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Inspur Digital Enterprise Technology Limited — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2025
Apr 28, 2025
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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement
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inspur浪潮
INSPUR DIGITAL ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
浪潮數字企業技術有限公司
(incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 596)
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting (the "AGM") of Inspur Digital Enterprise Technology Limited (the "Company") will be held Flats B&C, 30/F., Tower A, Billion Center, 1 Wang Kwong Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong on Tuesday, 17 June 2025 at 10:00 a.m. for the following purposes:
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
- To receive, consider and adopt the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and the reports of the directors (the "Director(s)") and of the independent auditor of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2024.
- To re-elect Mr. Wang Yusen as executive Director;
- to re-elect Mr. Ding Xiangqian as an independent non-executive Director who had served the Company for more than nine years as an independent non-executive Director;
- to re-elect Mr. Wong Lit Chor, Alexis as an independent non-executive Director who had served the Company for more than nine years as an independent non-executive Director
- to authorise the board of Directors (the "Board") to fix the Directors' remuneration;
- To re-appoint SHINEWING (HK) CPA Limited as auditors of the Company and to authorise the Board to fix their remuneration for the year 2025.
- To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments the following resolutions as an ordinary resolution:
"THAT:
(a) subject to paragraph (c) of this resolution, pursuant to the Rules (the "Listing Rules") Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Stock Exchange"), the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the share capital of the Company (the "Shares") and to make or grant
offers, agreements and options (including bonds, warrants, debentures, notes and other securities which carry rights to subscribe for or are convertible into Shares) which would or might require the exercise of such powers be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
(b) the approval in paragraph (a) of this resolution shall authorise the Directors during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) to make or grant offers, agreements or options (including bonds, warrants, debentures, notes and other securities which carry rights to subscribe for or are convertible into Shares) which would or might require the exercise of such powers after the end of the Relevant Period;
(c) the total number of Shares allotted and issued or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted and issued (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) by the Directors pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) of this resolution, otherwise than pursuant to:
(i) a Rights Issue (as hereinafter defined);
(ii) the exercise of rights of subscription or conversion under terms of any existing warrants, bonds, debentures, notes or other securities issued by the Company which carry rights to subscribe for or are convertible into Shares;
(iii) an exercise of the subscription rights under any option scheme or similar arrangement for the time being adopted for the grant or issue to officers and/or employees and/or consultants and/or advisers of the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries or such other persons eligible to participate in any such scheme(s) or arrangement of Shares or rights to acquire Shares; or
(iv) any scrip dividend scheme or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of Shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on the Shares in accordance with the articles of association of the Company (the "Articles") from time to time,
shall not exceed 20% of the total number of Shares in issue as at the date of passing of 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 date of the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earliest of:
(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, unless renewed by an ordinary resolution of the Shareholders in a general meeting, either conditionally or subject to condition;
(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Articles or any applicable law of the Cayman Islands to be held; or
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(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given to the Directors under this resolution by an ordinary resolution passed by the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.
"Rights Issue" means an offer of Shares, or issue of options, warrants or other securities giving rights to subscribe for Shares open for a period fixed by the Directors to holders of Shares or any class of Shares on the register of members on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such Shares or any class of Shares (subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements, or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of any relevant jurisdiction, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body or any stock exchange in any territory applicable to the Company)."
- To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments the following resolutions as an ordinary resolution:
THAT:
(a) subject to paragraph (b) of this resolution, the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to repurchase the Shares on the Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange on which the shares of the Company may be listed and which is recognised by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (the "SFC") and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, subject to and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SFC and all applicable laws and/or the requirements under the Listing Rules or equivalent rules or regulations of any other stock exchange as amended from time to time, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
(b) the total number of Shares which the Company is authorised to repurchase pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) of this resolution during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) shall not exceed 10% of the total number of Shares in issue as at the date of the passing of this resolution and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and
(c) for the purpose of this resolution,
"Relevant Period" means the period from the date of the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earliest of:
(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, unless renewed by an ordinary resolution of the Shareholders in a general meeting, either conditionally or subject to condition;
(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Articles or any applicable law of the Cayman Islands to be held; or
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(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given to the Directors under this resolution by an ordinary resolution passed by the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.”
- To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments the following resolutions as an ordinary resolution:
“THAT conditional on the passing of ordinary resolutions Nos.8 and 9 above, the general mandate granted to the Directors pursuant to ordinary resolution No. 8 above be and is hereby extended by the addition to the aggregate number of Shares of the Company which may be allotted and issued or dealt with, or agreed to be allotted and issued or dealt with by the Directors pursuant to such general mandate of an amount representing the aggregate number of Shares of the Company repurchased by the Company under the authority granted pursuant to ordinary resolution No. 9 above, provided that such extended amount shall not exceed 10% of the total number of Shares of the Company in issue as at the date of passing of the resolution No. 9.”
- To consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments the following resolutions as an ordinary resolution: To declare a final dividend of HK$0.08 per share of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2024 (“Proposed Final Dividend”).
For and on behalf of the Board
Inspur Digital Enterprise Technology Limited
Mr. Zhao Zhen
Chairman
Hong Kong, 28 April 2025
Registered office:
Cricket Square, Hutchins Drive
P.O. Box 2681
Grand Cayman, KY1-1111
Cayman Islands
Head office and Principal Place of Business in Hong Kong:
Flat B & C, 30/F., Tower A
Billion Centre, 1 Wang Kwong Road
Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Notes:
- A member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company is entitled to appoint another person (who must be an individual) as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him and a proxy so appointed shall have the same right as the member to speak at the meeting. Votes may be given either personally or by proxy. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. A member may appoint any number of proxies to attend in his stead at any one general meeting (or at any one class meeting). Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude members from attending and voting in person at the above meeting or any adjourned meeting thereof should they so wish. In such case, such form of proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.
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In order to be valid, the form of proxy must be duly completed and signed in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and deposited together with a power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed, or a certified copy of such power or authority, at the Company's branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong. not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the AGM or any adjournment thereof.
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For the purpose of determining the Shareholders who are entitled to attend and vote at the AGM, the register of members of the Company will be closed from Thursday, 12 June 2025 to Tuesday, 17 June 2025, both days inclusive, during such period no transfer of Shares will be registered. In order to qualify for attending and voting at the AGM, all transfer documents accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged with the Company's branch share registrar in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong for registration no later than 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 June 2025.
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In the case of joint holders of shares, any one of such holders may vote at the AGM, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he was solely entitled thereto, but if more than one of such joint holder are present at the AGM personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present whose name stands first on the register of members of the Company in respect of such shares shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof.
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For determining the entitlement to the Proposed Final Dividend (subject to approval by Shareholders at the AGM). The register of members of the Company will be closed from Tuesday, 1 July 2025 to Friday, 4 July 2025, both days inclusive, during which no transfer of Shares will be registered. In order to qualify for the Proposed Final Dividend, all properly completed transfer forms, accompanied by the relevant share certificates, must be lodged with the Company's branch share registrar and transfer office in Hong Kong, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong by no later than 4:30 p.m., Monday, 30 June 2025.
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Pursuant to Rule 13.39(4) of the Listing Rules, all votes of Shareholders at the AGM will be taken by poll except where the chairman, in good faith, decides to allow a resolution which relates purely to a procedural or administrative matter to be voted on by a show of hands.
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The translation into Chinese language of this notice is for reference only. In case of any inconsistency, the English version shall prevail.
As at the date of this notice, the Board comprises Mr. Zhao Zhen, Mr. Wang Yusen and Mr. Cui Hongzhi as executive Directors, Ms. Li Chunxiang as non-executive Director, and Mr. Wong Lit Chor, Alexis, Ms. Zhang Ruijun and Mr. Ding Xiangqian as independent non-executive Directors.
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