Dalian Port PDA : CLARIFICATION ANNOUNCEMENT-CHANGE OF BOOK CLOSURE PERIOD FOR DIVIDEND

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大連港股份有限公司

(a sino-foreign joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China)

Reference is made to (i) the notice of the 2013 annual general meeting (the "AGM") of Dalian Port (PDA) Company Limited (the "Company") dated 9 May 2014 (the "AGM Notice") in relation to, among others, the proposed distribution of the final dividend for the year ended 31
December2013 (the "2013 Final Dividend"); (ii) the notice of the second extraordinary general meeting in 2014 of the Company (the "EGM") dated 13 June 2014 (the "EGM Notice"); and (iii) the circular of the Company dated 13 June 2014 in relation to the matters proposed to the shareholders of the Company for approval at the EGM, including the proposed amendments to the Company's articles of association, election/re-election of directors and supervisors and authorization in relation to overseas bond issue.
The board (the "Board") of directors (the "Directors") of the Company wishes to remind its shareholders and potential investors of the closure of its H share register of members as follows:
(a) For the purposes of determining the holders of the Company's H shares who are entitled to the 2013 Final Dividends subject to approval of the shareholders of the Company at the AGM, the period of closure of its H share register of members will be changed from the originally announced period of Monday, 7 July 2014 to Friday, 11 July 2014 (both dates inclusive), which was stated in the AGM Notice, to the period of Monday, 4 August
2014 to Friday, 8 August 2014 (both dates inclusive). The record date for the 2013 Final
Dividend will be changed from Friday, 11 July 2014 to Friday, 8 August 2014.
In order to be entitled to the 2013 Final Dividend, holders of H shares whose transfers have not been registered shall deposit the transfer documents together with the relevant share certificates at the Company's H share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wan chai, Hong Kong no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, 1 August 2014.

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(b) As announced in the EGM Notice of 13 June 2014, for the purposes of determining the holders of H shares who are entitled to attend the EGM, the Company's H share register of members will be closed during the period of Monday, 30 June 2014 to Thursday, 31
July 2014 (both dates inclusive).Such book closure period remains unchanged.
In order to qualify for attending and voting at the EGM, the transfer documents accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged with the Company's H Share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at the address mentioned in (a) above no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, 27 June 2014.Holders of H Shares whose names appear on the H shares register of members on Monday, 30 June
2014 are entitled to attend and vote at the EGM.
For the avoidance of doubt, all other dates and times set out in the AGM Notice and the EGM Notice and the EGM Circular shall remain unchanged.
The shareholders of the Company and potential investors are further reminded that the Company's H shares register of members has been closed since Tuesday, 27 May 2014 and will remain closed till Wednesday, 25 June 2014 for the purposes of determining the holders of H shares who are entitled to attend the AGM which is to be held on Wednesday, 25 June 2014.

By Order of the Board

Joint Company Secretaries

Dalian, Liaoning Province, the PRC
18 June 2014
As at the date of this announcement, the Directors are:

Executive Directors: HUI Kai, XU Song, ZHU Shiliang and SU Chunhua

Non-executive Director: XU Jian and ZHANG Zuogang

Independent non-executive Directors: LIU Yongze, GUI Liyi, WAN Kam To, Peter and YU Long

*The Company is registered as Non-Hong Kong company under Part XI of the previous Companies Ordinance (equivalent to Part 16 of the Companies Ordinance with effect from 3 March 2014) under the English name "Dalian Port (PDA) Company Limited".

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