China Merchants Bank : ·INDICATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE CONVENING OF THE 2016 FIRST EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL...

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招商銀行股份有限公司

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

This announcement is made pursuant to the disclosure requirements under Rule 13.10B of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and the Articles of Association of China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd. (the "Company").

The number of voting shares represented by shareholders (including proxies) who intend to attend the 2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company (the "2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting" or the "Meeting") has not reached 50% of the Company's total voting shares, calculated based on the written replies received by the Company twenty days before the date of convening the 2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting. In accordance with Article 83 of the Articles of Association of China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd., the Company would like to re-publish the relevant information on the convening of the 2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting as follows:

1. CONVENING OF THE MEETING

2. Type and session of the Meeting

   2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting

3. Convenor of the Meeting: the Board of Directors

4. Voting methods

   A combination of physical voting and online voting will be adopted for the Meeting (of which online voting is for A Shares only).

5. Date, time and venue of the physical Meeting

The date and time for the Meeting: 9:00 a.m. on 4 November 2016

The venue for the Meeting: Conference Room, 5/F, China Merchants Bank Tower, 7088 Shennan Boulevard, Shenzhen, the PRC.

6. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED AND APPROVED AT THE MEETING

Please refer to the "Notice of the 2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting" of the Company dated 19 September 2016.

The proxy forms for the 2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting, together with the power of attorney or other authorisation document(s) (if any) must be delivered by the shareholders of H shares of the Company to its H Share Registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong, no later than 24 hours before the time designated for holding the 2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting or any adjournment thereof (as the case may be). Completion and return of the proxy forms for the 2016 First Extraordinary General Meeting shall not preclude the shareholders from attending and voting in person at the Meeting.

The Board of Directors of

China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd.

17 October 2016

As at the date of this announcement, the executive directors of the Company are Tian Huiyu and Li Hao; the non-executive directors of the Company are Li Jianhong, Li Xiaopeng, Sun Yueying, Fu Gangfeng, Hong Xiaoyuan and Su Min; and the independent non-executive directors of the Company are Leung Kam Chung, Antony, Wong Kwai Lam, Pan Chengwei, Pan Yingli, Guo Xuemeng and Zhao Jun.