3SBio Inc. — AGM Information 2004

Apr 30, 2004

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HONGKONG CHINESE LIMITED 香港華人有限公司[*]

(Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)

(Stock code: 655)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Annual General Meeting of Hongkong Chinese Limited (the “Company”) will be held at Harcourt Room, Lower Lobby, Conrad Hong Kong, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong on Monday, 21st June, 2004 at 9:45 a.m. for the following purposes:

Ordinary Business

1. To receive and adopt the audited Financial Statements of the Company and the Reports of the Directors and the Auditors for the year ended 31st December, 2003.

2. To consider and declare a final distribution for the year ended 31st December, 2003.

3. To consider the re-election of the retiring Directors and to authorise the Board of Directors to fix the Directors’ remuneration.

4. To consider the re-appointment of Ernst & Young as Auditors of the Company and to authorise the Board of Directors to fix their remuneration.

Special Business

To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following as Ordinary Resolutions:

1. A. “ THAT :

   • (a) subject to paragraph (c) of this Resolution, the exercise by the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company and to make or grant offers, agreements and options, including warrants to subscribe for shares, which might require the exercise of such powers be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

   • (b) the approval in paragraph (a) above shall be in addition to any other authorisation given to the Directors of the Company and shall authorise the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period to make or grant offers, agreements and options, including warrants to subscribe for shares, which might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;

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• (c) the aggregate nominal amount of share capital allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) by the Directors of the Company pursuant to paragraph (a) above, otherwise than pursuant to a Rights Issue (as hereinafter defined); or on the exercise of any options granted under the share option scheme of the Company, shall not exceed 20 per cent. of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing this Resolution, and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and

• (d) for the purpose of this Resolution:

“ Relevant Period ” means the period from the passing of this Resolution until whichever is the earliest of:

• (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

• (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by any applicable law or the Bye-laws of the Company to be held; or

• (iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.

“ Rights Issue ” means an offer of shares open for a period fixed by the Directors of the Company to holders of shares whose names appear on the Register of Members of the Company on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such shares (subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors of the Company may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in, any territory applicable to the Company).”

B. “ THAT :

• (a) subject to paragraph (b) of this Resolution, the exercise by the Directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to repurchase issued shares in the capital of the Company on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “ Stock Exchange ”), or any other stock exchange on which the shares of the Company are or may be listed and recognised by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and the requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange or of any other stock exchange as amended from time to time, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

• (b) the aggregate nominal amount of shares of the Company which may be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above during the Relevant Period shall not exceed 10 per cent. of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing this Resolution, and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and

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• (c) for the purpose of this Resolution:

“ Relevant Period ” means the period from the passing of this Resolution until whichever is the earliest of:

• (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

• (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by any applicable law or the Bye-laws of the Company to be held; or

• (iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.”

• C. “ THAT conditional on the passing of the resolution set out in paragraph 5B of the notice convening this meeting, the general mandate granted to the Directors of the Company and for the time being in force to exercise the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares pursuant to the resolution set out in paragraph 5A of the notice convening this meeting be and is hereby extended by the addition of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company which may be allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted by the Directors of the Company pursuant to such general mandate of an amount representing the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company repurchased by the Company under the authority granted pursuant to the Resolution set out in paragraph 5B of the notice convening this meeting, provided that such extended amount shall not exceed 10 per cent. of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing of this Resolution.”

By order of the Board Andrew Hau Secretary

Hong Kong, 30th April, 2004

Registered Office: Clarendon House Church Street Hamilton HM 11 Bermuda

Principal Place of Business: 24th Floor Tower One Lippo Centre 89 Queensway Hong Kong

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Notes:

1. A member entitled to attend and vote at the above meeting is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and vote in his stead in accordance with the Bye-laws of the Company. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.

2. A form of proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting (or any adjournment thereof) is enclosed with the circular to shareholders of the Company.

3. To be valid, the form of proxy, together with the relevant power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority, must be deposited at the principal place of business of the Company, at 24th Floor, Tower One, Lippo Centre, 89 Queensway, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding of the Annual General Meeting (or any adjournment thereof). Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude a member from attending and voting in person at the Annual General Meeting or any adjourned meeting thereof should you so wish.

4. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at the meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto, but if more than one of such joint holders shall be present at any meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the holders so present whose name stands first on the Register of Members of the Company in respect of such share shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof.

5. In accordance with the Company’s Bye-laws, other than the chairman of the meeting, the following categories of members may demand that the vote in respect of any resolution to be put to the general meeting should be taken on a poll:

   • (a) at least three members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy for the time being entitled to vote at the meeting; or

   • (b) any member or members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy and representing not less than one-tenth of the total voting rights of all the members having the right to vote at the meeting; or

   • (c) any member or members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy and holding shares in the Company conferring a right to vote at the meeting being shares on which an aggregate sum has been paid up equal to not less than one-tenth of the total sum paid up on all the shares conferring that right.

6. The Register of Members of the Company will be closed from Friday, 11th June, 2004 to Friday, 18th June, 2004 (both dates inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares will be registered. In order to qualify for the proposed final distribution to be approved at the meeting, all transfers of shares accompanied by the relevant share certificates and transfer forms must be lodged with Tengis Limited, the Company’s Branch Registrars in Hong Kong, at G/F., Bank of East Asia Harbour View Centre, 56 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong not later than 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, 10th June, 2004.

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of the Company comprises seven directors, of which Dr. Mochtar Riady as non-executive Director, Messrs. Stephen Riady, John Lee Luen Wai, Jesse Leung Nai Chau and Kor Kee Yee as executive Directors and Messrs. Leon Chan Nim Leung and Albert Saychuan Cheok as independent non-executive Directors.

• For identification purpose only

“Please also refer to the published version of this announcement in The Standard”.

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