【Promulgation Date】2006-05-19
【Effective Date】2006-05-19

 
(These Rules came into effect as of January 1998, and were firstly amended in May 2000, secondly amended in June 2001, thirdly amended in February 2002, fourthly amended in December 2004 and fifthly amended in May 2006.)
 
Chapter I General Provisions
 
1.1 In order to regulate the listing activities of shares, corporate bonds that can be converted into shares and other derivative products (hereinafter referred to as the "shares and their derivative products") and the information disclosure activities of listed companies and other related obligors, maintain the order in securities market and protect the legitimate rights and interests of investors and issuers, these Rules are formulated in accordance with the "Company Law of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Company Law"), the "Securities Law of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Securities Law"), the "Measures for Administration of Stock Exchanges" and the "Articles of Association of the Shanghai Stock Exchange".
 
1.2 These Rules shall apply to the shares and the derivative products thereof listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange (hereinafter referred to as "the Stock Exchange").
If the China Securities Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "CSRC") and the Stock Exchange have other special provisions on the matters concerning the listing, information disclosure or suspension of trading of derivative products such as rights certificates, such provisions shall be observed.
 
1.3 Any company that applies for listing and trading of shares and the derivative products thereof in the Stock Exchange shall be examined and approved by the Stock Exchange, and sign the listing agreement with the Stock Exchange before the listing to define the rights and obligations of both parties and other relevant matters.
 
1.4 The Stock Exchange shall exercise the supervision over listed companies and relevant information disclosure obligors thereof such as directors, supervisors, senior management personnel, shareholders, defacto controllers and purchasers as well as sponsorship institutions and representative sponsors in accordance with the laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations, these Rules and other regulatory documents or as authorized by the CSRC.
 
Chapter II Basic Principles and General Stipulations of Information Disclosure
 
2.1 Any listed companies and related information disclosure obligors thereof shall perform the obligation of information disclosure in accordance with the laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations and these Rules as well as the relevant provisions of measures and notices issued by the Stock Exchange.
 
2.2 A listed company shall disclose all the information that may considerably affect the trading price of the shares of this company and the derivative products thereof promptly and fairly, and report the announcement and relevant filing documents to the Stock Exchange in the first instance.
 
2.3 A listed company and its directors, supervisors, senior management personnel shall ensure the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed by the company and shall not contain any false record, misleading statement or significant omission. If they cannot guarantee that the contents of the announcement are truthful, accurate or complete, they shall make the corresponding statements in the announcement and state the reasons.
 
2.4 If any event occurs in the company or related with the company fails to reach the standard prescribed in these Rules or there are no specific provisions in these Rules concerning such event, but the Stock Exchange or the board of directors of the company considers that such event may considerably affect the trading price of the shares of this company and the derivative products thereof, the company shall disclose such event with reference to these Rules.
 
2.5 Before disclosing the information, the directors, supervisors, senior management personnel and other persons in the know of a listed company shall limit the insiders of such information to the minimum extent, and they shall not divulge the inside information of the company, engage in inside trading or cooperate with others to manipulate the trading price of the shares and their derivative products.
 
2.6 A listed company shall formulate and strictly implement the administration system on information disclosure and the internal reporting system on significant information, define the range of responsibilities of information disclosure as well as the responsibility of keeping secrets of the various departments (including subsidiary holding companies) and relevant personnel of the company so as to ensure that the information disclosure of the company complies with the requirements of these Rules.
 
2.7 A listed company and the related information disclosure obligors shall pay attention to the reporting from the mass media (including the main websites) regarding the company as well as the trading information of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof, and shall grasp the truthful information promptly from relevant parties, accurately answer the inquires made by the Stock Exchange regarding the above matters, and announce the relevant information to the public according to the provisions of these Rules and the requirements of the Stock Exchange.
 
2.8 If the listed company and its related information disclosure obligors fail to answer the inquires made by the Stock Exchange within the prescribed time limit or fail to make the announcement to the public according to the provisions of these Rules and the requirements of the Stock Exchange, or when the Stock Exchange deems it necessary, it may explain the relevant situations to the market in the form of the announcement of the Stock Exchange.
 
2.9 The form of information disclosure of a listed company prescribed by these Rules shall include the regular report and ad hoc report.
 
Before disclosing the information, the company shall submit the drafts of regular report or ad hoc report and relevant documents to be examined as required by the Stock Exchange.
 
2.10 In the course of disclosing the information, a company shall use the descriptive language to clearly state the truthful information of the events in a concise and understandable way, and no words with the meaning of propaganda, advertising, compliment or imputation shall be contained in the information disclosure documents.
 
2.11 The Stock Exchange shall exercise the examination over the form of the information disclosure documents of listed companies in accordance with the relevant provisions of laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations and these Rules as well as the measures and notices issued by the Stock Exchange, and shall not be responsible for the truthfulness of the contents of such documents.
 
The Stock Exchange shall exercise the ex ante registration and ex post examination over regular reports; and exercise the ex ante examination or ex ante registration and ex post examination over ad hoc reports according to different circumstances.
 
If there are any mistakes, omissions or misleading in the regular reports or ad hoc reports, the Stock Exchange may request the company to make the explanations and make a public announcement thereafter, the company shall handle such matters as required by the Stock Exchange.
 
2.12 The regular report and ad hoc report of a listed company and the announcement of its related information disclosure obligors shall be disclosed in the media designated by the CSRC upon the registration of the Stock Exchange. If the listed company and its related information disclosure obligors fail to make the disclosure on the prescribed date, they shall report the matter to the Stock Exchange before 9 Am of the prescribed date.
 
The company and its related information disclosure obligors shall guarantee that the documents disclosed in the designated media shall be the same as the contents registered in the Stock Exchange.
 
The company and its related information disclosure obligors shall not disclose information in other mass media before disclosing it in the designated media, and shall not substitute the information disclosure in other forms such as news release or press conference. The directors shall observe and promote the company to observe the provisions mentioned above.
 
2.13 In the course of making the announcement, a listed company shall make the information disclosure documents such as regular reports and ad hoc reports available at the company's domicile at the same time for the public to consult.
 
2.14 A listed company shall prepare the communication apparatus required in disclosing the information, and ensure the smooth of the external consultancy telephones.
 
2.15 If the information to be disclosed by a listed company is uncertain, or belongs to the provisional commercial secrets or other situations recognized by the Stock Exchange, and the prompt disclosure of such information may impair the interests of the company or mislead the investors and the situation also complies with the following conditions, the company may apply for the postponement of disclosure and state the reasons for the postponement and the time limit thereof:
 
(1) The information to be disclosed has not been divulged yet;
 
(2) The relevant insiders have promised to keep secrets in written; and
 
(3) No abnormal fluctuation occurs in the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof.
 
Upon the consent of the Stock Exchange, the company may postpone the disclosure of relevant information. The time limit for such postponement shall be not more than two months.
 
If the application of the disclosure postponement is not agreed by the Stock Exchange, the reasons for the discourse postponement have been eliminated or the time limit for the disclosure postponement has expired, the company shall disclose the information without delay.
 
2.16 If the information to be disclosed by a listed company belongs to the State secrets, commercial secrets or other situations recognized by the Stock Exchange, and disclose such information or perform relevant obligations according to these Rules may violate the laws or regulations of the State regarding keeping the secrets or damage the interests of the company, the company may apply for exempting from disclosing such information or performing relevant obligations according to these Rules at the Stock Exchange.
 
2.17 If a listed company has any questions about the specific requirements of these Rules, it may make the enquiry at the Stock Exchange.
 
2.18 Any related information disclosure obligors of a listed company such as shareholders, defacto controllers and purchasers shall perform their obligations of information disclosure according to the relevant provisions, actively cooperate with the company in accomplishing the information disclosure work, inform the company of the significant events already occurred or going to occur, and shall not divulge the relevant information before the disclosure.
 
Chapter III Directors, Supervisors and Senior Management Personnel
 
Section I Declaration and Undertakings of Directors, Supervisors and Senior Management Personnel
 
3.1.1 The " Declaration and Undertakings of Directors (Supervisors or Senior Management Personnel)" shall be signed in triplicate and submitted to the Stock Exchange and the board of directors of the company for a record by the directors, supervisors and senior management personnel before the initial listing of company shares, by the newly-appointed directors and supervisors within one month after the relevant resolutions have been adopted by the shareholders general meeting or the staff and workers congress and by the newly-appointed senior management personnel within one month after the resolutions have been adopted by the board of directors.
 
When signing the " Declaration and Undertakings of Directors (Supervisors or Senior Management Personnel)" by directors, supervisors and senior management personnel, such documents shall be interpreted by a lawyer and the directors, supervisors and senior management personnel shall put their signatures on the documents after fully understanding the contents thereof and be witnessed by the lawyer.
 
The secretary of the board of directors shall urge the directors, supervisors and senior management personnel to sign the "Declaration and Undertakings of Directors (Supervisors or Senior Management Personnel)" timely and submit the written and electronic files thereof according to the ways and methods prescribed by the Stock Exchange.
 
3.1.2 Any director, supervisor and senior management personnel shall make the statement in the "Declaration and Undertakings of Directors (Supervisors or Senior Management Personnel)"that:
 
(1) information a holding the shares of the company;
 
(2) information about whether he is investigated and punished due to the violation of laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations and these Rules;
 
(3) information about participating in the securities business training;
 
(4) other information about the posts he holds and the working experiences during the last five years;
 
(5) information about his possession of nationalities or permanent residence right in other countries or regions; and
 
(6) other matters that the Stock Exchange deems to be stated.
 
3.1.3 Any director, supervisor and senior management personnel shall ensure the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the matters stated in the "Declaration and Undertakings of Directors (Supervisors or Senior Management Personnel)" and shall not contain any false record, misleading statement or significant omission.
 
If the stated matters have changed (except for the situation of holding the shares of the company), the directors, supervisors and management personnel shall submit the relevant latest materials to the Stock Exchange and the board of directors of the company within five trading days as of the date on which the changes occur.
 
3.1.4 The directors, supervisors and senior management shall perform the following duties and give undertakings in the "Declaration and Undertakings of Directors (Supervisors or Senior Management Personnel)":
 
(1) to observe and promote the company to observe the laws, administrative rules and regulations, and departmental regulations, bear the duties of loyalty and due diligence towards the company;
 
(2) to observe and promote the company to observe these Rules and other provisions of the Stock Exchange, accept the supervision of the Stock Exchange;
 
(3) to observe and promote the company to observe the articles of association; and
 
(4) other duties or undertakings that the Stock Exchange deems to be performed or given.
 
The supervisors shall also promise to supervise the directors and the senior management personnel to perform their undertakings.
 
The senior management personnel shall also promise to report promptly the matters related with the business or finance of the company which may considerably affect the trading price of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof to the board of directors.
 
3.1.5 The duties of loyalty and due diligence to be performed by a director shall include the following contents:
 
(1) to attend in person the meeting of the board of directors in principle, act diligently in a reasonable and circumspect manner, clearly state his views on the discussed matters; if he is unable to attend the meeting of the board of director due to certain reasons, he shall choose prudentially an entrusted to act on his behalf;
 
(2) to earnestly read the various reports of commerce and finance of the company and the significant reports of the mass media related with the company, timely acquaint himself with and consistently pay attention to the business management situation of the company and the significant events of the company already happened or likely to happen and the impact thereof, report the problems occur in the course of business of the company to the board of directors, and shall not shift his responsibilities with the excuses of not directly engaging in the business management or unacquainted with the relevant problems or situations; and
 
Other duties of loyalty and due diligence prescribed by Article 148 and 149 of the "Company Law" or recognized by the public.
 
3.1.6 Any director, supervisor or senior management personnel shall not transfer the shares of company he holds within one year as of the date on which the shares of the company are listed and traded and within half-year after he leaving his post; during his term of office, the shares transferred each year shall not exceed 25% of the total amount of the company's shares held by him, and shall not repurchase the company's shares within six months after selling the same, or resell the company's shares within six months after purchasing the same.
 
The directors, supervisors and management personnel shall, according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and the restrictive provisions of the articles of association regarding the transfer of company's shares held by them, apply at the Stock Exchange for locking up the whole or partial company's shares held by him within the corresponding period.
 
Any change in the company's shares held by the directors, supervisors and senior management personnel (except for the situation where the change is caused by the increased capital transferred through the allotment of dividend of shares or the capital common reserve fund) shall be reported without delay to the company and the company shall make the announcement on the website of the Stock Exchange.
 
3.1.7 When issuing the notice concerning the holding of general shareholders' meeting on electing the independent directors, the listed company shall submit the relevant materials related with the candidates of independent directors (including but not limiting to the declaration of nominators, declaration of candidates, resumes of independent directors) to the Stock Exchange.
 
If the board of directors of the company has any objections over the relevant information of the candidates of the independent directors, it shall submit the written opinion of the board of directors to the Stock Exchange at the same time.
 
3.1.8 The Stock Exchange shall examine the position qualification and the dependence of the candidates of the independent directors within five trading days after receiving the materials mentioned in the preceding paragraph. The candidates of independent directors over whom the objections are raised by the Stock Exchange shall not be nominated by the company to elect to be the independent directors, but may act as the candidates of directors.
 
When the company holds the shareholders general meeting to elect the independent directors, the board of directors shall make the explanations on whether the candidates of the independent directors are raised the objections by the Stock Exchange.
 
Section II Secretary of the Board of Directors
 
3.2.1 A listed company shall appoint the secretary of the board of directors to act as the designated contact person between the company and the Stock Exchange.
 
The secretary of the board of directors shall ensure that the Stock Exchange may acquire the working liaison with him at any time.
 
3.2.2 The secretary of the board of directors shall be responsible for the company and the board of directors and perform the following duties:
 
(1) be responsible for the communication and contact between the company and related parties and the Stock Exchange and other securities regulatory institutions;
 
(2) be responsible for handling the information disclosure affairs of the company, urge the company to formulate and implement the management system on the information disclosure and the internal reporting system on significant information, promote the company and related parties to perform the information disclosure obligations according to law, and deal with the work of disclosing the regular report and ad hoc report at the Stock Exchange according to the relevant provisions;
 
(3) to coordinate the relationship between the company and the investors, receive the visit of investors, answer the enquiry of the investors and provide the investors with the information disclosure materials of the company;
 
(4) to arrange the shareholders general meeting and the meeting of the board of directors according to the statutory procedures and prepare and submit the relevant documents and materials for the meetings;
 
(5) to attend the meeting of the board of directors and take the meeting minutes and sign on it;
 
(6) be responsible for the secret-guarding job relate with the information disclosure of the company, formulate the secret-guarding measures, promote the directors, supervisors and other senior management personnel as well as related persons in the know to keeping secrets before disclosing the information, and adopt the remedial measures promptly in case the inside information is divulged and report such matter to the Stock Exchange at the same time;
 
(7) be responsible for keeping the roster of the shareholders, the roster of the directors, supervisors and senior management personnel, the materials concerning the holding of the company's shares by the holding company shareholders, directors, supervisors and senior management personnel, and the documents and minutes of the shareholders general meetings and the meetings of the board of directors;
 
(8) to assist the directors, supervisors and senior management personnel to acquaint themselves with the laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations, these Rules, other provisions of the Stock Exchange and the articles of association related with information disclosure, and the content of listing agreements relate with their legal liability;
 
(9) to promote the board of directors to exercise its functions and responsibilities according to law; if the resolution to be adopted in the board of directors violate the laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations, these Rules, other provisions of the Stock Exchange or the articles of association, he shall remind the directors attending the meeting of this matter and recommend the supervisors who attend the meeting as non-voting attendees to state their opinion on this; if the board of directors insist on adopting the above resolutions, the secretary of the board of directors shall take down the opinion of the relevant supervisors and his personal opinion on the meeting minutes and report such matters to the Stock Exchange; and
 
(10) other duties that should be performed as required by the "Company Law" and the Stock Exchange.
 
3.2.3 A listed company shall provide the convenient conditions for the secretary of the board of directors to perform the duties, the directors, supervisors, senior management personnel and relevant working personnel shall support and cooperate with the secretary of the board of directors in the work.
 
For the purpose of performing his duties, the secretary of the board of directors has the right to acquaint himself with the financial and business situations of the company, attend the relevant meetings related with the information disclosure, consult all the documents related with the information disclosure, and request the relevant departments and personnel of the company to provide related materials and information.
 
If the secretary of the board of directors is improperly hindered or seriously obstructed in the course of performing his duties, he may directly report the case to this Stock of Exchange.
 
3.2.4 The secretary of the board of directors shall be equipped with the professional knowledge required in performing his duties such as financial affairs, management and law, have excellent professional ethics and personal quality, and have acquired the training qualification certificate of the secretary of the board of directors issued by the Stock Exchange. Any person that is under any of the following circumstances shall not act as the secretary of the board of directors:
 
(1) under any of the situations as prescribed by Article 147 of the "Company Law";
 
(2) having record of administrative penalty by the CSRC in the last three years;
 
(3) being publicly condemned or circulated the criticism for more than three times by the CSRC in the last three years;
 
(4) acting as the current supervisor of the company; or
 
(5) other situations under which he is deemed by the Stock Exchange to be unsuitable for acting as the secretary of the board of directors.
 
3.2.5 A listed company shall appoint the secretary of the board of directors within three months after the listing of the shares of initial public offering, or within three months after the original secretary of the board of directors leaving the post.
 
3.2.6 The listed company shall submit the following materials to the Stock Exchange five trading days before the holding of the meeting of the board of directors on appointing the secretary of the board of directors:
 
(1) the recommendation letter of the board of directors, including the statement concerning therecommended (candidate)'s position qualification that complies with the provisions of these Rules, the current position, working performance, etc;
 
(2) the personal resume of the candidate and a copy of his education certificate;
 
(3) a copy of the training qualification certificate of the secretary of the board of directorswhich is issued by the Stock Exchange and acquired by the candidate;
 
If the Stock Exchange does not raise any objections towards the position qualification of the candidate of the secretary of the board of directors, the company may convene the meeting of the board of directors to appoint the secretary of the board of directors.
 
3.2.7 The listed company shall appoint an securities affairs representative to assist the secretary of the board of directors to perform his duties. In case the secretary of the board of directors is unable to perform the duties, the securities affairs representative shall perform the duties on his behalf and exercise the corresponding power. During such period, the responsibility of the secretary of the board of directors towards the information disclosure affairs of the company shall not be exempted actually.
 
The securities affairs representative shall acquire the training qualification certificate of the secretary of the board of directors issued by the Stock Exchange.
 
3.2.8 After appointing the secretary of the board of directors and the securities affairs representative, the listed company shall make the public announcement promptly and submit the following materials to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the appointment letter of the secretary of the board of directors and the securities affairs representative or related resolutions of the board of directors;
 
(2) the contact information of the secretary of the board of directors and the securities affairs representative, including the office telephone, home telephone, mobile telephone, fax, communication address and the personal email address, etc; and
 
(3) the contact information of the chairman of the board, including the office telephone, mobile telephone, fax, communication address, the personal email address, etc.
 
If any of the above contact information changes, the company shall submit the changed materials to the Stock Exchange promptly.
 
3.2.9 A listed company shall have sufficient grounds in dismissing the secretary of the board of directors and shall not dismiss him without reasons.
 
If the secretary of the board of directors is dismissed or leaves his position, the company shall report the matter to the Stock Exchange promptly, state the reasons and make the public announcement.
 
The secretary of the board of directors shall have the right to present the report of personal statement to the Stock Exchange regarding his improper dismissing or the information related with his leaving the post.
 
3.2.10 If the Stock Exchange recommends a listed company to replace the secretary of the board of directors according to Article 17.4 of these Rules, or the secretary of the board of directors is under any of the following circumstances, the listed company shall dismiss him within one month as of the date on which the relevant events occur:
 
(1) any of the circumstances mentioned in Article 3.2.4;
 
(2) failing to perform his duties for more than three consecutive months;
 
(3) making significant mistakes or having omissions in performing his duties and thus causing heavy damages to the investors; or
 
(4) violating the laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations, these Rules, other provisions of the Stock Exchange and the articles of association and thus causing heavy damages to the investors.
 
3.2.11 When appointing the secretary of the board of directors, the listed company shall sign the secret-guarding agreement with him, and request him to promise that he will perform the obligation of keeping the secrets during his term of office and after his leaving the post until relevant information is disclosed, however, the information related with the company's violation of laws and regulations shall be excepted.
 
Before leaving the post, the secretary of the board of directors shall accept the post-leaving examination of the board of directors and the supervisory board, and transfer the relevant filing documents, the matters being handled and other matters to be handled under the supervision of the supervisory board.
 
3.2.12 During the vacancy period of the secretary of the board of directors, the listed company shall designate without delay a director or senior management personnel to perform the duties on behalf of the secretary of the board of directors and report such matter to the Stock Exchange for a record, it shall also determine the candidate of the secretary of the board of directors as soon as possible. Before designating the person who performs the duties on behalf of the secretary of the board of directors, the chairman of the board shall perform such duties.
 
If the vacancy period of the secretary of the board of directors exceeds three months, the chairman of the board shall perform the duties on behalf of the secretary of the board of directors until the company appoints a new secretary of the board of directors.
 
3.2.13 The listed company shall ensure that the secretary of the board of directors participates in the continuing training of the secretary of the board of directors organized by the Stock Exchange during his term of office according to the requirements.
 
3.2.14 The Stock Exchange shall accept the secretary of the board of directors, the person that performs the duties on behalf of the secretary of the board of directors as prescribed by Article 3.2.12, or the securities affairs representative to handle the information disclosure and shareholding management affairs in the name of the listed company.
 
Chapter IV Sponsorship Institutions
 
4.1 The Stock Exchange shall exercise the listing sponsorship system for shares and corporate bonds that can be converted into shares (hereinafter refereed to as the "convertible corporate bonds"). If an issuer applies for listing and trading in the Stock Exchange of the initial public offer shares, new shares issued after the listing or convertible corporate bonds at the Stock Exchange, or applies for resuming the listing after the company's shares have been suspended the listing, it shall be sponsored by a sponsorship institution.
 
The sponsorship institution shall be the securities business institution that is registered by the CSRC and listed in the name list of sponsorship institutions and possess the membership qualification of the Stock Exchange; a listing-resumption sponsorship institution shall possess the business qualification of the securities dealer to engage in the business of shares transfer on behalf of companies as prescribed by the "Measures for Administration of Business Qualification of Securities Dealers in the Securities Companies' Handling Shares Transfer on Behalf of Companies(Trial Implementation)" which are formulated by the China Securities Industry Association.
 
4.2 The sponsorship institution shall sign the sponsorship agreement with the issuer and clearly define the rights and obligations of both parties during the period when the issuer applies for listing or resuming the listing and the period of continuing supervision. The sponsorship agreement shall stipulate the time when the sponsorship institution peruses the information disclosure documents of the issuer and the place thereof.
 
For the shares of initial public offering, the time period for continuing supervision shall be the remaining time of the current year in which the shares are listed and the following two complete fiscal years; in case the new shares or convertible corporate bonds are issued, the time period for continuing supervision shall be the remaining time of the current year in which the shares or convertible corporate bonds are listed and the following one complete fiscal year; in case the resumption of listing is applied, the time limit for continuing supervision shall be the remaining time of the current year in which the shares are resumed for listing and the following one complete fiscal year. The time period for the continuing supervision shall be calculated from the date on which the shares or convertible corporate bond are listed.
 
4.3 The sponsorship institution shall appoint two sponsorship representatives to take charge the specific sponsorship work, and act as the designated contact persons between the sponsorship institution and the Stock Exchange.
 
The sponsorship representative shall be the natural person that has been registered by the CSRC and listed into the name list of sponsorship representatives.
 
4.4 When sponsoring the listing of the shares or convertible corporate bonds (except for the resumption of listing of shares), the sponsorship institution shall submit the listing sponsorship letter, sponsorship agreement, certificate documents of the sponsorship institution and the relevant sponsorship representatives that have been registered by the CSRC and listed into the name lists of the sponsorship institutions and sponsorship representatives, the power of attorney issued to the sponsorship representatives by the sponsorship institution which is signed by the chairman of the board or the general manager, and other documents related with the listing sponsorship work.
 
The documents to be submitted and the contents thereof by the sponsorship institution in the course of sponsoring the shares to resume the listing shall be governed by the relevant provisions in accordance with Section II of Chapter XIV of these Rules.
 
4.5 The listing sponsorship letter mentioned in the preceding article shall include the following contents:
(1) a brief account of the company issuing the shares or convertible corporate bonds;
 
(2) issuing situation of the shares, convertible corporate bonds which are applied to list;
 
(3) Statements on the potential adverse influence on the sponsorship institution's impartial performance of his sponsorship duties;
 
(4) matters that should be promised by the sponsorship institution according to the relevant provisions;
 
(5) arrangements for the continuing supervision work of company;
 
(6) contact address, telephone number and other contact information of the sponsorship institution and relevant sponsorship representatives;
 
(7) other matters that the sponsorship institution deems to be stated; and
 
(8) other contents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
The listing sponsorship letter shall be signed by the legal representative (or the authorized representative) and relevant sponsorship representatives of the sponsorship institution and indicated the date and affix the seal of the sponsorship institution thereon.
 
4.6 The sponsorship institution shall supervise the issuer to perform the information disclosure and other related obligations according to the provisions of these Rules, supervise the issuer and its directors, supervisors and senior management personnel to observe these Rules and perform the undertakings they give to the Stock Exchange, peruse the information disclosure documents of the issuer and other documents submitted to the Stock Exchange, and ensure the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the documents related with the sponsorship work which are submitted to the Stock Exchange.
 
4.7 The sponsorship institution shall complete the perusal of relevant documents before the issuer submit the information disclosure documents and other documents to the Stock Exchange, or within five trading days after performing the obligation of information disclosure, and supervise the issuer to promptly correct the problems found in the perusal.
 
4.8 The stated opinion of the sponsorship institution in performing the sponsorship responsibilities shall be informed to the issuer and kept in the sponsorship working file.
 
The issuer shall cooperate with the sponsorship institution and the sponsorship representatives in the work.
 
4.9 If the sponsorship institution has sufficient reasons to believe that the issuer may commit the activities that violate the provisions of these Rules during the period of performing the sponsorship responsibilities, it shall urge the issuer to make the explanations and make the rectification within a specified time limit; in case the circumstances are serious, it shall report the matter to the Stock Exchange.
 
4.10 If the sponsorship institution has the sufficient reasons to believe that the professional opinion issued by the intermediary agencies and their signatories according to these Rules may contain such situations that violate the laws and regulations as false records, misleading statements and significant omissions or other improper situations, it shall state the opinion without delay; in case the circumstances are serious, it shall report such matter to the Stock Exchange.
 
4.11 If the sponsorship institution replaces the representatives, it shall notify the issuer, and report the matter to the Stock Exchange within five trading days and state the reasons and provide the relevant materials of the replaced sponsorship representatives. The issuer shall disclose promptly the matters concerning replacing the sponsorship representatives after receiving the notice.
 
4.12 If the sponsorship institution terminates the sponsorship agreement with the issuer, it shall report the matter to the Stock Exchange within five trading days from the date on which the agreement is terminated and state the reasons, and the issuer shall announce this to the public.
 
If the issuer arranges another sponsorship institution, it shall report this matter to the Stock Exchange promptly and make a public announcement. The newly- arranged sponsorship institution shall submit the relevant documents as prescribed by Article 4.4 to the Stock Exchange.
 
4.13 The sponsorship institution shall submit the sponsorship summary report to the Stock Exchange within ten trading days after completing the continuing supervision work.
 
4.14 Any institutions, relevant sponsorship representatives and other persons participate in the sponsorship work shall not engage in the inside trading with the undisclosed information that is acquired during the period they engage in the sponsorship work, and seek profits for themselves or for others.
 
Chapter V Listing of Shares and Convertible Corporate Bonds
 
Section I Initial Public Offering of Shares and Listing
 
5.1.1 Any issuer applies for listing of shares at the Stock Exchange after the initial public offering of such shares shall comply with the following conditions:
 
(1) the shares have been issued publicly upon the verification of the CSRC;
 
(2) the total amount of the share capital of the company shall be not less than RMB 50 million Yuan;
 
(3) the shares issued publicly shall amount to 25% or more of the total shares of the company; if the total amount of the share capital of the company exceeds RMB 4 billion Yuan, the ratio of the shares issued publicly shall amount to 10 % or more of the total shares;
 
(4) the company have not committed any significant illegal activities in the recent three years, and its financial and accounting statements contain no false records in the same period; and
 
(5) other conditions required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.1.2 After the application for initial public offer of shares by the issuer has been approved by the CSRC, the issuer may make the application for listing of shares at the Stock Exchange. Any issuer that applies for the listing of shares shall submit the following documents:
 
(1) the listing report (written application);
 
(2) the document of the CSRC to approve the initial public offer of shares;
 
(3) resolutions of the board of directors and the shareholders general meeting that apply for the listing of shares;
 
(4) a photocopy of the business license;
 
(5) articles of association;
 
(6) the financial and accounting reports of the issuer in the last three years which have been audited according to law by the accounting firm that possesses the qualification to conduct the relevant securities and futures businesses;
 
(7) the certificate documents indicating that the total shares of the issuer have been trusted by the Shanghai branch of the China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as the "Depository Corporation") after the completion of initial public offer;
 
(8) The capital verification report issued by the accounting firm that possesses the qualification to conduct the relevant securities and futures businesses after completing the initial public offer;
 
(9) The explanations on the situations of the holding of the company's shares by the directors, supervisors and the senior management personnel and the "Declaration and Undertakings of Directors (Supervisors or Senior Management Personnel)";
 
(10) Relevant materials of the secretary of the board of directors to be appointed or having been appointed by the issuer;
 
(11) the financial materials and the explanations on relevant significant matters newly added as prescribed after the initial public offer of shares and before the listing (if applicable);
 
(12) the shareholding lock-up certificate of the holders of the shares already issued before the initial public offer within one year from the date on which the shares of the issuer are listed;
 
(13) the undertaking letter mentioned in Article 5.1.4;
 
(14) the latest prospectus on share offer and the complete declaring materials of issuance which have been examined by the CSRC;
 
(15) the listing announcement letter prepared according to the relevant provisions;
 
(16) the sponsorship agreement and the listing sponsorship letter issued by the sponsorship institution;
 
(17) the legal opinions issued by the law firm; and
 
(18) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.1.3 An issuer and its directors, supervisors and senior management personnel shall ensure the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the contents of the listing application documents submitted to the Stock Exchange and contain no false records, misleading statements or significant omissions.
 
5.1.4 When an issuer applies for listing of shares at the Stock Exchange, the holding company shareholders and defacto controllers shall promise that: within 36 months from the date on which the shares of the issuer are listed, they shall not transfer or entrust others to manage the shares of the issuer already held by them directly or indirectly, and the issuer shall not purchase such shares; if the issuer increases the capital to expand the shares within 12 months before publishing the prospectus on share offer, the holders of the newly-added shares shall promise that: within 36 months from the date on which the issuer completes the formalities for the change registration of industry and commerce for increasing the capital and expanding the shares, they shall not transfer such newly-added shares held by them.
 
The issuer shall disclose the above undertakings in the listing announcement.
 
5.1.5 Within seven trading days after receiving the whole listing application documents listed in Article 5.1.2 which are submitted by the issuer, the Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to approve the listing and notify such to the issuer. If any particular situation occurs, the Stock Exchange may suspend to make the decision on whether or not to approve the listing.
 
5.1.6 The Stock Exchange shall establish a Listing Committee to examine listing applications, make the professional judgments independently and constitute the examination opinion.
 
The conditions listed in Item (1) to (4) of Article 5.1.1 shall be the necessary conditions for listing at the Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange shall not ensure that the listing application of an issuer can be surely approved by the Stock Exchange even if it complies with the above conditions.
 
5.1.7 An issuer shall disclose the following documents and matters in designated media within five trading days before listing of the shares:
 
(1) the listing announcement;
 
(2) the articles of association;
 
(3) resolution of the shareholders general meeting that applies for listing of the shares;
 
(4) listing sponsorship letter;
 
(5) legal opinions; and
 
(6) other documents and matters required by the Stock Exchange.
 
The above documents shall be placed in the domicile of the company for the public to consult.
During the period when the issuer applies for listing of the shares, the information related with the listing shall not be disclosed without the consent of the Stock Exchange.
 
Section II Listing of new shares and convertible corporate bonds of listed companies
 
5.2.1 When a listed company applies for the arrangement of matters concerning the issuance of new shares and convertible corporate bonds at the Stock Exchange, it shall submit the following documents:
 
(1) the approval document of the CSRC;
 
(2) the whole issuance declaration materials having been examined by the CSRC;
 
(3) the arrangement for the estimated time of issuance;
 
(4) the specific implementing scheme of the issuance and the issuance announcement;
 
(5) related letter of intent for share offer or the prospectus on share offer; and
 
(6) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.2.2 A listed company shall prepare and disclose the relevant announcement related with the issuance of new shares and convertible corporate bonds according to the relevant provisions of the CSRC.
 
5.2.3 A listed company may apply for the listing of news shares and convertible corporate bonds at the Stock Exchange after the completion of issuance.
 
5.2.4 If a listed company applies for the listing of convertible corporate bonds at the Stock Exchange, it shall comply with the following conditions:
 
(1) the time limit for the convertible corporate bonds is not less than one year;
 
(2) the convertible corporate bonds to be actually issued shall be not less than RMB 50 million; and
 
(3) the statutory conditions for the issuing of corporate bonds still be met at the time of application for the listing.
 
5.2.5 If a listed company applies for the listing of new shares and convertible corporate bonds at the Stock Exchange, it shall submit the following conditions:
 
(1) the listing report (application form);
 
(2) the resolutions of the board of directors and the shareholders general meeting that apply for the listing;
 
(3) the listing announcement prepared according to the relevant provisions;
 
(4) the sponsorship agreement and the listing sponsorship letter issued by the sponsorship institution;
 
(5) the capital verification report issued by the accounting firm that possesses the qualification to conduct the relevant securities and futures businesses after the completion of issuance;
 
(6) the written confirmation documents of the registration company to register the trusteeship ofthe newly-added shares and convertible corporate bonds;
 
(7) the report on the change situations of the shareholding of the directors, supervisors and senior management personnel (applicable for the listing of new shares);
 
(8) the report on the change of shares (applicable for the listing of new shares); and
 
(9) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.2.6 A listed company shall disclose the following documents and matters in designated media within five trading days before the listing of new shares and convertible corporate bonds:
 
(1) listing announcement;
 
(2) the report on the change of shares (applicable for the listing of new shares); and
 
(3) other documents and matters required by the Stock Exchange.
 
Section III Listing and Trading of the Restricted Shares
 
5.3.1 When a listed company applies for the listing of its internal employee shares at the Stock Exchange, it shall submit the following documents:
 
(1) listing application form;
 
(2) written response of the CSRC on the time for the listing of internal employee shares;
 
(3) the explanations on the shareholding information of the internal employee shares and the trusteeship certificate thereof;
 
(4) the alert announcement on the listing of internal employee shares; and
 
(5) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.3.2 Upon the consent of the Stock Exchange, a listed company shall disclose the alert announcement on the listing of internal employee shares three trading days before the listing of such shares. The alert announcement shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the time for listing, the amount of the shares to be listed and the amount of the shares held by the directors, supervisors and senior management personnel;
 
(2) the price of issuance;
 
(3) the information on the previous changes of shares; and
 
(4) the number of the persons who hold the internal employee shares.
 
5.3.3 When the relevant shares of a listed company or the (original) directors, supervisors and senior management personnel thereof apply for removing the lock-up of the company's shares held by them at the Stock Exchange, they shall submit the following documents:
 
(1) the application for removing the lock-up of shares;
 
(2) the reasons for removing the whole or part of the lock-up shares and related certificate documents (if applicable)
 
(3) the alert announcement of listing and trading; and
 
(4) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.3.4 If a listed company applies for the listing and trading of the shares rationed to the securities investment fund, legal persons or strategic investors, it shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the application form of listing and trading;
 
(2) announcement of the rationed results;
 
(3) the trusteeship certificate of the rationed shares;
 
(4) expiations on rationing the shares to the securities investment fund, legal persons or strategic investors;
 
(5) alert announcement of listing and trading; and
 
(6) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.3.5 Upon the consent of the Stock Exchange, a listed company shall disclose the alert announcement of listing and trading three trading days before the listing and trading of the rationed shares. The alert announcement shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the time for listing and trading of the rationed shares;
 
(2) the amount for listing and trading of the rationed shares;
 
(3) the price of issuance of the rationed shares; and
 
(4) the information on the previous changes of shares.
 
5.3.6 If a listed company applies for the listing and trading of the shares restricted for sale after the equity division reform, it shall submit the flowing documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) application form of listing and trading;
 
(2) explanations on the shareholding information of the holders of shares restricted for sale and the explanations on the trusteeship;
 
(3) the promises on restricting the sale made by the persons who hold the shares restricted for sale and the explanations on the performance of such promises;
 
(4) certificate documents on dissolving the conditions on restricting the sale;
 
(5) the alert announcement of listing and trading; and
 
(6) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.3.7 Upon the consent of the Stock Exchange, a listed company shall disclose the alert announcement of listing and trading three trading days before the listing and trading of the shares restricted for sale after the equity division reform. The alert announcement shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the time and amount of listing and trading of relevant shares;
 
(2) the promises on restricting the sale made by relevant shareholders and the performance situations thereof; and
 
(3) other contents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
5.3.8 Other shares that need to be listed and traded upon the consent of the Stock Exchange shall be governed by the relevant provisions of this Chapter.
 
Chapter VI Regular Reports
 
6.1 The regular reports of a listed company shall include the annual report, interim report and quarterly report.
 
The company shall complete the preparation of the regular reports and disclose them within the time limit specified by laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations and these Rules. Among them, the annual report shall be prepared and disclosed within four months following the end of each fiscal year, the interim report shall be prepared and disclosed within two months following the end of the first half-year of each fiscal year, and the quarterly report shall be prepared and disclosed within one month following the end of the first three months and nine months of each fiscal year. The disclosure of the first quarterly report shall not be earlier than that of the annual report of the preceding fiscal year.
 
If the company estimates that any regular report can not be disclosed within the prescribed time limit, it shall report such matter to the Stock Exchange promptly, and make a public announcement on the reasons why the disclosure can not be made within the prescribed time limit, the solution thereof and the deadline for postponing the disclosure.
 
6.2 A listed company shall agree on the time for disclosing the regular reports with the Stock Exchange, which shall make overall arrangements on the disclosure order of the regular reports of various companies according to the equilibrium disclosure principle.
 
The company shall handle the matters concerning the disclosure of regular reports according to the time arranged by the Stock Exchange. If it is necessary to change the disclosure time due to other reasons, it shall make the written application at the Stock Exchange within five trading days and state the reasons of the change and the disclosure time after the change, the Stock Exchange shall determine whether or not to make the adjustment according to the circumstances. The Stock Exchange shall accept the change application for a subject matter once in principle.
 
6.3 A listed company shall prepare and disclose the regular reports according to the relevant provisions of the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
The full text and summary (main body) of the regular reports shall be disclosed in the relevant designated media separately according to the requirements of the Stock Exchange.
 
6.4 The directors and senior management personnel of a listed company shall sign a written opinion for confirmation on the regular reports; the supervisory board shall examine the regular reports worked out by the board of directors and issue a written opinion for examination in the form of the resolution of the supervisory board.
 
6.5 The financial and accounting report in the annual report of a listed company shall be audited by the accounting firm that possesses the qualification to conduct the relevant securities and futures businesses. The financial and accounting report in the interim report may not be audited, however, the auditing shall be made if the company is under any of the following circumstances:
 
(1) to intend to distribute the profits in the next half-year, increase the capital or make up the losses with the common reserve fund;
 
(2) to intend to make the application for re-financing such as issuing the new shares or convertible corporate bonds, which need to be audited according to the relevant provisions; or
 
(3) other situations that the CSRC or the Stock Exchange deems to be audited.
 
The financial materials in the quarterly report may not be audited, except as otherwise stipulated by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
6.6 A listed company shall submit the regular reports to the Stock Exchange and submit the following documents after such regular reports have been adopted through deliberation by the board of directors:
 
(1) the full text and the summary of the annual report (the full text and summary of the interim report, the full text and the main body of the quarterly report);
 
(2) the original copy of the auditing report (if applicable);
 
(3) resolutions of the board of directors and the supervisory board as well as the announcement draft;
 
(4) electronic documents stating the regular reports and financial date which are prepared as required by the Stock Exchange;
 
(5) application for the suspension of trading (if applicable); and
 
(6) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
6.7 Before disclosing any regular report, if the performance is divulged ahead of time or the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof fluctuates abnormally due to the rumor of performance, the listed company shall disclose without delay such report and related financial data (no matter whether or not it has been audited), including the income of the major business, the profits of the main business, the total amount of the profits, net profits, total assets, net assets, etc.
 
6.8 According to the provisions of the "No.14 Rules on the Compilation and Reporting of Information Disclosure of Companies Issuing the Securities Publicly──the Disposal of the Nonstandard and Unreserved Auditing Opinion and the Matters Involved", if the accounting firm issues the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinion concerning the financial and accounting report of a listed company, the company shall provide the following documents at the Stock Exchange when submitting the regular reports:
 
(1) the special explanations made by the board of directors concerning the items involved in the auditing opinion, the resolution of the board of directors on examining such special explanations and the supporting materials of the resolutions;
 
(2) the stated opinion of the independent directors on the items involved in the auditing opinion;
 
(3) the opinion of the supervisory board on the special explanations of the board of directors and the relevant resolutions;
 
(4) the special explanations issued by the accounting firm responsible for auditing and the certified public accountant; and
 
(5) other documents required by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
6.9 The special explanations issued by the accounting firm responsible for auditing and the certified public accountant according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall at least include the following contents:
 
(1) the grounds and basis in issuing the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinion;
 
(2) the specific influences of the items involved in the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinion on the financial situation and operational results of the company during the reporting period, if the profits or loss of the company may be changed after deducting the influenced amount, such matter shall be clearly stated; and
 
(3) whether the items involved in the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinion belong to the situation of obviously violating the accounting guidelines and systems or the situation as prescribed by the relevant regulations of information disclosure.
 
6.10 If the items involved in the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinion mentioned in Article 6.8 do not belong to the situation of obviously violating the accounting guidelines and systems or the situation as prescribed by the relevant regulations of information disclosure, the board of directors of the listed company shall, according to the provisions of the "No.14 Rules on the Compilation and Reporting of Information Disclosure of Companies Issuing the Securities Publicly-the Disposal of the Nonstandard and Unreserved Auditing Opinion and the Matters Involved", make detailed explanations on such items involved in the auditing report in the relevant regular reports.
 
6.11 If the items involved in the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinion mentioned in Article 6.8 do belong to the situation of obviously violating the accounting guidelines and systems or the situation as prescribed by the relevant regulations of information disclosure, the listed company shall rectify these items and conduct the re-auditing, and disclose the rectified financial and accounting report and the relevant auditing report within the time limit prescribed by the Stock Exchange.
 
If the listed company fails to disclose the rectified financial and accounting report and the relevant auditing report within the time limit prescribed by the Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange shall report such case to the CSRC for investigation and dealing with it.
 
The time for rectifying the above items by the company shall be excluded from the time limit within which the Stock Exchange shall make the relevant decisions.
 
6.12 A listed company shall earnestly treat the after-event examination opinion of the Stock Exchange on its regular reports, promptly answer the inquires of the Stock Exchange and make the explanations and statements on the relevant contents of regular reports according to the requirements. If it is necessary to rectify through disclosure or supplement the announcement and revise the regular report, the company shall make the public announcement after going through the corresponding formalities, and disclose the full text of the revised regular reports on the website of the Stock Exchange.
 
6.13 For a company which issues convertible corporate bonds, its annual report and interim report shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the information on the previous adjustments of the price of the convertible corporate bonds converted into shares, the latest adjusted price thereof;
 
(2) the information on the convertible corporate bonds accumulatively converted into shares after the issuance of the convertible corporate bonds;
 
(3) name list of the first ten holders of the convertible corporate bonds and their respectiveshareholdings;
 
(4) Significant changes on the profit-making ability of the guarantor, status of its assets and credibility;
 
(5) Status of liabilities and changes of credibility of the company and its cash arrangement for the repayment in the future years; and
 
(6) Other contents prescribed by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
Chapter VII General Stipulations of the Interim Reports
 
7.1 Other announcements apart from the regular reports which are disclosed by listed companies shall be interim reports.
 
If the contents of an interim report involve the significant items mentioned in Chapter VIII, IX, X and XI of these Rules, the disclosure requirements and relevant examination procedures shall comply with the provisions of this Chapter and the provisions of the above Chapters as well.
 
The interim report shall be issued by the board of directors and affixed the seal of the company or the board of directors (the announcements of the supervisory board's resolutions may be affixed the seal of the supervisory board.
 
7.2 A listed company shall submit the interim reports without delay to the Stock Exchange and disclose them. The relevant documents for future reference involved in the interim reports shall be disclosed in the website of the Stock Exchange at the same time.
 
7.3 A listed company shall disclose promptly the significant items which may considerably affect the trading price of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof (hereinafter referred to as the "significant items" when the following time and places firstly occurs:
 
(1) at the time when the board of directors or the supervisory board makes the resolutions on such significant items;
 
(2) at the time when relevant parties sign the letter of intents or agreements on such significant items (no matter whether it is with collateral conditions or terms or not); and
 
(3) at the time when any director, supervisor or senior management personnel knows or should know such significant items.
 
7.4 If any significant item is still under the preparation phase while any of the following circumstances occurs before the relevant time and places mentioned in Item (1) and (2) of the preceding Article occur, the listed company shall disclose the relevant preparation information and the existing facts promptly:
 
(1) such significant item is difficult to be kept confidential;
 
(2) such significant item has been divulged or there are rumors about this in the market; and
 
(3) the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof fluctuates abnormally.
 
7.5 After disclosing the interim report according to the provisions of Article 7.3 and 7.4, a listed company shall also continue to disclose the proceeding situation of significant items according to the following provisions:
 
(1) if the board of directors, supervisory board or the shareholders general meeting make a resolution on such significant items, it shall disclose the resolution information promptly;
 
(2) if the company signs the letter of intents or agreements with the relevant parties on such significant items, it shall disclose the major contents of the letter of intents or agreements promptly; in case major changes occurs in the contents or the performance situation of the above letter of intents or agreements or such letter of intents or agreements are rescinded or terminated, it shall promptly disclose the situation concerning the major changes and the rescission and termination information and the reasons thereof;
 
(3) if such significant items are approved or disapproved by the relevant departments, it shall disclose the information on the approval or disapproval promptly;
 
(4) if such significant items result in the late payment, it shall promptly disclose the reasons for the postponement and the arrangement for the payment;
 
(5) if the major targeted matters involved in such significant items have not been delivered or transferred the ownership, it shall disclose the information on the delivery or transferring the ownership promptly; if such delivery or ownership transfer is still not been completed within three months after the agreed time limit for the payment or ownership transfer, it shall promptly disclose the reasons why it is not completed on schedule, the proceeding information and the estimated time for the completion, and announce the proceeding information on every 30 days until the completion of the delivery or the ownership transfer; and
 
(6) if such significant items results in other progresses or changes that may considerably affect the trading price of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof, it shall promptly disclose the information on such progresses or changes.
 
7.6 If any interim report submitted by a listed company within the prescribed time limit according to Article 73 or 7.4 does not comply with the relevant requirements, it may disclose the alert announcement first to explain the reasons why such disclosure can not be made according to the requirements, and promise to disclose the announcement that complies with the requirements within two trading days.
 
7.7 Any significant items mentioned in Chapter IX, X and XI of these Rules occur in the holding subsidiary company of a listed company shall be deemed to occur in such listed company, and the listed company shall perform the information disclosure obligation in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Chapters.
 
If a company which contributes capital in the listed company comes about the significant items mentioned in Chapter IX and XI of these Rules or engages in the transactions with the affiliates of the listed company on the items mentioned in Article 10.1.1, which may considerably affect the trading price of the shares of the listed company and the derivative products thereof, the listed company shall perform the information disclosure obligation with reference to the provisions of the preceding Chapters.
 
Chapter VIII Board of Directors, Supervisory Board and the shareholders general meeting
 
Section I Resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board
 
8.1.1 Where a listed company convenes the meeting of the board of directors, it shall report promptly the resolutions of the board of directors (including the resolutions of the board of directors in which all the proposals are overruled) to the Stock Exchange after the meeting. The resolutions of the board of directors shall be signed and confirmed by the directors attending the meeting.
 
If the Stock Exchange requests to provide the meeting minutes of the board of directors, the company shall provide it as required.
 
8.1.2 Regarding the items in the resolutions of the board of directors which shall be voted by the shareholders general meeting and the significant items mentioned in Chapter VI, IX, X and XI of these Rules, the listed company shall disclose them promptly; regarding the resolutions of the board of directors which involve in other items, if the Stock Exchange deems necessary, the company shall also disclose them promptly.
 
8.1.3 If the resolutions of the board of directors involve in any significant items mentioned in Chapter VI, IX, X and XI of these Rules, which are required to be announced to the public according to the relevant provisions of the CSRC or the announcement format guidelines formulated in the Stock Exchange, the listed company shall disclose the announcements of the resolutions of the board of directors and the announcements of the relevant significant items separately.
 
8.1.4 The announcement of the resolutions of the board of directors shall include the following contents:
(1) Time and method of the issuance of the meeting notice;
 
(2) time, place and method of convening the meeting, and the explanations on whether it complies with the relevant laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations and the articles of association;
 
(3) The number and names of the directors who entrust others to attend the meeting and the absent directors, the reasons for the absence and the names of the entrusted directors;
 
(4) polls of the consent, dissent and abstention for each proposal, the reasons for the dissenting and abstention of relevant directors;
 
(5) information on the names of the directors who should withdraw from the voting, reasons for withdrawal and the withdrawal status if the affiliated transaction is involved,
 
(6) if it requires the independent directors to recognize beforehand or express the opinion independently, the prior recognizing situation and the expressed opinion shall be stated; and
 
(7) specific contents of the matters discussed and the resolutions made in the meeting.
 
8.1.5 If a listed company convenes the meeting of the supervisory board, it shall report the resolutions of the supervisory board to the Stock Exchange promptly after the meeting, and disclose the announcement of the resolutions of the supervisory board upon the registration of the Stock Exchange.
 
The resolutions of the supervisory board shall be signed and confirmed by the supervisors attending the meeting. The supervisors shall ensure that the contents in the announcement of the resolutions of the supervisory board are truthful, accurate and complete and no false records, misleading statements or significant omissions are contained therein.
 
8.1.6 The announcement of the resolutions of the supervisory board shall include the following contents:
 
(1) time, place and method of convening the meeting, the explanations on whether it complies with the relevant laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations and the articles of association;
 
(2) the number and names of the supervisors who entrust others to attend the meeting and the absent supervisors, the reasons for the absence and the names of the entrusted supervisors;
 
(3) polls of the consent, dissent and abstention for each proposal, the reasons for the dissenting and abstention of relevant supervisors;
 
(4) specific contents of the matters discussed and the resolutions made in the meeting.
 
Section II Resolutions of the shareholders general meeting
 
8.2.1 The convener shall issue the meeting notice of the shareholders general meeting to the shareholders in the form of announcement 20 days before convening the annual shareholders general meeting or 15 days before convening the interim shareholders general meeting.
 
The meeting notice of the shareholders general meeting shall clearly state the matters such as the time, place and method of convening the meeting, the convener of the meeting and the date of registration of the shareholding, etc. and sufficiently and completely disclose the specific contents of all the proposals. The convener shall also disclose other necessary materials which are conducive for the shareholders to make reasonable judgments on the matters to be discussed.
 
8.2.2 The convener shall report promptly the announcement draft of the resolutions of the shareholders general meeting, resolutions of the shareholders general meeting and the legal opinions to the Stock Exchange after the shareholders general meeting, and disclose the announcement of the resolutions of the shareholders general meeting upon the consent of the Stock Exchange.
 
If the Stock Exchange requests to provide the minutes of the shareholders general meeting, the convener shall provide as required.
 
8.2.3 After issuing the meeting notice for the shareholders general meeting, the shareholders general meeting shall not be postponed or revoked without proper reasons, and the proposals clearly listed in the notice of the shareholders general meeting shall not be revoked. Once the situation of postponement or revocation occurs, the convener shall issue the notice at least two trading days before the date original set for convening the meeting to state the specific reasons for the postponement or revocation. If the shareholders general meeting is postponed to be convened, the date of the postponed shareholders general meeting shall be clearly stated in the notice.
 
8.2.4 If a shareholder brings the interim proposal prior to the holding of the shareholders general meeting, the convener shall issue the supplementary notice for the shareholders general meeting within the prescribed time limit, and disclose the names or titles of the shareholder who brings the proposal, the shareholding ratio and the contents of the interim proposal.
 
8.2.5 If shareholders convene the shareholders general meeting at their own discretion, they shall notify the board of directors in writing and report the notice to the Stock Exchange for a record.
 
Before the announcement of the resolutions of the shareholders general meeting, the shareholding proportion of the shareholders convening the meeting shall not be less than 10%, and the shareholders convening the meeting shall apply for locking up the whole or part of the shares held by them within the above period before issuing the meeting notice of the shareholders general meeting.
 
8.2.6 If any emergency event occurs during the period of the shareholders general meeting and thus cause the holding of the meeting impossible, the convener shall promptly report such matter to the Stock Exchange and state the reasons and disclose the relevant information.
 
8.2.7 The announcement of the resolutions of the shareholders general meeting shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the time, place, method of holding the meeting, the convener and presider, and the explanations on whether or not it complies with the relevant laws, administrative rules and regulations, departmental regulations and the articles of association;
 
(2) the number of the shareholders (agents) attending the meeting, the shares they hold (acting as agents) and the proportion of such shares to the total shares with the voting rights of the listed company; the listed company that has not completed the shareholding division reform shall also disclose the situation where the shareholders of tradable shares and non-tradable shares attending the meeting;
 
(3) the voting method and voting result of each proposal; the listed company which has not completed the shareholding division report shall also disclose the voting situation of the shareholders of tradable shares and non-tradable shares which are counted separately; if the proposals of the shareholders are involved, the names or titles of the shareholders who bring the proposal, the proportion of the shareholding and the contents of the proposals shall be stated clearly; if the matters related with affiliated transactions are involved, the situation on the withdrawal of voting by affiliated shareholders shall be clearly stated; if the listed company which has not completed the shareholding division reform involves in the proposal that requires the tradable shareholders to make the independent voting, such matter shall be stated specially;
 
the listed company that issues the foreign shares which are listed in China shall also state the situation on the issuance of the notice of the shareholders general meeting, and the situation on the attending of the meeting by the shareholders of domestic shares and foreign shares separately and the voting information; and
 
(4) the conclusive opinion of the legal opinions. If there is any dissenting proposal occurs in the shareholders general meeting, the full text of legal opinions shall be disclosed.
 
8.2.8 Any significant items that haven't been disclosed are notified to the shareholders in the shareholders general meeting shall be disclosed together with the announcement of the resolutions of the shareholders general meeting.
 
Chapter XI Transactions Should be Disclosed
 
9.1 The "Transactions" as referred to in this Chapter shall include the following items:
 
(1) purchasing or selling the assets;
 
(2) foreign investment (including the entrusted financing, entrusted loans, etc);
 
(3) providing the financial assistance;
 
(4) providing the guaranty;
 
(5) leasing in or leasing out the assets;
 
(6) entrusting or entrusted to manage the assets and business;
 
(7) donating or accept the donation of assets;
 
(8) the recombination of claims and debts;
 
(9) concluding of license agreements;
 
(10) transferring or accepting the research and development projects; and
 
(11) other transactions determined by the Stock Exchange.
 
The purchasing or selling assets mentioned above shall not include the purchase of the raw materials, fuels and power, or the activities of purchasing or selling the assets related with the daily operation such as selling the products, goods, etc. however, the activities of purchasing or selling the assets involved in the assets replacement shall also be included.
 
9.2 If the transactions of a listed company (except for providing the guaranty) reach any of the following standards, they shall be disclosed promptly:
 
(1) the total amount of the assets involved in a transaction (if the par value and the evaluation value coexist, the higher shall be applied) accounts for more than 10% of the latest audited total assets of the listed company;
 
(2) the concluded amount in a transaction (including the debts and expenses undertaken) accounts for more than 10% of the latest audited net assets of the listed company and the absolute amount exceeds 10 million Yuan;
 
(3) the profits arising from a transaction accounts for more than 10% of the net profits of the listed company audited in the latest fiscal year and the resolute amount exceeds 1 million Yuan;
 
(4) the main business income of the transaction target (such as the shareholding) in the latest fiscal year accounts for more than 10% of the main business income of the listed company audited in the latest fiscal year and the resolute amount exceeds 10 million Yuan; and
 
(5) the net profits of the transaction target (such as the shareholding) in the latest fiscal year accounts for more than 10% of the net profits of the listed company audited in the latest fiscal year, and the absolute amount exceeds 1 million Yuan.
 
If the data involved in the above indexes are negative, their absolute value shall be used in the calculation.
 
9.3 If the transactions of a listed company (except for providing guaranty or accepting the gift of cash assets) reach any of the following standards, apart from being disclosed, they shall submit to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation:
 
(1) the total amount of the assets involved in a transaction (if the par value and the evaluation value coexist, the higher shall be applied) accounts for more than 50% of the latest audited total assets of the listed company;
 
(2) the concluded amount in a transaction (including the debts and expenses undertaken) accounts for more than 50% of the latest audited net assets of the listed company and the absolute amount exceeds 50 million Yuan;
 
(3) the profits arising from a transaction accounts for more than 50% of the net profits of the listed company audited in the latest fiscal year and the resolute amount exceeds 5 million Yuan;
 
(4) the main business income of the transaction target (such as the shareholding) in the latest fiscal year accounts for more than 50% of the main business income of the listed company audited in the latest fiscal year and the resolute amount exceeds 50 million Yuan; and
 
(5) the net profits of the transaction target (such as the shareholding) in the latest fiscal year accounts for more than 50% of the net profits of the listed company audited in the latest fiscal year, and the absolute amount exceeds 5 million Yuan.
 
If the data involved in the above indexes are negative value, their absolute value shall be used in the calculation.
 
9.4 If a listed company engages in two contrary transactions mentioned in the Paragraphs other than Item (2) to (4) of Article 9.1 concurrently with the same transaction party, the disclosure standard shall be calculated based on the higher index of the transactions.
 
9.5 If the transaction target is the shareholding of the company and the purchase or sale of such shareholding shall result in the change of the scope of consolidated accounting statements of the listed company, the corresponding total assets of the company and the main business income arising from such shareholding shall be regarded as the total assets involved in the transactions mentioned in Article 9.2 and 9.3 and the main business income related with such transaction target.
 
9.6 If the transaction merely reaches the standard prescribed in Item (3) or (5) of Article 9.3 and the absolute value of the earnings per share of the listed company in the latest fiscal year is below 0.05 Yuan, the company may apply at the Stock Exchange for exempting from applying the provisions of Article 9.3 regarding submitting the transaction to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation.
 
9.7 Where the transaction reaches the standard prescribed in Article 9.3, if the transaction target is the shareholding of the company, the listed company shall arrange the accounting firm with relevant qualification to conduct the securities and futures businesses to make the auditing over the financial and accounting report of the transaction target of another period in the latest year, the time period between the closing date of the auditing and the date on which the agreement is signed shall be not more than six months; if the transaction target is other non-cash assets other than the shareholding, the company shall engage the assets evaluation firm with relevant qualification to conduct the securities and futures businesses to conduct the evaluation, the time period between the evaluation benchmark date and the date on which the agreement is signed shall be not more than one year.
 
If the transaction does not reach the standard prescribed in Article 9.3, while the Stock Exchange deems it necessary, the company shall also engage the relevant accounting firm or assets evaluation firm to conduct the auditing or evaluation according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
 
9.8 If a listed company establishes companies through overseas investment and may pay up the capital contribution in installments according to Article 26 or 81 of the "Company Law", it shall apply the provisions of Article 9.2 or 9.3 based on the standard of the total amount of the contribution capital stipulated in the agreement.
 
9.9 When a listed company engages in the transactions of "providing the financial assistance" and "entrusted financing", the transaction amount shall be taken as the calculation standard and calculated cumulatively for 12 consecutive months according to the transaction category. If the transaction amount calculated cumulatively reaches the standard prescribed in Article 9.2 or 9.3, the provisions of Article 9.2 or 9.3 shall be applied.
 
If the company has performed relevant obligations according to Article 9.2 or 9.3, the amount shall not be included in the range of cumulative calculation.
 
9.10 If a listed company engages in transactions other than "providing the guaranty", "providing financial assistance" and "entrusted financing", it shall base on the principal of cumulative calculation for 12 months to apply the provisions of Article 9.2 or 9.3 separately on the relevant transactions under the same transaction category. If the company has performed relevant obligations according to Article 9.2 or 9.3, the amount shall not be included in the range of cumulative calculation.
 
Apart from the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the company engages in the transaction of "purchasing or selling the assets", no matter whether the transaction targets are correlative, if the total assets or transaction amount involved in the transaction which are calculated cumulatively for 12 consecutive months exceeds 30% of the latest audited total capital of the company, they shall be disclosed and audited or evaluated referring to Article 9.7, and additionally submitted to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation and adopted by the shareholders attending the meeting who represent two thirds of the voting rights.
 
9.11 If a listed company engages in the transaction of "providing the guaranty", it shall submit the matter to the board of directors or the shareholders general meeting for deliberation, and make a public announcement promptly.
 
The following guaranty items shall be submitted to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation after being adopted through deliberation by the board of directors.
 
(1) the amount of each guaranty exceeds 10% of the latest audited net capital of the company;
 
(2) any guaranty provided after the amount of external guaranty of the company and its subsidiary holding companies has exceeded 50% of the latest audited net capital of the company;
 
(3) the guaranty that is provided to the guaranty object with the assets-liabilities ratio exceeding 70%;
 
(4) the amount of guaranty exceeds 30% of the latest audited total capital of the company based on the principal of cumulatively calculating the amount for 12 consecutive months.
 
Regarding the guaranty items that are within the scope of responsibilities of the board of directors, apart from being adopted by more than half of all the directors, the consent of more than two thirds of the directors attending the meeting of the board of directors shall be secured; the guaranty mentioned in the Item (4) of the preceding Paragraph shall be adopted by the shareholders attending the meeting who represent two thirds of the voting rights.
 
9.12 When disclosing the items of transaction, a listed company shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement draft;
 
(2) the agreements or letter of intents related with the transactions;
 
(3) the resolutions of the board of directors, the announcement drafts of the resolution and the opinion of independent directors (if applicable);
 
(4) the written reply of the government involved in the transaction (if applicable);
 
(5) the professional report issued by the intermediary agencies (if applicable);
 
(6) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
9.13 A listed company shall disclose the following contents applicable to its transactions according to the transaction category:
 
(1) a brief account of the transaction and the explanations on whether there is affiliated relationship between the trading parities; for the transactions that reach the disclosure standard based on the principle of cumulatively calculation, it shall introduce briefly the single transaction and the cumulative information;
 
(2) the basic information on the trading parities;
 
(3) the basic information on the transaction target, including the name of the target, its par value, evaluation value, operation information, whether there are mortgage, pledge or other rights of the third person on the relevant assets, whether the relevant assets involved in any significant disputes, lawsuits or arbitration matters or judicial measures such as sealing up, freezing, etc;
 
If the transaction target is the shareholding, the basic information of the corresponding company related with such shareholding and the financial data such as the total assets, total liabilities, net assets, main business income and the net profits of another period in the latest year shall be stated clearly,
 
If the sale of the shareholding of subsidiary holding company results in the change of the scope of consolidated accounting statements of the listed company, it shall clearly state the situations on whether it provides guaranty for the subsidiary company or entrusts the subsidiary company to manage the financial affairs and the situation on appropriating the capital of the listed company by such subsidiary company; if the situations exist, it shall disclose the amount involved in the above matters, the impact on the listed company and the settling measures thereof;
 
(4) the delivery status, delivery, and the time for transferring the ownership of the transaction target;
 
(5) the main contents in other aspects of the transaction agreement, including the concluded amount, method of delivery (cash, shareholding, replacing of assets, etc), term of delivery or the arrangements for payment in installments, conditions for the agreement's entry into effect, effective date and the term of validity, etc. if the transaction agreement has any additional or reservation clauses in any forms, they shall be specially stated;
If the transaction subjects to the approval of the shareholders general meeting or authority department, the legal procedures to be performed and the proceeding situation shall be clearly stated;
 
(6) the price fixing basis of the transaction, the capital resource for the payment of the company;
 
(7) the estimated profits to be derived by the company from the transaction (including the potential profits), the impact of the transaction on the current and following financial situations and the operational results of the company;
 
(8) analysis on the performance ability of the trading parties;
 
(9) situations on the arrangement of personnel, leasing of lands and recombination of liabilities involved in the transaction;
 
(10) explanations on the affiliated transactions which may occur after the completion of the transaction;
 
(11) explanations on the trade competition which may occur after the completion of the transaction and the corresponding measures thereof;
 
(12) the intermediary agencies and their opinion; and
 
(13) other contents required by the Stock Exchange which are conducive to explaining the truthful situation of such transaction.
 
9.14 Regarding the content of the guaranty items to be disclosed, apart from the provisions of the preceding article, it shall include the total amount of the external guaranty of the listed company and its subsidiary holding companies, total amount of the guaranty provided to the subsidiary holding company by the listed company, the respective proportion of the above amount to the latest audited net assets of the listed company by the end of the disclosure date.
 
9.15 Regarding the guaranty that reaches the standard for disclosure, if the vouchee does not perform the obligation of repayment within 15 trading days after the liabilities are due, or the vouchee goes into bankruptcy or liquidation or has other situations that seriously affect its ability of repayment, the listed company shall disclose them promptly.
 
9.16 The transactions between a listed company and the subsidiary holding companies within the scope of its consolidated accounting statements or among the above subsidiary holding companies shall be exempted from disclosing or performing corresponding procedures according to the provisions of this Chapter, except as otherwise stipulated by the CSRC or the Stock Exchange.
 
Chapter X Affiliated Transactions
 
Section I Affiliated Transactions and the Affiliates
 
10.1.1 The affiliated transactions of listed companies shall mean that the matters on transferring the resources or obligations occur between listed companies or their subsidiary holding companies and the affiliates of listed companies, which shall include the following transactions:
 
(1) the transaction items prescribed in Article 9.1;
 
(2) purchasing the raw materials, fuels and power;
 
(3) selling products and goods;
 
(4) providing or accepting the labor services;
 
(5) entrusting or entrusted sale;
 
(6) conduct the investment jointly with the affiliates; and
 
(7) other matters that may result in the transfer of resources or obligations through agreements.
 
10.1.2 The affiliates of a listed company shall include the affiliated legal persons and the affiliated natural persons.
 
10.1.3 A legal person in any of the following situations shall be regarded as the affiliated legal person of a listed company:
 
(1) the legal person directly or indirectly controls the listed company;
 
(2) the legal person other than the listed company or its subsidiary holding company that is controlled directly or indirectly by the legal person mentioned in Item (1);
 
(3) the legal person that is directly or indirectly controlled by the affiliated natural persons of the listed company listed in Article 10.1.5 or the legal person other than the listed company or its subsidiary holding company in which the affiliated natural persons act as the directors or senior management personnel;
 
(4) the legal person that holds 50% of the shares of the listed company; or
 
(5) other legal persons determined by the CSRC, the Stock Exchange or listed company according to the principal of "substance overweighs forms" to have special relationship with the listed company and may result in the interests of the listed company favor on them.
 
10.1.4 If a listed company and any legal person mentioned in Item (2) of the preceding Article are both under the control of the same State-owned assets administration institution, they shall not form the affiliated relationship, unless the chairman of the board, general manager or more than half of the directors of the legal person concurrently serve as the directors, supervisors or senior management personnel of the listed company.
 
10.1.5 A natural person in any of the following situations shall be regarded as the affiliated natural person of a listed company:
 
(1) the natural person directly or indirectly holds more than 5% of the shares of the listed company;
 
(2) the directors, supervisors or senior management personnel of the listed company;
 
(3) the directors, supervisors or senior management personnel of the legal persons listed in Item (1) of Article 10.1.3;
 
(4) the family members having close relationship with the persons mentioned in Item (1) and (2) of this Article, including the spouse, the children of 18 years or more and their spouses, parents and the parents of their spouses, sisters and brothers and their spouses, sisters and brothers of their spouses, parents of their children's spouses; and
 
(5) other natural persons determined by the CSRC, the Stock Exchange or listed company according to the principal of "substance overweighs forms" to have special relationship with the listed company and may result in the interests of the listed company favor on them.
 
10.1.6 Any legal persons or natural persons in any of the following situations shall be regarded as the affiliates of a listed company:
 
(1) based on the agreements they sign or the arrangements they make with the listed company or its affiliates, after the agreements or arrangements coming into effect, or within the following 12 months, they will be found to be in any of the situations prescribed in Article 10.1.3 or 10.1.5; or
 
(2) they are found to be in any of the situations prescribed in Article 10.1.3 or 10.1.5 in the last 12 months.
 
Section II Deliberation Procedures and Disclosure of Affiliated Transactions
 
10.2.1 When the board of directors of a listed company deliberates the affiliated transaction matters, the affiliated directors shall withdraw from the voting, nor may they represent other directors in exercising the voting rights. The meetings of the board of directors may be held if more than half of the directors having no affiliated relationship attend the meetings, and the resolution made at the meeting of the board of directors shall be passed by more than half of directors having no such affiliated relationship. If the number of the directors having no such affiliated relationship who attend the meetings is less than three, the listed company shall submit such matters to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation.
 
The affiliated directors mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall include the following directors or the directors in any of the following situations:
 
(1) being the other trading party;
 
(2) being the direct or indirect controller of the other trading party;
 
(3) holding the position in the other trading party, or holding the position in the legal person which directly or indirectly controls the other trading party or the legal person under direct or indirect control of the other trading party;
 
(4) being the close family member of the other trading party or its direct or indirect controller (see the Item (4) of Article 10.1.5 for the specific scope);
 
(5) being the close family member of the other trading party or the directors, supervisors or senior management personnel of its direct or indirect controller (see the Item (4) of Article 10.1.5 for the specific scope); and
 
(6) other directors deemed by the CSRC, the Stock Exchange or listed company based on other grounds that their independent judgments may be effected.
 
10.2.2 When the shareholders general meeting of a listed company deliberates the matters concerning the affiliated transactions, the affiliated shareholders shall withdraw from the voting:
 
The affiliated shareholders mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall include the following shareholders or the shareholders in any of the following situations:
 
(1) being the other trading party;
 
(2) being the direct or indirect controller of the other trading party;
 
(3) being controlled directly or indirectly by the other trading party;
 
(4) being controlled directly or indirectly by the same legal person with the other trading party;
 
(5) the shareholders who have shareholding transfer agreements or other agreements that have not been fully performed with the other trading party or its affiliates and thus cause their voting rights restricted or affected; and
 
(6) the shareholders deemed by the CSRC or the Stock Exchange to likely cause the interests of the listed company favor on them.
 
10.2.3 If a listed company engages in an affiliated transaction (unless the listed company providing the guaranty) of more than 300,000 Yuan with the affiliated natural person, it shall disclose such matter promptly.
 
No company shall provide loans to its directors, supervisors or senior management personnel directly or through its subsidiary companies.
 
10.2.4 If a listed company engages in an affiliated transaction(unless the listed company providing the guaranty) of more than 3 million which accounts for more than 0.5% of the absolute value of the latest audited net assets of the company with the affiliated legal persons, it shall disclose such matter promptly.
 
10.2.5 If a listed company engages in an affiliated transaction (unless the listed company providing the guaranty, accepting the donation of cash assets) of more than 30 million which accounts for more than 5% of the absolute value of the latest audited net assets of the listed company with the affiliates, apart from disclosing such matter promptly, it shall also refer to the provisions of Article 9.7 to arrange the intermediary institution with the qualification to conduct securities and futures businesses to conduct the auditing and evaluation over the transaction target and submit the transaction to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation.
 
The transaction targets involved in the affiliated transaction relating to the daily operation which is mentioned in Article 10.2.12 may not be audited or evaluated.
 
10.2.6 If a listed company provides guaranty for its affiliates, no matter the amount is big or small, such matter shall be disclosed promptly after being adopted through deliberation by the board of directors, and shall be submitted to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation.
 
If the company provides guaranty for the shareholders holding the shares of 5% or below, it shall refer to the provisions of the preceding paragraph in handling such matter, and the relevant shareholders shall withdraw from the voting in the shareholders general meeting.
 
10.2.7 If a company is invested in and set up by a listed company and its affiliates, the amount of capital contributions of the listed company shall be taken as the transaction amount and the provisions of Article 10.2.3, 10.2.4 or 10.2.5 shall be applied.
 
When the amount of capital contributions of the listed company reaches the standard prescribed in Article 10.2.5, if all the investors make the capital contribution in cash and the proportion of the shareholding of them in the company to be set up is determined in proportion to their capital contributions, it may apply at the Stock Exchange for exempting from applying the provisions on submitting such matter to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation.
 
10.2.8When a listed company discloses the affiliated transaction matter, it shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement draft;
 
(2) the documents listed in Item (2) to (5) of Article 9.12;
 
(3) the written document stating that the independent directors have recognized such transaction in advance;
 
(4) opinion of independent directors; and
 
(5) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
10.2.9The announcement of the affiliated transaction disclosed by a listed company shall include the following contents:
 
(1) a brief account of the transaction and the basic information of the transaction target;
 
(2) the prior recognizing situation of the independent directors and the independent opinions stated by them;
 
(3) the voting situation of the board of directors (if applicable); and
 
(4) the affiliated relationship between the trading parities and the basic information of the affiliates.
 
(5) the price fixing policy of the transaction and the price fixing basis thereof, the relationships between the concluded price and the par value or evaluation value of the transaction target and the definite and fair market price, and other matters related with the price fixing which need to be clearly stated due to the special characteristics of the transaction target;
 
If the concluded price differs greatly with the par valve, evaluation value or market price, the reasons thereof shall be stated clearly; if the transaction is unfair, the transferring direction of the profits arising from this affiliated transaction shall also be disclosed.
 
(6) the main content in other aspects of the transaction agreement, including the concluded price of the transaction and the method of settlement, the nature and proportion of the interests of the affiliates in the transaction, the conditions for the agreement's entry into effect, effective date and the term of performance, etc.;
 
(7) the purpose of the transaction and the impact of the transaction on the listed company, including the true intention and necessity of the affiliated transaction and its impact on the current and following financial situation and the operational results, etc.;
 
(8) the cumulative amount of various affiliated transactions concluded with such affiliate from the beginning of current year to the disclosure date;
 
(9) other contents prescribed in Article 9.13; and
 
(10) other contents conducive to explaining the truthful information of the transaction required by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
If the listed company provides the guaranty for affiliates or the shareholders holding 50% of shares, it shall also disclose the contents prescribed in Article 9.14.
 
10.2.10 When a listed company engages in the affiliated transactions of "providing financial assistance" and "entrusted financing", the concluded amount shall be taken as the calculation standard for disclosure and be calculated cumulatively for 12 consecutive months based on the transaction category, if the concluded amount cumulatively calculated reaches the standard prescribed in Article 10.2.3, 10.2.4 or 10.2.5, the provisions of the above articles shall be applied separately.
 
If the company has performed the relevant obligations according to Article 10.2.3, 10.2.4 or 10.2.5, the concluded amount shall not be included into the range of cumulative calculation.
 
10.2.11 If a listed company engages in other affiliated transactions other than those mentioned in the preceding article, it shall base on the principal of cumulative calculation for 12 consecutive months to apply the provisions of Article 10.2.3, 10.2.4 or 10.2.5 separately regarding the various transactions under the same transaction category.
 
If the company has performed the relevant obligations according to Article 10.2.3, 10.2.4 or 10.2.5, the concluded amount shall not be included into the range of cumulative calculation.
 
10.2.12 If a listed company engages in the daily affiliated transactions listed in Item (2) to (5) of Article 10.1.1, it shall make the disclosure and perform the corresponding deliberation procedures according to the following provisions:
 
(1) Regarding the agreements of daily affiliated transaction that have been adopted through deliberation by the shareholders general meeting or the board of directors and are being implemented, if the major clauses do not significantly change in the course of implementing such agreements, the company shall disclose the actual performance situations of such agreements in the regular reports as required and clearly state whether they comply with the provisions of the agreements; if the major clauses of the agreements significantly change in the course of implementation or the agreements have expired and the renewed agreements need to be signed, the company shall, submit the newly-amended or renewed agreements of daily affiliated transaction to the shareholders general meeting or the board of directors for deliberation based on the total amount of the transaction involved in the agreements, if there are no specific total amount of the transaction in such agreements, they shall be submitted to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation.
 
(2) Regarding the newly-established daily affiliated transaction other than those mentioned in the preceding item, the company shall conclude the written agreement with the affiliates and make the disclosure promptly, and it shall submit the agreements to the shareholders general meeting or the board of directors for deliberation based on the total amount of the transaction involved in the agreement, if there are no specific total amount of the transaction in such agreement, it shall submit it to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation. After the agreement is adopted through deliberation and disclosed, it shall, based on the daily affiliated transaction, handle such matter according to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
 
(3) If there are so many newly-established daily affiliated transaction of various categories each year and it is necessary to conclude the newly agreements of daily affiliated transactions very often that it is hard to submit every agreements to the shareholders general meeting or the board of directors for deliberation according to the provisions of the preceding item, it may, before disclosing the report of the previous year, reasonably forecast the total amount of the daily affiliated transactions to be established in the current year according to the transaction category, and submit the forecast result to the shareholders general meeting or the board of directors for deliberation and make the disclosure; the daily affiliated transactions within the scope of forecasting shall be disclosed through classification and summing up by the company in the regular report. If the forecasted total amount is exceeded in the course of actual implementation, the company shall base on the exceeding amount to submit the case to the shareholders general meeting or the board of directors for deliberation and make the disclosure.
 
10.2.3 The contents of a daily affiliated transaction shall at least include the main clauses such as the principal and basis of price fixing, trading price, total amount of the transaction or the clearly and specific method for determining the total amount, time and method of payment, etc;
 
If the agreement does not determine the specific trading price and merely stipulates that the market price shall be referred, when performing the disclosure obligations according to the provisions of the preceding article, the company shall disclose the actual trading price, market price and its fixing method, the reasons on the discrepancy between these two prices.
 
10.2.14 If a listed company engages in the following transactions with the affiliates, it may be exempted from deliberating and disclosing them in light of the method of affiliated transition:
 
(1) one party subscribes for the shares, corporate bonds or enterprise bonds, convertible corporate bonds or other derivative products which are publicly issued by the other party;
 
(2) one party underwrites the shares, corporate bonds or enterprise bonds, convertible corporate bonds or other derivative products which are publicly issued by the other party as the member of the underwriter;
 
(3) one party receives the dividends, bonus or remuneration based on the resolutions of the shareholders general meeting of the other party;
 
(4) the affiliated transactions that arise from the participation of public bidding or auction by any party; and
 
(5) other transactions determined by this Stock Exchange.
 
10.2.15 Regarding the procedures for disclosure and deliberation involved in the transactions between a listed company and its affiliates on which this Chapter is silent, the provisions of Chapter IX of these Rules shall be observed.
 
Chapter XI Other Significant Events
 
Section I Significant Litigation and Arbitration
 
11.1.1 A listed company shall promptly disclose the significant litigations or arbitrations which have the involved amount of more than 10 million Yuan and account for more than 10% of the absolute value of the latest audited net assets of the company.
 
The listed company shall also disclose promptly the litigations or arbitrations that do not reach the standard prescribed in the preceding paragraph or have no specific involved amount while the board of directors deems that they may considerably affect the trading price of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof due to their special characteristics, those that the Stock Exchange deems necessary to be disclosed, and the litigations in which the resolutions of the shareholders general meeting or the board of directors are applied to be revoked or declared to be invalid.
 
11.1.2 If the cumulative amount involved in the litigations and arbitrations of a listed company within 12 consecutive months reaches the standard mentioned in Article 11.1.1, the provisions of such article shall be applied.
 
If the company has performed the disclosure obligation according to the provisions of Article 11.1.1, the amount involved shall not be included into the range of cumulative calculation.
 
11.1.3 When disclosing any significant litigation or arbitration, a listed company shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement draft;
 
(2) the complaint or arbitration application, entertainment (reply-trial ) notice;
 
(3) the judgment or arbitration award; and
 
(4) other materials required by the Stock Exchange.
 
11.1.4 The announcement of a significant litigation or arbitration of a listed company shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the entertainment situation of the case and the basic facts;
 
(2) the impact of the case on the profits of current and following periods of the company;
 
(3) whether the company or its subsidiary company still has other undisclosed litigation or arbitration matters;
 
(4) other contents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
11.1.5 A listed company shall promptly disclose the important proceeding situations of a significant litigation or arbitration and its impact on the company, including but not limited to the judgment of first instance and final judgment of the litigation case, the arbitration award of the arbitration, and the implementation situations of such judgments and arbitration award.
 
Section II Change of Projects Invested with Raised Funds
 
11.2.1If a listed company intends to change the projects invested with raised funds, it shall promptly disclose the matter after the relevant resolutions have been adopted by the board of directors, and submit such matter to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation.
 
11.2.2If a listed company handles the disclosure matters concerning the change of projects invested with raised funds, it shall submit the following documents to this Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement draft;
 
(2) resolutions of the board of directors and the announcement draft of the resolutions;
 
(3) the opinion of independent directors on the change of projects invested with raised funds;
 
(4) the opinion of the supervisory board on the change of projects invested with raised funds;
 
(5) the opinion of the sponsorship institution on the change of projects invested with raised funds;
 
(6) explanations on the change of projects invested with raised funds;
 
(7) the cooperative letter of intent or agreement of the new project;
 
(8) written reply of the new project establishing organ;
 
(9) feasibility report of the new project;
 
(10) report of relevant intermediary agency;
 
(11) agreement on the termination of the original project; and
 
(12) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
The company shall submit the whole or part of the documents mentioned in the above Item (7) to (11) to the Stock Exchange based on the specific situation of the new project.
 
11.2.3 The announcement of a listed company on the change of projects invested with raised funds shall include the following contents:
 
(1) basic information of the original project and the specific reasons for the change;
 
(2) basic information of the new project, market prospect and the risk alert;
 
(3) explanations on whether the new project has obtained or not obtained the approval of the relevant department (if applicable);
 
(4) explanations on whether the change of relevant projects invested with raised capital should be submitted to the shareholders general meeting for deliberation; and
 
(5) other contents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
Section III Performance Prediction, Performance Bulletin and Profit Forecast
 
11.3.1 If a listed company predicts that any of the following situations will occur in the annual business performance, it shall make the performance prediction promptly:
 
(1) the net profits will be the negative value; or
 
(2) great change of the performance.
 
The great change of the performance mentioned above generally refers to the situations under which the net profits rises or declines more than 50% by comparison with the same period of the previous year or it turns from deficits to profits.
 
The time for making the announcement of performance prediction shall be not later than one month after the end of the current reporting period. The company with relatively minor comparison base may be exempted from predicting the performance upon the consent of the Stock Exchange.
 
11.3.2 After disclosing the performance prediction, if a listed company predicts again that the performance in the current period has great discrepancies with the disclosed performance prediction, it shall promptly make the announcement of the corrected performance prediction. Such announcement shall include the following:
 
(1) the situation on the predicted performance of the current period;
 
(2) the discrepancies between the predicted performance in the current period and the disclosed performance prediction and the reasons thereof;
 
(3) explanations on the apologies made by the board of directors and the information on determining the internal liable person of the company; and
 
(4) explanations on whether the shares of the company are likely to be implemented or revoked the special disposal, suspended the listing, resumed the listing or terminated the listing (if applicable).
 
If the corrected performance prediction is made based on the pre-auditing result of the certified public accountant, it shall clearly state whether there is difference between the company and the certified public accountant and where is the difference.
 
11.3.3 When a listed company discloses the announcement on the performance prediction or the corrected performance prediction, it shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement draft;
 
(2) relevant explanations of the board of directors;
 
(3) the opinion of the certified public accountant on whether the basis and process in making or correcting the performance prediction by the company is proper or prudential (if applicable); and
 
(4) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
11.3.4 A listed company may publish the performance bulletin before disclosing the annual report and interim report to disclose the main financial data and indexes, such as the main business income in the current period and in the same period of the previous year, main business profits, total amount of the profits, net profits, the proceeds per share, the net assets per share and the yield of net assets.
 
When disclosing the performance bulletin, the company shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement draft;
 
(2) the comparison balance sheet and profit statement which are signed and sealed by the legal representative, the person in charge of the accounting work, the chief accountant(if have) and the liable person (the person in charge ) of the accounting institution; and
 
(3) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
11.3.5 A listed company shall ensure that there are no great discrepancies between the financial data and indexes of the performance bullet and the actual data and indexes disclosed in the relevant regular reports.
 
Before disclosing the regular report, if the company discovers that the discrepancy range of the relevant financial data and indexes will reach 10%, it shall promptly disclose the announcement of the corrected performance bulletin stating the specific discrepancies and the reason thereof; if the discrepancy range reaches 20%, apart from disclosing the relevant regular report, it shall extend the apologies in the form of the announcement of the board of directors at the same time and explain the information on determining the internal liable person of the company.
 
11.3.6 If a listed company predicts that there are great discrepancies between the performance in the current period and the disclosed profit forecast, it shall promptly disclose the announcement on the corrected profit forecast and submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement draft;
 
(2) the relevant explanations of the board of directors;
 
(3) letters of the board of directors on confirming whether the basis and process in the correction of profit forecast are proper and prudential;
 
(4) special explanations of the certified public accountant on whether there are great discrepancies between the profit forecast and the actual situations; and
 
(5) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
11.3.7 The announcement of the corrected performance forecast of a listed company shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the predicted performance in the current period;
 
(2) the discrepancies between the predicted performance in the current period and the disclosed performance forecast and the reasons thereof;
 
(3) explanations on the apologies made by the board of directors and the information on determining the internal liable person of the company; and
 
(4) explanations on whether the shares of the company are likely to be implemented or revoked the special disposal, suspended the listing, resumed the listing or terminated the listing (if applicable).
 
Section IV Profit Distribution and the Capital Shares Converted by the Capital Common Reserve Fund
 
11.4.1 After the scheme of profit distribution and the scheme of capital shares converted by the capital common reserve fund (hereinafter referred to as the "schemes") have been adopted by the board of directors through deliberation, the listed company shall promptly disclose the specific contents of such schemes.
 
11.4.2 Before implementing the schemes, a listed company shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement on implementing the schemes;
 
(2) relevant resolutions of the shareholders general meeting;
 
(3) the documents of the registration company on confirming the specific time for implementing the scheme; and
 
(4) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
11.4.3 A listed company shall disclose the announcement on implementing the schemes within three to five trading days before the shareholding registration date of the implementing schemes.
 
11.4.4 The announcement on implementing the schemes shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the session and date of the shareholders general meeting that adopts the schemes;
 
(2) the proportion of the cash dividends, stock dividends and the share capital converted by the capital common reserve fund (representing by ten shares as a unit) to be allocated, base of the share capital (calculated on the basis of the actual share capital before the implementation), and the situation on whether the taxes are contained or taxes deduction situation etc;
 
(3) shareholding registration date, shareholding (dividends) revoking date, the date of listing of the newly-increased shares ( which shall be "newly-increased tradable shares for listed companies that have not completed the shareholding division reform);
 
(4) measures for implementing of the schemes;
 
(5) alteration graph of the structure of the share capital (which shall be listed based on the items such as the total share capital before the alteration, number of the bonus shares to be allocated this time, number of the share capital to be increased through conversion this time, total share capital after the change, proportion in the total share capital, etc);
 
(6) the proceeds per share in the previous year or in the half-year of the current year calculated on the basis of the dilution of the new share capital after the stock dividends and the capital common reserve fund allocated converting into the share capital; and
 
(7) relevant consultancy measures.
 
11.4.5 A listed company shall complete the matters concerning the profit distribution and increasing the share capital through conversion within two months after the schemes are adopted by the shareholders general meeting through deliberation.
 
Section V Abnormal Fluctuation of Shares Trading and the Clarification of Rumors
 
11.5.1 If the trading of shares is deemed by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange to fluctuate abnormally according to the relevant provisions and business rules, the listed company shall disclose the announcement on the abnormal fluctuation in the trading of shares on the following trading date.
 
The calculation of the abnormal fluctuation in the trading of shares shall be recommenced from the announcement date.
 
11.5.2 When disclosing the announcement on the abnormal fluctuation in the trading of shares, a listed company shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the announcement draft;
 
(2) analysis and explanations of the board of directors; and
 
(3) other documents conducive to explaining the actual situations of the issues.
 
11.5.3The announcement of the abnormal fluctuation in the trading of shares of a listed company shall include the following contents:
 
(1) specific situations on the abnormal fluctuation in the trading of shares;
 
(2) reasonable explanations on the abnormal fluctuation in the trading of shares and explanations on whether it is related with the change of the company or of the internal or external environment of the company;
 
(3) statements on whether there are any significant information which should be disclosed but have not been disclosed; and
 
(4) other contents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
11.5.4 If the information spread by the mass media (hereinafter referred to as the "rumors") may considerably affect or have affected considerably the trading price of the shares of a listed company and the derivative products thereof, the company shall provide promptly the evidence on the spread of the rumors to the Stock Exchange and make a public announcement for the clarification.
 
11.5.5 The announcement on the clarification of the rumors made by a listed company shall include the following contents:
 
(1) contents of the rumors and the resources thereof;
 
(2) the actual information on the matters involved in the rumors; and
 
(3) other contents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
Section VI Repurchase of Shares
 
11.6.1 After the board of directors adopts the relevant items related to the repurchase of shares through deliberation, a listed company shall promptly disclose the resolution of the board of directors and the scheme for the repurchase of shares, and also issue the notice on convening the shareholders general meeting. The scheme for the repurchase of shares disclosed by the company shall at least contain the following items:
 
(1) purpose of repurchase of shares;
 
(2) method of repurchase of shares;
 
(3) price or price range, principles of price fixing for the shares repurchased;
 
(4) category, quantity of the shares to be repurchased and its proportion to the total share capital of the company;
 
(5) total amount of the capital to be used to repurchase the shares and the resources thereof;
 
(6) term of repurchase of shares;
 
(7) the predicted change situation on the shareholding structure of the company after repurchasing the shares; and
 
(8) analysis report of the management personnel regarding the influences of the shares repurchased on the business, financial affairs and future development of the company.
 
11.6.2 A listed company shall arrange the independent financial advisor to conduct the conscientious investigation on the matters concerning the repurchase of shares and issue the report of the independent financial advisor, and it shall also make the public announcement five days before convening the shareholders general meeting.
 
11.6.3 Three days before convening the shareholders general meeting, a listed company shall disclose the names, amount and proportion of shareholding of the first ten shareholders on the previous trading date before making the announcement of the resolution of the board of directors on the repurchase of shares and that of the first ten shareholders registered on the shareholding registration date of the shareholders general meeting (it should be the "first ten tradable shareholders for the listed company that does not compete the shareholding division reform) in the website of the Stock Exchange.
 
11.6.4 The resolution of the shareholders general meeting of a listed company regarding the repurchase of shares shall be adopted by the shareholders attending the meeting who represent two thirds of the voting rights.
 
After the company makes the resolution on the repurchase of shares, it shall notify the creditors within ten days and publish in the newspaper within 30 days for at least three times.
 
11.6.5 If a listed company repurchases the shares through centralized trading at competing prices, it shall perform the information disclosure obligations according to the following requirements:
 
(1) to announce the "Repurchase Report" and the legal opinions to the public within five trading days after receiving the unanimous letter from the CSRC;
 
(2) during the repurchase period, it shall make the announcement on the repurchase progress within the first three trading days of each month and disclose the situation on the repurchase progress by the end of the previous month, including the total amount of the shares having been repurchased, the highest and lowest price in the purchase, the total amount of payment, etc;
 
When the proportion of the shares repurchased through centralized trading at competing prices to the total share capital of the listed company increases 1%, the company shall announce the matter to the public within two trading days as of the date on which such fact occurs, the content of the announcement shall refer to the requirements prescribed in the preceding paragraph;
 
(3) If the scheme for the repurchase of shares is still not implemented after three months elapses as of the expiry date of repurchase, the board of directors shall announce the reasons why the repurchases cannot be implemented to the public;
 
11.6.6 The "Repurchase Report" mentioned in the preceding article shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the items listed in Article 11.6.1;
 
(2) explanations on whether any directors, supervisors or senior management personnel commits the acts of purchasing or selling the shares of the company, or engages in inside trading or manipulates the market solely or jointly with others within six months before the announcement of resolution of the shareholders general meeting;
 
(3) the conclusive opinions issued by the independent financial advisor on the repurchase of shares this time;
 
(4) the conclusive opinions issued by the legal firm on the repurchase of shares this time; and
 
(5) other matters that should be clearly stated.
 
11.6.7 If a listed company repurchases the shares by means of offer, it shall perform the information disclosure obligations according to the following requirements:
 
(1) to make the alert announcement within two trading days after receiving the unanimous letter from the CSRC and disclose the "Repurchase Report" and legal opinions before implementing the repurchasing scheme. Regarding the content of the "Repurchase Report", apart from including the contents listed in Article 11.6.6, it shall also include the special explanations of the company on the matters concerning the method and procedures for pre-accepting and withdrawing the offer by the shareholders; and
 
(2) to entrust the Stock Exchange to publish the amount of shares in the pre-accepted offer and the withdrawal notice of the pre-accepted offer on the website of the Stock Exchange every day during the term of validity of the repurchase offer.
 
11.6.8 If repurchasing term expires or the repurchasing scheme has been implemented completely, the listed company shall cease the repurchase activities immediately, revoke the special account for the repurchase, and publish the repurchasing results within two trading days.
 
Section VII Significant Items involved in Convertible Corporate Bonds
 
11.7.1 If a listed company which issues convertible corporate bonds contains any of the following situations, it shall report the situation to the Stock Exchange and disclose it:
 
(1) need to adjust the converted price of shares due to the change of shares resulting from the issuance of new shares, donation of shares, division or other reasons, or need to amend the converted price of shares based on the amendment clause under the clause of the converted price of shares in the prospectus on share offer;
 
(2) the cumulative amount of the shares converted by the convertible corporate bonds reach 10% of the total amount of the shares already issued by the company before the convertible corporate bonds convert into shares;
 
(3) significant changes in the credit status of the company and may affect the repayment of the principal and the payment of interest of the bonds;
 
(4) the guarantor of the convertible corporate bonds having significant changes of assets, involved in significant litigation, merger or division;
 
(5) the amount of the convertible corporate bonds unconverted is less than 30 million Yuan;
 
(6) the qualified credit rating institution has rated the credit of the convertible corporate bonds or that of the company and has issued the credit rating results;
 
(7) other significant matters that may considerably affect the trading price of the convertible corporate bonds; and
 
(8) other situations prescribed by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
11.7.2 A listed company shall disclose the announcement on the payment of interest within three to five trading days before the interest payment date stipulated in the convertible corporate bonds; and disclose the announcement on the payment of the principal and the interest thereof within three to five trading days before the expiry date of the convertible corporate bonds.
 
11.7.3 A listed company shall disclose the announcement on the implementation of shares conversion within three trading days before the convertible corporate bonds begin to convert into shares.
 
11.7.4 When a listed company exercises the redemption right, it shall make the redemption announcement for at least three times within five trading days after it satisfies the redemption conditions for the first time in each year. The redemption announcement shall clearly state the procedures, price, method of payment and time of the redemption.
 
The company shall announce the redemption result and its influence to the public after the end of the redemption period.
 
11.7.5 Within the years when a listed company may exercises the resale right, it shall make the resale announcement for at least three times within five trading days after it satisfies the resale conditions for the first time in each year. The resale announcement shall clearly state the procedures, price, method of payment and time of the resale.
 
The company shall announce the resale result and its influence to the public after the end of the resale period.
 
11.7.6 If a listed company changes the project invested by raised capital, it shall invest the holder of the convertible corporate bonds with one resale right within 20 trading days after adopting the resolution of the shareholders general meeting, and make the relevant resale announcement for at least three times. Among them, the resale announcement shall be made at least one time within five trading days after the announcement of the resolution of shareholders general meeting and at least one time during the period of implementation of the resale, and the time for making the resale announcement of the last time shall be determined based on necessity.
 
11.7.7 A listed company shall make the alert announcement for at least three times 20 trading days before the end of the conversion date of the convertible corporate bonds to remind the investors of the matters concerning the termination of trading ten trading days before the end of the conversion period of the convertible corporate bonds.
 
If other situations in which the convertible corporate bonds must suspend the trading as required occur, the company shall promptly disclose the announcement on the upcoming suspension of trading of convertible corporate bonds after it acquires relevant information.
 
11.7.8 A listed company shall promptly disclose the situations on the shares change resulting from the shares converted into by convertible corporate bonds after the end of each quarter.
 
Chapter VIII Other Matters
 
11.8.1 A listed company shall timely select the undertaking matters of the company and the shareholders thereof separately and report them to the Stock Exchange for a record, and disclose them on the website of the Stock Exchange separately.
 
The company shall specially disclose the performance situations of the above undertaking matters in the regular reports. If the company fails to perform the undertakings, it shall promptly disclose the reasons in detail and the legal liabilities may be undertaken by the relevant directors; if any shareholder fails to perform the undertakings, the company shall promptly disclose the relevant specific situations in detail and the measures taken by the board of directors.
 
11.8.2 If a listed company encounters any of the following circumstances that may result in the company to confront major risks, it shall promptly report the circumstance to the Stock Exchange and disclose it:
 
(1) suffering great deficits or major losses;
 
(2) incurring major debts or the major creditors' rights that are due not been repaid;
 
(3) be likely to undertake the major breach liabilities or compensation liabilities of large amount;
 
(4) intending to allocate the depreciation reserve for large amount assets;
 
(5) the company decides to dissolve itself or is closed by the order of relevant authorities according to law;
 
(6) the company is likely to be unable to pay its debts with all its assets (generally means that the net assets are negative value);
 
(7) its main debtors are unable to pay their debts with all their assets or go into bankruptcy proceedings and the company does not allocate the full amount bad debts reserve for corresponding creditors' rights;
 
(8) the main assets are sealed up, distrained, frozen, mortgaged or pledged;
 
(9) major or whole business are suspended;
 
(10) the company is involved in the violation of laws or regulations and investigated by relevant authorities, or is imposed significant administrative penalty or criminal punishment;
 
(11) the chairman of the board or the manager cannot perform his duties, the directors, supervisors or the senior management personnel are involved in the violation of laws or disciplines and are investigated by relevant authorities or imposed compulsory measures; and
 
(12) other major risks situations determined by the Stock Exchange or the company.
 
If the above items have specific amount involved, the provisions of Article 9.2 shall be referred.
 
11.8.3 If a listed company is in any of the following situations, it shall report the situation to the Stock Exchange and disclose it:
 
(1) change of the name of company, abbreviated name for shares, articles of association, registered capital, registered address, major administrative places and contact information, if the articles of association are changed, the new articles of association shall be disclosed on the website of the Stock Exchange;
 
(2) significant change in the business policies and the business scope;
 
(3) change of accounting policy or estimation;
 
(4) the board of directors makes relevant resolutions on the issuance of new shares, convertible corporate bonds or other refinancing schemes;
 
(5) the shares issuance examination committee under the CSRC convenes the shares issuance examination meeting and puts forward the corresponding opinions on the examination of the issuance applications of new shares and convertible corporate bonds or other refinancing schemes;
 
(6) the shareholding situation or the controlling status of the shareholders or defacto controllers who hold more than 5% of shares of the company has been greatly changed or is about to be changed greatly;
 
(7) the chairman of the board, manager, directors (including independent directors) or more than one third of the supervisors apply for resignation or change;
 
(8) great changes in production and business situations, external conditions or production environments (including great changes in the price of products, price and method of purchase of raw materials;
 
(9) concluding important contracts, which may considerably affect the assets, liabilities, equity and operational results of the company;
 
(10) the laws, administrative rules and regulations, ministerial regulations and policies newly promulgated may considerably affect the business of the company;
 
(11) appointing or dismissing the accounting firm that makes auditing for the company;
 
(12) the holding company shareholders are prohibited from transferring the shares of the company held by them by the order of the people's court;
 
(13) more than 5% of shares of the company held by any shareholder are pledged, frozen, auctioned through judicial proceedings, trusteed or trusted;
 
(14) acquiring additional proceeds such as large amount government subsidies, drawing back the depreciation reserve for large amount capital or other matters that may considerably affect the capital, liabilities, equity or operational results of the company;
 
(15) other situations determined by the Stock Exchange or the company.
 
11.8.4 If the regular report of a listed company that has been disclosed in the previous period contains mistakes or false records and is ordered by relevant authorities to make rectification or is corrected by a decision of the board of directors, after it receives the order for rectification or the board of directors makes the corresponding decision, the company shall disclose such matter promptly according to the requirements prescribed by the "Rules on the Compilation and Reporting of Information Disclosure of Companies Issuing the Securities Publicly: Rules No 19-Correction of Financial Information and Related Disclosure".
 
11.8.5 After a listed company makes a decision to apply for bankruptcy at the people's court, the creditors apply for bankruptcy or the people's court entertains the application for bankruptcy, the company shall promptly disclose such matters and fully reveal the risks that the shares of the company are likely to be terminated for listing.
 
After going into the bankruptcy proceedings, the company and other entities that have information disclosure obligations shall promptly report the significant information to the Stock Exchange, such as the situation on the claiming of creditors' rights, the convening situation of the creditors' meeting, bankruptcy settlement and rectification, etc. and also disclose such information.
 
If the people's court makes an order to reject the bankruptcy application, suspend or resume the bankruptcy proceedings or declare the bankruptcy, the company shall promptly disclose the main contents of the order.
 
11.8.6 Such schemes of a listed company that are related to the change of shares (except for repurchasing shares) as capital reduction, merger and division shall be reported to the Stock Exchange and publicly announced upon the approval of the CSRC.
 
11.8.7 Matters related to information disclosure or registration of change of shares during the course of implementing the scheme of capital reduction, merger or division by a listed company shall be dealt with in accordance with the relevant provisions of the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
Chapter XII Suspension and Resumption of Trading
 
12.1 If the matters concerning the suspension of trading prescribed in this Chapter occur in a listed company, the company shall apply for suspension and resumption of trading of shares of the company and the derivative products thereof at the Stock Exchange.
 
Regarding the matters on which this Chapter is silent, the company may apply for suspension and resumption of trading of shares of the company and the derivative products thereof at the Stock Exchange with the reasons that are deemed to be reasonable by the Stock Exchange.
 
12.2 If a listed company discloses the annual report on a trading day, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading as of the morning of the trading day upon the opening of trading and be resumed for trading on 10:30.
 
12.3 If a listed company convenes the shareholders general meeting at the trading time set by the Stock Exchange, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading as of the date on which the shareholders general meeting is convened and not be resumed for trading until the morning upon the opening of trading of the date on which the announcement of resolution of the shareholders general meeting is disclosed; if the contents in such announcement involve in rejecting the proposals, the trading shall not be resumed until 10:30 Am of the date on which the announcement is disclosed. If the announcement of resolution of the shareholders general meeting is disclosed in a non-trading day, the trading shall be resumed on the first trading day upon the opening of trading after the announcement is disclosed.
 
If a listed company convenes the shareholders general meeting at the time other than the trading time set by the Stock Exchange, while the announcement of resolution of the shareholders general meeting is not disclosed in or before the first trading day after the meeting is convened, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading from the first trading day and not be resumed for trading until the morning upon the opening of trading of the date on which the announcement of resolution of the shareholders general meeting is disclosed; if the contents in such announcement involve in rejecting the proposals, the trading shall not be resumed until 10:30 Am of the date on which the announcement is disclosed. If the announcement of resolution of the shareholders general meeting is disclosed in a non-trading day, the trading shall be resumed on the first trading day upon the opening of trading after the announcement is disclosed.
 
12.4 If a listed company discloses the ad hoc report in a trading day, and the contents of the report involve in the matters prescribed in Article 11.3.1, 11.3.2, 11.3.4, 11.3.6, 11.4.1 and 11.6.1 for the first time, the shares of the company and the derivative products shall be suspended for trading as of the morning of the trading day upon the opening of trading and be resumed for trading on 10:30.
 
If the contents of the ad hoc report involve in other matters, the Stock Exchange may, based on the specific situations of the relevant matters, determine the time for suspension and resumption of trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof.
 
12.5 If a listed company engages in the transactions such as purchase or sell of assets and subject to applying for suspension of trading at the Stock Exchange as prescribed by the relevant provisions of the CSRC, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading according to the relevant provisions.
 
12.6 If the significant undisclosed information of a listed company appears in the mass media, which may affect considerably or have already considerably affected the trading price of the shares of the company and the derivative products, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading and not resumed the trading until 10:30 Am of the date on which the relevant announcement is disclosed by the company. If the announcement is disclosed in a non-trading day, the trading shall be resumed on the first trading day upon the opening of trading after the announcement is disclosed.
 
12.7 If the shares trading of a listed company fluctuate abnormally, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading and not resumed the trading until 10:30 Am of the date on which the relevant announcement is disclosed by the company.
 
12.8 If the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinions are issued against the financial and accounting report of a listed company, and the matters involved in the opinions obviously violate the provisions of accounting guidelines and systems or relevant regulations regarding information disclosure, the Stock Exchange shall suspend the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof from the date on which the company discloses its regular report and resume the trading after the company makes the rectification according to the relevant provisions.
 
12.9 If a listed company does not disclose the regular report within the statutory time limit and the time limit prescribed in these Rules, the shares of the company and the derivative products shall be suspended for trading and not resumed the trading until 10:30 Am of the date on which the company discloses the regular report. If the regular report is disclosed in a non-trading day, the trading shall be resumed on the first trading day upon the opening of trading after the regular report is disclosed.
 
The time limit for suspension of trading for a company which does not disclose the annual report or interim report shall not exceed two months. During the period of suspension of trading, the company shall make the risk alert announcements for at least three times.
 
If the company does not disclose the quarterly report and at the same time it has not disclosed the annual report or interim report, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended and resumed for trading according to the relevant provisions of the preceding paragraph and Chapter XIII.
 
12.10 If the financial and accounting report of a listed company contains significant accounting mistakes or false records and the CSRC orders the company to make rectification while the company fails to do so within the prescribed time limit, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading and not resumed the trading until 10:30 Am of the date on which the company discloses the rectified financial and accounting report. If the announcement is disclosed in a non-trading day, the trading shall be resumed on the first trading day upon the opening of trading after the announcement is disclosed.
 
The time limit for suspension of trading for the company which does not rectify the financial and accounting report as required shall not exceed two months. During the period of suspension of trading, the company shall make the risk alert announcements for at least three times.
 
12.11 If a listed company involves in violation of laws, administrative rules and regulations, ministerial regulations, these Rules or other relevant provisions regarding the company operation and information disclosure and the circumstance is serious and thus investigated by relevant departments, the Stock Exchange shall determine the time for suspension and resumption of trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof based on the specific circumstances during the period of investigation.
 
12.12 If a listed company does not disclose sufficiently or completely its regular report or ad hoc report and may mislead the investors, while the company refuses to make explanations or make supplementary disclosure on relevant contents as required, the Stock Exchange may suspend the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof and not resume the trading until 10:30 Am of the date on which the company discloses relevant announcement. If the announcement is disclosed in a non-trading day, the trading shall be resumed on the first trading day upon the opening of trading after the announcement is disclosed.
 
12.13 If a listed company grossly violates these Rules and refuses to make rectification within the prescribed time limit, the Stock Exchange shall suspend the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof and determine the time for resumption of trading according to the specific circumstances.
 
12.14 If the Stock Exchange loses the effective information resources due to a certain reason of a listed company, the Stock Exchange may suspend the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof and not resume the trading until the above reasons have been eliminated.
 
12.15 When a purchaser takes over a listed company by agreement or by offer, the shares of the listed company to be taken over and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended and resumed for trading according to the following provisions:
 
(1) If the purchaser discloses the "Summary of Takeover Report of Listed Companies", "Summary Report for Takeover by Offer" or the "Takeover Report of Listed Companies" and "Takeover Report for Takeover by Offer" in a trading day, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading as of the morning upon the opening of trading of the date on which the announcement is disclosed and resumed the trading at 10:30 Am.
 
(2) During the period between the expiry date of takeover by offer and the date on which the purchaser discloses the report on the takeover of the listed company, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading, and the Stock Exchange shall determine the matters concerning the suspension of trading according to the specific circumstances after the completion of the takeover.
 
12.16 If the shares trading of a listed company are under special disposal by the Stock Exchange, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended and resumed for trading according to the relevant provisions of Chapter XIII of these Rules.
 
12.17 If any of the situations mentioned in Article 14.1.1 or 14.1.11 occurs or any significant event takes place in a listed company and thus affect its qualification for listing, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended and resumed for trading according to the relevant provisions of Chapter XIV of these Rules.
 
12.18 If a listed company that issues convertible corporate bonds involves any of the following items, the Stock Exchange shall determine the matters concerning the suspension and resumption of trading of convertible corporate bonds, the suspension and resumption of shares conversion based on the practical situations or the requirements of the CSRC:
 
(1) to disclose the information involved in the adjustment or amendment of shares converted price in trading days;
 
(2) to exercise the redemption right or resale right of convertible corporate bonds;
 
(3) the company implements the profit distribution scheme or the scheme for increasing the capital through the conversion of capital common reserve funds; and
 
(4) other matters deemed by the CSRC or the Stock Exchange to be necessary to suspend the trading or conversion of shares.
 
12.19 Apart from the above provisions, the Stock Exchange may determine the matters concerning the suspension and resumption of trading of the shares of listed companies and the derivative products thereof based on the practical situations or the requirements of the CSRC.
 
12.20 The Stock Exchange shall suspend the trading of convertible corporate bonds according to the following provisions:
 
(1) to suspend the trading of convertible corporate bonds three trading days after the listed company makes the relevant announcement if the convertible corporate bonds of which the par value of circulation is less than 30 million Yuan;
 
(2) to suspend the trading of convertible corporate bonds as of the tenth trading day before the end of the conversion period; or
 
(3) to suspend the trading of convertible corporate bonds during the redemption period.
 
Apart from the provisions mentioned above, the convertible corporate bonds shall be suspended for trading when the CSRC or the Stock Exchange deems it necessary to suspend the trading.
 
Chapter XIII Special Disposal
 
Section I General Provisions
 
13.1.1 If abnormal financial conditions or other abnormal situations occur in a listed company, which causes the shares of the company facing the risk of being terminated for listing, or makes the investors hard to assess the prospect of the company and their investment interests may be damaged, the Stock Exchange shall implement the special disposal against the shares trading of the company.
 
13.1.2 The special disposal as referred to in this Chapter shall be divided into the special disposal of warning on the risk of termination of listing (hereinafter referred to as the "warning on the delisting risk") and other special disposals.
 
13.1.3 The disposal measures for the warning on the risk of quitting from market shall include the following:
 
(1) to indicate the "*ST" before the abbreviated name of the shares of the company to distinguish from other shares; and
 
(2) to limit the daily rise and fall scale for shares quotation to be 5% (the limitation of rise and fall scale for shares quotation shall not apply to the shares of the company on the first day when they are resumed for listing);
 
13.1.4 The disposal measures for other special disposals shall include the following:
 
(1) to indicate the "*ST" before the abbreviated name of the shares of the company to distinguish from other shares; and
 
(2) to limit the daily rise and fall scale for shares quotation to be 5%.
 
Section II Warning on the Delisting Risk
 
13.2.1 If a listed company is under any of the following circumstances, the Stock Exchange shall implement the warning on the delisting risk against the shares trading of the company:
 
(1) has been incurring losses for the last two consecutive years (based on the annually audited net profits disclosed in the latest two annual reports);
 
(2) the financial and accounting report of the company contains significant accounting mistakes or false records and is corrected by the company on its own initiative or is ordered to make rectification by the CSRC so that the financial and accounting reports in the previous years are adjusted retroactively, which result in the losses for the last consecutive years;
 
(3) the financial and accounting report of the company contains significant accounting mistakes or false records and is ordered to make rectification by the CSRC which the company fails to do so within the prescribed time limit and the shares of the company have been suspended for trading for two months;
 
(4) failure to disclose the annual report or interim report within the statutory time limit and the shares of the company have been suspended for two months;
 
(5) the company may be dissolved;
 
(6) the people's court has entertained the cases concerning the bankruptcy of the company, the company is likely to be declared bankruptcy according to law; or
 
(7) other circumstances determined by the Stock Exchange.
 
13.2.2A listed company shall make the announcement one trading day before the warning on the delisting risk is implemented against the shares trading. The announcement shall include the following contents:
 
(1) category, abbreviated name and securities code of the shares and the beginning date for implementing the warning on the delisting risk;
 
(2) reasons for implementing the warning on the delisting risk;
 
(3) the opinions of the board of directors of the company on striving for revoking the warning on the delisting risk and the specific measures thereof;
 
(4) warning on the risk of being suspended or terminated of listing for the shares;
 
(5) main method for answering the inquiries from investors by the company during the warning on the delisting risk, and
 
(6) other contents required by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
13.2.3 If the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) or (2) of Article 13.2.1 occurs in a listed company, the company shall promptly report the circumstance to the Stock Exchange after the board of directors adopts the annual report or the announcement on corrected financial report through deliberation, and shall also present the written opinions of the board of directors. The shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading on the date when the annual report or the announcement on corrected financial report is disclosed. If the disclosure date is a non-trading day, the trading shall be suspended on the next trading day. As of the date on which the trading is resumed, the Stock Exchange shall implement the warning on the delisting risk against the shares trading of the company.
 
13.2.4 If the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) or (4) of Article 13.2.1 occurs in a listed company, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be resumed for trading on the next trading day upon the expiry of suspension of trading which lasts for two months. As of the date on which the trading is resumed, the Stock Exchange shall implement the warning on the delisting risk against the shares trading of the company.
 
During the period when the share trading is implemented the warning on the delisting risk, the company shall make the risk alert announcement for at least three times.
 
13.2.5 If the circumstance mentioned in Item (5) or (6) of Article 13.2.1 occurs in a listed company, the company shall report such circumstance to the Stock Exchange promptly on the same day, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading after the Stock Exchange is informed the facts in question and the trading shall be resumed on the next trading day upon the opening of trading after the company discloses relevant announcements. As of the date on which the trading is resumed, the Stock Exchange shall implement the warning on the delisting risk against the shares trading of the company.
 
A company which faces the risk of bankruptcy shall, during the period when the shares trading of the company is implemented the warning on the delisting risk, apart from performing the information disclosure obligations according to the provisions of Article 11.8.5, it shall disclose the proceeding situation on the bankruptcy proceedings of the company at least once each month to prompt the risk of bankruptcy.
 
A company which faces the risk of being dissolved shall refer to the provisions of the preceding paragraph to disclose the proceeding situation on the dissolution and liquidation to prompt the relevant risks.
 
13.2.6 If the auditing result of a listed company in the latest fiscal year shows that the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) or (2) of Article 13.2.1 has been eliminated, the company shall promptly report the matter to the Stock Exchange and disclose the annual report after the board of directors adopts the annual report through deliberation, and it may apply for revoking the warning on the delisting risk which is implemented against the shares trading of the company at the Stock Exchange at the same time.
 
13.2.7 If the shares trading of a listed company is implemented the warning on the delisting risk due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) or (4) of Article 13.2.1, and such circumstance is eliminated within two months after the warning is implemented, the company may apply for revoking the warning on the delisting risk which is implemented against the shares trading of the company at the Stock Exchange.
 
13.2.8 After the circumstance mentioned in Item (5) or (6) of Article 13.2.1 has been eliminated, the listed company may apply for revoking the warning on the delisting risk which is implemented against the shares trading of the company at the Stock Exchange.
 
13.2.9 After a listed company submits the application for revoking the warning on the delisting risk which is implemented against the shares trading of the company at the Stock Exchange, it shall make the announcement on the next trading day.
 
The Stock Exchange shall base on the specific situations of the company to decide whether or not to revoke the warning on the delisting risk which is implemented against the shares trading of the company.
 
13.2.10 If the Stock Exchange decides to revoke the warning on the delisting risk, the listed company shall make the announcement on the previous trading day before the warning on the delisting risk is revoked as required by the Stock Exchange.
 
The shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading on the date when the announcement is disclosed, the Stock Exchange shall revoke the warning on the delisting risk which is implemented against the shares trading of the company from the date the trading is resumed.
 
13.2.11 If the Stock Exchange determines not to revoke the warning on the delisting risk, the listed company shall make the announcement on the next trading day when it receives the relevant written notices from the Stock Exchange. If the company does not make the announcement, the Stock Exchange shall make the announcement in the form of the announcement of stock exchanges.
 
The shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading in the morning upon the opening of trading of the date on which the announcement is disclosed and shall be resumed for trading at 10:30 Am.
 
Section III Other Special Disposals
 
13.3.1 If a listed company is in any of the following circumstances, the Stock Exchange shall implement other special disposals against the shares trading of the company:
 
(1) the auditing result in the latest fiscal year shows that the equity of the shareholders is negative;
 
(2) the accounting firm issues the auditing report in which the opinion or the negative opinion is unable to be stated against the financial and accounting report in the latest fiscal year;
 
(3) after the company applies for revoking the warning on the delisting risk which is implemented against the shares trading of the company according to Article 13.2.6 at the Stock Exchange and the application has been approved, the auditing result in the latest fiscal year shows that the main business of the company is not operated normally, or the net profits after deduction of the non-recurring gains and losses are negative;
 
(4) the natural disasters or significant accidents result in the production and business activities of the company being seriously affected and is predicted to be unable to return to normal within three months;
 
(5) the main banking accounts are frozen;
 
(6) the board of directors is unable to convene the meetings normally and make the resolutions;
 
(7) the CSRC requests the Stock Exchange to make special prompt on the shares trading of the company according to the relevant provisions of the "Provisional Measures for Sponsorship System for the Issuance and Listing of Securities"; or
 
(8) other circumstances determined by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
13.3.2 If any circumstance mentioned from Item (1) to (3) of the preceding article occurs in a listed company, the company shall report such circumstance to the Stock Exchange after the board of directors adopts the annual report through deliberation, and it shall also present the relevant written opinions of the board of directors; if any circumstance mentioned from Item (4) to (6) of the preceding article occurs, it shall promptly report the circumstance to the Stock Exchange after the event takes place.
 
13.3.3 If the circumstance mentioned in Item (7) of Article 13.3.1 occurs, the Stock Exchange shall implement the special disposals against the shares trading of the company according to the relevant requirements of the CSRC; if the circumstances mentioned in other Items of such Article occur, the Stock Exchange shall determine whether or not to implement other special disposals against the shares trading of the company.
 
13.3.4 A listed company shall make the announcement on the previous trading day before the shares trading of the company is implemented other special disposals as required by the Stock Exchange, the contents of the announcement shall refer to the provisions of Article 13.2.2.
 
The shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading on the date when the announcement is disclosed. As of the date the trading is resumed, the Stock Exchange shall implement other special disposals against the shares trading of the company.
 
13.3.5 If the financial conditions of a listed company in the latest fiscal year return to normal, and the auditing result shows that the circumstances mentioned in Item (1) and (2) of Article 13.3.1 have been eliminated and also meet the following conditions at the same time, the company shall promptly report such matters to the Stock Exchange after the board of directors adopts the annual report through deliberation and also disclose the annual report, and it may apply at the Stock Exchange for revoking other special disposals which are implemented against the shares trading of the company at the same time.
 
(1) the main business is under normal operation; and
 
(2) the net profits after deduction of the non-recurring gains and losses are positive.
 
13.3.6 If the auditing result of a listed company in the latest fiscal year shows that the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) of Article 13.3.1 has been eliminated, the company shall report the circumstance to the Stock Exchange after the board of directors adopts the annual report through deliberation and also disclose the annual report, and it may apply at the Stock Exchange for revoking other special disposals which are implemented against the shares trading of the company at the same time.
 
13.3.7 If a listed company deems that the circumstances mentioned from Item (4) to (6) of Article 13.3.1 have been eliminated, it may apply at the Stock Exchange for revoking other special disposals which are implemented against the shares trading of the company.
 
13.3.8 After the listed company submits the application for revoking other special disposals implemented against the shares trading of the company, it shall make the announcement on the next trading day.
 
After receiving the application of the company, the Stock Exchange shall determine whether or not to revoke other special disposals implemented against the shares trading of the company. If the shares trading of the company is implemented other special disposals based on the provisions of Item (7) of Article 13.3.1, the Stock Exchange shall revoke such other special disposals according to the requirements of the CSRC.
 
13.3.9 If the Stock Exchange decides to revoke other special disposals, the listed company shall make the announcement on the previous trading day before other special disposals are revoked as required by the Stock Exchange.
 
The shares of the company and the derivative products shall be suspended for trading on the date when the announcement is disclosed, the Stock Exchange shall revoke such other special disposals implemented against the shares trading of the company from the date on which the trading is resumed.
 
13.3.10 If the Stock Exchange determines not to revoke other special disposals, the listed company shall make the announcement on the next trading day when it receives the relevant written notices from the Stock Exchange. If the company does not make the announcement, the Stock Exchange shall make the announcement in the form of the announcement of stock exchanges.
 
The shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading in the morning upon the opening of trading of the date on which the announcement is disclosed and shall be resumed for trading at 10:30 am.
 
13.3.11 Regarding the circumstances mentioned from Item (1) to (3) of Article 13.3.1, if the Stock Exchange determines not to revoke other special disposals, the listed company may only reapply for revoking such other special disposals implemented against the shares trading of the company at the Stock Exchange in accordance with the provisions of Article 13.3.5 and 13.3.6 when it submits the annual report for the next year.
 
Chapter XIV Suspension, Resumption and Termination of Listing
 
Section I Suspension of Listing
 
14.1.1 If a listed company is in any of the following circumstances, the Stock Exchange shall suspend the listing of the shares of the company:
 
(1)after the shares trading of the company is implemented the warning on the delisting risk due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) or (2) of Article 13.2.1, the auditing result in the latest fiscal year shows that the company is suffering continuously losses;
 
(2) after the shares trading of the company is implemented the warning on the delisting risk due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) of Article 13.2.1, the company still fails to correct the financial and accounting report according to the requirements within two months;
 
(3) after the shares trading of the company is implemented the warning on the delisting risk due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (4) of Article 13.2.1, the company still fails to disclose the annual report or interim report within two months;
 
(4) the total capital share or shareholding distribution of the company has been changed so that the company no longer meets the listing conditions;
 
(5) the company is involved in major illegal acts; or
 
(6) other circumstances deemed by the Stock Exchange.
 
14.1.2 If a listed company of which the shares trading is implemented the warning on the delisting risk due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) or (2) of Article 13.3.1 predicts that it will continue to suffer losses in the latest fiscal year after the warning on the delisting risk is implemented, it shall make an risk alert announcement on the suspension of listing of shares within one month after the end of such fiscal year, and shall also make the risk alert announcement for at least two times before disclosing the annual report.
 
14.1.3 If the shares trading of a listed company is implemented the warning on the delisting risk due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) or (2) of Article 13.2.1 and the financial and accounting report shows that the company continues to suffer losses after the warning on the delisting risk is implemented, or although it shows that the company makes profits yet the accounting firm issues nonstandard and unreserved opinions against such report, the board of directors shall, when deliberating the annual financial and accounting report, make resolutions on the following matters and submit the resolutions to the latest shareholders general meeting for deliberation:
 
(1) If the shares of the company are suspended for listing, and the company is about to conclude an agreement with a securities company with the qualification of listing-resumption sponsorship institution (hereinafter referred to as the "agency institution") as prescribed in Article 4.1 and stipulate that the company will arrange the agency institution to be the sponsorship institution for the resumption of listing of shares; if the shares of the company are terminated for listing, the company will entrust the agency institution to provide the shares transfer service on behalf of the company, and authorize it to handle the matters concerning the shares withdrawal registration and shares reconfirmation in the market registration and clearing system of stock exchanges and handle the shares registration and settlement in the commission shares transfer system;
 
(2) If the shares of a listed company are suspended for listing and the company is about to conclude an agreement with the registration company and stipulate that after the shares of the company are suspended for listing, the company will entrust the registration company to be the trusteeship, registration and clearing institution for its whole shares; and
 
(3) If the shares of the company are terminated for listing, and the company is about to apply for transferring its shares in the shares transfer system on behalf of the company, the shareholders general meeting shall authorize the board of directors to handle the relevant matters concerning the termination of listing of shares of the company and the entry into the commission shares transfer system.
 
14.1.4 A listed company shall, within five trading days after the shareholders general meeting adopts the matters mentioned in the preceding article through deliberation, complete the conclusion of the agreements with the agency institution and registration company, and promptly report the matter to the Stock Exchange after the agreements are concluded and disclose the main contents of such agreements.
 
14.1.5 If the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) of Article 14.1.1 occurs in a listed company, the company shall promptly report the circumstance to the Stock Exchange after the board of directors adopts the annual report through deliberation and also disclose the annual report. When the company discloses the annual report, it shall make the risk alert announcement on the suspension of listing of shares again.
 
The Stock Exchange shall suspend the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof as of the date on which the annual report is disclosed, and make a decision on whether or not to suspend the listing of shares within 15 trading days after the trading is suspended.
 
14.1.6 If the circumstance mentioned in Item (2) or (3) of Article 14.1.1 occurs in a listed company, the Stock Exchange shall suspend the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof as of the first trading day after two months elapses, and make a decision on whether or not to suspend the listing of the shares within 15 trading days after the trading is suspended.
 
During the period of suspension of listing of shares, the company shall make the risk alert announcement on the termination of listing of shares for at least three times.
 
During the period between the suspension of listing and termination of listing of the shares of the company, the company shall refer to the provisions of Article 14.1.3 and 14.1.4 to complete the conclusion of agreements with the agency institution and the registration company, report the matters to the Stock Exchange and also disclose the main contents of the agreements.
 
14.1.7The Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange shall deliberate the matters concerning the suspension of listing of shares and make the professional judgments independently and make the opinions on the examination.
 
The Stock Exchange shall base on the opinions of the Listing Committee on the examination to make a decision on whether or not to suspend the listing of shares.
 
14.1.8 After the Stock Exchange makes a decision to suspend the listing of the shares of a listed company, it shall notify the company of the decision within two trading days after the decision is made and report the matter to the CSRC for a record at the same time.
 
14.1.9 A listed company shall promptly disclose the announcement on the suspension of listing of shares after receiving the decision from the Stock Exchange on the suspension of listing of shares of the company. Such announcement shall include the following contents:
 
(1) category, abbreviated name and securities code of the shares to be suspended for listing and the beginning date for suspending the listing;
 
(2) main contents of the decision on the suspension of listing of shares;
 
(3) opinions of the board of directors on striving for resuming the listing of shares and the specific measures thereof;
 
(4) risk alert on the termination of listing of shares;
 
(5) main methods for answering the inquires from investors by the company during the suspension of listing of shares; and
 
(6) other contents required by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
14.1.10 During the period of suspension of listing of shares, the company shall continue to perform the relevant obligations as the listed company, and also disclose the proceeding situations on the measures it takes for the purpose of resuming the listing of shares and other work once within the fist five trading days each month.
 
If the company does not take corresponding measures or there is no progress in the relevant work, it shall also disclose such situation and state the reasons thereof.
 
14.1.11 If a listed company is in any of the following circumstances, the Stock Exchange shall suspend the listing of the convertible corporate bonds:
 
(1) the company is involved in major illegal acts;
 
(2) great change in the company which results in the company no longer meets the conditions for listing the convertible corporate bonds;
 
(3) the capital raised through the issuance of convertible corporate bonds is not used for the approval purposes;
 
(4) failure to perform the obligations according to the measures for raising of convertible corporate bonds;
 
(5) the company has been incurring losses for the last consecutive years; or
 
(6) other circumstances deemed by the Stock Exchange to be necessary to suspend the listing of its convertible corporate bonds.
 
14.1.12 The matters concerning the suspension of listing of convertible corporate bonds shall refer to the relevant provisions of this Section on the suspension of listing of shares.
 
Section II Resumption of Listing
 
14.2.1 Where the shares of a listed company are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) of Article 14.1.1, during the period of suspension of listing, if the company has disclosed the latest annual report within the statutory time limit and the audited annual financial and accounting report shows that the company is making profits, the company may apply in written at the Stock Exchange for the resumption of listing of the shares of the company within five trading days after the latest annual report has been disclosed.
 
14.2.2 If the financial and accounting report in the latest annual report is imposed the nonstandard and unreserved opinions by the accounting firm after the shares are suspended for listing, the listed company shall make the risk alert announcement on the termination of shares of the company when it discloses the annual report.
 
14.2.3 A listed company shall arrange the agency institution to be its listing-resumption sponsorship institution.
 
The sponsorship institution shall check the application materials for the resumption of listing of shares in respect of the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness, and issue the listing-resumption sponsorship letter after it confirms that the company has possessed the conditions for the resumption of listing and guarantee to bear the jointly and severally liabilities.
 
14.2.4 The sponsorship institution shall, in the course of checking the application materials, it shall pay the full attention to the relevant situations of the listed company and conduct the checking conscientiously from at least the following three aspects and issue the checking report:
 
(1) Regulating the operation: including the independency of the personnel, assets and financial affairs, whether the affiliated transactions are fair, major activities of sale or purchase the assets are regularized, whether the business direction and business status after the recombination has been changed substantially, whether there are trade competition between the company and defacto controllers thereof, etc;
 
(2) Financial and accounting: Including the conformation of the income of the company, whether the confirmation of non-recurring gains and losses conforms to the relevant provisions, whether the matters involved in the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinions issued by the accounting firm have significant influences on the company, the situations on the rectification and adjustment of matters which obviously violate the accounting guidelines, systems and the relevant provisions of information disclosure regulations, etc; and
 
(3) Contingent risks: including the sale, mortgage, replacement of assets, entrusting operation, major external guaranty, major litigations and arbitrations (the provisions of these Rules on cumulative calculation shall be applicable), and impact of the above matters on the production and operation of the company.
 
Regarding the various non-regularized activities of the company, the sponsorship institution shall request the company to make rectification. If the company fails to do so as required, the sponsorship shall refuse to issue the listing-resumption sponsorship letter for the company.
 
14.2.5 The listing-resumption sponsorship letter issued by the sponsorship institution shall include the following contents;
 
(1) basic information of the company;
 
(2) major potential risks of the company and the expiations on whether the original risks have been eliminated;
 
(3) appraisal on the development prospect of the company;
 
(4) main contents of the checking report;
 
(5) explanations on whether the company fully complies with the conditions for the resumption of listing and the basis thereof;
 
(6) unreserved sponsorship opinions which are clearly stated and the reasons thereof;
 
(7) explanations on the corresponding sponsorship qualification possessed by the sponsorship institution and relevant sponsorship representatives and the internal examination procedures of the sponsorship institution;
 
(8) explanations on whether the sponsorship institution is in the situations where its impartial performance of sponsorship responsibilities may be affected;
 
(9) undertakings made by the sponsorship institution referring to the relevant provisions;
 
(10) working arrangements in the period of continuing supervision over the company;
 
(11) contact address, telephone and other communicating methods of the sponsorship institution and the relevant sponsorship representatives;
 
(12) other matters deemed necessary to be clearly stated by the sponsorship institution; and
 
(13) other contents required by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
The listing-resumption sponsorship letter shall be signed by the legal representative (or the authorized representative) and relevant sponsorship representatives, indicated the date and affixed the seal of the sponsorship institution.
 
14.2.6 If a listed company applies for the resumption of listing of the shares, it shall arrange the lawyer to check and verify the application for the resumption of listing in respect of the legality and it complying with the regulations as well as the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the relevant application materials and issue the legal opinions on whether the company meets the conditions for the resumption of listing and bear the corresponding legal liabilities.
 
14.2.7 The legal opinions mentioned in the above article shall include the following contents and relevant conclusive opinions:
 
(1) the subject qualification of the company;
 
(2) whether the company fully meets the substantial conditions for the resumption of listing;
 
(3) business and development object of the company;
 
(4) the improvement structure and regulatory operation situations of the company;
 
(5) affiliated transactions and trade competition;
 
(6) Main Properties of the company;
 
(7) Major creditors' rights and liabilities;
 
(8) Situations on the change of major assets and the purchase and merger thereof;
 
(9) Situation on the tax payment of the company;
 
(10) Significant litigation and arbitration;
 
(11) administrative penalties imposed on the company; and
 
(12) other issues deemed to be necessary to be clearly stated by the lawyer.
 
The relevant conclusive opinions put forward by the lawyer on the above matters shall include whether the matters comply with laws and regulations, whether they are truthful and valid, whether they are involved in disputes or potential risks, etc.
 
14.2.8 When a listed company applies for the resumption of listing, it shall submit the following documents to the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) application form for the resumption of listing;
 
(2) resolution of the board of directors on the consent of the application for the resumption of listing due to the company's complying with the conditions for the resumption of listing;
 
(3) report of the board of directors on the major work conducted by the company for the resumption of listing during the suspension of listing;
 
(4) analysis report made by the management personnel on the profits situation of the company, and the persistency and stability of the business ability and profit-making ability of the company from the aspects such as the main business of the company, business activities, financial status, contingent matters, after-period matters and other significant matters, etc;
 
(5) explanations on the scheme for the recombination of major assets of the company, including the internal decision-making procedures for the recombination of major assets, assets transfer, confirmation of the relevant proceeds, implementing results and the relevant certificate documents, etc;
 
(6) explanations on the matters concerning the major affiliated transactions during the period of the latest annual report of the company, including the relevant internal decision-making procedures, the main contents of the agreements, the performance situation and implementing result thereof, and the relevant certificate documents, etc;
 
(7) explanations on the tax payment situation during the period of the latest annual report of the company;
 
(8) original copies of the annual report and auditing report;
 
(9) the listing-resumption sponsorship letter and the sponsorship agreement issued by the sponsorship institution;
 
(10)legal opinions;
 
(11) explanations of the board of directors on the matters involved in the nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinions (if applicable);
 
(12) explanations of the accounting firm and the certified public accountant on the issuance of nonstandard and unreserved auditing opinions (if applicable);
 
(13) the relevant agreements concluded with the agency institution and the registration company according to the provisions of Article 14.1.4; and
 
(14) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
The company shall make the relevant announcement on the next trading day after it applies for the resumption of listing at the Stock Exchange.
 
14.2.9 The Stock Exchange shall, within five trading days after receiving the application documents for the resumption of listing submitted by the listed company, make a decision on whether or not to entertain the application and inform the company about this.
 
If the company fails to provide the application documents according to the requirements of the preceding article, the Stock Exchange shall not entertain its application for the resumption of listing of its shares.
 
The company shall, after receiving the decision from the Stock Exchange on whether or not to entertain its application, promptly disclose the relevant contents of the decision, and issue the risk alert announcement on the termination of listing.
 
14.2.10 The Stock Exchange shall, within 30 trading days after entertaining the application for the resumption of listing from the listed company, make a decision on whether or not to approve the resumption of listing of the shares of the company.
 
During such period, if the Stock Exchange requests the company to provide supplementary materials, the company shall provide the relevant materials within the time limit prescribed by the Stock Exchange. The time limit for providing the supplementary materials by the company shall not be included into the time limit mentioned above within which the Stock Exchange makes the relevant decision.
 
14.2.11 After entertaining the application for the resumption of listing from the listed company, the Stock Exchange may arrange the accounting firm with the qualification to conduct the relevant securities and futures businesses to investigate and verify the truthfulness of the profit-making situation of the company.
 
The period of investigation and verification shall not be included into the time limit mentioned above within which the Stock Exchange makes the relevant decision.
 
14.2.12 If the shares of a listed company are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (2) of Article 14.1.1 and the company discloses the financial and accounting report which is corrected according to the relevant provisions within two months, it may make a written application for the resumption of listing of shares at the Stock Exchange within five trading days after the disclosure is made.
 
The Stock Exchange shall, within 15 trading days after receiving the application of the company, make a decision on whether or not to approve the resumption of listing of the shares.
 
14.2.13 If the shares of a listed company are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) of Article 14.1.1 and the company discloses the relevant annual report or interim report within two months, it may make a written application for the resumption of listing of shares at the Stock Exchange within five trading days after the disclosure is made.
 
The Stock Exchange shall, within 15 trading days after receiving the application of the company, make a decision on whether or not to approve the resumption of listing of the shares. Before making the decision, it may request the company to provide the special explanations and opinions on the matters involved in the relevant regular report of the company issued by the sponsorship institution and accounting firm according to the specific circumstances.
 
14.2.14 The Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange shall deliberate the application of the listed company on the resumption of listing and make the professional judgments independently and form the opinions on the examination.
 
The Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to approve the resumption of listing of the shares of the company based on the opinions of the Listing Committee on the examination.
 
14.2.15 The Stock Exchange shall notify the listed company of the decision on the consent of the resumption of listing of shares within two trading days after the decision is made, and report the matter to the CSRC for a record.
 
14.2.16 If the Stock Exchange approves to the resumption of listing, the listed company shall promptly disclose the announcement of the resumption of listing of the shares after receiving the relevant decision. Such announcement shall include the following contents:
 
(1) the category, abbreviated name and the securities code of the shares to be resumed for listing;
 
(2) main contents of the decision on the resumption of listing of shares;
 
(3) specific explanations of the board of directors on the measures for the resumption of listing;
 
(4) analysis for the relevant risk factors; and
 
(5) other contents required by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
14.2.17 The shares of a listed company shall be resumed for listing five trading days after the company discloses the announcement of the resumption of listing of shares.
 
14.2.18 During the period when the convertible corporate bonds are suspended for listing, if the listed company complies with the following conditions, it may make a written application for the resumption of listing of the convertible corporate bonds of the company at the Stock Exchange:
 
(1) the convertible corporate bonds are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) or (4) of Article 14.1.11 and the consequence resulting from such circumstance is not serious after verification;
 
(2) the convertible corporate bonds are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (2) of Article 14.1.11 and such circumstance has been eliminated within six months;
 
(3) the convertible corporate bonds are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) of Article 14.1.11 and such circumstance has been eliminated within two months; or
 
(4) the convertible corporate bonds are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (5) of Article 14.1.11, and the company discloses the latest audited annual report within the statutory time limit for disclosure and the annual financial and accounting report shows that the company is making profits.
 
14.2.19 The matters concerning the resumption of listing of convertible corporate bonds shall refer to the relevant provisions of this Section on the resumption of listing of shares.
 
Section III Termination of Listing
 
14.3.1 If a listed company is under any of the following circumstances, the Stock Exchange shall terminate the listing of the shares of the company:
 
(1) failure to disclose the latest audited annual report within the statutory time limit after the shares of the company are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) of Article 14.1.1;
 
(2) after the shares of the company are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) of Article 14.1.1, the latest audited annual report disclosed by the company within the statutory time limit shows that the company is suffering losses;
 
(3) after the shares of the company are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) of Article 14.1.1, the company discloses the latest audited annual report within the statutory time limit while it fails to apply for the resumption of listing within the following five trading days;
 
(4) after the shares of the company are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (2) of Article 14.1.1, the company still fails to correct the financial and accounting report as required within two months or has disclosed the financial and accounting report which is corrected according to the requirements within two months but fails to apply for the resumption of listing within the following five trading days;
 
(5) after the shares of the company are suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) of Article 14.1.1, the company still fails to disclose the relevant annual report or interim report within two months or has disclosed the relevant annual report or interim report within two months but fails to apply for the resumption of listing within the following five trading days;
 
(6) the application for the resumption of listing has not been entertained;
 
(7) the application for the resumption of listing has not been approved;
 
(8) the company no longer meets the conditions for the listing due to the change of the total share capital or the shareholding distribution and it still fails to meet the conditions for listing within the time limit prescribed by the Stock Exchange;
 
(9) the listed company or the purchaser repurchases the shares or make the takeover by offer for the purpose of terminating the listing of shares, after the implementation of the scheme, the total share capital and the shareholding distribution of the company has been changed to make the company no longer meets the conditions for listing and the company applies for the resumption of listing at the Stock Exchange.
 
(10) the shareholders general meeting makes a resolution on the termination of listing of shares during the period when the shares of the company are suspended for listing;
 
(11) the company is dissolved or declared to be bankrupt; or
 
(12) other circumstances determined by the Stock Exchange.
 
14.3.2 If the listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) of Article 14.3.1, the Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares of the company within 15 trading days as of the date on which the statutory time limit for disclosure expires;
 
14.3.3 If a listed company predicts that the circumstance mentioned in Item (2) of Article 14.3.1 may occurs after the shares of the company are suspended for listing, the board of directors shall, within ten trading days after the end of the latest year, make the risk alert announcement on the termination of listing of the shares of the company and make the risk alert announcement at least twice before disclosing the annual report.
 
14.3.4 If a listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (2) of Article 14.3.1, it shall report the matter to the Stock Exchange promptly after the board of directors adopts the annual report through deliberation and disclose such annual report, and it shall also make the risk alert announcement on the termination of listing of the shares of the company.
 
The Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares of the company within 15 trading days as of the date on which the company discloses the annual report.
 
14.3.5 If a listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) of Article 14.3.1, the Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares of the company within 15 trading days as of the date on which the company discloses the annual report.
 
14.3.6 If a listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (4) or (5) of Article 14.3.1, the Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares of the company within 15 trading days upon the expiry of two months or five trading days.
 
14.3.7 If a listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (6) or (7) of Article 14.3.1, the Stock Exchange shall, within 15 trading days as of the date on which it decides not to entertain the application for the resumption of listing of the shares of the company, make a decision to terminate the listing of the shares at the same time when it decides not to approve the application for the resumption of listing of the shares.
 
14.3.8 If a listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (8) of Article 14.3.1, the Stock Exchange shall, within 15 trading days upon the expiry of the prescribed time limit, make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares of the company.
 
14.3.9 If a listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (9) of Article 14.3.1, the Stock Exchange shall suspend the trading of the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof according to the specific circumstances, and make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares within 15 trading days after receiving the application of the company.
 
14.3.10 If a listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (10) of Article 14.3.1, it shall notify the Stock Exchange of this matter after the end of the meeting of the board of directors and make the public announcement.
 
The Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares of the company within 15 trading days after the company discloses the announcement of the resolution of the shareholders general meeting.
 
14.3.11 If a listed company is in the circumstance mentioned in Item (11) of Article 14.3.1, it shall report the matter to the Stock Exchange immediately and make the public announcement in the following day after it knows that the conditions for the dissolution of the company such as the business license of the company is revoked according to law or the company is ordered to be closed down or revoked have fulfilled, or after the shareholders general meeting adopts the resolution for the dissolution of the company, or on the date when the people's court declares the company to be bankrupt, the shares of the company and the derivative products thereof shall be suspended for trading as of the date on which the Stock Exchange is informed such information.
 
The Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares within 15 trading days after the company discloses the above announcement.
 
14.3.12 The Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange shall deliberate the matters concerning the termination of listing of shares, make the professional judgment independently and form the opinions on the examination.
 
The Stock Exchange shall make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares based on the opinions of the Listing Committee on the examination.
 
14.3.13 Before making a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of shares, the Stock Exchange may arrange the accounting firm with the qualification to conduct the relevant securities and futures businesses to investigate and verify the truthfulness of profit-making situation of the listed company and submit the result to the Listing Committee for deliberation. The period for the investigation and verification shall not be included into the time limit within which the Stock Exchange makes the relevant decision.
 
For the purpose to make a decision on whether or not to terminate the listing of the shares of the company, the Stock Exchange may request the company to provide supplementary materials, the company shall provide the relevant materials within the time limit prescribed by the Stock Exchange. The time limit for providing the supplementary materials by the company shall not be included into the time limit within which the Stock Exchange makes the relevant decision.
 
14.3.14 The Stock Exchange shall, within two trading days after making a decision to terminate the listing of shares, notify the company of the matter and make the relevant announcement and report the matter to the CSRC for a record at the same time.
 
If the company fails to arrange the agency institution to conclude the relevant agreement with it according to the relevant provisions erenow, the Stock Exchange shall, at the time when making the decision to terminate the listing of the shares, designate a interim agency institution for the company, and notify the company and the agency institution of the matter, and shall also make the relevant announcement on the above matters within two trading days (except for the situation in which the company no longer possesses the qualification as a legal person).
 
14.3.15 The company shall promptly disclose the announcement on the termination of listing of the shares after receiving the decision from the Stock Exchange on the termination of listing of the shares of the company. The announcement on the termination of listing of shares shall include the following contents:
 
(1) category, abbreviated name and securities code of the shares to be terminated for listing and the date of termination of listing;
 
(2) the main contents of the decision on the termination of listing;
 
(3) the matters concerning the registration, transfer and management of the shares of the company after the shares have been terminated for listing;
 
(4) contact person, contact address and telephone and other communicating methods of the company after the shares have been terminated for listing;
 
(5) other contents required by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
14.3.16 The company shall arrange the relevant matters concerning the entry into the commission shares transfer system after the shares have been terminated for listing, and ensure that the shares of the company may enter into the commission shares transfer system for the transfer within 45 trading days after the Stock Exchange makes the announcement on the termination of listing.
 
14.3.17 If a listed company is in any of the following circumstances, the Stock Exchange shall terminate the listing of the convertible corporate bonds:
 
(1) the convertible corporate bonds have been suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (1) or (4) of Article 14.1.11 and the consequences are serious after the verification of the above circumstance;
 
(2) the convertible corporate bonds have been suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (2) of Article 14.1.11 and the circumstance can not be eliminated within six months;
 
(3) the convertible corporate bonds have been suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (3) of Article 14.1.11 and the circumstance can not be eliminated within two months;
 
(4) the convertible corporate bonds have been suspended for listing due to the circumstance mentioned in Item (5) of Article 14.1.11, and the company fails to disclose the latest audited annual report within the statutory time limit or the annual report disclosed shows that the company is suffering losses, or the company fails to apply for the resumption of listing within five trading days after disclosing the annual report; or
 
(5) the shares of the company have been terminated for listing.
 
14.3.18 The matters concerning the termination of listing of convertible corporate bonds shall refer to the relevant provisions of this Section on the termination of listing of shares.
 
Chapter XV Review Application
 
15.1 If an issuer or a listed company (hereinafter referred to as the "applicant") does not satisfy with the decision made by the Stock Exchange on the disapproval of listing, suspension of listing or termination of listing, it may apply for a review at the Stock Exchange within seven trading days after receiving the decision; if the Stock Exchange fails to make the announcement on the relevant decision, the applicant may apply for a review at the Stock Exchange within seven trading days after receiving the decision. During the review period, the decision of the Stock Exchange shall still be enforceable. The listed company shall make the relevant announcement on the following trading day after it applies for the review application at the Stock Exchange.
 
15.2 If an applicant applies for the review at the Stock Exchange according to the provisions of the preceding article, it shall submit the following documents:
 
(1) review application;
 
(2) opinions of the sponsorship institution on the matters applied for the review;
 
(3) legal opinions of the legal firm on the matters applied for the review; and
 
(4) other documents required by the Stock Exchange.
 
15.3 The Stock Exchange shall, within five trading days after receiving the review application documents submitted by the applicant, make a decision on whether or not to entertain the application and notify the applicant of the matter. If the applicant does not submit the review application documents according to the preceding article, the Stock Exchange shall not entertain such review application.
 
The listed company shall, after receiving the decision on whether or not to entertain its review application promptly disclose the relevant contents of the decision and prompt the relevant risks.
 
15.4 The Stock Exchange shall set up the Review Institution to deliberate the review application of the applicant.
 
15.5 The Stock Exchange shall, within 30 trading days after entertaining the review application, make a decision on whether or not to maintain the original decision on the disapproval listing, suspension of listing or termination of listing. Such decision shall be final.
 
If the Stock Exchange requests the applicant to provide supplementary materials during such period, the applicant shall provide the materials according to the requirements. The period for providing supplementary materials by the company shall not be included into the time limit within which the Stock Exchange makes the relevant decision.
 
The listed company shall, after receiving the review decision from the Stock Exchange, promptly disclose the relevant contents of the decision.
 
Chapter XVI Coordination of Listing Affairs Within and Outside of the territory of China
 
16.1 If a company listed in the Stock Exchange also has other securities listed in other stock exchanges outside the territory of China, regarding the information disclosed by the company as required by other stock exchanges, the company shall report the information to the Stock Exchange, and disclose the same information within the territory of China at the same time upon the approval of the Stock Exchange.
 
16.2 The report and announcement provided by a listed company to other stock exchanges and the Stock Exchange on the same event shall be the same regarding the contents. If significant discrepancies occur, the company shall make special explanations to the Stock Exchange and disclose the corrected or supplementary announcement as required by the Stock Exchange.
 
16.3 The unsettled matters of this Chapter shall refer to the relevant laws, administrative rules and regulations, ministerial regulations, the supervision and cooperation memo signed by the Stock Exchange and other stock exchanges and other relevant provisions.
 
Chapter XVII Daily Supervision and the Disposal of Breach of these Rules
 
17.1 The Stock Exchange shall exercise the daily supervision over the matters concerning information disclosure of listed companies and relevant information disclosure obligors, the specific measures shall include:
 
(1) requesting the company and the relevant information disclosure obligors or the directors (the board of directors), supervisors (the supervisory board) or the senior management personnel thereof to make explanations and statements on relevant issues;
 
(2) requesting the company to arrange relevant intermediary agencies to examine and check the existing issues and state the opinions;
 
(3) issuing various notices and letters;
 
(4) asking for the appointment with relevant personnel;
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(5) reporting the relevant activities of breach of laws or regulations to the CSRC; and
 
(6) other regulatory measures.
 
The company and the relevant information disclosure obligors shall accept and actively cooperate the daily supervision with the Stock Exchange, answer the inquiries of the Stock Exchange accurately within the prescribed time limit, and present the explanations according to the requirements or disclose the corresponding corrected or supplementary announcement.
 
17.2 If a listed company and the relevant information disclosure obligors violate these rules or the undertakings made to the Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange may impose the following reprimand on them based on the seriousness of the circumstances:
 
(1) to circulate a notice of criticism; or
 
(2) public condemnation.
 
17.3 If any director, supervisor or senior management personnel of a listed company violate these rules or the undertakings made to the Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange may impose the following reprimand on him based on the seriousness of the circumstances:
 
(1) to circulate a notice of criticism; or
 
(2) public condemnation; or
 
(3) to determine the person to be unsuitable for acting as the director, supervisor or senior management personnel.
 
The reprimand mentioned in the above Item (2) and (3) may be imposed concurrently.
 
17.4 If the secretary of the board of directors of a listed company violates these rules, the Stock Exchange may impose the following reprimand on him based on the seriousness of the circumstances:
 
(1) to circulate a notice of criticism; or
 
(2) public condemnation; or
 
(3) to suggest the company to replace the secretary of the board of directors.
 
The reprimand mentioned in the above Item (2) and (3) may be imposed concurrently.
 
17.5 If the sponsorship institution or sponsorship representatives violate these Rules, the Stock Exchange may impose the following reprimand on them based on the seriousness of the circumstances:
 
(1) to circulate a notice of criticism; or
 
(2) public condemnation.
 
If the circumstance is serious, the Stock Exchange shall report the circumstance to the CSRC for investigation and punishment.
 
Chapter XVIIII interpretations
 
18.1 The following terms in these Rules shall mean the following:
 
Listed company: a joint stock limited company of which the shares are listed and traded on the Stock Exchange.
 
Senior management personnel: the manager, deputy manager, secretary of the board of directors, person in charge of finance of the company and other personnel stipulated by the articles of association.
 
Holding company shareholders: the shareholders who hold more than 50% of the share capital of a company; or although the proportion of the shares they hold does not reach 50%, the voting rights enjoyed by them based on the shares they hold may considerably affect the resolutions of the shareholders general meeting.
 
Defacto controllers: the persons who are not the shareholders of a company may actually control the activities of the company through the investment relationship, agreements or other arrangements.
 
Control: the status which may determine the financial and business policy of an enterprise and also make profits from the business activities of the enterprise. Any of the following situations shall constitute the control:
 
(1) holding the most shares of the company according to the roster of the shareholders, unless there is contradictory evidence;
 
(2) may directly or indirectly exercise more voting rights of a company than the shareholders who hold the most shares of the company;
 
(3) may decide more than half of the personnel of the board of directors of a company through exercising the voting rights; or
 
(4) other circumstances deemed by the CSRC and the Stock Exchange.
 
Subsidiary holding company: a company of which more than 50% of shares are held by a listed company, or of which more than half of the personnel of the board of directors is decided by the listed company, or over which the listed company can actually control through agreements or other arrangements.
 
Promptly: within two trading days as of the date on which the calculation begins or the time when the disclosure is made as prescribed by these Rules.
 
Disclosure: a listed company or related information disclosure obligors publish the information on the designated media in accordance with the laws, administrative rules and regulations, ministerial regulations, these Rules and other relevant provisions.
 
Internal employee shares: shares originally decided to be subscribed for by the internal employee of the joint stock limited company.
 
Repurchase of shares: the activity of a listed company to purchase the tradable shares issued by the company and then revoke such shares after the purchase.
 
18.2 The meaning of the terms which are not defined in these Rules shall be determined in accordance with the laws, administrative rules and regulations, ministerial regulations and relevant business rules of the Stock Exchange.
 
18.3 The "more than", "exceed", and "within" mentioned in these Rules shall include the given figure, "less than" shall not include the given figure.
 
Chapter XIX Supplementary Provisions
 
19.1 These Rules shall be effective immediately after being adopted by the Council of the Stock Exchange through liberation and upon the approval of the CSRC, and so shall the amendment.
 
19.2 These Rules shall be interpreted by the Stock Exchange.
 
19.3 These Rules shall come into effect as of May 19, 2006.
 
Regarding the significant matter occurring before that should be disclosed according to the original "Listing Rules of Shares" but not disclosed, if it should also be disclosed according to these Rules, it shall be promptly disclosed according to these Rules after these Rules are promulgated and come into effect.
 
Annexes:
 
1. Declaration and Undertakings of Director (omitted)
2. Declaration and Undertakings of Supervisor (omitted)
3. Declaration and Undertakings of Senior Management Personnel (omitted)
 
 
 
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