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Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.: Notice on Convening 2020 First Extraordinary General Meeting

Qingdao / Shanghai / Frankfurt, 14 February 2020 - Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. (D-Share ISIN CNE1000031C1, A-Share ISIN CNE000000CG9, 'Haier Smart Home' or the 'Company') published the notice on convening the 2020 Annual General Meeting in accordance with applicable trading rules of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and applicable PRC laws. The Annual General Meeting will be held on 31 March 2020 in Qingdao, China, all A shareholders and D shareholders are entitled for attendance and voting.  

- Date of convening the general meeting: 31 March 2020

- Online voting system for A shareholders adopted by the general meeting: Online voting system of general meeting by Shanghai Stock Exchange

- This notification is made for A shareholders. Participation methods for D shareholders please refer to the invitation letter of 2020 first extraordinary general meeting to be published on the company's website: http://www.haier.net/en/investor_relations/haier/gsgg/ShareholdersMeeting/, information disclosure website https://www.dgap.de/ and German Federal Gazette.  

I. Basic information of the meeting

(I)Type and session of the general meeting:

2020 First Extraordinary General Meeting

(II) Convener of the general meeting: The Board of Directors

(III) Method of voting: A combination of on-site voting and online voting will be adopted for the general meeting

(IV) Date, time and venue of the on-site meeting

Date and time of the meeting: at 2:00 p.m. on 31 March 2020

Venue of the meeting: Room A108, Haier University, Haier Information Park, No.1 Haier Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao City, the PRC

(V) Online voting system, beginning and ending voting date and time

Online voting system: Online voting system of general meeting by Shanghai Stock Exchange

Beginning and ending time of online voting: from 31 March 2020 to 31 March 2020

While adopting the online voting system of Shanghai Stock Exchange, the time for voting through the voting platform of the trading system shall be the trading hours on the date of convening the general meeting, i.e. from 9:15 a.m. to 9:25 a.m., 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The time for voting through the internet voting platform shall be from 9:15 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the date of convening the general meeting.

(VI) Voting procedure for margin trading and short selling, refinancing business, accounts of buy-back agreement business and investors of Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect

Voting involving margin trading and short selling, refinancing business, accounts of buy-back agreement business and investors of Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect shall be conducted in accordance with the relevant regulations including the Shanghai Stock Exchange Detailed Rule for Online Voting at Shareholder' Meeting of Listed Companies.

(VII) Public solicitation of voting rights from shareholders

Not applicable

II. Proposals to be considered at the meeting

Proposals to be considered at the general meeting and class of shareholders involved in the voting  

1. Disclosure time and media for disclosure of respective proposal

For details please refer to the Announcement on Proposals of the 5th Meeting of the Tenth Session of the Board of Directors of Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. (L2019-075) and relevant announcements disclosed on China Securities Journal, Shanghai Securities News, Securities Times, Security Daily and the website of Shanghai Stock Exchange on 22 November 2019.

2. Special proposal: Proposal 1

3. Proposals requiring separate counting for small and medium investors: Nil

4. Proposals requiring related shareholders to abstain from voting: Nil

Name of related shareholders to abstain from voting: Nil

5. Proposals involving voting of preferential shareholders: Not applicable

III. Notes to voting at the general meeting

(I)A shareholder of the Company who exercises voting rights through online voting system of general meeting by Shanghai Stock Exchange, may log in either the voting platform of trading system (through the trading terminal of the designated securities companies for trading) or the internet voting platform (website: vote.sseinfo.com) to vote. For an investor who logs in the internet voting platform to vote for the first time, authentication of his/her capacity as a shareholder is required. Please see the explanation on the internet voting platform for the specific operations.

(II) A shareholder who exercises voting rights through the online voting system of general meeting by Shanghai Stock Exchange, may participate in online voting with any of his/her accounts holding shares certificates of the Company if he/she has multiple shareholder accounts. After voting, the ordinary shares of the same class or preferential shares of the same type under all the shareholder accounts of such shareholder shall be deemed as having voted in the same way.

(III) If a voting right is repeatedly exercised through on-site voting, this online voting platform or by other means, the first vote shall prevail.

(IV) Shareholders shall only submit their votes after votes on all proposals are completed.

IV. Attendees of the meeting

(I)Shareholders whose names appear on the register kept by Shanghai Branch of China Securities Depository & Clearing Corporation Limited after the trading hours on the date of record are entitled to attend the general meeting, particulars of which are set out in the table below, and may appoint proxy(ies) in writing to attend and vote at the general meeting. Such proxy(ies) need not to be the shareholder(s) of the Company.

(II) Directors, supervisors and senior management of the Company.

(III) Lawyers engaged by the Company.

(IV) Other persons. V. Registration for the meeting VI. Shareholders of domestic shares (Shareholders of A Shares)

(1) Way of registration: individual shareholders should bring along shareholder account card, his/her identity card and the evidence of shareholding (proxy(ies) should bring along the share certificates account card of the empowered personnel, the evidence of shareholding of the empowered personnel, form of proxy and proxy(ies)'s identity card) to conduct registration; corporation shareholders should bring along the evidence of corporation, shareholder account card, form of proxy and attendant's identity card to conduct registration. Off-site shareholders may conduct registration by fax or letter (based on the fax or letter received by the Company prior to 4:00 p.m. on 25 March 2020).

(2) Time for registration: From 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. from 24 March 2020 to 25 March 2020.

(3) Venue for registration: Department of Securities of Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd., Haier Information Industrial Park, No.1 Haier Road, Qingdao City

(II) Shareholders of overseas listed foreign shares (Shareholders of D Shares)

For details, please refer to the invitation letter of 2020 First Extraordinary General Meeting to be dispatched to D shareholders on the Company's website http://www.haier.net/en/investor_relations/haier/gsgg/ShareholdersMeeting/, information disclosure website https://www.dgap.de/ and German Federal Gazette.

VII. Miscellaneous

(1) The general meeting will take half a day. Attendees of the general meeting shall be responsible for their own accommodation and travel expenses.

(2) Address: Department of Securities of Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd., Haier Information Industrial Park, No.1 Haier Road, Qingdao City

Postal code: 266101 Contact person: Ming Guozhen and Liu Tao Telephone: 0532-8893 1670 Fax: 0532-8893 1689 About Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.: Haier is one of the world's leading manufacturers of household appliances with a focus on smart home solutions and customized mass production. Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. develops, produces and distributes a wide range of household appliances. These include refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, air conditioners, water heaters, kitchen appliances as well as smaller household appliances and an extensive range of intelligent household appliances. The Company distributes its products through leading household brands such as Haier, Casarte, Leader, Candy, GE Appliances, AQUA and Fisher & Paykel. Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. has developed three platforms - the cloud-based platform U+ Smart Life, which offers customers integrated smart home solutions, the smart manufacturing platform COSMOPlat, which enables customized mass production, and the online platform Shunguang, which facilitates the integration of Haier's online, offline and micro-store businesses and supports user interaction to further optimize the user experience.

IR Contact: Yao Sun (Sophie) - Haier Smart Home Germany T: +49 6172 9454 143 F: +49 6172 9454 42143 M: +49 160 9469 3601 Email: y.sun@haier.de