THIS SUPPLEMENTAL CIRCULAR IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
If you are in doubt about this supplemental circular, you should consult your stockbroker, other registered dealer in securities, bank manager, solicitor, professional accountant or other professional adviser.
If you have sold or transferred all your shares in CanSino Biologics Inc., you should at once hand this supplemental circular together with the enclosed supplemental form of proxy to the purchaser or transferee or to the bank, stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
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This supplemental circular appears for information purpose only and does not constitute an invitation or offer to acquire, purchase or subscribe for any securities of the Company.
CanSino Biologics Inc.
康希諾生 物股份公司
(A joint stock company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)
(Stock code: 6185)
SUPPLEMENTAL CIRCULAR
PROPOSED CHANGE IN USE OF PROCEEDS
FROM A SHARE OFFERING
AND
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE OF 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
This supplemental circular should be read together with the 2020 AGM Circular.
A supplemental notice of the AGM of CanSino Biologics Inc. to be held as originally scheduled at Conference Room, Level 11, CITIC Securities Tower, No. 48 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC at 1:30 p.m on Friday, May 28, 2021 is being despatched to the Shareholders together with this supplemental circular.
The Supplemental Proxy Form for use at the AGM is enclosed with this supplemental circular. The Supplemental Proxy Form is to be used for the supplemental resolution set out in the supplemental notice and will not affect the validity of duly completed Original Proxy Form in respect of the resolutions set out in the notice of the AGM included in the circular of the Company dated April 20, 2021. Shareholders who intend to appoint a proxy to attend the AGM and vote on the resolution set out in the supplemental notice of AGM shall complete and return the Supplemental Proxy Form in accordance with the instructions printed thereon. For holders of H Shares, please return the Supplemental Proxy Form together with any documents of authority to the Company's H share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong as soon as possible and in any event not later than 24 hours before the time appointed for holding the AGM. If you have already appointed a proxy to attend and act on your behalf at the AGM but do not return the Supplemental Proxy Form, your proxy will have the right to vote on the supplemental resolution at his/her discretion. Completion and return of the Original Proxy Form and/or the Supplemental Proxy Form will not preclude you from attending and voting at the AGM, or any adjournment thereof should you so wish.
References to dates and time in this supplemental circular are to Hong Kong dates and time.
May 12, 2021
CONTENTS | |
Page | |
DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
LETTER FROM THE BOARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 3 |
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE OF 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING . . . . . . . . | N-1 |
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DEFINITIONS
In this supplemental circular, the following expressions have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:
"2020 AGM Circular" | the circular of the Company in respect of the AGM dated |
April 20, 2021 | |
"2020 AGM Notice" | the notice of the 2020 AGM of the Company dated April |
20, 2021 | |
"AGM" or "Annual General | the 2020 annual general meeting of the Company to be |
Meeting" | held on Friday, May 28, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. |
"A Share(s)" | ordinary shares in the share capital of the Company with |
a nominal value of RMB1.00 each and listed on the | |
Sci-Tech Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock | |
Exchange and traded in RMB | |
"A-Share IPO Proceeds" | the net proceeds (after deduction of underwriting |
commissions and related costs and expenses) of | |
approximately RMB4,979.5 million received by the | |
Company from its A Share Offering | |
"A Share Offering" | the initial public offering of 24,800,000 A Shares and |
listing of the A Shares of Company on the Sci-Tech | |
Innovation Board of Shanghai Stock Exchange on August | |
13, 2020 | |
"Board" | the board of Directors |
"CanSino Innovative Vaccine | an upgrade and replacement of the construction plan of |
Industrial Campus Project" | phase II production facilities originally planned by the |
Company in its A Share Offering prospectus | |
"Company" | CanSino Biologics Inc. (康希諾生物股份公司), a joint |
stock company incorporated in the PRC with limited | |
liability on February 13, 2017, the H Shares of which are | |
listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange (stock | |
code: 6185) and the A Shares of which are listed on | |
Sci-Tech Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock | |
Exchange (stock code: 688185) | |
"Director(s)" | the director(s) of the Company |
"Group" | the Company and its subsidiaries |
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DEFINITIONS | |
"H Share(s)" | overseas listed foreign share(s) in the ordinary share |
capital of the Company with a nominal value of RMB1.00 | |
each, which are subscribed for and traded in Hong Kong | |
dollars and listed on the Stock Exchange | |
"Hong Kong" | the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the |
PRC | |
"Latest Practicable Date" | May 5, 2021, being the latest practicable date prior to the |
printing of this supplemental circular for ascertaining | |
certain information in this supplemental circular | |
"Listing Rules" | the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The |
Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, as amended from | |
time to time | |
"Original Proxy Form" | the form of proxy in respect of the resolutions set out in |
the 2020 AGM Circular | |
"PRC" | the People's Republic of China, for the purpose of this |
supplemental circular, excluding the regions of Hong | |
Kong, Macao Special Administrative Region of the | |
People's Republic of China and Taiwan | |
"Results Announcement" | the annual results announcement of the Company for the |
year ended December 31, 2020 published by the | |
Company on March 26, 2021 | |
"RMB" or "Renminbi" | Renminbi, the lawful currency of the PRC |
"Share(s)" | ordinary share(s) in the share capital of the Company, |
with a nominal value of RMB1.00 each, comprising A | |
Share(s) and H Share(s) | |
"Shareholder(s)" | holder(s) of the Shares |
"Stock Exchange" | The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited |
"Supplemental Proxy Form" | a supplemental form of proxy for use at the AGM in |
respect of the resolution as set out in this supplemental | |
circular |
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LETTER FROM THE BOARD
CanSino Biologics Inc.
康希諾生 物股份公司
(A joint stock company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)
(Stock code: 6185) | |
Executive Directors: | Headquarters and Registered Office in |
Dr. Xuefeng YU | the PRC: |
Dr. Shou Bai CHAO | 401-420, 4th Floor |
Dr. Tao ZHU (朱濤) | Biomedical Park |
Dr. Dongxu QIU | 185 South Avenue |
TEDA West District | |
Non-Executive Directors: | Tianjin |
Mr. Qiang XU (許強) | PRC |
Mr. Liang LIN (林亮) | |
Ms. Nisa Bernice Wing-Yu LEUNG (梁頴宇) | Principal Place of Business |
Mr. Zhi XIAO (肖治) | in Hong Kong: |
Room 1901, 19/F | |
Independent Non-executive Directors: | Lee Garden One |
Mr. Shiu Kwan Danny WAI (韋少琨) | 33 Hysan Avenue |
Ms. Zhu XIN (辛珠 ) | Causeway Bay |
Mr. Shuifa GUI (桂水發) | Hong Kong |
Mr. Jianzhong LIU (劉建忠 ) |
May 12, 2021
To the Shareholders
Dear Sir/Madam,
SUPPLEMENTAL CIRCULAR
PROPOSED CHANGE IN USE OF PROCEEDS
FROM A SHARE OFFERING
AND
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTICE OF 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
- INTRODUCTION
References are made to (i) the Results Announcement which set out, inter alia, the details of utilization of the A-Share IPO Proceeds; (ii) the 2020 AGM Circular dated April 20, 2021, which sets out the time and venue of the AGM and contains the resolutions to be put forward at the AGM for Shareholders' consideration and approval; and (iii) the announcement dated April 29, 2021 in relation to the proposed change in use of the A-Share IPO Proceeds. This supplemental circular should be read together with the 2020 AGM Circular which contains, inter alia, the 2020 AGM Notice.
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