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Voting Results of Annual General Meeting held on 27 June 2018

The Board of Directors (the "Board") of the Company is pleased to announce the voting results of the Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") of the Company held on Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at Grand Ballroom, The Lobby Floor, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong

Kong. The AGM was chaired by Mr. CHEN Siqing, the Chairman of the Company. As stated in the notice of the AGM dated 18 April 2018, all the proposed resolutions at the AGM were voted on by poll. Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the Company's share registrar, was appointed by the Company as the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the AGM.

Voting Results of the AGM

The number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of the AGM was 10,572,780,266 shares, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against any of the resolutions proposed at the AGM. There were no restrictions on any shareholders casting votes on any of the proposed resolutions at the AGM. Shareholders and authorised proxies holding an aggregate of 8,482,337,571 shares, representing 80.2281% of the total number of shares of the Company in issue were present at the AGM.

All resolutions at the AGM were approved by the shareholders. The poll voting results in respect of each resolution proposed at the AGM were as follows:

Ordinary Resolutions

No. of Votes

(Percentage of Total Number of Votes)

For

Against

1.

To receive and consider the audited Financial Statements and the Reports of Directors and of the Auditor of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2017.

8,471,803,292 (99.9647%)

2,989,730 (0.0353%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

2.

To declare a final dividend of HK$0.758 per share for the year ended 31 December 2017.

8,474,291,521 (99.9944%)

477,501 (0.0056%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

3.(a)

To re-elect Mr. REN Deqi as a Director of the Company.

Not applicable

Not applicable

As disclosed in the Company's announcements dated 12 June 2018 and 25 June 2018, following the resignation of Mr. REN Deqi as a Director of the Company with effect from 12 June 2018, the ordinary resolution for the re-election of Mr. REN is no longer applicable.

(b)

To re-elect Mr. KOH Beng Seng as a Director of the Company.

8,412,508,058 (99.2672%)

62,100,464 (0.7328%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

(c)

To re-elect Mr. TUNG Savio Wai-Hok as a Director of the Company.

8,402,096,884 (99.2602%)

62,621,138 (0.7398%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

(d)

To re-elect Mr. GAO Yingxin as a Director of the Company.

7,018,551,927 (99.9988%)

86,700 (0.0012%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

4.

To re-appoint Ernst & Young as Auditor of the Company and authorise the Board of Directors or a duly authorised Committee of the Board to determine the remuneration of the Auditor.

8,439,137,104 (99.6548%)

29,234,919 (0.3452%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

Ordinary Resolutions

No. of Votes

(Percentage of Total Number of Votes)

For

Against

5.

To grant a general mandate to the Board of Directors to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the Company, not exceeding 20% or, in the case of issue of shares solely for cash and unrelated to any asset acquisition, not exceeding 5% of the total number of shares of the Company in issue as at the date of passing this Resolution.

7,197,125,950 (84.9321%)

1,276,851,105 (15.0679%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

6.

To grant a general mandate to the Board of Directors to buy back shares in the Company, not exceeding 10% of the total number of shares of the Company in issue as at the date of passing this Resolution.

8,473,949,554 (99.9931%)

585,001 (0.0069%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

7.

Conditional on the passing of Resolutions 5 and 6, to extend the general mandate granted by Resolution 5 by adding thereto of the total number of shares of the Company bought back under the general mandate granted pursuant to Resolution 6.

7,276,181,150 (85.8576%)

1,198,523,373 (14.1424%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of this resolution, the resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution.

Shareholders may refer to the circular of the Company dated 18 April 2018 (the "Circular") and the announcements dated 12 June 2018 and 25 June 2018 (the "Announcements") for details of the above resolutions. The Circular and the Announcements may be viewed and downloaded from the website of the Company atwww.bochk.comor the website of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited atwww.hkexnews.hk.

By Order of the Board

LUO Nan

Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 27 June 2018

As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises Mr. CHEN Siqing* (Chairman), Mr. GAO Yingxin (Vice Chairman and Chief Executive), Mr. LI Jiuzhong, Madam CHENG Eva**, Dr. CHOI Koon Shum**, Mr. KOH Beng Seng** and Mr. TUNG Savio Wai-Hok**.

* **Non-executive Directors Independent Non-executive Directors

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