Shanghai Stock Exchange: Notice Of Release Of Shortlists Of Candidates And List Of Expert Committee's Members For 2012 Special Awards For Corporate Governance

The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) will continuously conduct an appraisal of special awards of corporate governance of listed companies this year, in a bid to improve their corporate governance. The two special awards include "Award of Board of Directors of Listed Companies in 2012" and "Award of Information Disclosure of Listed Companies in 2012".

The SSE released the "Notice of SSE Appraisal for Award of Board of Directors of Listed Companies and Award of Information Disclosure of Listed Companies in 2012", and publicized the appraisal scheme and standard on September 28, 2012. Upon the voluntary application for taking part in the appraisal, the verification of application documents, and the preliminary selection by the SSE selection panel, twenty candidates have entered the shortlists of the two awards, respectively. The SSE selection panel has also fixed the list of the expert committee's members, among which most are members of the Expert Consultative Committee for SSE Corporate Governance Sector Appraisal, while the rest are representatives of major market participants.

It hereby releases the shortlists of candidates (Attachment I) and the list of the expert committee's members (Attachment II). Please send your opinions or suggestions on the shortlists and the list above to the SSE by fax or e-mail before November 2, 2012.

Fax: 021-68802819; E-mail: fwu@sse.com.cn

The SSE will summarize and verify all feedbacks after the publicity period. In the middle of November, it will submit the shortlists of candidates to the expert committee, which will work out 10 winners for both awards, respectively.