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(Stock Code: 688)

Poll Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 11 June 2018

The Board is pleased to announce that all the resolutions as set out in the AGM Notice were duly passed by the shareholders of the Company by way of poll at the AGM held on 11 June 2018.

The board of directors (the "Board") of China Overseas Land & Investment Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all the resolutions as set out in the notice of annual general meeting (the "AGM") dated 16 April 2018 (the "AGM Notice") were duly passed by shareholders of the Company by way of poll as demanded by the Chairman at the AGM held on 11 June 2018, and the results are as follows:-

Number of votes cast

(percentage of total number

Ordinary Resolutions

of votes cast)

Total number of votes cast

For

Against

1. To receive and adopt the

9,847,527,768

Audited Financial Statements and the Report of the Directors and the Independent Auditor's Report for the year ended 31 December 2017.

(99.99%)

616,000 (0.01%)

9,848,143,768

(100%)

Ordinary Resolutions

Number of votes cast (percentage of total number of votes cast)

Total number of votes cast

For

Against

2.

To approve the declaration of a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2017 of HK45 cents per share.

9,849,559,768

(100%)

0 (0.00%)

9,849,559,768

(100%)

3.

(a) To re-elect Mr. Luo

Liang as Director.

9,812,619,255

(99.63%)

36,446,243

(0.37%)

9,849,065,498

(100%)

(b) To re-elect Dr. Fan Hsu

Lai Tai, Rita as Director.

9,573,834,032

(97.21%)

275,235,736

(2.79%)

9,849,069,768

(100%)

(c)To re-elect Mr. Li Man Bun, Brian David as Director.

9,490,905,655

(96.36%)

358,159,843

(3.64%)

9,849,065,498

(100%)

4.

To authorise the Board to fix the remuneration of the Directors.

9,812,800,396

(99.95%)

5,333,852 (0.05%)

9,818,134,248

(100%)

5.

To appoint Messrs. PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditor of the Company to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting and to authorise the Board to fix their remuneration.

9,820,529,502

(99.79%)

20,998,747

(0.21%)

9,841,528,249

(100%)

Ordinary Resolutions

Number of votes cast (percentage of total number of votes cast)

Total number of votes cast

For

Against

6.

To approve the granting to the Directors the general and unconditional mandate to buy back shares of the Company up to 10% of the number of shares of the Company in issue.

9,849,295,768

(100%)

0 (0.00%)

9,849,295,768

(100%)

7.

To approve the granting to the Directors the general and unconditional mandate to allot, issue and deal with new shares not exceeding 20% of the number of shares of the Company in issue.

7,741,259,832

(80.76%)

1,844,838,493

(19.24%)

9,586,098,325

(100%)

8.

To approve the extension of the authority granted to the Directors by Resolution 7 above by adding the number of shares bought back pursuant to the authority granted to the Directors by Resolution 6 above.

7,794,431,807

(81.31%)

1,791,930,518

(18.69%)

9,586,362,325

(100%)

9.

To approve the adoption of the Share Option Scheme.

8,552,960,052

(87.55%)

1,215,745,885

(12.45%)

9,768,705,937

(100%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of all of the above resolutions, all of the above resolutions were duly passed as ordinary resolutions.

Notes:

  • 1. The full text of Resolutions 6, 7, 8 and 9 are set out in the AGM Notice.

  • 2. As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares of the Company was 10,956,201,535 shares, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote on the resolutions at the AGM.

  • 3. No shareholders were required under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited to abstain from voting on any of the resolutions at the AGM.

  • 4. The Company's registrar and transfer office, Tricor Standard Limited, was appointed as the scrutineer at the AGM for the purpose of vote-taking.

By Order of the Board

China Overseas Land & Investment Limited

Yan Jianguo

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Hong Kong, 11 June 2018

As at the date of this announcement, Mr. Yan Jianguo (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer) and Mr. Luo Liang are the executive directors; Mr. Chang Ying is the non-executive director; and Mr. Lam Kwong Siu, Dr. Fan Hsu Lai Tai, Rita and Mr. Li Man Bun, Brian David are the independent non-executive directors of the Company.

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