China Communications Services : Poll Results of the 2016 Annual General Meeting, Payment of Dividend and Appointment of Director

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中國通信服務股份有限公司

(A joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)

（Stock Code：552）

• The Board of the Company hereby announces that all the proposed resolutions set out in the notice convening the AGM dated 26 April 2017 were duly passed by the shareholders of the Company by way of poll at the AGM held on 23 June 2017.

• The declaration and payment of a final dividend of RMB0.1098 per share and a special dividend of RMB0.0220 per share, totalling RMB0.1318 per share (equivalent to HK$0.15099 per share) (pre-tax) for the year ended 31 December 2016, were approved at the AGM. The above dividend will be paid on or about 18 August 2017.

The board of directors (the "Board") of China Communications Services Corporation Limited (the "Company") hereby announces that all the proposed resolutions set out in the notice convening the 2016 annual general meeting (the "AGM") dated 26 April 2017 were duly passed by the shareholders of the Company by way of poll at the AGM held on Friday, 23 June 2017 at No. 19, Chaoyangmen Beidajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing, the PRC.

The total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of the AGM was 6,926,018,400 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 authorized proxies holding an aggregate of 6,013,505,915 shares, representing 86.82% of the total voting shares of the Company, were present at the AGM. The holding of the AGM was in compliance with the requirements of the Company Law of the People's Republic of China and the provisions of the articles of association of the Company (the "Articles").

The poll results in respect of the proposed resolutions at the AGM were as follows:

Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited was the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the AGM.

The declaration and payment of a final dividend of RMB0.1098 per share and a special dividend of RMB0.0220 per share, totalling RMB0.1318 per share (equivalent to HK$0.15099 per share) (pre-tax) for the year ended 31 December 2016, were approved at the AGM. The payment shall be made to shareholders whose names appeared on the register of members of the Company on Tuesday, 11 July 2017. The register of members of the Company will be closed from Thursday, 6 July 2017 to Tuesday, 11 July 2017 (both days inclusive). In order to be entitled to the above dividend, the Company's H share shareholders who have not registered the transfer documents are required to deposit the transfer documents together with the relevant share certificates at Computershare Hong

Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong at or before 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 5 July 2017.

Dividends will be denominated and declared in Renminbi. Dividends will be paid in Renminbi for holders of domestic shares and holders of H shares (including enterprises and individuals) who invest in the H shares of the Company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Stock Exchange") through the Shanghai Stock Exchange or Shenzhen Stock Exchange ("the Southbound Trading") (the "Southbound Shareholders"), and dividends for the holders of H share of the Company other than the Southbound Shareholders will be paid in Hong Kong dollars. The relevant exchange rate will be the average of the mid-point rates of Renminbi to Hong Kong dollars as announced by the People's Bank of China for the week prior to the date of approval of declaration of dividends by the AGM (RMB0.87293 equivalent to HK$1.00). The record date for entitlement to the shareholders' rights and the relevant arrangements of dividend distribution for Southbound Shareholders are the same as those for the holders of H share of the Company.

For the holders of H share of the Company other than the Southbound Shareholders, the Company has appointed ICBC (Asia) Trustee Company Limited as the receiving agent in Hong Kong (the "Receiving Agent") and will pay to such Receiving Agent the above dividend net of the applicable tax for payment to the holders of H share of the Company other than the Southbound Shareholders. Dividend will be paid by the Receiving Agent net of the applicable tax on or about 18 August 2017. Relevant cheques will be dispatched on the same day to the holders of H share of the Company entitled to receive such dividend by ordinary post and at their own risk. For the Southbound Shareholders, the Company will pay to China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited ("China Clear"), which is acting as the nominee of the Southbound Shareholders, the above dividend net of the applicable tax on or about 18 August 2017, and China Clear will pay the dividend net of the applicable tax to the Southbound Shareholders via its depositary and clearing system.

For the overseas resident individual shareholders of the Company, pursuant to relevant laws and regulations including the Law of the People's Republic of China on Individual Income Tax, the Regulations for the Implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Individual Income Tax, and the letter dated 28 June 2011 from the State Administration of Taxation to the Inland Revenue Department of Hong Kong, for individual H share shareholders receiving dividends who are Hong Kong or Macau residents or whose country of domicile is a country which has entered into a tax treaty with the PRC stipulating a dividend tax rate of 10%, the Company, as a withholding agent, is required to withhold and pay individual income tax at the rate of 10%. For individual H share shareholders receiving dividends whose country of domicile is a country which has entered in to a tax treaty with the PRC stipulating a dividend tax rate lower than 10%, the Company will withhold the individual income tax at a tax rate of 10%. The Company can process applications on behalf of those shareholders to seek entitlement of the relevant agreed preferential treatments pursuant to relevant regulations, and upon approval by the tax authorities, the extra amount of tax withheld will be refunded. For individual H share shareholders receiving dividends whose country of domicile is a country which has entered into a tax treaty with the PRC stipulating a dividend tax rate higher than 10% but lower than 20%, the Company will withhold the individual income tax at the agreed-upon effective tax rate when distributing dividends and no application procedures will be necessary. For individual H share shareholders receiving dividends whose country of domicile is a country which has not entered into any tax treaty with the PRC or are under other situations, the Company will withhold the individual income tax at a tax rate of 20% when distributing dividends.