Central China Securities : CHANGE OF EXPECTED PAYMENT DATE OF 2016 INTERIM DIVIDEND

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(a joint stock company incorporated in 2002 in Henan Province, the People's Republic of China with limited liability under the Chinese corporate name "中原證券股份有限公司" and carrying on business in Hong Kong as "中州證券")

References are made to the poll results announcement of the extraordinary general meeting of Central China Securities Co., Ltd. (the "Company") dated 13 October 2016 (the "Poll Results Announcement"); the announcement of the Company dated 29 August 2016 in relation to, amongst others, the declaration of interim dividend for the six months ended 30 June 2016 by the board of directors of the Company (the "Announcement on Interim Dividend Distribution") and the 2016 interim report of the Company published on 29 August 2016. Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Poll Results Announcement and the Announcement on Interim Dividend Distribution.

As disclosed in the Poll Results Announcement, the resolution for the distribution of the 2016 Interim Dividend has been approved by the Shareholders at the EGM. The Board would like to inform the Shareholders that the expected payment date of the 2016 Interim Dividend to the Shareholders whose names appear on the register of members of the Company on the Record Date will be changed from around 11 November 2016 to around 28 October 2016. Save for the above, all other details relating to 2016 Interim Dividend distribution remain unchanged.

By order of the Board of

Chairman

Henan, the PRC 24 October 2016

As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises executive Directors Mr. JIAN Mingjun and Mr. ZHOU Xiaoquan, non-executive Directors Mr. LI Xingjia, Mr. WANG Lixin, Mr. ZHANG Qiang, Mr. ZHANG Xiaoqi and Mr. YU Zeyang, and independent non-executive Directors Mr. YUAN Dejun, Mr. YUEN Chi Wai, Mr. NING Jincheng and Mr. YU Xugang.