong share registrar (the "Hong Kong Share Registrar"), acted as the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the AGM. The poll results of the Resolutions were as follows:

Ordinary Resolutions

Number of Votes (%)

For

Against

1.

To receive and consider the audited consolidated

2,813,464,814

32,400

Financial Statements and the Report of the

(99.998848%)

(0.001152%)

Directors and Independent Auditor's Report for the

six months ended 31 December 2018

2.

To approve the recommended final dividend of

2,813,500,169

53,400

RMB9.9 cents per share

(99.998102%)

(0.001898%)

3.

(a) To re-elect Mr. Junye CAI* as Director

2,813,421,059

147,910

(99.994743%)

(0.005257%)

(b) To re-elect Mr. Jiyang TANG* as Director

2,813,404,059

147,910

(99.994743%)

(0.005257%)

(c) To fix the Directors' fees

2,813,497,669

54,400

(99.998067%)

(0.001933%)

4.

To re-appoint Messrs. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as

2,813,500,169

53,400

Auditor and authorise the Directors to fix their

(99.998102%)

(0.001898%)

remuneration

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5.

(a) To give a general mandate to the Directors to

2,813,500,169

53,400

repurchase shares (Ordinary Resolution No.

(99.998102%)

(0.001898%)

5(A) of the Notice of AGM)

(b) To give a general mandate to the Directors to

2,811,415,704

2,137,365

issue shares (Ordinary Resolution No. 5(B) of

(99.924033%)

(0.075967%)

the Notice of AGM)

(c) To extend the general mandate to issue shares

2,811,727,904

1,803,310

to cover the shares repurchased by the

(99.935906%)

(0.064094%)

Company (Ordinary Resolution No. 5(C) of the

Notice of AGM)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the Ordinary Resolutions, all the Ordinary Resolutions of the Company were duly passed.

Special Resolution

6.

Subject to and conditional upon the approval of the

2,813,138,325

196,020

Registrar of Companies in the Cayman Islands

(99.993032%)

(0.006968%)

being obtained, the English name of the Company

be changed from "Hopewell Highway Infrastructure

Limited" to "Shenzhen Investment Holdings Bay

Area Development Company Limited", and the dual

foreign name of the Company be changed from "

和公路基建有限公司"to "深圳投控灣區發展有限

公司"

As not less than 75% of the votes were cast in favour of the Special Resolution, the Special Resolution of the Company was duly passed.

As at the date of the AGM, the Company had a total number of 3,081,690,283 issued shares, which was the total number of shares entitling holders to attend and vote for or against the Resolutions at the AGM. There was no Shareholder (i) who was entitled to attend the AGM but was required to abstain from voting in favour of any of the Resolutions at the AGM or (ii) who was required to abstain from voting on any of the Resolutions at the AGM.

In the Company's circular dated 27 March 2019, no parties have stated their intention to vote against or to abstain from voting on any of the Resolutions at the AGM.

As the proposed final dividend of RMB9.9 cents per share (equivalent to HK11.615472 cents per share at the exchange rate of RMB1: HK$1.17328 as published by The People's Bank of China on 28 February 2019) for the six months ended 31 December 2018 have been approved by the Shareholders at the AGM, the Company would like to remind Shareholders that the register of members of the Company, as announced on 28 February 2019, will be closed for one day on Tuesday, 7 May 2019, to ascertain Shareholders' entitlement to the final dividend.

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The Shareholders will be given the option of electing to receive the final dividend in either Renminbi or Hong Kong Dollars or a combination of Renminbi and Hong Kong Dollars. To make the dividend election, the Shareholders should complete the dividend election form (if applicable) and return it to the Hong Kong Share Registrar, not later than 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 28 May 2019. If no dividend election is made by a Shareholder, such Shareholder will receive the final dividend in Hong Kong Dollars. It is expected that the final dividend will be paid on Thursday, 6 June 2019 to Shareholders who are registered at the close of business on Tuesday, 7 May 2019.

By Order of the Board

Hopewell Highway Infrastructure Limited

KOO Ching Fan

Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 30 April 2019

As at the date of this announcement, the board of directors of the Company comprises three Executive Directors namely, Mr. Tianliang ZHANG* (General Manager), Mr. Cheng WU* (Deputy General Manager) and Mr. Ji LIU* (Deputy General Manager and secretary to the Board); three Non-executive Directors namely, Mr. Zhengyu LIU* (Chairman), Mr. Junye CAI* and Mr. Jiyang TANG*; and three Independent Non-executive Directors namely, Mr. Brian David Man Bun LI, Mr. Yu Lung CHING and Mr. Tony Chung Nin KAN.

* For identification purpose only

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