Qinhuangdao Port (03369) announced that the company will declare a final cash dividend of RMB 0 per 10 shares to shareholders...
Qinhuangdao Port (03369) announced that the company will declare a final cash dividend of RMB 0.83 per 10 shares (including tax) to shareholders in cash. The final dividend will be paid to shareholders whose names appear in the company's share register by July 16, 2024, and will be paid before August 22, 2024. According to the company's articles of association, dividends to A-share shareholders will be declared and paid in RMB, while dividends to H-share shareholders will be declared in RMB and paid in HKD at an exchange rate of RMB 0.911804 per HKD 1.00, based on the average exchange rate published by the People's Bank of China in the week before the shareholders' annual meeting. Based on this calculation, the final dividend for every 10 H shares should be HKD 0.910283 (including tax).
As the ordinary resolutions relating to the appointment of the auditors for the 2024 financial year and the internal control audit for the 2024 financial year in the sixth and seventh items respectively have been formally passed by the shareholders at the annual general meeting, the company hereby announces that Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has been appointed as the auditor for the 2024 financial year to replace Ernst & Young Hua Ming, who was the auditor for the 2023 financial year; and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has been appointed as the internal control audit for the 2024 financial year to replace Ernst & Young Hua Ming, who resigned as the internal control audit for the 2023 financial year.
At the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, Mr. Liu Li and Mr. Zhou Qing were elected as independent non-executive directors.
According to the Measures for the Administration of Independent Directors of Listed Companies and the Company's Articles of Association, the tenure of office of independent non-executive directors shall not exceed six years. Therefore, Mr. Chen Ruihua, the current independent non-executive director, chairman of the nomination committee, member of the strategic committee and risk management committee, will resign from his position as independent non-executive director of the company; and Mr. Xiao Zuhe, the current independent non-executive director, member of the audit committee and chairman of the risk management committee, will resign from his position as independent non-executive director of the company from June 25, 2024.